whats it look like, a coupe, truck or sedan cut down to a single seat racer?

I'm talkin a narrowed to death closed cab body on a tube or T chassis, belly panned, whippet shelled or the like..... anyone?

 

??????

 

you know, skinny.... one seat

 

Oh boy, here we go again.

 

Like the first Christman roadster made into what was then a modified. Only with a roof I think it would look like a sixties Super modified circle track car. Or one of those legends cars. Depends on the skill and eye of the builder. In the late '50s there was a local guy I would see cruising El Camino in a cut down WW2 Army ambulance or something. Hard to tell as it had been modified so much. But I thought it was pretty neat.

 

Search the Hoodlum build on here,it's got what your looking for.

 

Golden Sub?

 

yeah the hoodlums cool, subs cool.... I've had a bunch of racers, I have enough 32 roadster parts to make an honest effort to do Tim Conders one wrench car he penned several years ago, but i was curious about a roofed car, skinny as hell, legend cars are to wide and squat, i prefer tall skinny wheels, isnt it the dynomat car all narrow up front, how about the whole thing

 

Bantam.

 

Ed Roth style with your head and shoulders above the roof line, shifter sticking up above your head. Huge 6-71 with bug-catcher, zoomies, shortened grill shell.. spindle mounts, with tall white wall narrow slicks......

 

Bantam's too wide, has to be a Model A I believe..... think sprint car, 40's era. I would think someone out there has seen one over the last 80 years

 

There was a style of race car they did it with, but I can't remember what they were called.

 

sorry didnt understand your original question. is this something like you're talking about????

 

Just go to the Speedway catalog and buy a 31-32 Vicky body from Speedy Bill. They were built for modifieds back in the 1960's.

 

Fussybear we crossed the finish line side by side! Great photo, now I don't have to look for one online! Happy Easter!

 

I think a single seater "modified" style build that is also a coupe would be fun. For a starting point I'd be leaning towards either Golden Submarine style early racer or a 60's style oval racer with a narrow and short frame, kinda like these midwest modifieds. The yellow 27 is particularly well done, eh? Gary

 

thanks gary looks like i've been outdone. not surprising since i dont no nuffin

 

now we're talkin, imagine the white one on the ramptruck with 18" wheels and built for lakes racing

 

and the yellow one!

 

In some ways you're talking about a Zipper style modified, but on about a 30" wide chassis for a single seater. I'd much prefer a sectioned and choped Ford roof, too, instead of the supermodified style roof that the Zipper coupes have. I'd like to have one of these to zip around in like a 4 wheeled motorcycle with roll up windows! Gary

 

Makes you wonder what those '32 3Windows looked like before they became Modifies?

 

Just don't show up at the Lakes expecting to run it.

 

Rich,
Nothing close? What does a slot window 33 Ford coupe with no fenders run as? Ya can't narrow a coupe in the same way you narrow a roadster body to get a lakes modified? Just wondering, Gary

 

should be able to cage it properly to qualify a run, no idea what it would be classified as....... can always drive a sensible speed on the return road, thats almost as good right?

 

While putting speed tape all over the frame work of this thing, I keep thinking it might be cool as a tandem Tudor sedan or a coupe body, T frame, model A running gear

 

Despite the fact that narrowed roadsters were what at the time they called streamliners, and when real 'liners came along morphed into Lakesters. SCTA in it's wisdom will not allow any narrowed anything to run in any class. It's OK for a lakester to have begun life as a drop tank, but not as a roadster. No sectioned cars allowed either. Built to follow the safety rules you can run Time Only.

 

I'm thinking the #11 car from post #16 could turn the trick for me!

 

Thanx, Gary

 

That car is a Nance supermodified. About the size of a sprint car but a rectangular tube frame and coupe body. A glass or steel body in this style would be an interesting start for single seat street car. If you squint a little, it also has that good old Fiat Topolino profile, too - which might also be a good choice to start. Gary

 

Exactly what I was thinking! I had to look at it a couple of times before I saw the three window reveal at the back edge of the "door" window. I have an old Fiberglass trends Fiat Topolino body that I was squinting at the other night thinking it would look cool with a track nose, but why? There's my answer!