I think he ended up selling it (for $6500, a steal!) after owning it for thirty years, but I just love the convertible conversion that Steven did on his Fiberfab Valkyrie. It’s built on a steel ladder frame with Corvair suspension, and a Chevy 350 V8 and Turbohydro 350 auto tranny. As he put it, “more fun and looks than any Corvette!”
Seriously, I don’t know why people buy things like new Vettes and Mustangs when there are well finished high performance specialty cars like this out there. Not that I’m a normal guy…
I’m headed off to New York City tomorrow until Friday (I’ll try and post while I’m on the road, but it may be a little slow), where among many other old friends, I’ll see the person who took the photos today from a wonderful day where we drove my “brand new” Aztec 7, the first kit I ever got on the road. It was also the car in which I learned to drive stick (on something other than a tractor or a stolen car that I didn’t really care about wrecking)…
On the way to the beach (Point Petre in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada), a Viper pulled up along side us and the owner sort of looked over wondering what the hell weird sort of car he was racing. We weren’t going that fast, but we slowly accellerated together until about 170 kph when he floored it and disappeared over the horizon pretty quickly. Some time on that trip I blew the engine as well and had to swap in the engine from my Laser 917.
Oh, speaking of travel and the Aztec 7, I’ve been thinking I should hit the Carlisle convention this year (later this month) to see more old friends and document the show. I have some shirts made that I was going to give out to people whose cars I like:
What do you think?
Dave Harvey owns own of the first FiberFab Avengers — serial #61 from 1966 — and when I last talked to him he had over 60,000 miles on the car.
Jerry Ryginski has got to have one of the sweetest looking (it just looks so “finished”) Valkyries around. For those of you who don’t know the car, the Valkyrie was the Avenger for people who needed a little bit more power, as it was a V8 based car rather than a VW based one.
….The car I recently mentioned is the relatively rare Fiberfab Bonito, which resembles the Avenger but is a different car (classier maybe?). Here’s a couple more shots of the one I posted earlier, as well as another one.
Frank from the Netherlands sends in this Fiberfab classic… It’s got elements of the Avenger series, and I think that’s what it is, but the roofline and windshield looks a little unusual to me. Anyone recognize the model?
Part of me thinks it looks weird with this roofline, but the other part thinks it’s kind of classy.
EDIT: It’s a FiberFab Bonito.
Sorry I don’t have bigger pictures (you can click to zoom the collage) of John from New Bedford, MA’s Avenger. It’s the 1969 GT-12X model, and he started restoring it in 1994 and finished three years later with a trophy winning car. It’s built around a Karman Ghia chassis (from disc brakes, etc.) and a 1600 cc engine that’s been worked over with twin carbs, a dual header exhaust. The car also has custom 5″ offset 14″x7″ wheets, adjustable air shocks in the rear, and an overhead stereo system (very cool in a car like this; my Laser 917 had that originally).
“It turns more heads than any screwdriver,” he tells me.
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