Bladecutter
"Pursuit of Shape"
Thanks MN, originally built by my Late Brother in late 70's as a full fendered car...chopped 56 oval window body on a 72 pan for the constant camber IRS. 67 911 S 5 speed. Weber'd 1835. Then after hitting a big dog one night, pulled the nose back out & Will Stryker, race car fabber(worked w/ Colin Chapman at one time), hand built the front subframe & suspension w/ a super close ratio rack & pinion. Did cross drilled discs at all four corners,,,,fronts were type lll VW & the rears were combination type lll & 914. Lug patterns are Porsche' 5 on 130mm. Made a few magazines in the 80's. Will died in 87, car fell into dis-repair in 90's, went into storage in early 2003 & I kinda inherited custodianship of it from my Nephew at the end of 2015(when I die it'll go to His Son). So my idea was to go fenderless to show off the suspension & hang the Lex/Toy 4.0 ltr, 4 cam V8 of the Porsche' axle. Have the flywheel, clutch & adaptor plate kit. Started out like gangbusters on it, then cancer discovered in August 2016 kinda put the keibash on the project.
This pic is about 1986, me next to it & the other chop Will built. Bragging on my Brother, He did the actual chop on bug body in 1977. He & I started doing body work at same time in 1973, so He was working off roughly 4 years of hands on experience when set into the project, had never cut a top before. His approach was cool to bend the posts & sails in so that He did not have to section the roof & kept the three fold sunroof original. He also used a section of deck lid to lengthen the roof at back between the sunroof & the oval window. He got the rake just puss imo & kept the arc of the profile. Is there bondoe in it?? Damn straight!! And it's near 40 yeas old and NOT checked.....lol!
