Loony, his Dad, Dave, & I paid a visit to the PigPen this afternoon.
For me, it was a chance to offload Steve & Lesley's Christmas pressies -I haven't seen my brother & sis in law since the last drag meet back in September of last year.
Loony hopefully arranged a future paintjob. And Dave was just along for the ride.
-O.K, we went in
his car.
Nice to see my big bro again & workshop buddy Graham. Hi guys.
This is the white fibreglass bodied car from the previous pics.
The body's very loosely based on a 1930s Ford model A saloon, but narrowed & shortened into a single seater unit. These shells are used for circuit racing in the States -similar to our stock car races. They're not intended to last more than a few meets, so the quality ain't great.
The car's owner lives on the Isle of Wight & Steve's doing a spot of remodelling & re-engineering for him.
Engine's a Rover V8 -same as I've got in my hotrod project. Mr Brock's currently TIG welding up the zoomie exhaust headers. Knowing how noisy my own motor was when we fired it up with pipes 4 times as long as these, this is gonna be LOUD!
I spent ages looking for some engine mods we could steal for our rod, but seems this is a fairly standard Rover unit. I'm curious to know how it performs.
