Because Racecar.........! Team Eircooled Drag Project.

[Dirty1]

LOL
@ Ross - it was mentioned by someone that it didn't look much worse the your car when it was stripped back.

@ Dave - I don't actually think its that bad, if I can get a section of gutter I think we're good to go as far as out of the ordinary repairs. The rest is the usual 6 inches an it's actually really good in other parts like windows an luggage compartment.

I'm not going for concours race car, just a learning process for all of us to see what's involved. It will possibly have a 6point weld in cage so safety won't be a issue an if it get totalled or bent the who cares, it's didn't cost me much only time. Currently I'm of the opinion that driving up the country to collect another shell that has to be to stripped again an probably need the lower six inches anyway would be a waste the time that would have the roof repair an some other done.

I have a pair of cheap heater channels an a cheap pan half in stock that I bought for an old project that i dis end up scrapping an I wouldn't use them in my 62 that I'll stick into this, all I need then is the other pan half.

Oh well......

 

[trev]

evidently, I've been living under a virtual rock this past while. Will someone explain the "because racecar" reference to me please?

 

[Aidan]

Does it really need good gutters or gutters at all? The main point of this car is that it be structurally safe, complies with whatever racing regs apply and goes fast. By all means weld in patches to keep the structure strong but why worry too much about appearances? It'd be easier to make a virtue of its patched nature than to try and make it look nice.

What's the deadline again?

 

[SteveR]

evidently, I've been living under a virtual rock this past while. Will someone explain the "because racecar" reference to me please?

http://www.eircooled.com/deforum/sh...am-eircooled-drag-project-quot&highlight=Team

 

[JustinOval]

evidently, I've been living under a virtual rock this past while. Will someone explain the "because racecar" reference to me please?

It's from an old advert on posted on Jalopnik I think.... Used a lot on VZi.

 

[JustinOval]

Yeah, Jalopnik from a Craigslist advert.

https://www.google.ie/search?q=beca..._4HQBA&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1492&bih=927

 

[trev]

aah, I'll just crawl back under my rock.

Because neanderthal.

 

[JustinOval]

Its just another internet meme. Who knows where they come from... ?

 

[Lazy Dog]

Its just another internet meme. Who knows where they come from... ?

'Jalopnik from a Craiglist advert'............ you said so just a couple of post earlier.............??!!

 

[duts]

Its just another internet meme. Who knows where they come from... ?

You do generally! Rumour has it you own the internet.

 

[Endfloat]

LOL
@ Ross - it was mentioned by someone that it didn't look much worse the your car when it was stripped back.

That qualifies my statement! My car was a shitbox and if I was to do it all over again I'd start out with a much better car to begin with. But then the thing is I had an attachment to my car after owning it for a while and didn't feel right about scrapping it, and I get the impression the same is going on with this car.

 

[duts]

 

[EvilMonkley]

Sorry duts i don't dislike the sentiments its just that fuckin keep calm crap is far too over done.

 

[duts]

Sorry duts i don't dislike the sentiments its just that fuckin keep calm crap is far too over done.

The keep calm bit is only a by product couldn't find anything with just "save that piece of shit" but ye get the idea!!!!

 

[trev]

Sorry duts i don't dislike the sentiments its just that fuckin keep calm crap is far too over done.

 

[JustinOval]

 

[56oval]

WWASD.

(What would Andy Sweeney do?)

now now!!!! LOL!

Its not just me then?

I almost bollocked you for the thread title tsar "because sweeney"

 

[Dirty1]

Yeah maybe that 'Keep Calm' stuff is over done, a bit like the 'Because Racecar'. I did think it was overdone but it's kinda stuck in my head from magazines an forums.

@Ross, without sentiment there'd be alot beetles about. There's loads of 70's bugs in similar condition underneath if you go poking so we might as well stick with the one we have.

 

[kvinyl]

aah, I'll just crawl back under my rock.

Because neanderthal.

I didn't have a f#%king notion what the title referred to either, I must have been away from the Internet that day...

Truth be told, I only have a faint idea what a meme is too...

 

[JustinOval]

I didn't have a f#%king notion what the title referred to either, I must have been away from the Internet that day...

Truth be told, I only have a faint idea what a meme is too...

This might help - http://goo.gl/cf0Qj