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New Car 2727.....
« on: July 23, 2007, 12:19:56 AM »
     

I have some pictures of a comp coupe that Phil, Bill and Jake of CarWorks are building not too far from me in Colorado and how I made a frontend and scoop for it.  They won't set any records with this car, but I expect them to have a lot of fun with it.

They will be pitting with us and Hooley's Stude and will have one other car with them that I'll post about later.

The pictures and description of the hood/scoop build are here:

http://purplesagetradingpost.com/sumner/temp-pictures/temp-web-nc-1.html

c ya,

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Re: New Car 2727.....
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2007, 06:51:18 AM »
They should have a real good time.Thanks for pics.

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Re: New Car 2727.....
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2007, 08:42:31 AM »
Sum, is it me or is the nose an old aluminum boat turned upside down?  :roll: Looks like they will be having fun...  8-)
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Re: New Car 2727.....
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2007, 09:46:24 AM »
Sum,

     Ironic -  My buddy and I were at the local cruize last Thurs eve admiring a '41 Ford coupe and he says "how about a hood something like that for the nose of the Lakester?"  My smart answer was to the effect much too wide and much too difficult to make work to make it worthwhile.  You made it seem so easy, we have another option to consider now.  Thanks for showing me the light.

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Re: New Car 2727.....
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2007, 09:55:29 AM »
Sum, is it me or is the nose an old aluminum boat turned upside down?  :roll: Looks like they will be having fun...  8-)

A lot of peoples first impression is that the front is a boat, but it isn't (follow the link).  They had an open house a week ago and one person took some tape and taped his idea for the name of the car on the door, "The Beak",

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Re: New Car 2727.....
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2007, 10:41:18 AM »
Back in the late 60's, me and a friend of mine used a boat made by welding two 40 Ford hoods together. We were trot line fishing and dragged this thing across a farmers corn field, boy did we tear up his corn field..

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Re: New Car 2727.....
« Reply #6 on: July 23, 2007, 12:13:04 PM »
The Crissman Bros. famous Bonneville coupe had two 40 Ford hoods for a nose, there were others that have used hoods for nose pieces as well. :?
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Re: New Car 2727.....
« Reply #7 on: July 23, 2007, 01:43:01 PM »
The Crissman Bros. famous Bonneville coupe had two 40 Ford hoods for a nose, there were others that have used hoods for nose pieces as well. :?
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Re: New Car 2727.....
« Reply #8 on: July 23, 2007, 06:16:39 PM »
The Crissman Bros. famous Bonneville coupe had two 40 Ford hoods for a nose, there were others that have used hoods for nose pieces as well. :?

Yep, what a great car Glen. 

Phil has two hoods, but the second belongs to a customer.  If we have time we are going to try and make some sort of air dam under the current hood.

The other hood is on loan for a "racing bed" we made for his wife a week ago one evening so she could go "bed racing" this past weekend.  I don't know the results of that yet,

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Re: New Car 2727.....
« Reply #9 on: July 23, 2007, 08:55:29 PM »
The Crissman Bros. famous Bonneville coupe had two 40 Ford hoods for a nose, there were others that have used hoods for nose pieces as well. :?

The Dobie Gillis Coupe!

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Re: New Car 2727.....
« Reply #10 on: November 12, 2007, 09:28:20 PM »
Sum, do you have any more pictures of the cage?

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Re: New Car 2727.....
« Reply #11 on: November 13, 2007, 12:40:10 AM »
Sum, do you have any more pictures of the cage?

No, but whenever I go back over there I will try and take pictures if I don't forget and post or e-mail them to you.  He did a very nice job of the cage,

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