New owner's introduction

Karman:

Welcome to the Madness!

Where are you located, and tell us about your car? 

Kamran, welcome to the madness. Tell us your secret to fitting that wide body into that nifty little trailer back there?

Yes, Welcome to the Madness, Kamran. And I will patiently await your answer to Rich's question... Al

PS- What do you know about it? tire sizes? what size engine and what's in it- cam, heads, carbs? an engine pic would go great here....

Ha! Rich - you're funny.

That teardrop looks like a home-built based on the plans from Grant Whip.

Ted

Kamran,

You purchased the wide body from the samaba? Nice.  I remember posting that link. I'm glad to see that it helped someone find a car.

Happy trails,
Ted

Congratulations! She's a beauty!

Bob, his profile says he's in Hayward, CA.   The East Bay, just up the freeway, from Ted.

Kamran, welcome and enjoy your new car.

Art

Sweet looking car. Enjoy those trips to Napa, Tahoe and many more up in NorCal.

welcome to the Norcal Madness. I am at Tahoe and we have a couple of nuts in Reno.

Thanks everybody for your welcome notes.

Engine question: We took the car to Vintage speedster and Kirk did a thorough check up on the car, a little vague noise here and there from the engine and we decided to go the whole 9 yard and take the engine out and leave it at Kirk and drop a brand new engine out of box with virtually zero miles in the car. A 2 liter (well 1900 something) engine with double 40s...sorry Rich about the cam question, I just don't know what kind of cam but it works Tires, rear are 255s and front I think 205 but not sure (traveling now so will check when I get back home).

The tear drop trailer and picture stems from the previous owner. A true gentleman and he was very supportive in getting the car "right" for me even after I handed him the money and got the title. He builds those tear drop trailers and sells them as a hobby.

Ted, it was indeed your post that got me on the right track for this car so Thank you! My plan was to go after Troy's wide body if this one would not go through but here I am with a big grin on my face.

I drove the car all the way up to SF bay area where I live and that kindda took care of the break in period with an additional 2 days drive around the bay area. Time to change the oil now!

The car comes with full cover, 2 sets of perfect tonneaus, radio/cd (which I won't use) and a color that keeps growing on me,..it's a deep Bordeaux red with a mix of a tad of deep navy blue in it...pictures don't do it justice. Car was originally build for the previous owner some 7 years ago by Kirk & crew.

Plan to do indeed some sonoma & other fun trips. 

Looking forward to all the tips & advise that I can get to make the car & this little community better.

For some reason I cannot upload an image of the engine from disk and it only allows me to add a pic URL here (unlike my thread starter where I did upload from disk). I'll add a pic later.

Regards,

Kamran

A

Kamran - are you on a mac? Rumor has it that iOS has 'issues' with uploading images.

This a test, uploaded from my iPad...Carlisle 2013

Looks good Rich. I have no issues uploading photos from any IOS device, mac, iPhone or iPad.

Kamran - NICE CAR...Welcome to The Madness! Hopefully you will join us in San Luis Obispo in June for the annual West Coast Cruise. See details in the 'Events' thread! 

Ted, I'm on PC.

Jim, Hopefully I can make it and won't be on a business trip.

Here is a picture of the engine.

I forgot to mention, The engine setup has an extra oil radiator/cooler and therefore takes a liter or so more oil. 

Art, Theron announced about a month or so ago that uploading photos from mobile devices was doable now. I don't have an iPhone so I can't test that, but I certainly can now upload from my iPad which I couldn't do before. If you're still having troubles I suggest you contact the Theron Helpline...I know nothing about how it's possible, it just works for me.

Rich thanks again,

Art