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İyun 30, 2008
What Did You Do This Weekend?
By Sean
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I decided to step away from cars this weekend (or so I thought), and instead headed north for some roughing it in the mountains. But it seems no matter where you go, no matter how far from civilization you get, you’re still never far from a car enthusiast. My buddy and I came down from the mountains to find a cell phone signal and possibly grab some breakfast, when we stumbled on a small collection of cars outside of the Green Gables General Store in Robe, Washington. The first was a beautifully restored 1935 Ford Touring Sedan, a great old Ford pick-up (which I assume is also around a ‘35 to ‘40), and custom-built Salt Flat Lakester race car. Yeah, completely random, completely in the middle of nowhere. But again, it goes to show that you can find a car enthusiast pretty much anywhere.
Follow the jump to check out more photos and details of these incredible cars!
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1935 Ford Touring Sedan
The Ford Touring Sedan was in great shape. The current owners purchased it at the Silver Auction in Seattle, and have recently added a few updates. The engine was rebuilt engine to handle unleaded gas. They added a 4-inch stroke Mercury crank and forged pistons, and added a full flow oil filter. The tranny was also rebuilt using a 1939 Syncromesh transmission, and the brakes were also updated to a more modern assembly. This baby is for sale too! I don’t want to post the info here, but if you’re interested contact me and I can forward you the info.
Classic Ford Pick-up
Utah Salt Flats Lakester
OK, so you might expect to see a classic Ford or something similar when out on the backroads of your hometown, but would you ever expect to see something like this? This "Lakester" was custom built using parts from many other vehicles, and quite a bit of custom fabbing obviously went into it as well. The car was designed and built by Dick "The King" Dinham. The body was made of an external fuel tank from a US Navy F-4 Phantom. The engine is a 1.8T from a from a 2001 VW Golf, but now sports a monster t3 turbo rather than the factory K03. The tranny is a Chevy Sagninaw 4-speed, and the rear axle a 1940 Ford Quick Change. The steering assembly, gas, clutch, and brake pedals are from a 1976 Porsche 914, but the front axle, spindle, and springs are from a 1936 Ford. Quite a Frankenstein, but quite a blast to drive, I’m sure! The owner claims the car puts down a whopping 500+ hp, and has an estimated speed of about 250mph!
And then I finished off my weekend on Sunday sanding and prepping my new radio bezel for my carPC install. More details on that over on SoundDomain.
So, what did you do this weekend?
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Oafman
Jul 1, 2008 at 3:35 am
My Saturday pics are up, the Sunday pics will go up tomorrow, I am too tired to finish tonight.
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Jul 1, 2008 at 2:06 am
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danielle
Jul 1, 2008 at 12:52 am
I went to Vancouver for the 11th annual BC CRX meet/cruise (thanks EDAP for hosting/organizing it)!… and crazily enough (in regards to the original post of this “what did you do this weekend”), I spotted a ford touring (not the sedan type) at a bar in agassiz while having a beer and took a picture!.. It was pretty… and black!
-DanielleB
Stewart
Jun 30, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Participated in another car show on Saturday.
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Had a great time, even though it was 99 degrees and humid…
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Installed more eye candy under the hood on Sunday,
and ordered some new car show display stuff.
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Getting ready for the Buick Regionals in August
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GTwildfire, I’m glad your family is OK.
Oafman
Jun 30, 2008 at 8:23 pm
I “worked” out at Mid-Ohio Sports Car course. If you call sitting in the grandstands passing out programs in between watching the races working. This was the SVRA weekend so I got a ton of pictures of classic cars and vintage race cars. I even got a great pic of our truck parked next to a beautiful Lotus. Unfortunately I could not get everyone that was there, Saturday afternoon brought a heavy thunderstorm which forced most of the cars under shelter before I got there. Sunday had some good racing until another torrential downpour came through and stopped the racing for the day. The wet track made for some exciting, if a bit nerve racking racing. I witnessed a couple Mil worth of classic cars slide off of the track at the end of the long straight. One of my favorite pics has to be of 2 Triumphs (might have been MG) sitting in the rain with water up to their rims. We downloaded the pics onto my computer last night and I am hoping to have them on my ride page starting tonight.
GTwildfire
Jun 30, 2008 at 7:01 pm
I took pics of my completed (essentially completed) Firebird Convertible.
I got a 79 in a 65 speeding ticked southbound I-95 in the express lanes below DC yeah… in Virginia. Gonna fight the 14 over and see if I can get it reduced to 9 over or something like that. Anyone with similar experience, please drop me a line.
Mother-in-law had an accident at the same time heading northbound (we were to meet at Roanoke Rapids, NC. Fortunately she maintained control of her minivan. My whole family was in that van. Damage only tire-on-body scrub and minor denting, fortunately.
Oh and learned that I could avoid Baltimore, DC and even Fredericksburg… all the crap and tolls by travelling 301 and 207. Sound too good to be true, to actually have a way around the depths of hell…
Paul C.
Jun 30, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Damn…I got the privilege of helping my 4 month old with the sniffles and staring at my car being rained on and thinking how much longer the grass was going to grow!
Maybe one of these days it will stop raining long enough and I can finish working on my car…or wax it. I think Kentucky is the new Seattle.