rolled my Challenge car out of the shed...

bought it in 1983 for $100, it's been tucked away for 26 years....time to get it going.

Sweetness...

LS1?

I am scared.....

LUIGI !!!!!

It needs something really punchy sitting in the middle.

I vote for a bike engine.

You can get 600cc bike engines with computer complete for sub $500 all day.

HAYABUSA!

I was thinking 12A or a bike motor... I have a 650 Honda but.....

find the narrowest modern FWD car readily available, preferably a Chrysler so it is legal for Street Mod now that they're in bed with Fiat, and cut the entire FWD powertrain into the back end. old-school shogun FTMFW!

Bike motor. Rotaries don't seem to do well at the $20xx Challenge.

RexSeven wrote: Bike motor. Rotaries don't seem to do well at the $20xx Challenge.

Abomination!

and why does that make me think of this? i really want to do an Aspen / Volare wagon like the one in the background....

AngryCorvair wrote: find the narrowest modern FWD car readily available, preferably a Chrysler so it is legal for Street Mod now that they're in bed with Fiat, and cut the entire FWD powertrain into the back end. old-school shogun FTMFW!

SRT4?

MrJoshua wrote:

RexSeven wrote: Bike motor. Rotaries don't seem to do well at the $20xx Challenge.

Abomination!

Which Challenge was that? I only started subscribing in 2005.

http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/reader-rides/250/

In reply to MrJoshua:

Thanks. That'll learn me.

That was one heck of a car. A rotary actually did alright in our $07 TII RX7. A lack of sorting and lack of drag racing hurt us more than motor choice.

Beyond the challenge... but... soooo pretty....

Perhaps you might need some inspiration:

http://locostusa.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=4845

26 years, why rush into things?

Dan

SRT4skin

SkinnyG wrote: Perhaps you might need some inspiration: http://locostusa.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=4845

berkeleying hawt.

AngryCorvair wrote: and why does that make me think of this? i really want to do an Aspen / Volare wagon like the one in the background....

Upon seeing this picture my thought also was, "Wow look at that Custom Volare."

I bought it with the intention of restoring it to stock. At the time Fiat was still in the US, but parts for the 500 were hard to find. I had just bought my house and had 2 sons already, so it got put on the back burner since I couldn't locate the needed parts. Remember this was before the WWW and it was time consuming to write or call or even learn of places to get parts.

The most radical I want to get is similar to the Abarth version since the body is too nice to destroy and the fact that it's an original US export version, recognized by it's raised, aka Bugeye style, headlights that were needed to meet US headlight height laws back in the day.

Finding a small enough transaxle and motor to fit in back is the major hurdle. The engine was a whopping 17hp and the original gearbox is non-synchro, the axles are the diameter of toothpicks. But weighing in at 1035 lbs, it shouldn't need much to move it along.

We'll see.....

Where do I get a 2/3 scale Skylark golf cart body? Is it wrong to want a little person butler?