I'm gonna throw this out there - HAMB is a nostalgia thing anyway. When I was a lad in Reno - 1973 - I started a track roadster. I fabbed up a 2x3 frame, grafting a MG front clip in for the IFS and the wire wheels with knock offs. Disk brakes and Rack and pinion steering, too. The back was z'ed and had coils and parallel four bars with heim ends. The rear end was also from the MG - for the wires, you know. The motor was a 59A Merc with Edmands heads, a Fenton 2 x2 intake and a Fairbanks-Morse racing mag. The tranny was a Ford three speed with overdrive and had a Hurst shifter. The body was a fiberglass T bucket with a turtledeck. The turtledeck was mounted rather high, as the whole car was very low to the ground and it needed to clear the suspension. The steering column was a Vega, I think - the one with the "speedo cable" flexible shaft. I got it to the roller stage and was starting to work on the body reinforcement and interior stuff. Life happened - job changed to career, marriage, divorce, etc. and in '79 I sold it to a Robert Holmes, who shortly thereafter moved to San Jose, taking the unfinished car. A year or so later I heard he had sold it to someone in the Bay Area and that is the last I heard of it. I don't even have a photo. Anyway, I have always wondered if anything came of it. It was innovative, somewhat unique and I had a lot of fun building it, but never got to hear it run. I bet this is not all that unusual of a story here at the HAMB. If any of this rings a bell, let me know, huh?
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