I don't think this is the one to which you were referring, but it is pretty cool! http://www.g***ermadness.com/visitorscars/thurston/
The first kustom to run hydros was actually a Corvette; namely the X-Sonic Mikes51 mention. Groucho: very cool!
Radio controlled in 1962? That is amazing. Did transistors even exists then? The R/C transmitter must have run on va***n tubes, and probably the size of a suitcase.
The transistor was invented in '47 Portable transistor radios have been on the market since '54. When I was around 9 or 10 I started flying U-control model airplanes with my older (3 years) brother and at that time ('58) marvelled at the guys who could afford $300-$800 for a transmitter and reciever in a time when you could buy a 10 year old Chevy for $50. Especially the recievers, that got drilled into the asphault parking lot at Los Alamitos Race Track (horse track) on a regular schedule! Anyway, I remember the transmitters were a little bigger than a cigar box.
Hey sawzall, that gold car went for 3 Million 1 1/2 weeks ago at Barret-Jackson. Sean72, good eye, it's the same car from Mooneyes. What did you want to know about it?
Groucho, I liked it when I saw it at Mooneyes. Now seeing the updated pic, I LOVE IT! What engine, trans & are you keeping the stock suspension? Sean
When I was a teenager, I saw a guy driving his early 70's vette by remote... man, what a trip that was! I just kept expecting it to take off on it's own... way too scary for me to ever want to try..
I don't think you got it... Read it again... See the word "with"? What does C9 have to do with it? I don't think the Corvette was/is anything more than a plastic muscle car... and they don't strike me as HAMB material any more than an '85 Monte Carlo SS or a Mach-1 does. **** it, don't answer... I'm not coming back to this thread... JOE
groucho, most cars look like *** in pictures until you see them in person. yours looks excellant, good job.
yeah I know.. i think it could be duplicated for ALOT less. hell its only fibergl***.. PLUS it would BLOW a ton of people away
If I remeber correctly our own Jeem did a pic for R&C of a custom vette.He mentioned (I think) it was inspired by another vette custom a guy had built. Anyone have apic of this drawing?
In the sixties it was believed that setting the front of the car up high would help transfer weight to the rear axle, giving more traction
They couldn't come up with anything more conventional than a solid front axle to raise the car up? I'm not trying to argue or anuthing here - I just don't get it.
a straight axle is about as conventional as it gets, there are hokier methods, like ball joint spacers, but straight axles are light and simple...
I'm no expert, just a fan of g***ers. The straight axle was usually lighter than the stock independent frontends on most 50's - 60's cars. Slicks were still fairly new technolgy, rubber wasn't as good back then. So, they had to get as much weight as possible on the rear tires to get any traction. Get the weight off the front, get it on the rear. By raising the frontend higher than the rear, it helps in weight transfer when the car took off. Standard practice was to get the front tires to lift, that was a sign that all the weight was on the rear tires. A lot of the early g***ers used stock indepdent frontends with stiff and raised coils to get them up. Later, in the 70's "street freaks" era straight axles became about style. By the mid-60's tires were better, and people figured out that additional height was aerodynamic drag, and lifting the front tires was wasting horsepower that could be used to get moving. That's a vauge summary, but I hope it helps...
With the straight axle the front end of the car can go thru an al***ude change during launch without experiencing a camber change on the front wheels. Think about how many shots you've seen with one front wheel in the air first. If it has unequal length A arm suspension, its being steered only by that other wheel that's laid over sideways by the camber change wheels do when they lift, they lean in at the top. that will tend to make the car head for the wall, untill it comes down them it will be heading for the other wall.. A beam axle keeps the camber the same regardless of the front end lift (relatively) so it won't be adding steering quirks to the car as much. Besides, this was a time when people still built race cars in their garage. They didn't have "Bud" or the "ARMY" paying for exotic, jacked up IFS changes on their cars.
Roth painted one, it was the first car with hydrolics (spelling?) It turned in to a radical custom with a bubble top.
I would like to build one called "the *******"Start with a 54 or 55 remove some of the chrome.Fab up some cadi style dagmars to stick out the front.Add some custom tails.And the kicker to piss the purists off would be to have it powered by a worked olds rocket 324.
I love custom corvettes. The 'Big Book of Barris' has a couple super cool ones in it. I especially love the one made by the Bertolucci body shop and this one, made by Bob McNulty.
A buddy of mine had a shop back in the late 80's. Got a beat vette cheap off some zipper head. Took a hammer and beat holes in the nose next to the hide away headlights, welded in angle iron and mounted a plow frame on the front. Put snow tires all around and would park it in front of the shop for sale. Wizzed of a lot of vette-heads!!-MIKE
Thats cl***ic.I like vettes and would have probably gone another route but that had to be funny. I'm working on some sketches of what I would do to a 53-55 model.If they turn out good I may post them in a art thread.I want to have the pics set at a car show with old vette guys looking at it and scrathing there heads.Maybe one shedding a tear.LMAO.
That is so bad ***.I have been trying to design a roof for the custom concept.I wanted something along the lines of a killer chopped top and open roof insert or moon roof.Something along the lines of say Larry Grobe's green chevy top.
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