is beck building speedsters again?

I saw an ad on Ebay saying the they were building Beck speedsters again. Anyone heard anything about that? Ron

I also found the web site at www.beckspeedster.com/. I don't know enough about them to know if these are the same group listed under "makers" as no longer making speedsters.
Ron

looks like he is....as indicated there is one on ebay with the 1900cc engine for about $25k.

www.beckspeedster.com/pages/870289/index.htm



(Message Edited 5/6/2003 11:35:52 AM)

Chuck Beck is in Villa Roca Ga. working for Avanti Motor Corp. He's working on the new Porsche 904 replica that is comming out later this year. My friend just put a deposit down on one. His son was working on the spyders in Texas, but left for a while I'm told. He may have returned though.

IMO think a 904 replica will be really neat to look at and admire at car shows, especailly if someone builds one with a Carrera 2 engine, but I wouldn't want to own one. Reasons: no bumpers and really bad front end lift at speed. Didn't Butzi design the 904 body?

However, a really nice Abarth Carrera replica (like an Apal) would get my attention (and probably the rest of my money) - i would figure out a way to provide minimal bumper protection for one of those. I almost bought an original Apal last month for 10,000 Euro (it was in Belgium) but someone beat me to it.

I alway find it interesting that they knew how to get lots of HP in the 60s but no one knew jack about aerodynamics. Things get really interesting over 100 mph. A friend was racing at Lime Rock in a bug-eye sprite and he had forgotten to fasten down the hood (which was the whole front sheet metal) and it sailed off at speed and flew thru the power lines coming into the track snapping them. Had to shut down racing till they could get it rehooked up. And then there were The MBs at LeMans a couple of years ago

Actually, Ferrari pioneered rear spoilers in the mid 60's on (I think) a 330LM Spyder. Shortly after that Ferrari also began to understand ground effect and front air dams began to be added. I think Porsche and Lotus got into air dams at about the same time.

On the 356 cars the lower front valence accidentally functioned more-or-less as an air dam.