Oh yes. I do a lot of Mercedes work for the one collector. This one finished 2nd in the last cannonball run, I assume everybody knows what the cannonball run was lol
Well it was a 1965 if that counts? I watched Ian Roussel build one and loved it, so I built one too. This was early on, it turned into a sweet little ride. I drove it everywhere, pulled in to a cruise in one night, and an older fella walked up to me and said "thanks, now nobody is gonna look at any of our stuff! That's the coolest thing I've ever seen!" Lol.... I built a 2X3 box tube chassis,.120 wall. Used the stock beam and IRS. Chopped it, narrowed the body 2". Think i might build another one if I can find a body.
The 1st car with my name on the title. Also the last GM with my name on the title! It didn't do well with the lead foot owner waxing the trunk lid in the picture. My 1st hot rod didn't have a title. Me and 3 other buddies pooled our money together and built the 69 Road Runner I bought for $150 at a local gas station. It was suppose to be in the hobby class, but that 1st night after we arrived at the track (about 4 weeks into the season), they eliminated the class. They did let us run with the late model guys. We finished 8th out of 20 starters in the Semi Feature (the slower 1/2 of the cars). The guy that had been winning the hobby stock races was more then a 1/2 a lap behind us. Our payout for that night ($55) was more then winning the hobby class feature was before. At the end of that 1st season, my buddies gave the car to me. I figured out I was not a race car driver, but I could make it go pretty good with little money. I was a car owner for around 20 years.
An old road runner, smeared down the entire left side. Ended up replacing entire floors, firewall, quarter panel etc. When done the car had been replaced from passenger side rocker over to the driver side rocker. First pic I've already done the front end. Second pic is replacing firewall before cutting floors out. Third pic is all structure pieces welded in, door fit, quarter panel welded on...
lostone, that looks a lot like it could have been taken in Mark Worman’s Graveyard Cars shop! What he does to rescue one is simply amazing, and expensive I’m sure!
@BamaMav it was bad, the complete door pillar and all drivers side structure was replaced. It was wrecked in 1971 and had set behind a barn until 2004 or 05. With the drivers side glass knocked out of it the floors were rusted away along with being wrinkled. 72 hours just in structure work and replacement. It was a no option car except 383 4-speed and 3.90 locker rear end. Manual brakes, steering etc. Guy said it was bought new just to street race, hence the wreck I guess...
Lloyd's bug is the poor's mans hotrod..........build another one...this time with a Corvair transaxle aka Crown styled and a carbureted 5.3....hint hint
A friend's brother just finished this bug for him in Brazil, It has a 1.8 litre Jetta with a turbo, he says it breaks loose in 3rd! lol they used an adapter for the bell housing that bolts the inline 4 to the stock rear diff. Really cool speedster. I would change the Honda wheels.
The only VW I ever owned and was glad to get rid of it ! Technically I bought it for my at the time girlfriend, my plans were mid engine V8 dropped over an S10 chassis. Her idea was keep it original, hell she couldn't even drive stick, she wouldn't work on it and I DIDN'T want to work on a stock VW.
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