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This was a great day at the Schley Brother's house, as they just completed restoring their old dragster. So, to help celebrate the firing of the engine for the first time (in the rail), Paul and Mark invited a few friends over, including Rick Sadler who built the T-4 engine. As you can see, this car, once again, is awesome!


And yes, the Lightning Bug gasser sits in the garage waiting its turn for a complete restoration.

Awesome! I can`t to see the Lightning Bug.

      Thanks Deano it will be nice to see it go down the track again.

      Frenchy

     Next will be the chop top sedan in the garage to be restored.

     Frenchy

I bet the neighbors like that also!, I like! Very cool!!

Ted

thanks you deano reporter

Wow...this really brings back some memories.  I clicked these shots at OCIR at a bug-in...when I last saw it. Unreal.  I forgot how many years ago  I took these shots. Paul and Mark would probably remember as the Stutt Bee was parked next to the dragster in the pits when I took these. Sorry for the graininess of the shots. I pulled them from old Ecktachrome slides I have.

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WOW! Priceless!! Cool pics..

     Also featured and on the cover of Hot VW'S February 1974 and an article on page 30 to 34. Way cool!!!!!

    Frenchy

    I will have to give Mark a call and see if he would like to have a TREUHAFT sticker to put on the car as shown on some of the old pictures.

    Frenchy

nice welding on the manifolds :)

Wow... great to see that! Can't wait to see it run.

Someone is gonna need one of these;

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What a great moment – what great people! :)

Wow! Thanks for sharing.

T-shirts and shorts..... dam I miss summer and we`re only in November. :P

GREAT news! European BugIn #4?

THAT would be terrific! ! !

cant Wait

What an Awesome Rail, Glad to see it back running ;D

Great !

Now,that would be AWESOME!!!!!!!!

No wonder it was nice an quite at work yesterday! ;D

Yeah, I bet Rick said 'Oh, I have an important business meeting to go to. I won't be in Thursday. Can you take care of customers, Dominick'.  >:( :D

 :o :o waouwww awesome ,it's cool to see the dragster alive , is this aaron behind the wheels ??? aaron run in a rocket rice correct , so he will be the next driver ???

Beautiful work!  Car looks awesome... now I have a point of reference when the argument comes up of whether a Type 4 can suitably go fast in drag racing ;D  Makes me excited to get my own 2.0 liter built for the 2011 season.  :)

Awesome job! Congrats to Paul and Mark!!! Thanks Deano for sharing. I can't wait to see it!

Thursday was one of those days that you have to pinch yourself to realize just how cool this all was. For all the days you sit in traffic, or a dentist chair that just plain sucks, and then you enjoy an afternoon like this. Mark went out and got us all Double-Doubles from In-N-Out Burgers, and then we went upstairs and watched two hours of home movies from when they raced the Lightning Bug, on the road with the Deano gasser. Hearing the dragster's massive Type 4 engine's throttle rap, watching and smelling the smoke coming off the newly painted exhaust, and seeing Paul and Mark smile like they were back in 1975! I think I just got my Christmas present a little early.

My thoughts exactly Dean! What a day!
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wow!!!!
Very nice and I know that car from Hot VW in the late seventies when we were building our Pank dragster.
I have some really small and B&W pictures that said very little about the details of the car.
Looks very nice.

I can also relate to this moment a little bit extra as I am projecting my own restoration of the PANK dragster with original engine but automatic transaxle instead of the 901 Porsche 5 speed we used.
This really inspired me.
Thanks for sharing.

just reading the old report with the dragster and reading this the dragster had a set of 58 ida weber side draft (pict1&2) ,why they don't go this way ???
and at that time the exhaust was below the engine and took out below the gearbox to the left(pict3)

that engine is the original 2529cc ???

on the picture 1&2 we can see ron fleming ,ron was helping the schley bros with this project ???

how is funny  on the picture 1 you can see ron just aside paul and mark is working on the engine ,and just in fron tthe dragster there's a photographer may be jere alhadeff and i found the picture took by "jere" that day  with ron aside paul and mark working on the engine  :o

 :) ;D :) ;D :) ;D :) ;D :) ;D :) ;D :) ;D !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That original sidedraft intake system did not work at all. The carburetors were soooo far away from the intake, that it was a tuning nightmare. You gotta remember that T-4 IDA manifolds were just not around back then!

Remember that photo with the sidedraught carbs showing all that fuel stand-off?

Awesome work, boys !
I can't wait to see it on track !
Thanks to share

Nice one !...Any engine specs. ?

The only spec I know is that the cylinders are Empi Biral 100mm...

Absolutely awesome ... can't wait to see both of them done and together!

Any chance some moments might have been captured on video? Love to hear it!

dragsters are the sh// my kinda ride. now that's some TIRE on there boys. makes me want to do some sing. f the door slammers. if you've ever been behind the wheel of a digger you know what I'm talking about. yea big deal they have door slammers that can kick ass on diggers WHO CARES. HANDS DOWN DIGGERS ARE THE CADDILAC OF SPEEDDDD. plain and simple . GREAT JOB PEOPLE. :) ;).   .UD .

all I can say is... Wish I was there!

I remember doing the intake tubes for the 58 carbs Fumio was doing the heads and Chas Morse was fabing the exhaust and other stuff and intake after  we taper the tubes  I was at OcR one night when they were going to test the rail Paul got into the rail at about 7 or 8 It wasnt till about  9 or 10 till they they let him do they could do a pass long time to lay in that rail

Mark, Paul, Jeff Kirkpatrick here...Wow I cant believe how good it looks!!!! I will be out for my In-n-Out Burger the end of June!!! I will talk to you soon!!

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What a great looking car once again! Great ol photos on the thread too!

Sorry for resurrecting this thread from the dead but does anyone know what wheelbase the dragster ran and does anyone have any bare chassis pictures stashed away they would share?

Regards...Steve:)

How's yours coming along Steve?

Can't wait to see it run

Cheers James aka beetleragtop

Hey James, hows things man...?

Jig's all built and tomorrow is D-Day  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Regards...Steve

may be i will have some pictures i will see in my photos

Fingers crossed and thanks for looking mate...Regards...Steve ;D

those aren't really bare chassis  but with unpainted panel on , i willpost wwaht i 've and also the old report , may be you will found what you're looking for
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that's all i can provide you   ;D ;D ;D

This is building it... All photos copyright Schley Brothers and not to be reproduced without permission.

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Guy,s I really cannot thank you enough.

Many many thanks for sharing this info, it's a great help.

Regards...Steve ;D

Nice
Any ET numbers with the N/A type4 ?

Love this restor, build.
Will soon try to build something like that. Only will be using a turbo type 4 engine. And building it to Australian drag racing regulations.
Very nice.
Hermann.