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Do you go to the top of your searched index page and click on images instead of using the links?

The EPS had a cool factor, considering it wasn't digital. A lot of cars have copied parts of it. It was the first car I had with an overhead console also.

I saw them today at Model Empire for $55.99.

Now that's unique. Is it front or rear wheel drive? Give us a break, you can't have all those louvers without telling us how you did it.

Thanks for the comments guys. I walked into our Toyota dealership in the fall of '76 and announced that "I needed a winter car". My daily driver was an Austin Healey Arkley. I ordered a 5-speed silver with black '77 Celica Liftback GT SR-5. I had thought about putting a small block Ford in it. I kept it ten years. I lowered it the first day I had it, installed aluminum wheels, and painted it black after seven years, but never did install that V-8.

Well done. I love the subject. Your presentation would be more effective if you brightened your pixs.

This '77 Toyota Celica Liftback cheap street racer was built by Bruce Rowell of Surfer's Paradise, Australia in 1992. Bruce was a welder by trade, a surfer on the weekends, but at night he ran with the street racers. Bruce had this tired old Celica that he had been driving for almost ten years. He had an idea to convert this car into a cheap street racer. He just needed the right donor car. One day at the beach he saw the perfect donor car and it had a FOR SALE sign on it. There wasn't much left of the body. Too many years of hauling surf boards up and down the salt water beaches took it's toll. But it had potential. Bruce found the owner and a deal was made. It was his for the sum of $450 Aus. The next day Bruce picked up his new 1970 Lincoln Mk III. The Lincoln ran reasonably well. It would soon run better, Bruce thought to himself. The Mk III was a gold mine of street racing parts. There was the 460 cubic inch engine with 10.5:1 compression. A Ford C6 three speed automatic transmission, a large crossflow radiator, and a practically unbreakable Ford 9" rear end. In stock condition the engine made 365 HP and 500 Ft. Lbs. of torque. All that was needed was a Holley 750 double pumper carb, a new intake manifold, and cam. The Mk III weighed over 5,200 lbs and ran the 1/4 mile in 15.5 seconds at 89.1 mph. Bruce wondered what it would run in a car half the weight. Bruce and his mates were surprised at how easily the V8 fit into a space that had been occupied by a four. They shortened the drive shaft, narrowed the rear end, and made a new rear suspension with adjustable air shocks to get just the right stance. Finally they got some free used racing tires for the back. Bruce's friend Peter sprayed a new coat of silver paint. He then astonished them all with a new style of flames he had seen that look like the hood power bulge is on fire. When it was all finished Bruce and Peter waited till 9:30 pm on a Friday night for it's maiden run....

If you search evil-bay there is a guy that sells resin kits for about $100. Or you can ask Mr. Scott Colmer for a link to his step by step wip.

This one has a ski rack. It is quite simular and comes with skis and poles. Maybe someone has one left over. It can't be hard to make.

Great job. Can't get more original than that.

That is very nice and almost too clean.

Is this a problem? Nobody ever says anything about my work. Maybe your all just being kind.

There are two Hobby Lobbys in Green Bay and one in Onalaska.

Here's a pic. I think this is the 2 speed.

I don't think there ever was a stock version.

That 1/8 scale Trans Am won the main theme Auction Vehicles. For more photos, look here.

There were 630 entries. This one won the peoples choice. This is the best club display, which has been won by the Winnebago Auto Modelers, out of Oshkosh, every year I have gone. The theme was auto auctions. The cars being auctioned changed all night long. This one just won the prestigious Alan Kulwicky award. Race cars came in all shapes and sizes.

This one just won the prestigious Alan Kulwicky award tonight at the NNL 19 in Waukesha/Milwaukee, WI.

So who is definitely going? I'll probably be wearing a denim Killer Bees racing team shirt.

Kieth Marks sells them. mod top

I just use those expanding rubber arbors used with sanding drums. You can get them at ACE Hardware or some home supply companies. Some of the ones used with Dremel type tools will work also.

I think that is the first blown Dooms Day engine I've ever seen. It's one of my favorite engines.

Yes there is.

I was reading VW Daves thread about narrowing a VW front axle. I check to see how I did it. I then noticed that I left out a whole section about how I lowered Das Bug. This is what I omitted... Been working on the suspension. All Beetles sit too high, so lowering is always necessary. When you turn the front axle around you create several problems. The one most people never fix is caster. Castor is the front to back inclination of the king pin. This is important because it is what makes a car steer straight, when you take your hands off the steering wheel. Without proper caster, a car will dart uncontrollably. One way to both lower a VW and give it a proper caster angle is to make a V cut at the axle head (where the axle bolts on). I did it a little differently. I made the cut back by the front bulkhead. The section to the right of the cut is bent upward to close the cut and then re welded, I mean glued. Now on to the rear suspension. The suspension and the engine are all one piece in this kit. Originally I had removed the engine and engine supports. These were reattached in their original position. Then I separated all the suspension parts with a saw. Those parts that look like sticks with triangle flags on them are supposed to be the rear trailing arms. The triangles are supposed to be the shocks and shock mounts. I fixed the front ones, but I'm leaving these. New axles were made. On a real car, the trailing arms were swapped side to side to cure bad camber. Then the trailing arms were raised two outside teeth on the torsion bar mounts to lower the ride height. Here is the first mock up of the chassis and suspension.