My " Rat Racer " Back on the road

OZ Towdster · 2011-04-02T22:26:48+00:00

Well it's probaley about time i did a bit of a right up on my latest ride which has now been out and about a bit ,but we'll start with a couple of pics Well last year myself and Eileen were once again at Valla and i hadn't been there 2 minutes and Mr Berry was giving me a flogging for not showing up in any form of VW , so the seed was planted . So as we all do you troll the swap meets etc and do the valla thing , well by Sun morning i had a plan . Buy my mates 62 ratty looking front garden orniment and we have six weeks to build a car for Warwick With the car hame a week after Valla it was quickly apprent that this was gunna be a big ask for me to complete the car in that six weeks , so i invited my good freind Graham to help me in exchange for dirves at Warwick which didn't take to much convincing . So we had a plan , some builders and one very ratty 62 beetle , but when your building a rat it was definetly a great start . For the first couple of weeks i think my neibours thought i was quite mad as the'dd all seen a few of my rides over the years but none that looked as daggy or rusty as this girl but i pursued on and cut out and replaced any strutualy rusty areas while Graham consentrated on getting it to run to start with , with the original 1200 so we could drive and check the gearbox . With the rust now all repaired and the gearbox getting a tick we moved onto the rest of the Mechanicals . At this time i still owned part of CVD and so we pulled down an unknown 1600TP out of the racks and gave it a quick run with its stock carby and dizzy etc and all was sweet , good compresion , no rattles , and from the condition of the gaskets probaley a low milage motor , so it to got a tick of approval for the ride and all the tinware removed and cleaned up and repaired and my 36 DRLA Dellorto fitted along with a 009 dizzy and a set of old EMPI merged headers . So things were starting to come together . Now if ya gunna build a Rat , it's gotta be low so as seen above it is reasonably low with just on 100mm to it's lowest point . The front end is just an adjustable beam with stock spindles and the rear end is approx down i full outer spline which i think gives it a nice stance . Now seeing as we were going drag racing with this ride we also fitted an offraod front gearbox strap , bell housing strap , and i fabricated a berg style rear tramp bar under the rear of the engine which all in all makes for a bloody noisy ride , but come hell or high water that box ain't movin . To finish of the ride i refitted all the guards to the car including the already rusty RH rear guard , bought the rear centrelines , cleaned up and drilled out the clips of aset of front stock wheels , and of coarse painted them the retro looking bright orange and lastly had some sign writing done and i chequer painted the headlight tins and tail light bucket . With it all finished we ran abest time of 11.37sec at Warwick which was a second and a half quicker than any other 1600 at warwick and not bad going with a lot of carburation issues over the weekend . Well come 2011 and none of my other rides were getting any closer to getting back on the road ,( although as i write there getting closer) so it was decided that i'dd get it registered which over a couple of weeks was acheived to as you see it today . Hope you enjoy it and we'll see some of you in Sydney for the Nationals in the " Rat Racer "

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16,723 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 1 Oct 2012, 9:11 pm

#924486

Well done Andrew brighten the day up I mean FLUROED the day up 👍😉

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westi what the

1,610 posts · joined Aug 2005 · 1 Oct 2012, 11:11 pm

#924500

ThAt was some funny shit. Made my day.
I loved the ears and hat. We're is the pics's.
Someone has to have some.

down sharon.

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4,674 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 2 Oct 2012, 6:09 am

#924506

You mean these????

And posing with the fans......

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8,114 posts · joined Mar 2006 · 2 Oct 2012, 3:31 pm

#924554

Top stuff Shrek dude

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OZ Towdster Keen to finish some projects

1,921 posts · joined Dec 2003 · 2 Oct 2012, 5:58 pm

#924580

Ah it was all good fun and i'mm glad everbody got a good laugh out of it , now to think of something for next year

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westi what the

1,610 posts · joined Aug 2005 · 2 Oct 2012, 10:38 pm

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donkey

down sharon.

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2,534 posts · joined Mar 2007 · 6 Oct 2012, 7:01 am

#925257

Princess Fiona lol

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OZ Towdster Keen to finish some projects

1,921 posts · joined Dec 2003 · 20 Oct 2012, 10:56 am

#927579

Well we now have a 1300 box all fiitted up to the rat with its straps in place , now just to fit the motor back in and fill up some oils etc .
Should make for some improved cruising revs over the old 1200 box which will be nice to and hopefully 4th is not so dam noisey

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pete wood 23 Windows of Awesome

6,828 posts · joined Jan 2004 · 20 Oct 2012, 4:01 pm

#927600

Mate, love this car. Great little racer!

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OZ Towdster Keen to finish some projects

1,921 posts · joined Dec 2003 · 20 Oct 2012, 5:35 pm

#927604

Well Shreks ride is back terrorising a kingdom near you folks ,
The second hand 1300 box is not in bad nick by the sounds of it after a couple of drives around home although the syncro's on thrird are not real flash and are probaley amplified by the scat quick shift but all in all it'll do for now .
Oh and top is oh so much quieter than the old 1200 box which is a nice bonus

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NUG637 Officially Full-On Dubber

372 posts · joined Nov 2009 · 21 Oct 2012, 6:15 pm

#927738

spotted you driving through manly this morning, the 58 was just tucked around the corner 😎

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7,671 posts · joined Feb 2005 · 21 Oct 2012, 6:39 pm

#927744

good to hear 'tis back on the road again 🙂

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7,671 posts · joined Feb 2005 · 21 Oct 2012, 6:40 pm

#927745

LIFE IN THE LOW LANE wrote:Princess Fiona lol

oh I thought he was 😂

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OZ Towdster Keen to finish some projects

1,921 posts · joined Dec 2003 · 21 Oct 2012, 7:29 pm

#927754

NUG637 wrote:spotted you driving through manly this morning, the 58 was just tucked around the corner 😎

Yea was on my way to the yacht clubs for a great day out sailing with Dave & John Richardson on there lovely old yacht

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