Hello Frank, Please enter my car in your contest.
I have just finished my entry. I was watching SpeedVision a week or two ago
and saw a SCCA G Production Race, in it was a an Austin Sprite.
I said I've got to have one of those, it just so happened I had one to build.
I have held to the nostalgia theme in building this car as you will noticed by fabrication and parts.
Austin Sprite
Motor - New Old Pittman 196B
Frame - Scratch built adjustable "U" front, attached to the motor. (Used .005 Brass)
Custom made a pan, soldered to the U bracket used same Brass.
Body - Airfix Model - Austin Healey Sprite MK I.
Wheels - Front are Champion 1/8" O rings, Rear are Twinn-K 1/8" x 13/16 x .400
cut to 3/8" rounded and sanded down to 9/16".
Driver - cut from and old Strombecker wreck.
Roll Bar - Fab from 3/16" brass rod epoxy together, painted white/ with black tape
stripping.
Decals - Old K&B Gumballs and numbers from a 1/25 Monogram Cobra kit.
others are from random stock pile.
Axles - is 2 3/4" x 1/8" cut in half to 1 3/8" each.
Guide - Custom cut old Champion guide to fit and attached with Mini-sheet metal
screw through the shortened stem.
Gearing - 8 pinion (had to ream out to fit larger shaft. / Cox 29 (had to narrow it by
filing the thick side of the gear to fit the narrow area on the motor housing.)
Assembly - Used two 1" strip of 3/8" x 3/16" Balsa, epoxy to each side of the body
and used mini sheet metal screws (4) 2 each side. I placed a small
piece of the Balsa strip inside over the rear tires giving correct height
away from the body. I had the Balsa already attach to the custom
side pan held by the screws when I Epoxy the Strips to the sides,
this gave me the correct placement of the attachment strip to the body.
This also allowed me to adjust for the correct wheel to wheel well place-
-ment.
The car runs great and handles much better than I would have expected
from this small little gem of a car. Hope you enjoy looking as much as I've had building.........Thanks
