and I've got the driver's suit...
----- Original Message -----
From: Keith Turk <kturk@ala.net>
To: Larry Miller <millerls@ado13.com>; derfman <derfman@eatel.net>; Bryan
Vandiver <Bryan.Vandiver@Eng.Sun.COM>; <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: turbo anyone?
> you realize this thought is trouble.... up front .... Okay guys.... I
> want to build a bugeye so bad I can taste it.... and I want it to go
really
> really fast... not 203mph that was a record along time ago....
>
> the Camaro has been a blast and I look forward to sorting out the new
> engine and turbo's in the Camaro... hell I already know it can go straight
> and fast ... so the motor combo is just stuff to sort out....
>
> But the Bugeye deal isn't happening as fast as I would like..... If a
> couple of you are serious... I will build a bugeye for the effort and make
> sure it passes tech... I don't care if it is in Stock body form or not...
> the Rules allow for a 130" wheel base and it is my intent to run it like
> that.... with the big motor but a bugeye with a Judson and 948cc motor
> would in fact set a record.... We could enter it with a spridget list
> name.... and have a ball....
>
> What I need to start with is a better body.... my wifes bugeye is a 63,000
> mile original car... and I don't want to mess it up.. (see there is a bit
> of concours in me... not much but some) so I need a better body shell
then
> the one I have....
>
> anybody out there got one that isn't pure wasted.... I can do body work
and
> don't much care if the fender beading is gone... so on and so forth.. the
> whole floor pan can be junk so long as the basic shell is in tact..... and
> not going to cost more then a good one to fix.... I hate the thought of
> killing a restorable bugeye.... I really don't want to do that... but if
> you have a candidate and your semi near the south ... let me know...
> Keith (why yes I think I have finally lost it... now to figure out what
I
> am missing)
>
> ----------
> > From: Larry Miller <millerls@ado13.com>
> > To: Keith Turk <kturk@ala.net>; derfman <derfman@eatel.net>; Bryan
> Vandiver <Bryan.Vandiver@Eng.Sun.COM>; spridgets@autox.team.net
> > Subject: Re: turbo anyone?
> > Date: Friday, September 17, 1999 7:32 AM
> >
> > Hell for 70 mph they should let you drive in your underwear :-)
> >
> > Larry Miller
> > http://www.ado13.com
> > You can't be a real country unless you have
> > a beer and an airline - it helps if you have
> > some kind of a football team, or some
> > nuclear weapons, but at the very least you
> > need a beer.-Frank Zappa
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Keith Turk <kturk@ala.net>
> > To: derfman <derfman@eatel.net>; Bryan Vandiver
> > <Bryan.Vandiver@Eng.Sun.COM>; <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> > Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 7:02 AM
> > Subject: Re: turbo anyone?
> >
> >
> > > Speaking of Judson's .... seems as though the record @ Bonneville for
a
> > > 948cc with a Judson is only 70mph..... reckon a bugeye would kill
that?
> > > You wouldn't like the price of the Fire suit... or Fire Bottles but
the
> > > record is there for the taking....
> > >
> > > Keith Turk
> > > Austin Healey 100 / Bugeye / Box Sprite / Bonneville Land Speed
Racer
> > > Camaro ( D Gas Altered )
> > >
> > > ----------
> > > > From: derfman <derfman@eatel.net>
> > > > To: Bryan Vandiver <Bryan.Vandiver@Eng.Sun.COM>;
> > spridgets@autox.team.net
> > > > Subject: Re: turbo anyone?
> > > > Date: Thursday, September 16, 1999 6:40 PM
> > > >
> > > > Oops! If I'd known a "lister" was already on it, I would've kept
it
> > > > hush-hush. I would bid on it, but it would crowd the Judson I just
> got.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Derf
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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