Recent content by wide winger

It's a Isetta 300 Great Britain imported to Canada with NO heater.WTF! Still has Michigan St. Faculty Parking Sticker in the rear window dated 1960. The numbers matching bubble car has just over 6,000 miles on it, this damn little car helped save BMW after WWII. Strange driver, 4-SPD box...

Yep the R's Fuel Safe Fuel Cell is leaking, that means the tank needs to come out then sent to the great northwest so good old Full Safe can install the replacement bladder and ship the fuel tank back. I'll perform the surgery, scheduled to begin late May early June? :ohnoes:

Yeah I know! View to the Front... View to the Rear.. Project Polished Shaft...

Found the boot leaking grease during a recent caliper/hose replacement. Had to pull the big girl into the shop and replace the drivers side rear CV/axle assembly. Surprisingly things went pretty smooth during the replacement. I was surprised how cheap the replacement was NAPA charged me a...

Bought the car used from a friend and fellow racer. Currently has 67K on the OD, slowly been bringing it up to my standards during the past few years. Was a drag car I'm making it a tolerable street car, easier said than done I must admit. Had a issue with the license plate bracket so had a...

About to close the book on another round of modifications for the summer, one more day and a few more items and she will be ready to take flight once again.....a new personnel best down the 1320 is on the agenda.

Step One: Removal of interior and old carpet......Done.

Talon Header Gets Jet Hoted Finally took care of the last piece of the puzzle. Jet Hot Coatings dropped of my header, had them cover it with their 3000 degree ceramic coating, now the fun begins..... reconstruction.........again. 8)

Kidnapping foiled because abductor couldn't drive a manual stick shift SUMTER, SC -- Police say a kidnapping in South Carolina was thwarted because the would-be abductor couldn't operate a manual stick shift in the victim's car. The Sumter County sheriff's office said in a news release that...

Had to fix a pesky water leak under the sink and found this mess silently awaiting for me..............gross. I know plumbing is not a glorious job, but they earned my respect having to deal with far more nasty crap than just some disposal goo.

Here we go, a racing buddy needed to have his failing transmission removed and beefed up to handle more horse power and increased capability of towing more load. The patient: 1993 1-Ton with a pitiful 454 BB. The prepping of the damaged weak link a 260 pound gorilla. The beast out after a...

Mototown's very own village idiot says: The footage of this old film is truly amazing, and you have to give the Ford Motor Co. a lot of credit for building these planes, and the Pilots that flew them were gutsy guys to fly them for the first time. A real piece of history. This was 6 months...

Performance Red never looked so Performance Orange. but the conditions were just right!:headbang: My once a year car show outing netted me best of show...Win!:luv3: Trippin:icon_cool

Since I don't drive mine but 2-3 times a year this is as close as I can get to the driving experience and the sound of tooling around in a Cobra R. Crank up the volume a, thw sound of WOT is great! :gr_drivin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5gQWJnBP6o

Now for the drivers side before and after: Shazam! Finally the car can set on it's tires for a change..........phew! Now I can get back into the engine bay and get things done.