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That Mk1 Escort is Mental!!!!!

 

Something is not right about this pic.

Part of the Balancer sticking through the back panel of this Vauxhall, but it doesnt seem to be turning.

And the exhaust pipes dont seem to be black on the inside either.

Mock up pic, photoshop, or a non working engine in the back for ballast?




Yeah, love the mk1 Escort...

 

Its sitting like that. I guess the balance point is deliberately far back. It´d probably lift the front wheels with a standard HA Viva motor! The other slight giveaway that its not running is rather more obvious - No driver!

 

Fuck...

And I was just looking at that engine...

 

something fishy here, too...

 

Call me Sherlock!

 

This may be my favorite thread ever. Here's a couple local guys, the English Brothers:


And this one, it might not seem too unusual, but I have been looking for YEARS for a picture of a 67-69 Barracuda (I know, non-HAMB friendly) done up with a straight axle, because I wanted to do it to mine. Never found one, until I ran across this on another forum in the classified section. Anyone remember this car, Mister X?

 

My buddy that races this 57 and gave me the straight axle for my gasser sent them to me, and passed it on...Wish it was mine and he had a better one

 

Bond Bug to be exact, we smashed one of these to bits back in 1977 just cos we felt like it.

 

Oh Yeah, there's that!

 

OK I was lookin up straight axle ideas and this poped up...a 2cv???? whatya think metalshapes

 

Sure... Why not...

 

alex WTF is that under the front of the open hood on that 2cv? is the motor that small???

 

The Viva may be propped up for a photoshoot but I see a driver, the car is right hand drive.

 

"My 74 Gremlin X drag car" "360" AMC V8 pwd






My buddy's 9 sec 74 Gremlin X "401" AMC V8 pwd

 

that javelin is crazy looking

 

602cc horizontally opposed flat twin air cooled. Yes its that small.

 

Looks like the seats to me.

 

My new project,'57 Chevy,once a 4door,thinking of adding straight axle,big block Mopar,make street legal

 

I remember the Kelvinator Hornet! I loved that car. I had one just like it, a 75 Sportabout X wagon with an early Gremlin nose and a halfway decently worked 304 and a "grump lump" hood scoop, black with white stripe kit. Ran at Englishtown in 89, best of 12.04, then got impounded by the cops in Chester, NY when they towed it after my alternator went in the middle of the night in the pouring rain. They wanted $600 in towing and impound fees, and I just couldn't come up with the money, I was a dirt-poor kid. Wonder if anything ever happened to it? Still pissed about it, I can never let my anger go...

 

Got a video from the late Jocko Johnson that shows this car crashing, guess it should not have been unexpected...

 

...Thompson `69



...Thompson `71


It ran in the 9`s...

 

Dragway 42, `68...

 

Awesome thread.

 

Here is one my Uncle Nick and Uncle Ted campaigned in the 60s

 

Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider?

 

Metalshapes, where did you get the Bill's Speed Shop Tbird pic?
That's really cool, I've never seen a pic of the car that "early" I've only seen it with the S/S's on it.
Thanks for starting this thread, it rocks!
JK

 

Dont remember where I found it.

Sorry...

 

That's cool, thanks!

 

Island Dragway circa 1965 the car will be back there for the Dover Drag Strip Race in October of 2009