Toy cars

Sold the LMTV. Still have this old Ford, that’ll be a Cummins swap sometime.

AJ565 has a nice build going on if you haven't seen it.

https://www.vitalmx.com/forums/Non-Moto,21/69-Camaro-build-thread,13710…

Merci. First thing that went? Le Brakes.

This is the only “fun car” I have.  

Some cars only spend a few seconds in the fun zone, my car spends 6-9 seconds in the fun zone 🤣. It's not a lot, but it's what I can afford to have for fun, plus I've had it for 18 years now and I can't get rid of it.

Thought this was about Majorette, Tomica, Matchbox....

lol same here 

Well, next week it's back to this chassis build. It's been mothballed while both my mate who owns it  / builds it, and, who will, eventually, Race it, has had some 'repairs' done to himself, and, the same for me. I hope I can get the chassis done, before my next 'repair' is up.

So much  work for a couple of a buggered up old men,  clambering about inside the 'maze' that it is, to cut / miter and weld things. It's not easy to do - we should have set it up on a rotisserie / gimble fixture. At least the hoist helps. Though, we'll be tumbling the chassis over on the grass outside the workshop, to get to a few, very difficult bits, to get me and my TIG torch into, near the end of it all.

/\  : I don't do Bodywork - I Hate fiber glassing, but, will hold things in place while additions are needed to be held in place. I think it's Ferrari F40 replica bodywork - I can never bloody remember it correctly. My mate gets somewhat upset that I can never remember........

So Many Tubes, So Many Triangulations, So Many Miters,  So Many Weldments. That square section fixture there is to take  vertical rotary 'swaybar' alternatives - front and rear. Shocks - pairs, front and rear,  are driven through the angled push rods, up to horizontal rocker arms - shocks oriented above, inline with vehicle length, horizontally. With the quick removable front and rear body work - eventually -  there'll be No groveling on the ground in the pits for us, at least with shock adjustments. 

Next up are the front and rear body work subframes - the front one, holds the radiator horizontally - its mounting plays a large part in the ducting at the front of the bodywork:

Front:

Rear

Made as separate things, to be sacrificial, and, we'll have spares to hand. 

The big job for next week, is re-doing the mount for a different transaxle set up than the one pictured - it's wider, and, it's going to be a bastard of a thing to make the mods - I'm hoping I don't have to re-do Everything - as , the Arms etc, come off the original transaxle cradle / cage. 

Why my mate decided to go for another type, I'm unsure - well, obviously it must be a better unit. I think the one we originally made the chassis to take, is a 40 / 50k item. I shudder to think what the replacement one cost him. I'm pretty detached from the Car Chassis making I do - as I'm not that into 4 wheels - plus, I'm buggered if I want get enthusiastic enough to spend the money on such projects. This car, is the sort of thing that would set one back 500k  - at least, I'm told. By doing it ourselves, we save a couple hundred K, I think, when I look at what builders charge the rich ratbags that race these things.

Despite, or perhaps because of my 'disinterest '( I make a real, concerted effort to Not get interested in having one of my own ) in 4 wheelers, I do enjoy doing such builds, as it Is something Vastly different to the 2 wheel chassis I've made for quite a few decades. I'm a bit burnt out on that, from doing them for 5 decades now. 

69 Z28 Clone (or tribute, or whatever they are calling them these days…). Dad and I did a full subframe-off on it, with the only mods being a Ford 9” rear and a 350 because at the time we couldn’t track down a 302 and a 12”. It started as a 307 Auto car and we put every option that a Z28 would have had.

In its final iteration, I pulled the 350 and the Muncie M21, and built a 383 stroker, then reinstalled it with a Tremec TKO 5-speed, aluminum radiator with electric fans, Aeromotive tank with electric pump, and a bunch of other goodies including changing the Cragar S/S’s and BFG TA’s out for 17” Vintage Wheel Works wheels and some modern rubber. The electric pump was to prep for an eventual swap to EFI but I never did it.

Wish I’d never have sold it. Used it to fund an airplane when I got out of motocross…should have kept the car and stayed with moto…it was cheaper lol.

Going to pick up another Camaro in the next few years as I want to build another one.

Same.

Old meets New with a proper respect for the era. NICE!

Isn’t that color real close to the blue they used on the ‘70s Camaro? (And I mean ‘70…the same car as your ‘69…I don’t mean the “ ‘70 and a half”😂)

In ‘70 I remember they had some awesome colors that we called Hot Wheels colors back in the day.

Your car is beautiful. 

My toy car in one of my favorite playgrounds…not too far from here Ob is this week…just a little south…a little east…and a bit lower alt…right in the path of the F35C desert drop pattern 🤣

I’m into Gen 4 Mustangs. This is my 03 Mach 1 with Ram Air ,Aluminum Block , DBLOverhead Cam 4.6 V8. 56k miles on it. They only made these in 03 & 04. 

This is my 04 GT, daily driver, has 90 k on it.

That’s a beautiful car.💯👍🏻

Wife's '15 Challenger SRT.  No mods and only 19K miles.  So fun.

I’m gonna have to call that a ‘Cuda.

I’m old. 😂

But, how many sets of rear tires so far? 😂

Maybe one tire. Not sure if those are posi-trac or not!

I think the SRT lays two stripes.

I've no fun cars at the moment 😞

19k …..that’s awesome!

OH BOY! 💯👍🏻

Restored this turd- owned it 25 years ago, sold it to a friend back in 1999. He drove it for six months, pulled the engine to have it built up for a big turbo and never put it back together. It sat in his dads garage until I bought it back in 2023. 

1989 Ford Probe GT- has a 2.2L turbo Mazda engine. Stock boost is like 6 psi, turned up to 12 psi now. It rips pretty good..

Dude. A fucking Probe? 😂

Man, I haven’t thought about those in years. I had a friend that owned one in the color of coral mist. You could not miss it.