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i've seen this car in photo album on the net , that one was at irwindale this w-e no one have info about this one


it look like the BAE of Bob mc Clure , with some little difference in the paint scheme , is this a copy of the BAE or the real one who's redone to his former glory ???

Fabs

I noticed that as well,and being one of the 1st turbo cars to break the et records is something i am interested in,I beleive this is a clone,but am not 100% on that

cheers richie

I believe the original car went to Hawaii...

Side windows look a little big, and primered roof says maybe the oval window was grafted to a later car?

The rear apron and quarter windows are late model.  Definitely not the BAE car.

Rick M

for the rear apron i'm with you rick , but the deflector on the windows , look like a early model ,not late model and the door handle look an oval one not late model


the real BAE had a one piece windows kit

Could not make out the paint line vs the quarter window that well.  Could be an early but this is not the BAE car. I saw it up close and personal and this one hardly compares to it.

RM

The BAE Turbo car is in the akira ueno aka BEE HAUS collection in Japan.

Yes, that is correct... Now that I think about it...

that was close..... flight to Hawaii now cancelled.... ;D

Rebook to Mexico City?

You want to ride shotgun ? ;D

I know there's quite a few other cars in that collection, but do they ever see the light of day?  I'm under the impression they're just sitting collecting dust these days, from other threads I've seen. 

bugnut sorry don't remember you first name   ::)

on this link bee haus (http://www.smog-check.com/nrc.html) you can see the kamikaze kids and going bananas , those pictures were took last year if i remember or may be this year not sure ,
this's how look today  , i remember reading that bee haus is rebuilding a copy  of the famous insanity turbo car

here's how  going bananas looks those days  ;)

and here's the kamikaze kids

here's another new picture of that copy

Now days, you will need more than a shot gun...

I say rebook your plane tickets back to Hawaii again.  Earlier posts suggested the BAE car made it's way to Hawaii back in the early 80's.  Not sure if it was purchased prior to coming to Hawaii or it was bought while it arrived in Hawaii.  Whatever the case it was bought by Bob Simpson of Pele Bug Ent..  The car supposedly was sold and shipped off to Japan, that is false.  Bob Simpson has shut his shop down last year or so, selling off the machinery, equipment and whatever else was collected over the years.  One of the things being sold was this BAE car to one of it's former employees.

Here is a youtube link of the car racing in Maui this past May.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNXRGxrvGpQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNXRGxrvGpQ)

http://youtu.be/zNXRGxrvGpQ

awesome  , thx for the link

I can confirm that the BAE car is NOT in Akira Ueno's collection in Chiba, Japan. I was just there.

Oh Dean, i would love to see your photos on his treasue trove..... ;D Gasser Garage Heaven

Just found more pics scrolling through the local drag strip website.  These were taken on the ending of May '12.  Funny thing is I noticed in one of the pics a "for sale".

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wow  still a nice car

The current owner in Hawaii, just wrote me a letter about this car... No details yet.

Gasser Garage on tour ;D .....

Is the car for sale?...

Would be cool if someone restored this to the original motor configuration with the blow thru turbo set up that blew through early HILBORN 1600V type dual throttle body injection manifolds.  That motor was incredible! I saw the car run at OCIR and Bob McClure did not even have a waste gate on the turbo.

This brings back memories, haven't seen that car in along time. Mike R. was a very cool guy.

Ted

here's a original picture of the engine

Notice the old INSANITY Turbo bug setting to the right of the BAE car in the motor picture.  It was also a pretty impressive little car for the size motor it was running. Ran in the 11's when I saw it with a small motor.

Rick M

1600cc turbo

Thank you Speedwell for posting a pic of the engine.  I find it kind of amusing how the design of it is similar how some turbo engine builders still do today.

It ran real hard in the day.

I remember some cars that came along in the years following the BAE car like the "DRAGONSLAYER" that were pan cars running in the 9's.  Those guys were pretty impressive too. Especially when they were doing it without the injection. Those were some fun cars to watch.  Dave Perkins, Spoke McClendon, Pat Nelson and others made fast pan cars a legend in the time.  At a time when the normal VW drag car had a pair of 48 IDAs strapped to a big motor, the turbo brought in yet another era of VW drag racing.  Who ever heard of all Steel VWs with floor pans running times like super gas V8 cars in the nigh 9's! That was an era I will remember as one of the real transition points for higher horsepower VWs being the norm at a VW event.  All of this done without tube chassis, and  mostly through type 1 trannys initially.   :-)

Rick M

Thanks!

Hi Dominick,

how many of those cars from the Pro turbo era where ladder bar cars?  which ones still ran spring plates if any?

cheers richie

Hi Richie,
Well back in the day, gee that sounds bad:) When I was over at Kawell's helping them with a few customers cars, a good amount of them were spring plate cars, I was until I crashed my car then Dave, Ron L. and I back halfed it.