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Re: SoCalROC Winter Meet photos

To: LauryV@MTA.NET (Laury, Victor)
Subject: Re: SoCalROC Winter Meet photos
From: Daniel Neuman <dneuman@stars.sfsu.edu>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:11:02 -0800 (PST)
Hello,
        intersting car there.. sounds kinda bare bones though.  This would seem
to me to be a car to put a KA24DE or SR-20 in or something.
        Did anybody that was there happen to get the guys name or how much 
he was asking for the car???
                Daniel 69 2000
                SF CA
 
> Dan,
,
        
> 
> The funny thing is that I met this fellow a week before the show. I was on
> my way back from the magazine shoot at CDM when I saw a roadster ahead of me
> on the 5. Thinking that it was one of the cars that was at the CDM event, I
> sped up to greet him. But of course, when I got closer I realized that I
> never saw anything like this roadster before. The rear tires where HUGE! By
> the tone of the engine I could tell it was a 1600. I sped up to 5 grand
> (about 110) and he kept up! So I flagged him off the freeway so we could
> check each other out. 
> 
> The body work is an old Racing glass kit from a company no longer with us.
> The rear wheel are about the size of the new corvette's The 1600 engine is
> practically full race with 11/1 compression. It needs a ring job badly cause
> oil spews out the breather something awful. the twin solexs sit on a cannon
> manifold for a "L" engine and has been machined to fit the R head.
> 
> There is no interior, just some indoor/outdoor carpeting, a couple of seats
> and a very odd roll bar. 
> 
> The Cars for sale, I didn't catch how much or a contact.
> 


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