Can we please stop hotlinking pics?

dad abd i got thw new ignition, intake, carb, and wiring repair done to his vette today. Tomorrow is Easter.

So we're waiting till tomorrow to fire it up. That way we can get it on the road for tje first time in years on resurrection sunday!

In reply to Dusterbd13-michael :

Cool.  seems to be a very fitting occasion

In reply to chandler :

Is Redman anatomical correct? 

John Welsh said:

In reply to chandler :

Is Redman anatomical correct? 

His peg fits in the saddle so he doesn’t fall off, seems like a bad idea.

unrelated

yummy

Strong roof rack

Indy-Guy said:

In reply to 914Driver :

 

 

Slicks out for Harambe?

Rick Forrest Found a quote directly from the builder's son: " the car is built on a vw willy pan. used a vw rear axle and the corvair engine. mentioned he had to flip over axle due to wrong rotation to work with the corvair motor. he added header to motor, but rest of engine was stock.

the frame for the body was made out of electrical conduit. he used sheet metal for the body and fiber glassed the compound curves. used an original corvair trunk lid as the trunk on this car and also used another corvair trunk for under it as well to conceal the motor. said he had to modify the lower one quite a bit to make it work and have all the louvers line up with top.

the windshield is from an impala. didn't remember the year, but guessed 62. said the corvair rear window wasn't wide enough.

I asked about pix of the build. he said everything was on slides but that hes moved so many times that he lost track of them and isn't sure where they ended up. that part really sucks...

I didn't have a chance to dig out the old hot rod magazine, but I will see if I can make some time. either way. I really appreciate the interest. its been fun talking to my dad about this car. I know hes happy to hear theres still people interested in his old project! "

JohnInKansas said:

CAD on the wife-mobile. Going to steel this week.

Needs some bedliner.

And then some beefy all-terrains.

Spotted at the H.D last night.

In reply to Woody :

RP-51 Red Baron. Re-engined with a Rolls Royce Griffin -57. The tail was enlarged because of instability issues. On August 14, 1979, Steve Hinton made a run a Tonopah, Nevada. The 499.018mph record stood for 14 years.

In reply to Wally :

Wonderful photo, Wally, thanks for sharing. It led me to search out this one from the 1950s.

chandler said:

 

Road Race Engineering, you say?

“Hey, try not to suck any dicks on your way to grid.”

Went to the Northeast Classic Car Museum and the rotating exhibit was trucks. They had a Ford AA pickup with the option ELEVEN-foot bed. Ford only made 6 and this is the only one known to exist. It looked like a real-life photoshop

In reply to NickD :

Pretty cool.  My dad used to have a AA.  We ended up selling it to a Russian military museum.  Based on some particular eccentricities, we're about 95% sure this is it's current form:

Spoolpigeon said:

 

 

 

I see an RX-7 with aero mirrors, with a Kevin Smith movie quote. Different movie for hotlink.

Floating Doc said:

In reply to Wally :

Wonderful photo, Wally, thanks for sharing. It led me to search out this one from the 1950s.

You don’t get light streaming in like that anymore now that the station has been surrounded by tall buildings.  There was a brief period last year that the windows on the right wall in that photo we’re unobstructed when the building next door was taken down but a larger, uglier one has taken its place.

The front of the station with no neighbor to its west:

Is it bad that I wanted this more than the 356 Cabrio that was parked ahead of it?