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Re: A car built from everyone's surplus shite parts. What have you got?

Mulry wrote:

Also, the doors , front fenders, hood, grille, and maybe the trunk lid and rear fenders from a 1967 SIMCA 1000GLS. And a spare AW11 MR2 rear spoiler that says "Baksheesh Is Not a Crime" on it from Joliet '10.

Pleaae bring all the simca parts you can spare to joliet.

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Re: A car built from everyone's surplus shite parts. What have you got?

Rich Duisberg wrote:
EyeMWing wrote:

4R70W

I have no idea what that is. It sounds bloody important though. Is it large enough to start welding some of the other shite to it?

More good news: I have a rear view mirror here from an Austin Montego. Add it to the list.

Bloody important, big, and centrally located.

Supposed to be an automatic transmission for some kinda Ford.

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Re: A car built from everyone's surplus shite parts. What have you got?

cpchampion wrote:
Sir Thomas Crapper wrote:

If the race gives you Lemons, turn them into lemonade

Even when the Lemons are half-composted?

Especially then...potential new trackside beverage!

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Re: A car built from everyone's surplus shite parts. What have you got?

Hard lemonade.

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Re: A car built from everyone's surplus shite parts. What have you got?

Instrument cluster, tailgate letters and one dog-dish hubcap from a '59 Edsel wagon, and a slightly dinged emblem from an NSU TYP 110.

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Re: A car built from everyone's surplus shite parts. What have you got?

240Z ski rack, Merc 190E radio, cracked Fiat DOHC 124 header. Those will work a treat...

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Re: A car built from everyone's surplus shite parts. What have you got?

OK, I'll offer a Super Snipe in-line hemi engine.   It is in a zillion pieces, all of
which are the rejects that didn't make it into the current running engine.   I
stripped both engines to the bare blocks and then picked the best parts from
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Re: A car built from everyone's surplus shite parts. What have you got?

How did we get to 31 posts in this thread before someone offered the most fundamentally important part of any car? The most critical component of all? The one on which the rest of the vehicle depends?

Type44 wrote:

240Z ski rack

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Re: A car built from everyone's surplus shite parts. What have you got?

I also have a W124 Benz with a wrecked front end and rear corner, no engine or transmission, and no rear wheels. Add a used control arm and/or some creative bending and you have a (non)rolling chassis.

At this point it looks like we have enough parts to build at least three complete cars. Now we just need to transport all this shit and all these people to a central location with tools and a scrapyard for the greatest Top Gear tribute challenge of all time.

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SpaceFrank wrote:

I also have a W124 Benz with a wrecked front end and rear corner, no engine or transmission, and no rear wheels. Add a used control arm and/or some creative bending and you have a (non)rolling chassis.

At this point it looks like we have enough parts to build at least three complete cars. Now we just need to transport all this shit and all these people to a central location with tools and a scrapyard for the greatest Top Gear tribute challenge of all time.

Bent chassis. Hmmm. Does it bend left or right, up or down, and by how much? Surely it would be easier to find and match a track's layout to the chassis we have instead of trying to straighten the car? I have a Miata as bent as Laguna Seca's corkscrew, but it would be useless anywhere else.

Central location? I'm in the UK, you lot are in the colonies, halfway looks like either the Azores or Iceland. What is the baggage allowance with British Airways nowadays?

/sober.

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Re: A car built from everyone's surplus shite parts. What have you got?

Rich Duisberg wrote:
SpaceFrank wrote:

I also have a W124 Benz with a wrecked front end and rear corner, no engine or transmission, and no rear wheels. Add a used control arm and/or some creative bending and you have a (non)rolling chassis.

At this point it looks like we have enough parts to build at least three complete cars. Now we just need to transport all this shit and all these people to a central location with tools and a scrapyard for the greatest Top Gear tribute challenge of all time.

Bent chassis. Hmmm. Does it bend left or right, up or down, and by how much? Surely it would be easier to find and match a track's layout to the chassis we have instead of trying to straighten the car? I have a Miata as bent as Laguna Seca's corkscrew, but it would be useless anywhere else.

Central location? I'm in the UK, you lot are in the colonies, halfway looks like either the Azores or Iceland. What is the baggage allowance with British Airways nowadays?

/sober.


A Central location for the US/UK would be roughly NY if consider many people are on the west coast. The flight time from NY to LA is about the same as the London to NY. Newfoundland or Eastern Maine may be a tad closer but might be harder to get to.

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Re: A car built from everyone's surplus shite parts. What have you got?

I have a schizophrenic collection of parts. Several Turbo dodge engines, one transmission, more parts than I care to list off those cars. I have most of an FC RX7 disassembled on shelves. I have an assembled 1976 Yamaha XS500, and a second one that is completely disassembled on shelves. A partially put back together 1975 Kawasaki KZ400, and boxes of spare parts for it. A random briggs and stratton single cylinder engine, a Porsche 944 roof panel, rear window louvers, and some other stuff I'm forgetting. All this lives in a tiny single bay garage.

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Re: A car built from everyone's surplus shite parts. What have you got?

Volvo B18D
Volvo M40
Borg Warner 35 Torque Converter and Flexplate
W116 Aluminum Hood
e36/5 Rear tweeters


I've pretty much got a full car from the looks of it.

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Re: A car built from everyone's surplus shite parts. What have you got?

Rich Duisberg wrote:
SpaceFrank wrote:

I also have a W124 Benz with a wrecked front end and rear corner, no engine or transmission, and no rear wheels. Add a used control arm and/or some creative bending and you have a (non)rolling chassis.

At this point it looks like we have enough parts to build at least three complete cars. Now we just need to transport all this shit and all these people to a central location with tools and a scrapyard for the greatest Top Gear tribute challenge of all time.

Bent chassis. Hmmm. Does it bend left or right, up or down, and by how much? Surely it would be easier to find and match a track's layout to the chassis we have instead of trying to straighten the car? I have a Miata as bent as Laguna Seca's corkscrew, but it would be useless anywhere else.

Central location? I'm in the UK, you lot are in the colonies, halfway looks like either the Azores or Iceland. What is the baggage allowance with British Airways nowadays?

/sober.

Actually, the chassis isn't bent. Just the left rear suspension and some sheet metal. I meant creative bending might be required if it needs more than a control arm, or if you're really cheap.

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chaase wrote:
Rich Duisberg wrote:
SpaceFrank wrote:

I also have a W124 Benz with a wrecked front end and rear corner, no engine or transmission, and no rear wheels. Add a used control arm and/or some creative bending and you have a (non)rolling chassis.

At this point it looks like we have enough parts to build at least three complete cars. Now we just need to transport all this shit and all these people to a central location with tools and a scrapyard for the greatest Top Gear tribute challenge of all time.

Bent chassis. Hmmm. Does it bend left or right, up or down, and by how much? Surely it would be easier to find and match a track's layout to the chassis we have instead of trying to straighten the car? I have a Miata as bent as Laguna Seca's corkscrew, but it would be useless anywhere else.

Central location? I'm in the UK, you lot are in the colonies, halfway looks like either the Azores or Iceland. What is the baggage allowance with British Airways nowadays?

/sober.


A Central location for the US/UK would be roughly NY if consider many people are on the west coast. The flight time from NY to LA is about the same as the London to NY. Newfoundland or Eastern Maine may be a tad closer but might be harder to get to.


I have 20 acres, neighbors that dont ask questions, and the ability to burn/shoot things we dont like. 2-3 hours drive from cleveland/pittsburgh/bUffalo and enough parts cars to build two or three terrible cars. 

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