Thread: The Roofus Special

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Originally Posted by firebird77clone

Might I recommend a shark-mouth paint job? Like the P-51 mustang. ( or was the the P-52 )

Ummmm...that would be a Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk. I have a 12" X 18" color photo hanging on the wall behind me. But that was a WWII aircraft, so a little out of the WWI era. It might be really cool to paint the car in the theme of a WWI aircraft though.....
http://www.allposters.com/View_HighZ...5&sc=False&ct= Eurographics Trend&cw=20&ch=20
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/sha...-1234S-001.jpg
How about an English Sopwith Dolphin....english motor in your car, right?....
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...%3D2%26hl%3Den
Or the english Sopwith Camel....
http://d1136943.u114.weberz.com/imag...mel_snoopy.JPG

Has anybody here ever built a car from scratch with no real plans? ....given yourself true artistic liberty?

I have a "list" of ideas and a huge library of influences of what makes a cool vintage racer, but nothing is down on paper. I have also given myself permission to change it if it needs to be changed.

It went from this


to this, in a matter of moments


I think it works.



Right now the rear suspension/frame layout is a blank canvas from the seats back.




The rear of the car will be built around the suspension.

I have thought about a triangulated 4 link with the bottom bars on the outside of the body (attaching at the node just ahead of the quarter panel skin). The uppers would be inside the body.

I have also considered hairpins attaching at the same general location.

What would you build if you were not constrained by a traditional frame/floor layout?