View Full Version : Car guys......what is this?!
Tinelement
06-21-2012, 17:51
Ok, just for fun! Tell me the dash we are looking at. Even included some seat shots.
I'll reveal later! If you have been here, keep your mouth shut!! [ROFL1]
This is to silly not to share!! Seriously ridiculous!!
http://i1193.photobucket.com/albums/aa351/tinelement/3874ee59.jpg
http://i1193.photobucket.com/albums/aa351/tinelement/19ccd800.jpg
http://i1193.photobucket.com/albums/aa351/tinelement/5a04d6dd.jpg
ah i remember this vehicle! it looks really good now
sabot_round
06-21-2012, 18:22
1989 yugo
BPTactical
06-21-2012, 18:59
AC Cobra
DavieD55
06-21-2012, 19:04
77 Datsun
Tinelement
06-21-2012, 19:10
AC Cobra
[ROFL1] really!?
Freaking Yugo was closer!!
I keed my friend!
What's his name.. It's his stolen Subaru.. been stripped obviously :)
Tinelement
06-21-2012, 19:17
You guys are naming some of the gayest shit out there!!! which is on track! [ROFL1]
I'll let her run 2 pages before reveal!!
It's not from an automobile.
BPTactical
06-21-2012, 19:38
Sunbeam Tiger?
That a 60's Ford radio bezel I believe.
Or i'm all fu-up[ROFL1]
Tinelement
06-21-2012, 20:16
It's not from an automobile.
Sure is!
Tinelement
06-21-2012, 20:26
It's a chevy
BPTactical
06-21-2012, 20:42
It's a chevy
Transplanted in a Datsun roadster?
Tinelement
06-21-2012, 21:03
Transplated in nothing! Chevy dash in Chevy car
argonstrom
06-21-2012, 21:08
Sheety Grant steering wheel.
What do I win?
EDIT: In a highly modified Covair.
it's a corvair... but it's been moved right (or the car has been narrowed to center it)
Tinelement
06-21-2012, 21:27
Sheety Grant steering wheel.
What do I win?
EDIT: In a highly modified Covair.
You do win.
1964 Corvair!
http://i1193.photobucket.com/albums/aa351/tinelement/96fbe8cb.jpg
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Trike....... Yup, trike
http://i1193.photobucket.com/albums/aa351/tinelement/5813446d.jpg
http://i1193.photobucket.com/albums/aa351/tinelement/3d558e87.jpg
trlcavscout
06-21-2012, 21:29
I knew it was a corvair. But what the hell!?!? A trike, haha?
Ralph Nader would hyperventilate if he saw that thing.
Pretty cool. Wierd, but cool. It appears you do nice work!
palepainter
06-21-2012, 21:35
This is way cool. I enjoyed the progress shots off of the website. Killer work. This would look killer with a ford dropped beam in the front too.
trlcavscout
06-21-2012, 21:41
Ok i get it now, its gonna have an alcohol injected 502, ford 9" with some slicks, and be used for the wheelie comp at Bandimiere and smokin hondas on friday night? [Muaha]
Zundfolge
06-21-2012, 21:47
Ah, its got a Monza Spyder dash ... not the standard Corvair dash.
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6047/7012469105_f4ca125567_z.jpg
(not mine)
I used to have a 63 ... another one of those cars I sold over the years that I wish I had back.
Ralph Nader would not approve. Okay, a little late. New a guy. as a kid, that ha a '64. He swore it would be worth a fortune some day.
Nice transformation.
NitroxBoss
06-21-2012, 22:14
Nice work!
Oh Hell ! Is nothing sacred nowdays? Man... next thing you know they'll be stuffing a 260 or 289 motor into an AC Ace. Geesh... the crazy things people think of...
On a side note - NICE metal work !
Tinelement
06-22-2012, 04:59
Oh Hell ! Is nothing sacred nowdays? Man... next thing you know they'll be stuffing a 260 or 289 motor into an AC Ace. Geesh... the crazy things people think of...
On a side note - NICE metal work !
I hear you! Not like I'm a Corvair fan, but come on!
So the customer who owns it has been dreaming this project up for like 30+ years. The actual car we started with, his parents bought off the show room floor! Super nice car, needed some front floor pans was all.
I told him to go to the junk yard and just a junker because of the all the moifacation that needs to happen! Oh well!
Been a crazy project. Should be heading to paint to by the end of july
UncleDave
06-22-2012, 08:03
Very nice metalworking there. Definitely unique. Weird, but unique. I am anxious to see the finished project.
