Paul Y
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Oct 12, 2020 20:32:32 GMT
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The only reason I have created this thread is because I saw THIS!!!!! 1964 Ferrari Superfast. don't wrap it I will take it as it is..... Now, having been to the Mecca of Speed in 2010 you do see some weird and wonderful stuff but this is just all sorts of awesome. Apologies for the gush but it is just blood marvellous... OK, show me what you've got. P.
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Oct 12, 2020 20:37:33 GMT
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It's got a nice
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Oct 12, 2020 20:56:52 GMT
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Is that a ‘real’ photo? Looks a bit weird
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Oct 12, 2020 21:15:14 GMT
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Paul YI hope you are OK with me posting this on your thread. But this is the Bonneville LSR racer I spent a lot of time on, when I volunteered for the team. Its a Berkeley. We choose that body because there were already 2 Berkeley's running at Bonneville at the time, so there was less chance of it getting written out of the rulebook in some way ( I was pushing hard for a Mini Marcos as a starting point, because I thought it would have been a faster car in the end ) Rules say you can streamline in front of the cowl, so I shaped the nose out of a block of foam which we then connected with the body ( from the cowl back ) of an original Berkeley. And endless smoothing and shaping with Bondo ( we drew out a grid on the buck and we measured every cross on that grid with a industrial Dumpy Level, to make sure the thing would end up symmetric and wouldn't steer the car at high speeds ) After that a mold was made offf the buck, and a body was made out of that. The chassis is thick wall Chrome Moly, the Engine is a all aluminum twin turbo Big Block Chevy ( 2000+ HP ), connected to a shorty 4L80E tranny, to a front axle off a 4X4 truck ( shortened, and the diff replaced with a Quick Change with flipped diff ), to create FWD. I haven't been on the team for quite a while, but I believe its still out there and setting records... Funny detail... We ran a Bocar before the Berkeley ( neither one was mine, I was just a volunteer ), but I managed to get myself in the SCTA rulebook at about my 2nd year there. ( I had made an aero mod to the car, that they agreed was legal but not what they intended. The next year's rulebook had that loophole closed... )
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moglite
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Oct 12, 2020 21:21:28 GMT
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I was there a year later. I'm not sure what the thought process was behind this
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1967 Morris Oxford Traveller 1979 Toyota LandCruiser BJ40 1993 Daimler Double Six 2007 Volvo XC70 2.4D
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Oct 12, 2020 21:29:53 GMT
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After I left the team I seriously considered building a multi engined streamliner of my own. ( Bonneville is a cool place to race, and it sort of gets in your blood ) But instead I got back into Road Racing, which is my first love anyway...
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moglite
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Oct 12, 2020 21:31:20 GMT
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Rules say you can streamline in front of the cowl..... Ahhh that explains this one then
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1967 Morris Oxford Traveller 1979 Toyota LandCruiser BJ40 1993 Daimler Double Six 2007 Volvo XC70 2.4D
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Oct 12, 2020 21:32:13 GMT
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Rules say you can streamline in front of the cowl..... Ahhh that explains this one then Yep.
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melle
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Oct 12, 2020 21:33:37 GMT
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www.saabv4.com'70 Saab 96 V4 "The Devil's Own V4" '77 Saab 95 V4 van conversion project '88 Saab 900i 8V
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Paul Y
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Oct 12, 2020 21:59:04 GMT
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Mr metalshapes please hijack away! I was hoping that you would contribute as I remember your postings on the HAMB... Unfortunately all the pictures of my trip to the Flats are on an old laptop that went pop - needless to say it was a hell of an adventure as I left my family in Vegas and drove to Bonneville solo, spent a night and a day there and then drove back. No plan, slept in the rental Minivan, made friends, drank beer, pushed cars, made a nuisance of myself and have a lifetimes worth of memories. Awesome. As for the Ferrari...who knows if it is real or fake I still like it. Now, talking of Ferrari at Speed Week... archive-focgb.co.uk/happenings/2012/august/bonneville/text.phpP.
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Oct 12, 2020 23:40:12 GMT
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"Mr metalshapes please hijack away!" Haha.. Please call me Alex. OK another anecdote, then... The car we ran before, the Bocar, had the same BBC in it. Twin turbo, icewater intercooled, special racing heads where you could almost stick a fist in the intake ports. The thing made so much boost we had to run two wastegates per side because the engine went into overboost on the Dyno on just 1 per side ( actually it even did that with the single waste gates removed, in other words, with a 1 3/4 hole in each header... ) The nice thing about a Bocar, for B'ville, is that is narrow. The bad thing, that it was short. Rules at the time said you had to run the stock wheelbase, so we had to get it stable somehow. ( which wasnt easy, track & wheelbase were roughly the same as a early flat fender Jeep...) It was basically like trying to throw a dart backwards. So the team owner got in touch with Jim Deist , of Deist safety equipment fame. And he made a one off little chute to run behind the car for the high speed part of the run. It was about the size of a big bra, with a very long tether attached to the back of the car to help pull it straight. But because the wires were so long, packing the chute was really critical. Jim Deist had come to the salt as well, and he took some time to teach me how to pack this experimental little chute. And because of his place in automotive racing history, I thought that was a pretty special thing...
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some amazing stuff, I've wanted to go as I find land speed fascinating. Especially when the record would be broken weekly in the 60's by hot rodders like the Arfons brothers.
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mylittletony
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Oct 13, 2020 10:06:37 GMT
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I know it's not 4 wheeled, BUT it's a turbocharged Honda C110 and it looks rad
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Paul Y
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Oct 13, 2020 10:43:28 GMT
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I know it's not 4 wheeled, BUT it's a turbocharged Honda C110 and it looks rad Is that the one that the guys brought into the country in their suitcases, built it at the Flats, raced it in several classes then packed it up and flew home? P.
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kabman
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Oct 13, 2020 21:20:16 GMT
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Mini sills + salt ! That makes my eyes hurt.
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craig1010cc
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Oct 13, 2020 21:29:21 GMT
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Mini sills + salt ! That makes my eyes hurt. 156mph mini 😎
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Oct 20, 2020 12:24:47 GMT
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Bonneville really captures my imagination too. For those that haven't seen the film 'World's Fastest Indian' (w. Anthony Hopkins) playing man who goes on pilgrimage there to run his live-long garage tinkering project Indian motorbike I'd highly recommend seeking it out:
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Oct 22, 2020 10:45:23 GMT
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For those that haven't seen the film 'World's Fastest Indian' (w. Anthony Hopkins) playing man who goes on pilgrimage there to run his live-long garage tinkering project Indian motorbike I'd highly recommend seeking it out: one of my favourite films, and also the reason i now say "motor - sickle"
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craig1010cc
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Oct 22, 2020 12:53:06 GMT
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For those that haven't seen the film 'World's Fastest Indian' (w. Anthony Hopkins) playing man who goes on pilgrimage there to run his live-long garage tinkering project Indian motorbike I'd highly recommend seeking it out: one of my favourite films, and also the reason i now say "motor - sickle" Another vote from me for it, cracking film
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