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That's crazy! C'mon Dan, you know you want to do one like that......

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Now just a minute! I don't remember his name, but back in Michigan there was a gentleman who raced Minis who stuffed a 350 Chevy in one, with a manual...

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Right out of Forbidden Planet! What an interesting engineering concept. Id rather not drive it, however...

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Hey Dan, I have a Mini available that could be an awesome rwd car, with the driver in the rear seat area. Just saying...

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Pictures first? Okay...

So first off, notice how clean the shop is? Had to get some neatness in it. Steering is connected and works....

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Mike, Jim and I were involved with the project about a year before the kickoff meeting, and another almost big brass and the BIG B had actually started...

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I have pictures, but need to scan them and transfer them to my tablet. So for tonight, I'll just add a little bit of the story. Dan has forgotten one...

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You know what they say: hair today, gone tomorrow! ...

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Oh and ill leave the initial story line to you... I'll try to be word thrifty

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You know I have a couple of pictures. I'll look for them and start the thread with a lead off of a picture or two of the engine and a couple of the people...

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Yes. It's the one he wrote a book about how to fabricate a modified frame. It's on the cover, that picture. This one changed the way the Sportsman class...

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Soon after writing the above, it was nap time to get over a migraine. Then looked thru old pictures cause that was all I was good for. So here's a couple...

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And an aside: who ever started this internet thing? I'm thinking that it might just catch on. A couple weeks ago I bought T10 parts from Alaska. This...

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And besides I had it on the Mini so you know, reduce reuse recycle... just because I'm into hot rods doesn't mean I can't be environmentally inclined....

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Hey anyone who knows me knows not to ask a simple question. I'll take the long way around the barn to get to the answer.

So here's today's...

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Still available for adoption

Really nice! We're not moving again, except like Dan and ME, if being put out to pasture. And BTW I...

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But the nice work? Well we'll see....

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Just ask Dan......

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And the breathless voice was high-pitched as well......

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What we have here is the finished product short of being engine turned. Saving that for a later date....