[SteveP]

Thanks Red,

I read your build thread with great interest. I'll have a go at a local junk yard, as you suggest--probably this weekend. Thanks for the photo of the SVX. It is heavy, as you say; what counts, of course, is how heavy it is after I get rid of the ICE-related stuff and the V6 sounds like it would reduce the weight by quite a bit (though I'm not enough of a car guy to guess at how much). Still, starting with 3600 lbs, I'd have to remove 1600 lbs of stuff to get down to a glider of 2000. That sounds like more than the ICE stuff is likely to weigh, and even at 2000, I'm still way over what a Tercel glider would weigh (not that I'm in love with Tercels, but they *are* light).

--Steve

P.S. Somehow I missed it, but now I see from your profile you're in my neck of the woods. I'm mid-Peninsula and the yards I know about are mostly in San Jose. Where did you find your Insight, if you don't mind sharing?