probably underwater or totaled b insurance (if insured...) right now i wouldn't buy anything from any of those states for a few years. keith
Dayum.......tractor front end, that's cool! Gotta file that one away....... No, I haven't seen that before, after all I am a newbie!
i like it, but something looks terribly wrong with it, the rear axle doesnt line up with the spring perch and it doesnt look like its parked on a hill. twisted frame maybe? also wish it didnt say rat rod in the title but i know thats what you have to do to sell a car these days. erik
I think the nose needs a little bit trimmed off the rear to look quite right. I do rather like the sharknose treatment, though. It kinda reminds me of Dick Kraft's Bug, but set up for the street.
Slo60- I've lived in florida my whole life and live right on the coast and have to say that happens a lot less than you think, plus most flood cars get shipped out of state, retitled and sold up north, so you're probably more likely to get a flood car in jersey than florida.
Looks like they might have set up the front 1/4 elliptic spring to compensate for a driver... if he used the Posies kit, it has a pivot on the back and a bolt that adjusts the height.
Frame Custom bent. Does that mean that Barris was driveing it when it got crashed? I had an old buick once that was custom by colision. Pretty cool little play toy for sure. i likes it.
Lately I've begun wondering why you couldn't build a dual-purpose HA/GR. Back in the pioneer days, guys stripped off headlights and fenders from their street cars to race on the salt, small bull-rings and the drags... Seems the HA/GRs are a toss-up as to running radiators, there's no rear suspension, and the driver seat is dead center in the rails. I wonder if a guy could build something like this little gem, enjoy it as a street car most of the year, and then relocate the seat and strip the headlights. Or, build the car with a fixed firewall and swap bodies between a street body and a race body. Bolt-in roll bar, and go racing. Maybe a Track-T style street body, and the stripped down HA/GR body for racing... -Brad
i just saw this car at a car show 2 weeks ago,it looks better in person than it does in pics,pretty cool car.i live in gainesville,we got some wind and rain from the hurricanes,but no flooding. its a cool car,i'm bidding on it! randy