Short Track Models
Construction Topics => Fab shop-under construction pics => Topic started by: 421sd on October 01, 2017, 01:36:01 PM
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(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4417/37403379172_c516c20289_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/YZd6vN)100_2720 (https://flic.kr/p/YZd6vN) by Mark Box (https://www.flickr.com/photos/151834900@N07/), on Flickr
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And Mark is off on another wild ride.....A Bug Sprite? What brought that on?
Rett
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Well...........a couple years back Larry Gabor was vending right beside me at the Southlandz show
and I saw this on his table for sale. I envisioned it as a VINTAGE SCCA road course build. This is all there was to it except the seats. I needed something to post while learning to use Flickr.
I was going to stuff a Nissan inline 4 banger in it but now I have to decided to build it curbside
and move on...........my real motive is a different subject to have an excuse to SCRATCH build a
small single axle trailer to tow it on. I may merely modify the small kit trailer from the little Midget kits.
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I remember those Bug Eyes from back in the day. Pretty cool actually!! Will you be at Southlandz in Nov?
Rett
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Cool!!!
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My mentor in craziness built a full size '60's era Thames van, with an L88 427, and B&M hydro, back in the day. His next project was a bug eye sprite with the same drivetrain. After a couple of test drives in the van, ( I only went on one) the sprite project got scrapped. The last time I was at his shop the sprite was still sitting in a pile in the corner, on its tube frame, with the front end off. Short wheelbase, and big horsepower, are not a good combination. I always wanted to build a model of that sprite, but never found a kit.
Olderndirt