Can we please stop hotlinking pics?

Someone's making a cool pit bike.

Duke said:

Conrad approves.

Appleseed said:

so weird it might actually be good

In reply to 914Driver :

Oh that’s funny!

One Belvedere's story in pictures.

Never suspected it was a Uni-Body car.

Appleseed said:

Dear GRM admins:  We need a "barf" button

914Driver said:

Never suspected it was a Uni-Body car.

Mopars have been unibody since forever.  That is part of why they have always been so light and good handling.  (The rest was due to some really good suspension engineers)   Full frames were for those heavy floppy Generous Motors cars, with their noodly open-channel frames and sloppy bushings loosely attaching same to the body - even on their supposed Corvette!

Picture series reminds me of a story way back in the RX-7 Mailing List days where a guy acquired two FD RX-7s (which were new cars, at the time) one front-ended and one rear-ended, and cut them apart at the spot welds, no cut panels, and mated the two good halves together.  Apparently it was well done enough to be indistiguishable.

stroker said:

Shouldn't that Viper be on the dolly with the driven wheels supported and rolling on the front wheels????

No.

(Tow vehicle is still connected to the dolly, btw)

Livetooffend is marketing this “m3” kit for e30s

Knurled. said:

stroker said:

Shouldn't that Viper be on the dolly with the driven wheels supported and rolling on the front wheels????

No.

 

 

(Tow vehicle is still connected to the dolly, btw)

I made that mistake when I brought home my 67 galaxie, behind a 1994 ext cab long bed Dodge. It wagged me around like mad. I swapped it around on the side of the road in Hersher Illinois and it was fine.

Happy Derby Day y’all!

Knurled. said:

914Driver said:

Never suspected it was a Uni-Body car.

 

Mopars have been unibody since forever.  That is part of why they have always been so light and good handling.  (The rest was due to some really good suspension engineers)   Full frames were for those heavy floppy Generous Motors cars, with their noodly open-channel frames and sloppy bushings loosely attaching same to the body - even on their supposed Corvette!

 

Picture series reminds me of a story way back in the RX-7 Mailing List days where a guy acquired two FD RX-7s (which were new cars, at the time) one front-ended and one rear-ended, and cut them apart at the spot welds, no cut panels, and mated the two good halves together.  Apparently it was well done enough to be indistiguishable.

My first car was a 60 Plymouth suburban, 2 door wagon, same color as this one. Even then they were unibody.

KyAllroad (Jeremy) said:

Happy Derby Day y’all!

In reply to Knurled. :

Did you take this picture on I-70?

The one with the MR2

Knurled. said:

914Driver said:

Never suspected it was a Uni-Body car.

  good handling.  

I find it super funny that you wrote that under a bunch of pictures of a late 60s B body Mopar.  The only possible answer is that you have never driven one.

In reply to Knurled. :

That’s funny.  I was the passenger in that Jeep that is now on it’s roof. Safety chains held well!!  Fun fact the MR2 is also a previous challenge car. So yeah never tow with front wheels on the pavement when using a dolly.

In reply to 7rx :

Okay, since you know the perpetrator, I didn't "find it on Google Image Search" so much as "found the screencap from the YouTube video".

What is funny is, I was at that rallycross, I saw the car in person, and thought about it years later and remembered that he'd posted it to YouTube.  So I did a search for the video to see if the guy still rallycrossed.  (Short answer:  Yup.  Long answer:  Busted out laughing as soon as I saw his username.)

I think the picture of him standing on the WRX at the 2014 Nationals has been deleted.