Hot Rods Hot Rod Sports Cars

Not really a "hot rod sports car" but for a while I owned a Wescott-body that was made for and came from a Lotus 23B. I'll try to find some pictures but I think Dee Westcott only made a very few of these. Perhaps someone else here is familiar with them. So, a sports car body made by a hot rodder.

- EM

 

Here's the one we are doing right now:

 

Is that Studebaker a sport car??...........maybe!!

 

The Max Balchowsky Buick powered roadster "Old Yeller 11" 1959...

 

Jim is still worrying that "B" to death. It is now a widc-body with LT1. You can see the changes here:http://forum.britishv8.org/read.php?13,7581

 

Thanks for posting these. I saw a lot of these Hot Rod articles when they were first published and they planted the seed for eventually doing my own swap many years later. Despite the passing of the years, there's still a lot of good tips for doing a Healey swap today and I used a bunch of them. Hadn't seen the Quicksilver Healey article before, very cool!

 

I have that old Petersen swap book in some moldy old box of magazines.
Remember the Siata with a sbc?

 

Glad to share these ''Engine Swapping'' books I bought some fifty years ago......

Same Siata/Chevy of Barry McGuire that I post earlier but differrent article...

 

Kurtis Kraft 500

 

Seen at last weekend's SVRA Historics at Sebring. A Devin SS! I didn't get to talk more about the chassis or powertrain, etc. as the car was leaving for a practice session. But it was nicely turned out. Gary

 

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Some pics of my hot rod sports cars.

1962 MG Midget, 283 Chevy V8, Turbo 400 trans, narrowed '57 Chevy rear axle.

1969 Jaguar E Type Coupe, 289 Ford V8, C 4 trans.

1955 Ford Thunderbird (the "Battle Bird"), IROC 305 Chevy V8, Turbo 350 trans.

 

Love the slots on that MG! Tuff looking little car.

 

I'm sure I saw this car going down Lemmon Ave., in Dallas onetime when I was a kid in the 60s. Kind of hard to miss and there probably weren't many like it...at least in Dallas.