Cool car! Very nice work! Tons of cool ideas on that car! Love all the rivets! Are those aluminum rivets? Do you use a pneumatic or hydraulic riveter like they use for putting airplanes together? Or are they hammered? They look too perfect to be hammered by hand.
Aircraft parts add a great tasteful uniqueness to a hot rod. Being from an avitation background, I love it!! The headers loo like they took way more patience than I would have to build. Great ride!!
Man thats bad***! Just curious, What did the airspeed / speedo come out of? It looks like a cluster, what are the other gauges indicating?
The one on the right is a wing tank guage from a B25 Mitchel. The center cluster is a '36 Plymouth speedo cluster that we had redone at United Speedometer. It displays fuel pressure, oil pressure, volts and water temp. The one on the left is a tach that I made a bracket for to mount it from the back like an aircraft guage. The switches run the lights, and the the P47 throttle cluster runs the choke, ignition kill, and start circuits. I figure if you're going to have it in your car, might as well make it work somehow.
Cool! I am no aircraft fabricator, so I'd be interested in seeing what that rivet gun looks like and how it works. If you would like, I'll swap you pics of a John Deere sprayer or an Ag Chem Terra-Gator. ha ha ha
I've got a couple for sale: http://www.worldlandspeedrecord.com/history2.htm http://www.landracing.net/forum/index.php/topic,1745.0.html what a wonderful sound!
This idea is too cool! When you look back in our rodding history,many pioneers were employed in the aircraft industry{both civilian & military}.This car certainly pays homage to them,with cl***.
LOOKS GREAT!! i love it!! ive been collecting parts to do something similar, build a car that is inspired by WWII airplanes I also want to use a control yoke as the steering wheel, and i have a question, how did you mount the yoke onto the end of the steering column? Did it require any modification?
No mods. We machined a steering shaft with the steering yoke splines on the end, much the same way a normal steering wheel is attached to a column. "Why re-invent the column" so to speak. When you're ready, we could do the same four you if you like.
That is one *****en car. Very creative. I am a helicopter mechanic and there have been many times I have wanted to use aircraft part for my car.
Cool 270. Glad to see someone using an "odd-ball" motor like we like to do. If you need any help on what fits what for the poly, let me know. Many "LA" engine parts can be used in some of the poly's.
Kevin, The car, engine, the look, the fabrication,.......are all excellant, I love the 'Outside-the-box' design. Keep with the cool old engines.
Wow, as a keen lurker- this is really quite an amazing project. my grandfather worked for douglas, he would have totaly loved this car. i remeber when i was a kid he had all sorts of stuff like this that my grandmother sold at a garage sale- i wish i was old enough to speak up. but again, an amazing project.
Neat. If it means anything at all to you, I've got a book that talks about American WWII aircraft, written by the engineers, mechanics, and pilots that designed, maintained, and flew them.. one of the stories is from the guy that developed that very throttle control! Has a few lines about the setup and why he had to design it in-house at Republic (GE couldn't get it functional). Coming from a warbird buff, that interior is ***S.
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