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Congrats on sale. Glad to hear it's not sitting in the weeds someplace!
Yes those are the cars that I helped ray get from the school. They are all red cars - tall chassis and a bunch - o spares.
Would be a good way to restart a basic driver school and ray is a great...
There was a DOHC that was shoe horned into the Mazda chassis ... I saw a few still photos. I think that Mark Wolocatiuk drove it a little but its was considered diabolical. I sold off 25 of the...
Nah I suspect that with the starts and stops of the project and the move from Laguna and the ownership shuffles I bet this thing was a Frankenstein that was an amateur play thing. :D
Funny
We had one VD that was porta powered to shove a 4G63 into it before I started - the Kent removed. - all when JR was at Laguna.
Skip was at Sears and then won the bid at Laguna and JR...
We built 5 cars in 1998, 10 in 1999 and the last five in 2000. Car 34 (tall drivers) is on it's second frame - bit of a miss hap. Tall cars have a stacked on roll hoop and red bodywork. I think all...
The black one was from a 78-82 VD FF. That is based on the Lotus 61 if I recall. The silver was made from our molds.
Those are from Jim Russell Canada not Formula Mitsubishi's - though I did sell off our last FF VD 78 and VD 82 in 1999 to a group in Wisconsin - maybe they moved North ha !
Look at the frames -...
I had Roger Hamlin at Hamlin Fab build the A arm for the prototype and then Total Fab of Salinas make the bulk. Barry may have some stuff. He did a lot of stuff for us on the Mazda powered cars -...
Its a 94 ish 4G63 Mitsubishi 2.0 in a car dry weighted 1095 pounds - if you take out the restriction plate like Ethan said it will haul balls.
Ian Lacy ran the first car vs. one of the Formula...
Myself and two others built the prototype and oversaw the fleet construction.
I'll answer any questions you have...
All the frames were new by the way and I can tell you the Joe got one and the...