Seconded. Mine will start this spring.Thanks for the photos. Nice bit of goodies came with the car. I'll probably be a on third body by the time you get on this car (Just kidding). The nice thing about rats is they are constantly under development with good or bad ideas. Let's make 2019 the year you get started.
Very likely. I seem to be getting less and less done as the years pass. Yet I keep adding more and more projects to the list. Something's gotta give eventually.I'll probably be a on third body by the time you get on this car (Just kidding).
Have we seen what you are starting with? Or what your plans are? I'm always open to ideas.Mine will start this spring.
Why would anyone want to make a midnight run to pick up a miniature Japanese tree?Gotta admit, it did not come to me right away.
This reflects back to your thread about a trailer. That will make a great outlaw/rat street car.
I've always liked having a "track car" type vehicle that is street legal but purely performance oriented. Fun for occasional bonsai runs {anyone remember the popular midnight bonsai runs on the 405 freeway through Orange County/LA in the 80's?}.
Obviously you have never smoked the leaves from one.Why would anyone want to make a midnight run to pick up a miniature Japanese tree?
Very nice but it confirmed that I have more fun in a stupidly stripped X on a 30 minute drive.
You guys are starting to concern me with how nice your "ratty" cars look. Both Carl and Mike talk like their cars are really trashed, but in the photos they look better than my "nice" X, let alone my 'outlaw' crappy one. I'll have to take a couple photos to show just how bad it is. Otherwise everyone else might get the wrong idea about this whole 'ugly car' concept.
One thing great about having a car with rough body/paint and nothing major invested in it, is when you go to the store you can park it right up by the entrance - squeezed between those two poorly parked cars by bad drivers that don't respect other people's' cars. Otherwise you have to park as far away from everyone as possible and worry the whole time you are in the store that there will be a door ding in it when you come out.
Carl, once you no longer need to use this X as your car, I still think the cut down 'race' windshield idea would be great. I thought I had pictures of one with a 1/4 windscreen; same angle as stock but much shorter. But all I found was the concept "runabout":
View attachment 14048
And these 'laydown' flat ones:
View attachment 14046
View attachment 14047
But these other examples may help give some ideas:
View attachment 14049
View attachment 14050
View attachment 14051
View attachment 14052
View attachment 14053