flathead needed.....no not for my stang!

It was in some car in a restaurant as some sort of display, painted purple (the whole thing!!!) with a spray can. The plan is to build a front engine dragster to put it in. What I'd sort of like to do is twin turbo it and throw a MegaSquirt EFI on it for giggles. Low tech interior and high tech periphery sorta....

Are you doing the rat rod thing? Even if you're not, man I think those seats will look really out of place.

I had thought of taking my little motor and building a big soap box derby car body and frame for it. Make it out of aluminum and rivet it and polish it up sorta like a P-51 body. Maybe paint up the nose a bit and put a pin-up girl on each side of the engine sides. I intended on running straight axles so the body would sit up sorta high off the ground and use some solid wheels that use Model A sized tires, tall and skinny. There would be no front brakes and the rear brakes would just be a rotor attached to the pinion on the third member. The sides and top of the hood would have the long louvers cut in and thered be a scoop under the nose to relieve under hood temps, but there wouldn't be an opening up front, the radiator would be mounted flat under the seat or towards the rear of the body up under it. Tail lights would be tiny and likely mounted to the rear axle and I'm not sure about headlights. Turn signals would be little LED's. A small Lexan windscreen, no doors, just a little round step that jutted out from under the body or a little step that flipped out and then back in. It would have a full belly pan that rolled under except for the radiator. It's a one seater and would have a little Cobra roll bar sticking up or it may be covered up by a headrest pod that tapered back onto the body. It'd have a little vinyl cover that snapped over the driver's compartment when not in use to keep out rain and prying eyes. No radio, no heater, Shelby competition bullet mirrors, Sprint car steering box with an arm that stuck outside of the bodywork.

I figure a half helmet and a set of goggles since there's no wipers. What do you think of my idea?

I will have to dig up some pics of my old 34 Ford truck I built a while back. Flatty with a C-4, 8",ect.... I am collecting parts right now for my 34 Ford Tudor,I am going to convert it into a 3 window. Flatty w/T-5 and 8" in this one though.Trad Hot Rods are my other 4 wheel habit............

WWII fighter/bomber silver would be bare aluminum. They found that that could reduce the weight of the P51 by a few hundred pounds by not painting them with camoflauge, so they put insignias on them and left the metal bare (some had mild polishing).

Yeah, I know. I had planned on the body being polished, but I figured on painting just the tip of the nose and the top of the hood back to the windscreen. Most planes I've seen were painted flat black here to reduce glare off the cowling, I was thinking a deep red for the same reason.

As you may have noticed from my avatar I'm somewhat of a buff...here's some artwork I did:



Some checkering would be cool and some insignia on the rear fenders. The cowlings on most 8th-AF planes was a very dark flat-olive-drab color. You could also paint some kill marks, change the swastikas for Honda/Chevy logos or something, then paint your name on the roof above the window.

If you're going the WWII feel, forget the Flattie and fit an Allison or better yet a Merlin!

The T sounds really cool - shark's teeth would look great on a track-T nose.

Did you buy anything at the meet?