Les véhicules de collection, ou comment l'imperfection rend amoureux

1957 vw, full length wheelbase, final form - body
chopped 8-10 inches - not shortened, body welded to pan. front sway
bar -16mm 356 -B stock bar. Front axle 57 vw, shimmed for more
caster with torsion leafs modified for softer rate. Steering box 356-
B. Front hood - vw with panels cut out and replaced with Al. Gas
tank - Sears moped - 1 gal. Instruments - oil pressure and 356-B
tachometer, no time to use, launch 3-5 grand on up-swing. Shocks -
Konis. Rear Z-bar off 1500 series vw. Transmission - 356-B original,
first-fourth BBE3C, 644 1&2, 741 3&4, Ring and pinion - 7: 34 last
one vasek had, with limited slip, 1500 drop 2-3 & 3-4, not much better
combo - only hewland. Engine - 356-C case, 356-B heads, small valves
with 8mm stems, pistons - worn out 150" over MC's, approx 1730 cc's,
10.5 to 1. Cam - Elgin 316-In, 320-Ex. Vertex magneto from Porsche
industrial motor re-curved. Flywheel-180 mm, 5lb. Carbs - 46 IDM-2
Webers from a 356-B GT and later Carrera Arbarth GTL using 587/2
Carrera 2 liter motor, in l963, ( info from Gmund #14 1984 - 904's
used 587/3 series Carrera with 48 mm Webers). Motor mounts - solid.
Brakes - 356-C discs all around. Wheels -Front - 8" wide, 13" dia.,
Rear - 12" wide, 13" dia., steel by greenville wheel and rim and very
heavy and cheap. Tires were qualifing compound takeoff's from open
wheel formula car, one of Penske's, very light and very thin
sidewalls, from Phila . Also had set of deluge rains, very soft,
from their european formula car effort, tires $ 20 each.
Driving style - point - shoot - shift and hang on. Red line - when it
stopped pulling, probably 7 plus. Safe? not very. Car built
originally by Gary Davis, Don Dietrich, and Tom Davenhall, last ran in
Pa. by Denny Frick and Harvey Davenhall. Paint design by Milton
Bailey in Atlanta, {kids called it the puzzle car). 0-60 was probably
in 3,s, 60 was roughly top of 2nd gear. Will have some more pics when
figure out how. Also, no generator, cooling by 57 chevy defroster
blower- small battery. oil cooler was old condenser mounted on roof.