anyone got a couple pics of the purple peop.eater

looking for a couple pics(hopefully sideshots)of the purple peaple eater.thanks

 

Do you mean the AA fuel altered from the 70's run by Mondello/Matsubara?????

 

no the new one

 

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its going to be hard to clone a 9,000 dollar motor.... have fun though

 

Gooch, it shouldn't be that hard, I hear there are some NICE fake blowers on the market!!!

 

thanks for the pic, if you were talking to me, I am not going to clone anything, I wanted this for a drawing.

 

did you try entering 'purple people eater shifters' into a search engine?

 

www.purplepeopleeater.250x.com i think thats the site? try yahoo thats were i found that site. Nate

 

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I gotta' ask a question: Has anyone ever seen that thing run at the strip? I love the look of it, but that's a lot of motor for what looks like a boxed frame w/ holes drilled in it and tiny tires. Seems that it would go 12's due to sheer lack of traction. Kind of a waste of what I would think is a very expensive motor.

 

front motor mounts scare the crap out of me , I allways just thought of it as a big model kit .

 

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We've been over this a hundred times it seems...

I've been around a lot of high horsepower small wheelbase cars and have even driven some fairly heavy ones... And I haven't seen the PPE in over a year in a half... BUT, I personally don't think that car would run anywhere close to the 12's.

I love it though. Coolest art car ever built.

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This is just here say, but the fella who owns NW Customs built a crazy-ass'd, injected 30's something monster a while back & harassed the absolute hell out of Purple People Eater guy. He hemmed, hawed, and cajoled Purple to line em' up...but he wouldn't do it for anything. Leads me to think it really is just a big model. Awful lot of money there to go slow. Still cool to look at though.

 

you guys kill me, "awful lot of money" my ass, Marky has about 3500 in the ENTIRE car, including the motor, and yes, he is going to run it down the strip, cage is being built by Julio Hernandez, other safety mods come as the money does, but it will go down a racetrack....
Wether it'll go fast, or even straight is another story altogether..........................

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Every time I see that thing I think of the "Zingers" back in the 70's.

For 3500 I can see the rest of the car, but that Motor must have been a leftover "Freebie, Zip, Nada" leftover from Jessie...

 

Does it really matter How fast it is or how much money he has in it? Its Cool and different thats what counts. It looks like they spent a lot of time building it and probably redoing things before it ever got done. I would almost bet there are a lot of flatheads out there that probably have more money in them than he has in this engine and would probably wont run near as good as his.

 

This is just here say, but the fella who owns NW Customs built a crazy-ass'd, injected 30's something monster a while back & harassed the absolute hell out of Purple People Eater guy. He hemmed, hawed, and cajoled Purple to line em' up...but he wouldn't do it for anything. Leads me to think it really is just a big model. Awful lot of money there to go slow. Still cool to look at though.

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I guess yer talking about marty and his sedan.... That thing will be fast, If he can ever get it to hook up... The nailhead has more work done than I can remember, Ive heard its up around the 460 c.i. range but dont quote me on that... but its not injected, its got 6 97's on it.
And its not that uncomfortable to be in at all! exept for the no padding on the seats yet.... -J.

 

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This is just here say, but the fella who owns NW Customs built a crazy-ass'd, injected 30's something monster a while back & harassed the absolute hell out of Purple People Eater guy. He hemmed, hawed, and cajoled Purple to line em' up...but he wouldn't do it for anything. Leads me to think it really is just a big model. Awful lot of money there to go slow. Still cool to look at though.

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I guess yer talking about marty and his sedan.... That thing will be fast, If he can ever get it to hook up... The nailhead has more work done than I can remember, Ive heard its up around the 460 c.i. range but dont quote me on that... but its not injected, its got 6 97's on it.
And its not that uncomfortable to be in at all! exept for the no padding on the seats yet.... -J.

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I know that car well J (Bad Karma). It actually wasn't that one though. Some brute he built a while back. Think he was living in Cali when he built it maybe...but don't quote me.

For the kid asking for pic.'s this ought to take care of ya':

http://www.purplepeopleeater.250x.com/gal.html

 

Ahh, Gotchya.

Find a sitter yet!? -J.