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l had hoped to have finished by now but, as with most projects it's taking longer than l thought,, took the car to the Tacoma Dome show [Washington state] and the car was a hit,,people named it " Dwarf Rat '..l think that is a perfect name for this car,,l have been invited to port angles race way to show it off and l hope to get to drive it around the track,,, this summer l plan to drive the heck outt'a it and take to several cars shows..thanks:cool:
Do you happen to have any bigger pictures of it?
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Do you happen to have any bigger pictures of it?
Looks good to me, but then I'm using a 32 inch widescreen monitor. :)
Man thats a HUGE picture for my little 17" monitor !! :)
Scull, that sure looks like a fun lil' car to drive, cool!
32" monitor,,,, that must be sweet for sure!
Larry M.
It might be interesting to see the front half of this picture? What is the power train? Probably one of those ancient internal combustion engines that we keep hearing are soooo baaaaad for the polar bears?
Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder
Scull, did you have this car at the MotorSports 2008 show at the Tacoma Dome last month? Saw one just like it but didn't get a good pic of it.
Larry M.
sorry about the big pic,,do not know why the thing loaded that way,,type street legal dwarf car in to a search engine and several links should be there ,,,thanksQuote:
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Larry M wrote:Quote:
32" monitor,,,, that must be sweet for sure!
Yeah, my wrist got tired of moving the mouse back and forth to see everything on the 19" screen, so now my wrist don't hurt but my eyes get tired of moving left to right, right to left, left to right, etc, etc, etc. Just no happy medium.:LOL::LOL:
Sorry, my popup blocker prevented me from receiving a message regarding the power train. Still wondering.
Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder
Looks good.:3dSMILE:
I have wondered how hard it would be to get a legend car street legal.
it's a 1100 v-twin honda with a chain drive with a special adapter that hooks a drive shaft to a custom made toyota rearend,,, for more pics go to the H A M B or jalopy journal,, type dwarf car in the search and it should show up,, or go to live search and put " street legal dwarf car" and some pics should show of the whole car,, thanks
hope this pic answers the Question.. still don't know why it's loading so big,, and yes it was at the T dome motor sports show,,,thanks
The Dwarf in the picture looks to be enjoying the heck out of it!:D
Does he get to drive? I hope you can fit in there! Those old honda engines are great!
Thanks for the picture of the engine, that is really neat! I live about 200 yards from a Harley Davison Agency and wondered whether an enclosed trike would give good mileage but the big Harleys only get about 35 mpg and it is not worth the effort to get a few more mpg. I don't suppose you have any mpg data for the dwarf?
Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder
Don with the right setup a 80 cu inch Harley will get 45mpg. Also the old 4 cylinder Honda 750cc engines are capable of excellent mpg and quick accelleration with their 4 carbs!
don;t know the m p g as l have not quiite got it on the road,, funny that a 750 honda was thought of as l have a 1960 cushman truckster tht l am putting a 750 cc honda into,, 64 chevelle rearend and 15 x 13 x 30 rear tires with 10 x 15 classic 5 spokes,,its really rough right now,, l am having it sandblasted and after all the body work it wil be painted a BRIGHT BRIGHT red,,,thanks
Sure do wish you would downsize your pics a bit......
do not know why it is loadind so big ,,any ideas how to make smaller??
Do you have Paint? I bring up a picture in Paint and then use 50% height and 50% width and then save the result with a slightly different name. I think you are right about the 45 mpg for the Harleys. I stopped in about two months ago to look at the drag bike (scary!) and yes the smaller Harleys get better than 58 mpg and as I recall the salesman said the big HOGS get something in the 40s mpg. That particlular showroom just down at the end of my street must have an inventory of over $1,000,000 on the showroom floor; it is dazzeling and of course we get plenty of weekend activity from the bikers. I have long been interested in the big V-twins ever since I read/studied a build-it article in Popular Mechanics or Popular science around 1956 which showed complete plans for a beautiful wood body two seat roadster with a Harley V-twin driving one wheel and a Fiat front end. The other rear wheel was free wheeling and the body looked like an early Formula One car made out of wooden strips and varnished. I have looked and looked through old Popular Mechanics files and cannot find that article. It was in a special issue on wood bodied cars with several wooden bodied cars on the cover and the plan was amazing in that the rounded shape was formed from wooden strips like a boat hull. If anyone here on the Forum knows the date of that issue I would really like to know it because if has eluded me for years and of course when I went to college my Mom gave away that issue along with a 12" stack of Rod and Custom magazines to a kid younger than me! That is a lot of tricky wood but I always thought I could form a body from an inverted rowboat hull from 1/4" plywood with a point in front and roadster headlights but I cannot find the article. Today there are various fiberglass shells and of course it would be better to have a fiberglass mold. The work on the mold is significant but then you can make many copies. Maybe you recall a picture of a roadster in the Whitney catalog that was used to illustrate frame mount headlights? That would be worth making a mold for but as far as I know it was only an artist picture to show the headlights. Anyway a fenderless roadster shell like the 1960s Indy roadsters would be worth making a mold for as a dwarf car in fiberglass. One flaw in the Popular Mechanics plan was that it used a wooden frame made from stout timbers that would rot, but that could easily be replaced by rectangular steel tubing. Anybody remember that wooden roadster?
Don Shillady
Teen rodder/teen rodder
No! Its an import!
Pretty cool Jim, bet it sounds great too!
A hot rod Cushman? That wins the weirdness award, for sure. I like it!