Hot Rods Fiat Topolinos, how many Hambers have one?

I have a steel 37 Simca with great sheetmetal. Didn't touch it yet, still gathering parts.

It will be street driven with occasional passes in Beaver Springs Friday night street class where cars have to be licensed, inspected with exhaust run through mufflers - but slicks are allowed.

With a 500 inch Caddy and 4 link adjusted for maximum plant, my goal is to get the wheels in the air. I'll add a trans brake if I need to.

 

Here's my Simca/Fiat panel. Stretched the wheelbase 10" and the front of the hood 8". also made it a flip nose. Post some pic's of you Simca, would like to see it.

 

You might want to consider stretching the wheelbase. It makes a big difference for leg room. Nhra rules require a minimum of 85" wheelbase. They changed it this year. It used to be 90" Also wdobos (I think that's how it's spelled) Here on the HAMB has a Topolino with a Caddy engine in it. I believe he is in PA also.

 

Failed at posting pics but that's no surprise, I suck at computer stuff. I'll ask my wife to try.

Thanks for the wheelbase suggestion. I'm using a dropped tube with coilovers and planned to set it up with the axle just behind the the nose almost touching the back of the grill, but I didn't actually measure what the wheelbase would be.

 

My wifes 37 Topolino. I bought it about 13 years back to build a street legal blown altered but she liked it as it was. So it kept the stock wheelbase and its 1500cc Toyota engine.

 

So I got my own rusty steel one. Havent started on it yet, but I have a chassis set up for a BBC & glide & 9 inch. Will run blown sbc and glide.

 

Before I found the steel body last year, we did a mould off my wifes car and made three tupperware bodies. THis is one of them sitting on my chassis.

Tupperware Topo is now up in the ceilng of my shed and the rusty steel body will go onto the chassis

 

Here is my Simca, I have a line on a 215 Buick and hope to find time to start on it next winter.

 

Here was my first Fiat in 2004. Unfortunately the body was like swiss cheese. I sandblasted and primed it. It now resides in some ones backyard in the cape cod area. Last I seen the rust was back through the primer. The "X" on the windshield was scheduled for the crusher at a scrap yard were I bought it from.

 

Here it was in primer after blasting. The bottom 4" of it was gone.

 

My 38 topo is still hanging from the rafters in my shop waiting for me to start working on it.

 

Mine's flat black, blown Hemi, 125" wheelbase, fast, and...not exactly street legal.

It's also a 24th scale drag race only slot car..!

No one said what scale you were talking about...!

Mike