• From: Hayward, CA
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Re: Help on our theme

stupid_but_tough wrote:

'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

Yeah., yeah, yeah.!

Chop the top, build a driver only roll cage and make that the Island. deck over the passenger compartment.

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  • From: Houston (Spring) Texas
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Re: Help on our theme

Use the chopped roof as the flight deck

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Re: Help on our theme

If you're gonna wear a uniform, be sure and pin on as many ridiculously big medals as possible.

29 Reply by Crab Spirits (edited by Crab Spirits 2010-08-10 07:59 PM)

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Re: Help on our theme

I'm a Chicago local and can contribute an A-4, A-6, F-14, and possibly more models to this cause. Just make sure the island is big enough to put your car number on the sides of it.

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Re: Help on our theme

Using $25000 cheaterware like Solidworks ought to earn some BS laps all by itself. Lemons is all about imagining, eyeballing, and measuring with your thumb. No not your good thumb; the one that you cut off at the knuckle years ago in a barstool racing accident.

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Re: Help on our theme

I'm not so sure using expensive tools will matter, unless you pay someone else to use them for you. Software, welder, vinyl cutter, I figure they are all the same. We had to buy about $2k in tools to get our car done. Nothing special. We just didn't have a lot at the start.

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  • From: Columbia SC
  • Registered: 2010-09-12
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Re: Help on our theme

erdero wrote:

Hey everyone, we're looking at trying to do our first Lemons race in Chicago in October, and we've come up with what we hope is a good theme.  We've got our eyes on a '95 Cadillac STS (Northstar and all), and originally wanted to dress it up as a train, but I remembered the Bipolar Express from last year I think, and they seemed to do it rather well (People's Choice), so we decided to change.

So now we want to turn it into an aircraft carrier.  I read that it'd been done before on a Ford LTD at CMP Fall 2009, but this was the only picture I could find of it:

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/im … -500px.jpg

How well done was it, and does anyone have any more pictures?

If we stick to the theme, we'd have to go above and beyond (not that we wouldn't anyway).  Thanks for any help!

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