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I picked up the October 2011 issue of Hot Rod this morning and found an article about a homebuilt roadster that is kind of the right shape. I don't like the rear end so much, but I like the nose and the exhaust.

http://www.hotrod.com/multimedia/hot_ro ... index.html

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Speedway Motors carries a Track-T kit. For $2300 you get the body with a frame. It would be kind of neat if you could get just the body, as a modified Locost frame might be pretty slick under there.

http://www.speedwaymotors.com/Speedway- ... ,4010.html

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-Justin

"Orville Wright did not have a pilots license." - Gordon MacKenzie

The video won't work on the first link, but the body on the Track T isn't half bad.

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I can explain it to you,
but I can't understand it for you.

Neat build. Just like we got lured into our Locost with expectations of building a car for around £250, here he is taking about starting with a $20 motor and some steel tube. I doubt is that was even 0.5% of his build costs. Neat though. As a kid, I always wanted to build a "Bird" t-bucket like in the back of the magazines.

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Motorbooks has a book out by Dennis Parks where he documents his build of a Track T from Speedway.
His cost to build it was $15, 919 using a Ford 2.8 V6 out of a Ford Capri.

Al

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If you look in the Speedway catalogue (or on line) you will find that all of the body bits for the Track T roadster kit are available separately, so you could do a locost 7 type space frame if so inclined ....

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Warren
Isuzu Pickup/SR20DE, +401 COLD frame
Build Log: viewtopic.php?f=35&t=11601

I was looking for pictures of them, and came across an interesting concept car. A car that Chrysler should have made. 2008 Chrysler SR 392 Roadster.

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This sort of thing can be the answer for the larger body types among us. It would be very interesting to see a track roadster with a space frame as most are a glass body sitting on a ladder frame. Not so safe. They are inexpensive to build though. Years ago my ex-wife and I had a speed shop and we sold dozens of kits, that we put together in the back of the shop. Got so I could do a complete frame kit in an afternoon with ease. A model A style body is much roomier for big guys.

And here I thought I was going crazy when I couldn't find the individual body components, which I could swear I looked at before, along with the 'kit' in the "Street Rods" section with the Track-T kit...Because I wasn't looking past my own nose to see the completely separate "T-Bucket" section.

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-Justin

"Orville Wright did not have a pilots license." - Gordon MacKenzie

Do those headlights look a little low? And what's with the steering?

I think it's a general rule that anything designed as a concept car that will never actually go into production should be wonky and make the public think the designers were on drugs. The headlights are interesting, but they look like they would pick up a lot of road grime. I can imagine that 1/2 diameter higher would be better. The steering is odd. It might make for a really small steering box, but having it on the outside like that?

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"... starting with a $20 junkyard engine..."

Oh yeah? For my next car, I'm going to start with $0.42 worth of iron ore and some crushed aluminum beer cans... like that has anything to do with the final cost.

By saying that, they're trying to imply that the finished engine was $20. Just the side-draft carbs likely cost around $1200, never mind the custom intake manifold to go with it. Car mags ALWAYS mislead readers because they have a vested interest in drumming up more subscribers. They're always careful to leave out very important points that could otherwise detract from people giving them money, basically providing a very slanted and somewhat dishonest view of what it takes to really build a car.

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