Posted on 04/22/2006 6:38:13 AM PDT by saganite
Steering wheel is on the wrong side.
IBM makes bikes??
Drive in reverse.
Or upside down!
As fast as this thing goes upside down and backwards are distinct possibilities! Simultaneously!
The Corvette is the real poor man's supercar.
Not sure, but I'd bet it's because it's open wheels.
I thought that was the Viper. I've always coveted one of those!
yup, that's the one
Great thread for you to tell about all the things you designed and built!! Blow your own horn!
We were lightspeed before NASA got off the launchpad
An Olds aluminum V-8 in a rear-engined Lotus racecar before Lotus was able to get a smallblock Ford V-8 to work and be safe to drive and race in the same identical rear-engined Lotus (that has the 4 cylinder Coventry Climax engine)
A Corvette engine in a Lister-Jag that raced at Daytona and Sebring
V-8 transplants in XKE-Jags before Jaguar
Automatic transmissions (American Borg-Warner ATs) from Jag sedans adapted and fitted for Liz Taylor and Eddie Fisher for their matching new red XKE-Jag roadsters
(I did not like the dashboard selector but they insisted on it)
[I did not like the dashboard selection]
You probably designed your own dashboards too, lol! In your mind for sure if not in reality.
ping
You are correct potlatch!
We made burl walnut, rosewood, and other American and imported exotic hardwood dashboards for street sportscars
Jaguar used hardwoods on the doors and other places on their early sedans - beautiful woods and workmanship
Now these exotic hardwoods can be shipped to specialists that use vacuum processes to put tough clear polymers in the woods - great for custom revolver and pistol grips too - not traditional - but waterproof and eternally tough and the finish goes all thru the wood
Beats even marine varnishes and French Polished laquers for beauty and no more problemos with sun, heat, rain, moisture, dirt, wear, aging
Not a "plastic" fakeroo appearance either
I think I'll Fed-Ex myself out for that too!
I think I'll Fed-Ex myself out for that too!
Where are you going to Fed-Ex yourself too?? Lol
you can register it. it can be street legal. i want one.
We get these older threads crankin' again
The "dash selector" I mentioned was much like the slide control on a Chevy PU
No floorshift lever like the early Mustang's with automatic transmissions
Other early cars with dash mounted auto-trans controls were Chrysler products
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Pitstop time
Here you have me dragging all this information out of you and the thread is from APRIL 2006!! You nut!
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