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Originally Posted by jray3
Bill, thanks to the photobucket links, we now have photographs of your past and present self, mwhahahaha... 
so I've gotta ask- what was the aircooled VW creation with a huge trophy?
Great name for the project, and I must concur, you are engaged in one of the most noble forms of automotive recycling. Only thing better would've been a full electric tire-shredder! Please post more of those engineered drawings. My neighbor has 'taken a wedge out' of a basket-case Plymouth Fury and built a completely custom suspension and running gear for it over the past year, but it was all done by dead reckoning and the occasional tape measure. Your detailed planning is a thing to behold. |
Yeah,well... at Christmas time all the little kids snap into their best behavior in the shopping malls if I am walking by and wearing red...
The man in the photo with the tall trophy is my late Dad. He was a vocational auto shop teacher and the creator of the "Little D" dragster back in the late 1960's. It is the chassis of an early 1960's VW shortened as far as it would go to still fit those drag slicks. It had large "wheelie wheels' behind the engine which were very necessary since you could drive it across a parking lot with the front wheels in the air. I'm not sure if it still exists or not, but I wouldn't be surprised if one of his former students bought it when he retired.
More on the drawings and how I generated them when I continue the story of the build in later posts. Here is a hint.
As for the full electric tire shredder, when the Firebrid is done, my wife wants me to build a full electric BMW Z3 for her. :-)
Bill the Engineer