The other alternitive is to find one already built and improve from there.
I may have just the right one
right in my shop.Preperation is old school (still has points)
Midwest Council logs back to 1974.Price is very
negotiable. Car with no spares 2500,car with enough
spares to build a second with spares 4000. The car is
in southern,burrr it's cold this morning, Wisconsin.
Jeff Senty
gp89 blue
Just another dog trying to slip the noose!
----- Original Message -----
From: <EPaul21988@aol.com>
To: <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 12:51 PM
Subject: How to build a spit racer??
> Well after surviving the divorce, closing the business, selling off the 60
> TR3, 59 TR3, 2 TR4's and the 36 Morgan F2 three wheeler, giving up on
> building an Ambro and almost surviving the IRS I was offered a decent 67
Spit
> that my sons and I want to turn into a track car. The boys are 17 and 15,
one
> owns a 55 TR2 the other a 60 Morris Minor. Both are project cars. These
guys
> are the next generation of owners/drivers and want to do most of the work
> (and driving ) themselves. We're set up with good garage space, 110V MIG,
> usual collection of tools, no machine shop.
>
> I need to collect a little more info about the yes and no stuff for local
> running (NM, Colo. Az. Ca. maybe Ok.) I would appreciate any input from
> those who have been there nose to nose building a Spit. We're looking for
> reliable racing to start, speed will come along. Maybe top ten things to
> start off with. We won't be able to afford fancy, large $$ stuff right
away
> so we're looking for low cost, high labor things. The car is an
unmodified
> 67, very solid body, intact, running. We already know we're interested in
a
> roll cage/bar design, seat belt installation and comments. The car is not
> home here yet but we will be checking condition of suspension, steering
etc.
> in the next few weeks. What are high probability problem areas of typical
> wear on these cars ? The engine was rebuilt at the local high school :)
and
> runs. What to check out before we run it? They want to just run it till
it
> gives up the ghost.
>
> I'm an OK wrench, but my racing experience driving is absent. I hung
around
> with Bob Grossman for a couple of years in the 60's up and down the east
> coast but my job was to drive the 912 to the track and deliver the
cooler,
> maybe polish the Cobra. I spent lots of fun hours in the pits at
> Bridgehampton, The Glen, Lime Rock and some other tracks whose names I
just
> can't recall. I never got to go along to Sebring or other exotic locations
> Grossman raced. We stayed home and stole his yacht while he was out of
> town!! Was anyone else on this list at the first SCCA sanctioned race of
> that turbine powered car? I think the track was in W. Pa. or Maryland?
More
> recently I used to follow Henry Morrison when he had the good sense to run
a
> TR3, and I get to the track in Albuquerque when not hiding out in Old
Mexico.
> I still love the smell, the sounds the action on race days.
>
> Don't be shy. All input appreciated. Not to scare anyone too much but
maybe
> we'll start seeing some of you guys at the track next year, finally.
Anyone
> having decent, safe used stuff to sell, seatbelts, helmets, shoes, racing
> suits please let us know also, we need it all. We think we have a couple
of
> pretty girls to drape over the car while in the pits so that is taken care
of
> anyway.
>
> Bob, Travis and Evan Paul
> Corrales NM
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