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Fauxlex 24 racer

But ya gotta do it right.

The Enterprise was pretty memorable.  It was by far the largest vehicle out on the track. They had cut off the roof, leaving the copious hood and trunk to form one seemingly connected deck.

They were also memorable because they put some monster engine in it for their second race that made them pretty interesting to try to pass.  Their only weakness was that they needed to pretty much come to a stop for every turn at CMP.

With a Northstar Cadillac in a Midwestern race, I think an Iggy Pop theme- inspired by the 'Roll' ads- would be appropriate. Team Open Up And Bleed!

Just grow your hair all long and stringy, roll around in broken glass, and do 1,000 pushups a day for six months. Be sure to rub peanut butter on yourselves during pit stops.

Didn't Paulie Walnuts drive an STS?

OK, this is going to take a lot of time and will add a significant amount of weight to (the highest point of) your car, but it is a Caddy, so that thing is already heavy, so it'll just be slightly more terrible to drive.

Don't turn your car into an aircraft carrier, build one on top of your car. 

Go with me here.  You'll need to build the structure on the roof out of 1"x2" lumber in an H-frame.  Run it from about 3 feet in front of your windshield to above your tail lights.  Take it apart, coat all joints in builder's adhesive and reassemble.  Cut a hole before your windshield so that it doesn't become a sail.  Angle it up about 2 degrees.  Cover the whole thing in plywood.  Brace the back with angle iron and have an angled support that also serves as the whatever the technical term is for the part of the ship that is in the water going into your trunk.  I cannot stress this part enough: make sure to put some real pressure on it before the race so that it doesn't fall apart on track. 

Paint the body of the car blue with waves, decorate the carrier and viola!  Aircraft carrier and a giant down-force generating wing. 

It's so simple!

Thanks for the picture, ronman.

I like the idea of building a deck on top.  It crossed my mind briefly, but it didn't go anywhere because I hadn't discovered the USS Enterprise yet.  It reminds me of when a friend and I were bringing a sheet of plywood back to our apartment on top of his GTI, and it would create massive lift at anything above 30...  Though that was half-inch plywood and it didn't have a frame, so fingers crossed on that.  Whatever, the team's made of mechanical engineers, so I'm sure we can figure it out.

Well if you're going to do an aircraft carrier, it's got to be the biggest and the best, so of course it'll be a Nimitz-class.  And the raised deck would make any catapult much easier to make.  A steam catapult may be hard (and add another hundred pounds), but i was working out in my head earlier how to do it with rubber bands.

It would be fun to see a lot of ship themes out on track together. A paneled wagon as Old Ironsides, a BMW as the Bismark, a Monitor and Merrimack, a side-wheeler, a nuclear sub, the Kontiki, etc.

Aircraft carrier seems pretty easy. Just strap some plywood to the roof (and don't forget to build the tower) Maybe glue on some model F-14's.

The important part is that everyone is either dressed like Maverick and Iceman or like sailors.

... Or you have working catapults.

...... And can launch an RC plane from it.

A member of our team who was on the Enterprise indicated the generally accepted name is "Enterprison"...

You're trying too hard. 'Just cut the entire roof/windshield off.  Fill in open passenger compartment with sheetmetal, cardboard, etc. Flatten the hood-pass comparment-trunk lid and use that as the flight deck. Poke your head up through flight deck where the island would be. Add spining radar dish on top of roll cage island. Super glue F14 tomcats to appropriate tie-down locations. Design and build power-steering powered foam glider catapault

the thing on the back (stern of the ship) is a rudder.
colors on the flight deck; purple-fuels (i wore one of these), yellow-deck director, green-chain crew/arresting cable/cats, white-safety/oxygen tank, red-fire/rescue.

i served on the Saratoga. two med cruises in the 70's. used to wave single fingers at the russians when they flew by.....