Who needs a Simca? YOU need a Simca!

Mine, Affiliated.  Note, FB MP won't let me accurately put in the vehicle's make, model, or price.  What a clusterberkeley.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/214619540526531/?notif_id=1625925456914011&notif_t=marketplace_seller_insights&ref=notif

Come and buy this thing.  Make me an offer. 

In reply to volvoclearinghouse :

This needs to be a hat on a Miata. Not a project for me, but someone should.

and what are the cars in front of the Simca ?

Just asking for a friend :)

californiamilleghia said:

and what are the cars in front of the Simca ?

Just asking for a friend :)

Mostly just Volvo 122's.

If there wasn't the minor issue of the bulk of an entire continent between us, I would be trying to work out a deal

Text in the ad says $900.

914Driver said:

Text in the ad says $900.

Correct.  But in the "price" section, FB MP wouldn't let me put that, since it fell outside of their "normal range" for a "1959 Volkswagen Beetle".  

There was no way to put it in as a "Simca".  

Anyway, yes, my original plan was to put the body on a Miata chassis, possibly using something else as a powerplant.  Since Simca was part of Ford then, they were using smaller-displacement versions of the Flathead V8 in their larger cars (Chambord, Vedette, etc...you know, regular household names...) so I thought a Ford Flathead swap would be sort-of period-correct.  As if that matters.  

Too heavy for a larger motorcycle engine?  These always turned my head.

That is a box of awesome. 

I'm glad you live far enough away to keep me from buying it. 

I'm also glad I probably wouldn't fit in it. 

An idle mind just looked up the wheelbase... It would work for a certain project sitting in my shed... Idle mind being turned off. No space for another project at the moment.

AxeHealey said:

An idle mind just looked up the wheelbase... It would work for a certain project sitting in my shed... Idle mind being turned off. No space for another project at the moment.

What was the other vehicle in question?

Idle minds are curious.

volvoclearinghouse said:

AxeHealey said:

An idle mind just looked up the wheelbase... It would work for a certain project sitting in my shed... Idle mind being turned off. No space for another project at the moment.

What was the other vehicle in question?

Idle minds are curious.

A mostly finished Locost 442 frame.