"C" Flared project on ebay

FYI.... This looks to be a possible decent project (Richmond Va.)that is well on it's way to being done, I would assume that it can be had a reasonable, last minute bid as there is no reserve.

Item number: 2488535687

Looks like a decent start but I wonder about the no reserve as his listing keeps mentioning will sell for $8k. I wonder if this will vanish in the last few minutes as many cars on ebay do when it is not bid high enough.

Tony Miller

Closed for $5855. Looks like a great deal..........wished I had bid now but still unsure if at 6' 5" I would fit in a Speedster even with seat mods.

Tony

Anthony,

You can fit into a speedster !

* Position the driver's seat all the way back with a slight tilt.

* Second option is to replace the foors witha 2.5" drop pans that replicate a paint roller pan design , I did this on a car , easy to do and it also works out well.

Alan M.

Alan,
Thanks.....a day late and $5855 short though .

Really need to track down an owner I can visit though and see one up close. Just want a feel for what areas are going to be tight for me.
The lower pans are beyond the work I could do. Moving seats, making brackets and all the usual mechanical stuff is not an issue. Just not a welder/fabricator.

Did you have to modify your Speedster as suggested or are you a regular sized guy?

I have 2 really good "bug" shops near home and one a block from work. Always a dozen late 1970s bugs out front so major issues would be easy for me. Most seem more reasonable than the Brit car places I ave been forced to use on my Landrovers when the repairs were beyond me.

Best,
Tony

Tony. I'm 6'2". The cut down 914 seats that come with VS's as their standard seat are padded too much and sit far too upright for your frame. HOWVER, you can order the Speedster style seats from JPS that have a 3" x 12" x 1/8" pieces of flat steel set up front on the seats for mounting on the VW front mounts of the rails. You can drill te mounting points on these to maximize rear movement. The rears are mounted on two small squares of the same metal. I added two flat washers up front to give the seat that tilt mentioned earlier. With the seats setup this way, with the seat all the way back I have about 2" of the rails showing below the front edge of these seats. On a more visual level... at 6'2" and the seats in the max rear position, I am sitting with my arms extending out to grab the steering wheel with just slight drop at the elbows, and I sit deep in the car with my shoulder tops abeam the door tops and all my head below the windshield line by 1-2" (depending on how I sit.). My legs fit under the Nardi (smaller dia.) wheel with my knees not hitting anything. My feet are extended with a slight bend at the knees.

Jim

Tony,

I echo what Jim said. I'm 6'2" also and somewhat heavier than Jim and I sit well in my JPS, thanks to the seats John Steele puts in his JPS speedsters. Once you slide in there is quite a bit of room inside, rather spacious with the top down. Top up it becomes a little tighter, mainly the vision is not that great because of the low top and side curtains, but hey, this is a top down car!

Bruce

Bruce, Jim, Al,
Thanks for the tips. Feeling better as to my chances of fitting. I really don't expect to drive this top up anyway. I look at that as rain protection when parked only.
I will look at the JPS seats and had thought aftermarket racing seats would be an option as well.

Who made all the wide body replicas? I like the look of them.

Tony

Tony,

CMC, VS and JPS can make a flared body for you, don't know about Beck, Thunder Ranch or IM. Probably they could do it also.

Bruce

Anthony,

Email me and I'll tell you where there is a unassembled flared speedster project with a Thunder ranch tube chassis available

Alan M