To: potlatch; PhilDragoo; dixiechick2000; Boiler Plate
Colin Chapman's Lotus Seven - 1957 on
a street version of his earlier field trials Lotus
here driven by Patrick McGoohan in "The Prisoner"
AC-Chevy - John Schultz's Pompano Beach street car
a FReeper's "solution" with a smallblock Chevy 283ci V-8
later copied by Carroll Shelby who saw it at Opa Locka
AC-Cobra - Carroll Shelby's later copy
first with a smallblock Ford 289ci V-8
then with a bigblock Ford 427ci
Modified 1965 Chevy Corvair Corsa Turbo
176+mph (don't ask)
50 posted on
01/21/2007 5:45:11 PM PST by
devolve
( ........"refresh" my (updated) graphics posts)
To: devolve
Great thread for you to tell about all the things you designed and built!! Blow your own horn!
51 posted on
01/21/2007 5:50:23 PM PST by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
To: devolve
I always liked the late model corvairs, but 176mph? Yikes!
62 posted on
01/22/2007 1:25:23 PM PST by
Boiler Plate
(Mom always said why be difficult, when with just a little more effort you can be impossible.)
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