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Author: Subject: The beast.... Pictures!
JoelP

posted on 12/3/04 at 11:05 PM Reply With Quote
The beast.... Pictures!

some pics of the banger. poor light unfortunately conceals the back end, but most is visable...

EDIT: steves re done them so i got rid of these to help the dial up brigade

The oddest thing is the distance between the gear stick and the front wheels!

[Edited on 13/3/04 by JoelP]






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Mk-Ninja

posted on 12/3/04 at 11:08 PM Reply With Quote
Look like a Black Cat up a chimney





I'm sure I've got one, just don't know where I've put it

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Peteff

posted on 12/3/04 at 11:20 PM Reply With Quote
Does that matter?

It was never a great concern of mine before but now I'm worried. How far is my gearstick from the front wheels? I just know I'm not going to get any sleep tonight now. Damn you Joel I'm off out to measure it now and it will be your fault if I catch punimon, pumnoni, sod it a cold.





yours, Pete

I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.

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Peteff

posted on 12/3/04 at 11:21 PM Reply With Quote
It's 10' 3".

I'll have to put those wheels back on some time soon if I want to use it.





yours, Pete

I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.

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stephen_gusterson

posted on 12/3/04 at 11:23 PM Reply With Quote
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stephen_gusterson

posted on 12/3/04 at 11:23 PM Reply With Quote
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greggors84

posted on 12/3/04 at 11:30 PM Reply With Quote
Steve, you didnt have to go all the way there and lend him a flash!





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stephen_gusterson

posted on 12/3/04 at 11:50 PM Reply With Quote
Greggors - paintshop pro gamma function I have never been a flasher - m'lord


Joel....

I thought my car was pretty deviant - but thats pretty different!

I have never seen an engine that far back before! If you hit anything you will have a couple seconds to abandon ship before the damage reaches the passenger section!

Where are you gonna get the glass fibre for your unstandard frontal shape?


atb

steve

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greggors84

posted on 13/3/04 at 12:00 AM Reply With Quote
How does that size compare to the luego beast?





Chris

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pbura

posted on 13/3/04 at 12:45 AM Reply With Quote
Joel, you're a WILD MAN! That baby is BIG!

Y'know, I think you could make a MORGAN out of it! Just half kidding in fact; the front half looks like it COULD take Moggie bodywork.

Looks like it ought to panel OK, I think. Does the nosecone fit?

If you need some help sorting out the back end shape, I suggest putting up a profile, rear, and rear 1/4 shot and letting the Photoshop boys and verbal kibitzers have at it. If you have rear fenders, maybe it would help to clamp them on where you want them.

Looks like you're going to have something to drive soon, should be fun.

Pete





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JoelP

posted on 13/3/04 at 12:10 PM Reply With Quote
thanks guys, all good. it struckme the other day its got a morgan like backend, i actually chopped it all off the other day (after the pics) cos it was badly designed. no it has more bracing to the shocker pick up point, and thinner tubing to support the outline of the backend. current thinking is that it will have a one piece fiberglass backend, hinged with gas struts, unfortunately that makes it even more morgan like! nowt wrong with that except im not buuilding a morgan...

i got major stuck the other day, had to sit down and make a plan, about 20 odd hard tasks to finish it, which may take all summer to get it compliant. but just gotta soldier on one at a time, and hope! it does help having no job, plenty of free time!

thanks for the pics anyway steve, muchos appreciated! i was relying on the darkness to cloak the embarrasing back end!!

i tell a lie BTW, looks like i butchered it before the photos.

[Edited on 13/3/04 by JoelP]






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andrew-theasby

posted on 13/3/04 at 12:44 PM Reply With Quote
Joel, Whats that piece of (looks like) copper pipe between your front wishbones in the frst picture? Is it to act as a bumper so that the bits behind it dont have to be radiused etc like on a dax? Someone told me to do that but i wasnt sure if it was true.
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pbura

posted on 13/3/04 at 12:47 PM Reply With Quote
I was thinking that a rounded, humped shape with a lifting lid, like from cars of the 30s, would look good.

