Thread: The Roofus Special

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Yikes, that was a nasty hit. Glad to hear you are O.K. Might need some ibuprophen for a few days for pulled muscles. Watch out for any late pain related to whiplash. If you start to feel stiffer as the week goes on might want to get it checked out. I was hit from behind on the freeway a few years back. Seemed like I was fine until two hours later I couldn't turn my head. Mostly stiff muscles, which hot and cold packs helped and Ibuprophen did wonders!

The pathfinder was actually involved in two crashes. She rearended another car (the gray 4 door in the first picture) and then came into my lane and hit me head on.

Heck Flip, It wasn't me as I saw someone mention whiplash. Is that your little red car that you and your son drove all the way out to speed week and back safely in??? Wow, you are so lucky and as others have mentioned, look after yourself and if you still feel pain in the next while, go get it check out.

Originally Posted by Whiplash23T

Is that your little red car that you and your son drove all the way out to speed week and back safely in???

Yep. Lots of great memories in the 318,000 miles I put on that car. Lots of cross country parts runs, three detroit autoramas...including the one with the blizzard that dropped 20 inches of snow in Ohio and a bunch of other car shows that I went to as a spectator. I hope I can find another one for what insurance gives me.

Wow, good thing you made it out of that one! It looks like that little Toyota protected you pretty well considering it's size.

Bad deal about your 318,000 mile car, glad your ok, got your moneys worth out of that girl I would say. She was serving you right to the end. Thats one time where a guy is happy NOT to be driving your street rod!

I'm seriously thinking about cutting the firewall and transmission tunnel out of of the donor jag and grafting it into this car to make the registration process a little more legitimate.

Anybody think having jag sheetmetal in the center of the car would be worth the effort?

Depends on your state's position on registering a custom fabricated vehicle. In Missouri it would be worth the effort; they're pretty tough on anything to do with vehicles.

Originally Posted by falconvan

Depends on your state's position on registering a custom fabricated vehicle. In Missouri it would be worth the effort; they're pretty tough on anything to do with vehicles.

Here's a link to the process in Kentucky, compiled by SEMA SAN, just for grins. Not sure you will gain anything by incorporating the firewall & tunnel, but you may want to chat with your local vehicle registration office. Some states might look at that as potential fraud (saying that you attempted to register a homebuilt vehicle as a Jag). Every state has their process...
http://www.semasan.com/images/pdf/SA...omplete-KY.pdf

Went down to the family junkyard in Mississippi

It really didn't take long to harvest the jag pieces. A small generator and a sawsall helped.

another roof.


now for the floor and firewall

Great job, Flipper. Lots of thought going into this; I can see your reasoning behind the Jag tunnel now that I've seen pictures.

Yikes! Looks like a an oak of some sort! How bad was the roof damage?

While were were putting in an addition about 4 years ago, my neighbor had a tree that had been leaning over towards our house. I had asked him multiple times if he'd cut it down, but he said an arborist certified it safe. Th tree was a huge cyperus that had the top cut off about 20 years earlier to the point that every side limb became a new top! One snapped off two weeks after my new gutters went up, crushed a ten foot section of an 8 foot redwood fence, landed on top of our hot tub smashing it, broke two window panes and took out a new section of gutter on the roof. The neighbor, didn't want to go thru an insurance company, so I had to get everything individually bid for him, and eventually replaced. He did cut the tree down afterward! The damage was about 5k at the time, but the scary part was my wife and I had decided to go out to visit some friends that day, otherwise we'd be dead, since that was the time of day we used the hot tub! Hope no one got hurt when that monster came down!

Originally Posted by stovens

Yikes! Looks like a an oak of some sort! How bad was the roof damage?

It was actually a hardwood pine tree that was probably at least 50 years old (I'll find out when I cut into it). It fell around 1:30 in the morning and managed to not inflict much damage where it landed. ....I guess it is a good thing I haven't built a garage yet. It would have been squashed.

I was lucky on the roof too. I only had to replace about a dozen shingles.

Estimates are that we got hit with 90 mph winds....the whole neighborhood is a mess.

This tree is kicking my tail. ...but it is slowly making its way to the side of the road for the city to pick up.

I bought an electric chainsaw for the job. It works pretty good and is a whole lot quieter...but dragging an extension cord through the tree tops flat out sucks! Once the top is completely gone, the big limbs should go quickly.

I found new Rally pics. I think this thing is going to lean towards being Rally inspired ....again.