[Alrigh]
Mobat555
06-22-2012, 08:16
Sprint Car?
http://i1193.photobucket.com/albums/aa351/tinelement/5813446d.jpg
onebadfx4
06-22-2012, 09:37
Hope we get to see the finished pics. That thing looks sweeet. what size engine you guys putting in it?
Tinelement
06-22-2012, 09:45
Hope we get to see the finished pics. That thing looks sweeet. what size engine you guys putting in it?
Stock Corvair drivetrain.
BPTactical
06-22-2012, 09:49
Tin, you are a true artist in a craft that is dying a slow death.
The art of manually manipulating metal.
Weird yes, but masterfully crafted.
Beautifully done.
[Beer][Beer]
Is it going to have a flame paint job?
Tinelement
06-22-2012, 10:06
Is it going to have a flame paint job?
I tried to talk him into painting it like a slice of pizza!! [ROFL1]
Going to be Oxygen Blue from Mini with black interior.
HBARleatherneck
06-22-2012, 10:29
ghost flames? old school pinstriping, VanDutch style...
ramon will fix you up right.
RCCrawler
06-22-2012, 10:54
You got a lot of work done since I was up there.
The more I look at it the more I think it would look badass with a bubble top roof, a straight axle front with some pizza cutters, and a shitload of metal flake.
Just not feeling the tricycle.
HBARleatherneck
06-22-2012, 10:56
yes, a weird 32 highboy kinda thing would be cool. or weird, whichever.
BPTactical
06-22-2012, 11:06
It reminds me of the Revelle models when I was a kid, they had a bubble topped roadster that I believe was a George Barris concoction with a similar look.
But the trike aspect puts this one in a class of its own.
I tried to talk him into painting it like a slice of pizza!! [ROFL1]
Now that would be funny. Go through a pizza shop drive through while driving that thing painted as a pepperoni slice.
I predict that sometime years from now the car will change hands many times and end up as a pizza delivery vehicle... only to be stored in a barn for eons then when cars are nuclear powered this will be unearthed and restored then put into a museum. The information plaque will state the metal work that was required to achieve this kind of beauty is no longer available as the craft was lost back when the apes took over the planet.
Beprepared
06-22-2012, 12:27
Interesting...reminds me of Adam West Batman meets Nissan delta wing http://www.deltawingracing.com/. (http://www.deltawingracing.com/)
Nice metal work!
bigshane
06-22-2012, 14:44
2012 Kazoo
http://i1193.photobucket.com/albums/aa351/tinelement/3d558e87.jpg
Tinelement
06-22-2012, 16:00
It reminds me of the Revelle models when I was a kid, they had a bubble topped roadster that I believe was a George Barris concoction with a similar look.
But the trike aspect puts this one in a class of its own.
You know what is actually funny about that.....
The owner came up, when we initially started talking about doing it, with Revelle models that he had cut up, body worked, and painted over the yrs!!
He put a lot of thought into this! 30 yrs plus!
Tinelement
06-22-2012, 16:01
Sprint Car?
Yuppers!
http://www.ar-15.co/forums/showthread.php?t=52657
jerrymrc
06-22-2012, 18:05
You know what is actually funny about that.....
The owner came up, when we initially started talking about doing it, with Revelle models that he had cut up, body worked, and painted over the yrs!!
He put a lot of thought into this! 30 yrs plus!
I think many did this back in the day. Having owned a few corvair's to include a crown kit (V8) I still have two model kits that was something I wanted to build. Take your Corv8 http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac44/jerrymrc/cars/001Medium.jpg And mate it with the flairs and spoilers from something like this. :) http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac44/jerrymrc/cars/1975-bmw-30-csl-front-picture.jpg
onebadfx4
06-22-2012, 18:18
2012 Kazoo
CLASSIC
Tinelement
08-10-2012, 18:18
Ok gents.
The Corvair Trike is ready for paint. Freaking 18 months it's been here! Only like a 11 months of actual work, but so ready to see it go!!! We are heading down to KBPI show on the 26th and then she gets delivered to paint on the 27th.
Been a long project. But, for the craziness it is, I think it worked. Still can't beleive we did this. [ROFL1][ROFL1]
But she's onto the next stage of her life. [Party1][Party1] But it's done.
http://i1193.photobucket.com/albums/aa351/tinelement/73d3c772.jpg
A wrapped wiener!!!....( is a safe wiener ) [ROFL1]
http://i1193.photobucket.com/albums/aa351/tinelement/148a412b.jpg
argonstrom
08-10-2012, 18:56
Looks damn good!
I still want that '36, though!
Tinelement
08-10-2012, 20:09
Looks damn good!
I still want that '36, though!
Trust me.
So do I!
http://i1193.photobucket.com/albums/aa351/tinelement/1d6eb52a.jpg
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