Hey everyone it’s time to buy your Carlisle tickets at 20% off.

(pictured: Richard Wobby’s Allison TD)

Most of you know they do this sale every year but for you newbies: The Carlisle Kit and Import (nka “Import and Performance”) Nationals is this club’s main east coast gathering and has been for the past many many years.

With rare exceptions o…[Read more]

Good to see you back, Mick. Here’s a deadline for you: in the fall some of the Speedster and Spyder people do a Dragon+ weekend. It’d be great if you could make that.

Or! Any chance you could be up and running in May? We’d love to see this contraption at the Carlisle show.

As for all those little details that seem to eat up time: yeah. building…[Read more]

We’ll miss you Al.

Hoping to crank up the turnout this year and we got some cool stuff simmering.

Bill: I don’t know if Alan has the rooms blocked out yet but I think so. If you call the hotel and ask for the Speedster Owners Group room rate you’ll know.

Plenty of time and more announcements coming soon.

+1 on flat towing. Also make sure you have a chain or fat cable running from your tow chassis to the Toad’s beam, independent of the tow…[Read more]

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Spyder build continues.

alongcameaspyder.wordpress.com/2018/10/27/shifter-e-brake-fabrication-seats-and-compromises/

It’s amazing how much time can be spent making something a half inch shorter or two inches longer. The shifter box and parking brake handle–if you want to get them to look similar to the original 550–are quite a fettle.

Noels, congratulations! Your car looks terrific and just wait until you drive it. People in other vehicles literally hang out of their windows to video you going past.

That grill shell looks pretty darn good under the circumstances. At least from this angle it does.

Today in Spyder build adventures.

Spyder build updates:

https://alongcameaspyder.wordpress.com/2018/10/09/failure-of-the-wipers-test-fitting-seats/

These are small prices for what you’re looking at. Maybe spend $100 with the lawyer first and fashion the deal thusly:

You sign a contract with the seller promising to pay $2500 WHEN  the car is titled, with $500 earnest money fronted.

Seller petitions for the title, with you and your lawyer’s help. You pay any court/legal costs.

???

Profits.

If the squirters don’t deploy with the flashing lights it’s not a proper clown car!

Congrats, Paul. So now what are you bringing to Carlisle?

What a terrible problem!

Best to get a bill of sale from the seller and work from there. In most states you can get a title–eventually–but it might be a slog if you don’t have a manufacturers certificate of origin or a pretty complete list of donor parts and prices paid.

One way I’ve seen people move this issue, if the Dept. of Motor Vehicles…[Read more]

It would. And it would fit my budget if I sold the Spyder.

Bump.

YES! That looks sweet and your having it sorted is excellent.

Please come up to Carlisle! I do plan to debut this build there and, as it happens, I’m also (sort of) in charge of this year’s “Speedsters Meet Spyders And TDrs” festivities. It’s shaping up to be quite a scene, and I am very much pulling to get a Full Compliment of my TD Replica brethren on the field.

Here’s hoping it doesn’t rain all day every…[Read more]

Update on the Spyder.

Cleaning up for paint