VW bone yard
Mar 13, 2022 20:17:29 #
Sidwalkastronomy
Loc: New Jersey Shore
Google car hedge in Nebraska and a guy took junk cars and made a replica of Stonehenge. I was there for the great American eclipse 2017
Mar 13, 2022 20:55:33 #
Sidwalkastronomy wrote:
Google car hedge in Nebraska and a guy took junk cars and made a replica of Stonehenge. I was there for the great American eclipse 2017
Nice
Mar 14, 2022 07:22:06 #
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Mar 14, 2022 08:08:10 #
stillkickin wrote:
Some people would have the ability to these into a real masterpiece
Looks like a mock up for a scene from a “Cars” movie. Nice.
Mar 14, 2022 08:56:02 #
Shellback wrote:
Got my first car in '66 - it was a '59 VW bug - loved that car - my older brother borrowed it when he was home from the service and stripped out the transmission and blew the engine trying to drag race it... I was not happy... it went to the junk yard and he went back to his duty station...
Was he drag racing a tortoise?
Mar 14, 2022 09:29:31 #
Lucian
Loc: From Wales, living in Ohio
Wow, looks like an old split screen of the one on the left. My first car was a beetle and my second and third in fact. Then I bought a Porsche. In my second beetle, I removed the engine and put a Formula V engine in for a while. Howeber, I needed MORE POWER, so I swapped over the crown and pinion gear in the gearbox and then fitted with an adapter plate from Empi, a Corvair engine into it (Corvairs turn the opposite direction to a VW, so I didn't want to have 4 gears in reverse). What a beast.
Had to put a few hundred pounds of weight where the spare tyre went though and never needed first gear again. Also had to fit a thick metal bar around the back to help support the engine as it hung out the back. I used Thrush small exhausts and used flexible metal hoses each side and wrapped them around the floating transaxles to give enough distance for the back pressure of the new improv exhaust system. I wasn't into photography back then, so sadly don't even have a single photo of the setup. Ahhh, the good old days!
Had to put a few hundred pounds of weight where the spare tyre went though and never needed first gear again. Also had to fit a thick metal bar around the back to help support the engine as it hung out the back. I used Thrush small exhausts and used flexible metal hoses each side and wrapped them around the floating transaxles to give enough distance for the back pressure of the new improv exhaust system. I wasn't into photography back then, so sadly don't even have a single photo of the setup. Ahhh, the good old days!
Mar 14, 2022 09:47:45 #
Celtis87 wrote:
Looks like a mock up for a scene from a “Cars” movie. Nice.
Yes it does. I wonder if Herbie is in there somewhere
Bill
Mar 14, 2022 09:58:53 #
Goober wrote:
Was he drag racing a tortoise?
A '53 Chevy - if it was like our mom's car, it was about the same as a tortoise...
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