It's funny how much engine discussion has been generated from a fake blown mickey mouse engine on a toy.
Certainly makes for a fun read!It's funny how much engine discussion has been generated from a fake blown mickey mouse engine on a toy.
Certainly makes for a fun read!
I guess that was my fault for bringing it up about the V6 Hemi. I'm liking @handyandy1100 's assessment that it's actually a flathead V8 with 3 exhaust ports on each side!It's funny how much engine discussion has been generated from a fake blown mickey mouse engine on a toy.
Any other place two toy cars and a three page discussion on a fake motor and using all that to build a bike would be absurd. Here we call it Friday love this place.It's funny how much engine discussion has been generated from a fake blown mickey mouse engine on a toy.
That wheel is Mag-nificent!
The parts are spinning and I really like the theme and direction here. Reminds me of @OddJob his Rats Gass, but different
Europe isn't that farmiliar with Gassers. Seen one at Kustom Kulture Forever in Germany.
If only you could find another one of those cars you could turn it into a V 12, and that would give you an excuse to really stretch the frame.
I’m trying to imagine how you can do this without it turning into some kind of a hobby horse with tail pipes, but so far I don’t have a clue.
Hopefully the virtual mockup pic I posted last night helps. We'll see how it all plays out.
I love this build! It's such a cool and creative build plan. I really think it's going to be an awesome project!Right away I though of slicing off the front of the kiddie car to make a grille section, then making the area between the body and the grill into an engine bay.
It is looking kind of muscley. I can see a skinny 16 on the front with a 24x3" slick with raised white lettering on the back.stick a smaller wheel up front,
There's some gasser fun to be had in this thread:Jalopy Journal
Is that what is meant by the term "Mouse Motor?"It's funny how much engine discussion has been generated from a fake blown mickey mouse engine on a toy.
OHV, small block Chevy. Rat Motor = big block.Is that what is meant by the term "Mouse Motor?"
With the Kingfish having such a historic bent for ‘doodadery’ I see a Ratfink addition turning up somewhere along the line.OHV, small block Chevy. Rat Motor = big block.
You ever want to part with that double bar I'd be more than happy to empty out a space in your storage. Even at Canadian shipping ratesNo progress, but here is a little insight into part of my idea for this build. A few weeks ago I was rolling some build off ideas in my head. The cycle truck came to mind as I was thinking about @karfer67 's Ratty Truck build from ages ago. I've always wanted to build a cycle truck that didn't have the truck part (no basket or carrying platform up front. So as I was thinking through some ideas, I remembered testing the kiddie car body against my Twin Bar frame during BO15. I never considered it as a viable option for that build, but it was super fun to test it for scale and purpose. When I saw this kiddie car at the yard sale years ago, I immediately saw a potential tank for some bike build in the future.
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Well as I was dwelling on the cycle truck pic, It struck me that the kiddie car may just fit the advertising panel of it. So a few weeks ago I took the kiddie car shell over to my bike stash and rolled out the cycle truck.
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I didn't have my trusty foil tape with me, but I was able to lean the kiddie car body along the body of cycle truck. This was close enough to see that the scale and even shape of the car body should play well with the cycle truck frame.
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You ever want to part with that double bar I'd be more than happy to empty out a space in your storage. Even at Canadian shipping rates
There's been talk of Hemi's and Flatties, big rats and mouse motors but I think this build calls for something special. Like maybe an Ardun!
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