Street Racing Cars For Sale

We’re still pluggin’ along on the Isetta. Usually just one or two girls at a time and Mark, who at 12, was with the project from the very first day in May of 07. One of the girls, I call her the son I never had, managed to get a three hour block every Thursday morning. When she signed on the car was spread all over the shop, unpainted and looking rather forlorn.

We are doing our best to make this a very true restoration, and that has taken a lot of research and a library of over 700 photographs. It took quite a while to find an untouched original cabriolet to crawl around, but we managed to locate two, and they have been an incredible help. Oddball things (try to find new 8mm X 1.25 nuts with a 14mm head, they only make them with 13mm heads now) we either make or have made. We’ve discovered, through several very knowledgeable enthusiasts both here and in Germany, quite a few little known (or perhaps rarely applied) facts that help us to perform an accurate restoration. We’re shooting for a finished, ready to show, car by July. There are some great guys out there, building some beautiful cars; it’ll be fun to see how this little back-woods build stacks up.
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We still get e-mails on the Team Sprite website http://www.teamsprite.com/ , I think it’s near 20,000 hits to date, quite remarkable for a little school in the foothills of Northern California. http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/01/high-school-auto-restoration-class.html

Most of those young ladies have graduated from, or are just finishing up college, but we still keep tabs on each other. I’ve known several of them since they were eight or nine and it’s been a real honor to watch them grow up.

You may recall that four of those young women and I, went in together and purchased the bugeye as a tub and 21 boxes of unlabeled parts. When RM auctioned the car 18 eighteen months later, we paid off a substantial Visa card and split the remainder of the sale price. With the Isetta, we’ll be free to show the car for a year or two without concerning ourselves about financial obligations. Because it was to be a rotating class, and there was no school funding for something like this, I picked up the tab on the Isetta and the money can stay there until the next project pops up.

Brian Powers http://www.teamisetta.com/
Living Wisdom School
Nevada City, Calif

to read all about the Team Sprite or Team Isetta coverage: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/Team%20sprite

That kid is probably riding a motorcycle right now

Wonder why they are loading that car from the 2nd floor to that delivery truck

Model T tool kit

Who? takes a bug on a deer hunting trip?

I'd like to know what's in the crate

The Nash with sleeper cab. I've seen one at a car cruise, it's not bad!

DeNiro, Taxi Driver, such an ironic sign over his arm

That is Ray Brock, but where is the steering wheel? If this were a right hand drive the speedometer would also be on the right.

Michigan junkyard, 1968

Just the thing to keep a farmer dry when using the tractor in the rain.

There are some things that have been done with VW vans that are a surprise to me, but making a bead blaster cabinet is pretty cool and useful, the waterfall in the garden... mighty unusual

a full size 4 door Caprice snow machine is a first.

see these and all the rest at http://allride.skynetblogs.be/index-12.html

this belongs to Frank at http://mechanicallyderanged5.blogspot.com/ and is just a rolling chassis with dry rot setting into the tires, having been passed along from the previous owner as a project and it's ready to go to the next owner, still without an engine. I think Frank added he vents though.

from http://bzisettas.blogspot.com/2010/08/bruce-weiner-microcar-museum.html the micro car museum tour gallery on BZ's BMW Isetta blog