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[SkipperSue]

Leave it to me to find a way to show another Spitfire.
This one has a 460 engine squeezed into it! This has to be an awesome ride!

[Gage]

Gage,you ain't been runnin' SHINE in that wagon,have you?

We don't run SHINE in California, we just drink it. Sometimes we put it in the gas tank.

[Nitetimes]

Leave it to me to find a way to show another Spitfire.
This one has a 460 engine squeezed into it! This has to be an awesome ride!

It must be in backwards! The distributor's on the wrong end!!

[Kevin A]

Leave it to me to find a way to show another Spitfire.
This one has a 460 engine squeezed into it! This has to be an awesome ride!

Skip, I really hate to be a nit picker, but that sure looks like a big block chevy in that spitfire.

That sure is a good looking car...

[angib]

The Spitfire has to have that huge bulge in its bonnet (the 'hood' on a Spit keeps the driver dry) - it looks too much like padding your shorts with socks to me.

For subtlety (apart from the red wheels), I think this Morris Minor gets a prize:




That's a Rover V8 (the former Buick 215) - isn't it neat how the Minor's bonnet bulge was just waiting for that supercharger? Very subtle banding on the rear wings to fit suitable tyres.

When I was young, a guy near me had a Minor saloon with the very cute 2.5L Daimler V8 in it - because the Minor was designed to take a flat four engine, the V8 fits quite easily. The nice thing was the way the whole car rolled 5-10 degrees when the throttle was blipped.

Andrew

[BILLYL]

When I was a young'n there was a local Hotrod Shop that used to soup up VW beetles. The place was "Motion" located on Sunrise Highway in Baldwin NY on Long Island. They would swap the heads - bore things out and do all kinds of suspension mods. These things were then Dyno Tuned and could do 0-60mph in under 10 seconds.

Don't recall what it costs but back then it wasn't cheap.

O the good old days



Bill

[asianflava]

Baldwin Motion is still around. If you have some major bucks, you can get one of their "New" 69 Camaros.

http://www.officialbaldwinmotion.com/

[Chip]

what really gets me about the super street Neon's and similar cars is they are front wheel drive,, Now correct me if I am wrong but that huge spoiler that shows up shortley after the high performance exhaust system, is made to put down force on the drive wheels,,,, now these bieng front wheel drive and the spoiler right large,,, at speed you got less weight on ya drive wheels and it could cost ya a bit of steering control,,, at the super speeds these things are generating,,,,

Shouldnt the spoiler be on the hood instead of the trunk lid,, I am no engineer but is does make me say Hmmmmmmm,,,

chipper

[Joseph]

Shouldnt the spoiler be on the hood instead of the trunk lid,, I am no engineer but is does make me say Hmmmmmmm,,,

Yeah, but on the hood it wouldn't look "cool."

Joseph

[JunkMan]

:lol: OR souped up Volkswagons.

You can get a lot of horsepower out of a VW. I used to race dune buggies off-road, and could run circles out of a lot of the 4 X 4's out there. VW drag cars have posted some awesome times, and Formula Vee cars always looked like a lot of fun.
They even run VW engines in experimental airplanes

[Nitetimes]

Shouldnt the spoiler be on the hood instead of the trunk lid,, I am no engineer but is does make me say Hmmmmmmm,,,

Yeah, but on the hood it wouldn't look "cool."

Joseph

I guess cool is a matter of opinion these days too. I say it just makes most of them look like shopping carts.

I'd like to shove a potato in some of those fart cans, they are really annoying. Nothing like a good throaty rumble from a big V-8.

[Joseph]

I'd like to shove a potato in some of those fart cans, they are really annoying. Nothing like a good throaty rumble from a big V-8.

Yeah, but that's the deal - the one that I saw HAD a big V-8 in it! I hve no idea how that kid got it in there, and I couldn't BELIEVE the sound coming out of that toy!

Joseph

[BILLYL]

AF-

Yep that's them - I haven't been back in that area for awhile. Wished I had the $169K - that Camaro looks Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice stuff.......


Thanks for the link

Bill

[BrwBier]

Know why a Yugo has a rear window defroster? To keep your hands warm when your pushing it.
Brwbier

[cracker39]

:lol: OR souped up Volkswagons.

My first beetle was a 63. In the early 60s, It needed some valve and ring work, but I didn't stop there. A co-worker told me about a shop that built Formula V engines, so I went there. They guy replaced my 1200 jugs with a 1400 kit, which isn't big by racing standards for later models. He also put in a street cam and a racing crankshaft. He balanced the engine and put on an extractor exhaust. I kept my stock carb, but bored and polished the throat and put in larger jets. I don't remember what it ran 0-60, but it was fast. I could outrun '76 model 1600s. Stock, it did about 76 top speed in 4th. After that mod, it would hit 75 in 3rd and I had it up to 85 in 4th on a flat highway. And, it sounded like a porsche.

But, I would run up on a guy in a VW bus on the causeway going to work on the Cape who would grin at me and leave me in his dust. One day, I saw it in the parking lot and took a closer look. He had a Corvair flat 6 in it. I don't know how they got it to fit in place of a flat 4, but they did.