SPEED HERO Blog

I can't fight it. I shouldn't fight it. I've just have a magnetism to 5M powered vehicles. Though it seems more often then not they seem to find me. My first 5m powered car was in the form of a free '81 Supra. This was a free donation from the owner, the only one in the bunch I never got to slide. More on the story of it in 'The Beginnings". This little duck is so far the only 5ME, I've owned. The was a white automatic ghost...

The new IDx Freeflow concept really doesn't remind me of the Datsun 510. So I got to thinking, what does it remind me of? Oddly enough, this reminds me of an older post on funny little econoboxes.

        It's been quite accidental that I keep ending up working on 3AC's, but here we are. The many brutally slow, horribly efficient 'power' plants. This little red AE86, was a rescue car. Ditched at the side of the highway, windows smashed in, and motor pooped. The free 3AC long block was retrieved from an outdoor Tarp garage, having sat on it's side with no manifolds for 2 years. Popped it in, and it lives on even now. 

I'm not sure how we missed it. Decades of promises of futuristic cars, promised later, sometimes promised now. Atomic 50's American dreams of the future of Jet Set motoring, flashy shapes, classy speed, glamorous. We missed it. You did too, you're just as much to blame as me, though I couldn't afford it persay, but at only $18,000 brand new, it wasn't out of the reach of most of the modern world. You could've afforded one, with a warranty, I'm guessing, it's most likely to be honest. I'm not entirely sure how we missed it; the worlds most realistic-futuristic car....

[caption id="attachment_9061" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Fun with a homemade protractor.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_9062" align="aligncenter" width="600"] All the math needed to make accurate scale drawings of BMX frames, keeping the angles intact while doing any ridiculous thing the imagination can come up with for the tubes.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_9055" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Rendering in color, step by step[/caption]