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Billzilla
03-12-06, 02:15 PM
Quite a long time ago, we picked up a rotary powered sports car, about half finished.
It's gone through a lot of changes, but the final plan is to fit the tub with a 1UZ V8 and a Porsche transaxle, and make it a Can-Am replica.
I'm thinking McLaren M8 like Bruce & Denny used to race.

http://www.bruce-mclaren.com/images/m8d_denny.jpg

But for the moment the tub & bodywork sit in the shed, way down the back, last on the list of things to do.
Here's the tub.

http://www.billzilla.org/SPORTS.jpg
Ben Wilson
03-12-06, 03:45 PM
Bill, I assume you've seen this (http://www.metalmeet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4020)?
Billzilla
03-12-06, 03:54 PM
Bill, I assume you've seen this (http://www.metalmeet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4020)?


Yep.
Nice toy.
edo
04-12-06, 08:24 AM
Is there any of my body parts you want to let me have a go?
Cal
04-12-06, 12:55 PM
Bill, I assume you've seen this (http://www.metalmeet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4020)?

Never seen that before. Wow. :oh:

Cal.
Nero
04-12-06, 06:48 PM
edo make your own...would have to be cheaper than cathy?
Zac
04-12-06, 07:51 PM
Awesome projects, both of them. Love the CanAm stuff.

Surely they suffered from horrid lack of front downforce. then again, they're really only about power, lots of it.
MickyD
04-12-06, 08:45 PM
Bill, I assume you've seen this (http://www.metalmeet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4020)?

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

I'm only about 10% down the page and already I'm blown away.
Ben Wilson
04-12-06, 09:43 PM
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

I'm only about 10% down the page and already I'm blown away.

It just gets better....
MickyD
04-12-06, 09:51 PM
just finished reading it, that is up there where some of the best car threads I've read.
just having more of a look around the site to see if he's painted it yet.
dirtyrex
05-12-06, 02:31 AM
What happens when he crashes it?... So much metally stuff.
edo
05-12-06, 09:27 AM
edo make your own...would have to be cheaper than cathy?

Err, I have a fair idea of my limitations & that is waaaaaay beyond them. Oh, & I sincerely doubt it would be less than Cathy.
Cal
05-12-06, 10:14 AM
Perhaps if you had the labour force of a small African nation at your disposal you might go close. In the real world, that would cost a metric fuckload.

Cal.
Ben Wilson
05-12-06, 05:52 PM
What happens when he crashes it?... So much metally stuff.

He grabs a hammer and a tig and builds that bit again - One of the advantages of building everything yourself from scratch...