BoL on the work situation, btw, not much fun in that

Pete





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JoelP

posted on 13/3/04 at 05:03 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by andrew-theasby
Joel, Whats that piece of (looks like) copper pipe between your front wishbones in the frst picture? Is it to act as a bumper so that the bits behind it dont have to be radiused etc like on a dax? Someone told me to do that but i wasnt sure if it was true.


Thats task 2 on the list, 'radiator bottom hose'. Damned if i know what to do! i've just spent (wasted) £35 on some flexible hose from europa to help plumb in the T from the expansion tank, so that sould be that solved. cut a t (30/32/16mm) from a polo i had, but couldnt make the 35mm copper tube i had link to it. all my hoses were 30 mm, and 5mm of diameter is 15mm of circumference to stretch!






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JoelP

posted on 13/3/04 at 05:06 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by pbura
I was thinking that a rounded, humped shape with a lifting lid, like from cars of the 30s, would look good.


yeah, im gonna get the brakes and radiator done first to restore my flagging motivation, then worry about technicalities like bodywork! and sod going to the lengths of some to make it nice, its an ugly creation but that not important!

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BoL on the work situation, btw, not much fun in that

Pete


if all goes to plan i might get away with retiring soon! at 24 well, nearly... been doing a spot of landlording






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stephen_gusterson

posted on 13/3/04 at 09:56 PM Reply With Quote
I had thoughts of modding my car to look like a plymouth prowler, or even to have a front like a PT cruiser. The back end has comitted me a bit tho....may not have you if thats a way you wanna go...

I love the look of this car - blows the look of a seven away in my view

atb

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stephen_gusterson

posted on 13/3/04 at 09:57 PM Reply With Quote
btw - if you want to know the correct way of washing it.....

enter 'plymouth prowler' in google image searh and look at pikky 10
!!

naked female involved



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JoelP

posted on 14/3/04 at 10:44 AM Reply With Quote
not bad that grill, has a certain je ne sais quoi...






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pbura

posted on 14/3/04 at 11:30 AM Reply With Quote
I've been saying for 35 years (since I was a kid) that Detroit could make a killing from retro cars. If Chevrolet were to re-issue the 1957 Bel-Air, they wouldn't be able to stop the stampede. It's tough being a visionary.





Pete

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stephen_gusterson

posted on 14/3/04 at 12:56 PM Reply With Quote
bel air

one of these?

the headlamp nacelles prob wouldnt be allowed cos of pedestrian injury.

some late 50s early 60s UK cars (vauxhalls) looked a tad like that. Crap at the time, but kinda nice now

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greggors84

posted on 14/3/04 at 01:01 PM Reply With Quote
There is a kitcar replica of the prowler, cant think who makes it now, but it was at one of the shows full of stereo. Like the looks, but not so keen on the front bumpers, im sure they must be there to meet us legislation.





Chris

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pbura

posted on 14/3/04 at 02:11 PM Reply With Quote
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one of these?


Oh, yeah, they were incredibly popular, couldn't throw a stone without hitting one. I'd say that they've the probably the most collectible American cars of that time in terms of current price vs. original cost.

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stephen_gusterson

posted on 14/3/04 at 04:44 PM Reply With Quote
yep

there is a nice red and white one in the movie 'true lies' - 'its the vette that gets em wet' was the line I think

We have the odd one here - the pics shown were at a kit show this year - the dash looks great, but would never pass a modern SVA!!

As for a brit car that looks 'a bit' like a 50s yank.... heres an old vauxhall.




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one of these?


Oh, yeah, they were incredibly popular, couldn't throw a stone without hitting one. I'd say that they've the probably the most collectible American cars of that time in terms of current price vs. original cost.

My own favorite American car for that year was the Corvette:
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