I got an email this morning asking me about my old McBurnie Ferrari Daytona replica (mine was built around a 400ci 74 Corvette, but never made it past the primer stage — it was bought to resell because the price was right). Anyway, it reminded me how much I’ve been neglecting this blog (just finished converting my body modification blog (NSFW) to WordPress), so here are a few pictures of a much nicer Daytona from Carlisle 06:
I am so sorry I didn’t remember to take a photo of the for sale info — if anyone knows more, please post it in the comment forum.
PS. Here’s mine:
Not quite so nice…!
Those of you who read my personal blog may have seen the Cruzin’ Cooler video I posted while at Carlisle ‘06. I thought it only fair to share some pictures of the hard work that Dallas has put into converting his Opel GT into a roadster. He writes,
"My car is a 1970 Opel GT and it was never produced in a roadster. It is all custom done. It is a great car and many people think it is a kit. It is in fact just a one of a kind hand made conversion. I did most of the work myself. It has had the top cut off, over size wheels(16in front and 17in rear), Corvette style side pipes, all custom interior made with marine vinyl incase it gets wet, CD with 6 speakers and amp, an onboard airtank and compressor that pumps up the air shocks. It has many other additions too, but that is the short story about my car."
I’ve posted a few Invaders before, but I thought this yellow one (asking price, $1,900, but I don’t think it sold) was pretty sweet looking… It looks terrible from some angles, but from the front it’s a very sexy car, and I’ve seen a few modded ones that are quite attractive from all angles…. It’s sort of a bastard child of a dunebuggy and a curvy seventies exotic I think, with emphasis on the “bastard” part.
This was actually the first car I saw at the Carlisle show this year!
I’m really sorry because I can’t remember which company this is from, but I thought some readers might enjoying seeing the complexity involved internally in building a Lamborghini Diablo (oh wait, lawyers… it’s a unique design, not a replica) door assembly with roll-down glass, a little reinforcement, a popper, speakers, latches, and so on.
Because it’s so rare I was quite surprised to see this Jackrabbit, a VW Rabbit based kit that at the time was expected to “reinvigorate” the DIY auto market (but then collapsed), at Carlisle ‘06. It was a single donor kit intended to be a quick build, but for a variety of reasons the owner of this one, who won it in a raffle, took about eleven years building it — but I expect has it on the road as I write this.
No GT IIs managed to make it to Carlisle 2006 (at least not on Saturday while I was there), but four original Bradley GT kits did arrive. The first two to show up were a pair of silver metalflake ones (the “I AM A 9″ plate is a reference to the type nine — “the peacemaker“ — personality type):
Next was a bright purple flamed Bradley GT…
…followed by a white and blue one also sporting a custom paint job:
It was great seeing these old kits represented (and a little sad thinking about how many are rotting away in fields and barns) as I believe it could be argued that the Bradleys did for VW kitcars what the Manx did for dunebuggies.
Point of Trivia: It’s not unusual to see Bradley GTs (not as nice as these, but still functioning vehicles) sell for $500 or less!
Yes, this is the same FireAero that I posted last time, but this time it’s 2006, and last time it was 1999 — this is one of the “regulars” of the Carlisle show, and one of my favorite cars there so I was very happy to get to see it in person and get to meet the owners who use this as their travel vehicle (note the trailer of course).
From the car’s info sheet: The FireAero Cycle Car was a kit (no longer manufactured) out of California made from 1983 to 1989 in two generations. It is believed that five to seven of the first generation were made, and about a dozen of the second generation. The kit sold for about $5000, and used parts from a Pinto for the front end, a Honda Gold Wing (1982) to power it, a modified 15″ VW wheel at the back, tied together with a custom chassis.
You can contact the owner, Thomas Ingram, at FireAero1@aol.com (tell him you saw him on PriceOfHisToys if you do!).
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