Need to pull the trigger!

Ok just joined the site! I wanted to buy my wife a Speedster for her 40th b-day. She wont ride in my 72 conv.chevelle (Redneck car). I have been researching on the internet several companies and watching the eBay bids on a lot of cars. I need some help pulling the trigger and wanted to ask people what they thought Pro-Cons, good/bad any help would help. I found a company in Ontario called CSW Speedsters. Web site looks good but here are my questions 1.They offer a mid engine position water cooled engines any thought on that. I know several years ago I was switching lanes and didn

OK you guys, got any advice for this, rather large individual.....
besides a very large motor and suspension....

Honestly, 6'5"/310 is gonna' be rough.

Where there's a will, there's a way. You might be able to get one built, or modify one to fit (dropped pans, low seats shoved all the way back)- but it'll probably look and feel like a Shriner car. I'm 6'/225 and I'm none too small for the car.

Perhaps an early Corvette?

Sorry.

Assuming you are in Canada.

Using the search on this site > http://speedsterowners.com/forum/search.asp

Search; speedster in Canada. You'll get a lot of info there. On very rare occasions have Speedsters been imported into Canada. There is a very strict line in the RIV regulations (you'll see that on the search as well) that stipulates NO KIT CARS ALLOWED UNDER 15 YEARS OLD. Basically shuts the door, although some people were able to do it. RIV > http://riv.ca/

CSW (use the search) has come up a few times as well. The cars on his website are not his cars but cars that he downloaded to build a site. No one knows of 1 car that has been built either. So I guess that isn't going to be the car for you. That site has been up for years. I think someone had an idea and then someone rang the front door and he forgot about the idea.

There are some cars available for sale sometime on the autotrader.ca website. Sometime's (rare) on Ebay.

6'5" in a Speedster? You'll look like your driving your sons toy car.

Kirk, read this. It is a good starting point.

http://speedsterowners.com/forum/readmsg.asp?t=10051

Also, make good use of the "search" function since many of the questions that you probably have have been discussed before, some in great detail.

Good hunting
Hoss

Kirk -

Redneck or not, '72 Chevelle verts RULE!! I'm sure there's a red-headed female gearhead on here (Angela) that will agree!

WRT the Speedy for your wife, good call! There are guys (and gals) on this site that are WAAAAY smarter than me on this subject so I'll leave the tech talk to them. I just wanted to say Chevelles RULE!!

Hope it all works out!

Kirk, I say buy the Speedie for the wife and follow in that sweet chevelle of yours.. Now thats will be a sight of the two of you pulling into a saturday afternoon car show and parking next to each other....

Good luck, and personally I love my VS

Speedster "D"