Quote:
You ready for the Daytona now too? 
C’mon widdit…
But only if I get the Turd back with it…
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| Author: | Rob Simmons [ Mon Dec 16, 2024 1:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Off-Kilter Racing (Lemons style) |
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You ready for the Daytona now too?
C’mon widdit…
But only if I get the Turd back with it…
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| Author: | slantzilla [ Mon Dec 16, 2024 2:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Off-Kilter Racing (Lemons style) |
Quote: Quote:
You ready for the Daytona now too?
C’mon widdit…
But only if I get the Turd back with it…
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| Author: | volaredon [ Mon Dec 16, 2024 6:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Off-Kilter Racing (Lemons style) |
I thought about trying to pry that truck loose but I now have 2 of them, no room for another |
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| Author: | Rob Simmons [ Sat Dec 21, 2024 4:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Off-Kilter Racing (Lemons style) |
I got ToadRacer II home and cleaned out a couple or more decades worth of leaves, dirt, rust, etc. It appears to have last been registered in 1971. The odometer shows 48,xxx miles and there are service stickers in the door jamb that say the next service was due at 46,950 miles… With the big hole in the windshield and sitting with the front of the car exposed, the rust in the floorboards is fairly significant. It doesn’t appear to be insurmountable or significantly structural at this point. Once I get the Turismo carcass out of the way at the “other” shop I’ll get TR II up on some big jackstands and crawl up under it with a good light, a hammer, a pick, a screwdriver, and a beer… I plan to deconstruct this car and gut it for a race car, so if anyone needs any interior hardware, etc let me know.      
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| Author: | Rick Covalt [ Sat Dec 21, 2024 4:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Off-Kilter Racing (Lemons style) |
Put that basket on ebay! It may pay for your roll cage. Especially with a 50 year old broom! 
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| Author: | Rob Simmons [ Sat Dec 21, 2024 4:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Off-Kilter Racing (Lemons style) |
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Put that basket on ebay! It may pay for your roll cage. Especially with a 50 year old broom!
And the vintage shoes! |
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| Author: | Charrlie_S [ Sat Dec 21, 2024 5:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Off-Kilter Racing (Lemons style) |
Rob, put up a parts for sale ad on FABO. One member over there parted out a 64 Cuda, and was getting requests for just about everything. Even small things. I got some parts for my Valiant, and I thought he had reasonable prices. |
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| Author: | Killer6 [ Sat Jan 04, 2025 7:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Off-Kilter Racing (Lemons style) |
Awesome Rob, she's clearanced for subframe connectors for You already!!! I bought a 170&PB trans out of a '62 just like that, which I had to remove Myself, they transported it from the barn on forks & bent the propshaft. I was afraid to even get under it, it was sagging mid ship ~4", luckily I brought the DeWalt reciprocating saw.....lol....looks like You've found the perfect successor to TR I, looking forward to the transformation!! Jim K6 |
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| Author: | Rob Simmons [ Sun Jan 05, 2025 11:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Off-Kilter Racing (Lemons style) |
Thanks Jim. I’ll post updates from time to time. I had to roll it out of the shop for now while we pull the drivetrain and wiring out of a Camry to put in Pollywog (MR2). We learned a couple things on ToadRacer that should make ToadRacer II even more betterer….
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| Author: | Rob Simmons [ Tue Sep 30, 2025 2:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Off-Kilter Racing (Lemons style) |
Adam and I met up and looked the car over last week. Nothing horrendously scary, so we will be moving forward with the build soon(ish)... It's in the shop and ready for disassembly to begin. |
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| Author: | Dart270 [ Wed Oct 01, 2025 3:49 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Off-Kilter Racing (Lemons style) |
Hmmmm. Thanks for the update, Rob. Interested to hear more... Lou |
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| Author: | Rob Simmons [ Wed Oct 01, 2025 7:47 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Off-Kilter Racing (Lemons style) |
I'll continue to post updates here. I likely won't have time to really dig into it until I get back from WyoTech next spring/summer. I might sneak over just a little during my week breaks in December and March. There is some rust in the front frame rails and transmission crossmember areas... and we will need as much engine bay room as we can get, so... The plan is to stub the front and use something like a Mustang II front suspension. We talked to David Watkins to get some guidance on that so as not to fail tech. We will be cutting the firewall and moving the engine back a healthy bit for better weight distribution. We will cut the roof off and re-use the Pig Pen Fabrications roll cage from the original ToadRacer as well as the 8.8 differential. There weren't very many other parts we could re-use, unfortunately. Depending on how much time we dedicate to the build, we may shoot for a debut at Road Atlanta 2026. More to follow... |
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