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Guys i must be on a run but could'nt resist this, its all there and complete and really only needs repainted....... and an engine !

How it looks today ?

and how it will look..

 Damn... you're buying more real cars than I buy scale models in one month...  ;D
 Awesome... Can't wait to see it restored to its former glory...
 

Wow, cool!!!

What motor did the Terasoar run back in the day?

Now all he needs is a vintage looking drag strip to race them on.  ;D

--louis

Excellent another piece of VW history saved!

If you ever want to run it at Bonneville again, I have my license current up to 200MPH!! Ray Shubert has the Bonneville Ghia, with the Opel GT front end, that he is restoring we could take them both out.

hope this helps: http://www.michaelliddle.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/tera_soar.htm

excellent, superb  :o :o :o :o :o :o :o

 ;D What ever next

 :o :o :o :o :o :o

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I recognise those workshops ;D

Wow! That´s such a great car. I´m looking forward to checking it out in detail! :P

Tobi

Wow fabulous. Congratulations Russel  :o :)

I suppose I might as well add another photo of it then:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/SanchoPancho/Landspeed%20VW%20Turbo%20Project/ScottBrown3.jpg)
Photo by Scott Brown

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You're Da MAN Russell... ;) ;D ;D

Frank

that sure looks fast. read up on the terra soar via the link that Mike posted and it looks real cool. honestly never cared about the car before (because of the looks) but it seems i have missed out on another piece of racing history...  :-\

THIS ROCKS!!!!!!

bigggggggggggggggggggggggggggg

That is one beautiful photo! I was there that weekend, but I was too busy with an injected Camaro than VWs. We camped two spots over from the Schleys and Lowry. One of my all time favorite VWs.

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cheers richie,uk

 ;D I recognise them too!

Hi Russel,

With all your cars you could make your place into a museum for VW Cal look history, like a scotish Pomona/NHRA Fairplex.
Aberdeen could do with a tourist attraction and I'll certainly come up to visit.
Oh but don't forget plenty of patio heaters to get the So Cal feel

Frank

here's a picture of tera soar on salt lake
and a report in a old hot vws  8)

Congrats Russell, another must have racer  ;D

Anyone knows why and when they changed the nose back to the original style?

Jelle

at the begining of my blog i out some picture of the tera soar
http://speedwell55.skynetblogs.be/archive-month/2005-09 (http://speedwell55.skynetblogs.be/archive-month/2005-09)
the car was originaly an AMANTE GT
maybe the nose was a special one for the salt lake race  ???

Yes and it looks like Dave not doing any work as always. ;D

Congratulations Russell! That's an awesome find! Can't wait seeing it for real!
Cheers,

Georg

Nice ! ;)  Where did you find this one at?

Very neat Russell!
Cant tell in the pics, does it still have the DDS wheels? It would be killer if the pointy nose came with as well!
Looks like the motor was a 912 unit, with IDA's.... hey I know a guy who has the perfect DDS 912/IDA  manifolds for that application... ;)

The car had been modified by Ken with a further extension front on for downforce, however Dean had wanted to remove this and had started, we just finished it off......

Heres some pics of how we found the car and why the front had to be removed, it is my intention to redo the front end as per the Tera Soar we wll see in the photos, not a massive job but another job !!!

Looks good on the salt huh? I got sent it a while back chasing down some VW land speed information. The land speed community seem to get hooked on it and there's many that have been every year for decades, there's some guys out there with huge archives of information and photos. I know roughly when the photo is from but if I recall the e-mail I don't think Scott knew exactly which week it was seeing as it was just another photo out of one of the many boxes he had. If you have a date that would be cool. Another great car from the Lowrys for sure. Pleased to see it's got a good new home.

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I would say with the extended nose, 1971. I have photos of Tera-Soar from year(s) before, with the flat nose, and Empi Sprint Star wheels on it.

the empi DONNA  project was a similar car , this one was a fiberfab jamaican body , and they 're also some sprinstar on the car

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that shot with the chrome sprints and the empi decal looks awesome! If you are going to re-do the paint though, it has to be in the purple! I have some purple paint colour matched from an original paint deano carb linkage that is pretty close to the original deano colour. Obviously the car may well have been a slightly different shade (and metal flaked!).

Russ, how many old drag cars have you got now? I really think you should have a museum, or somewhere that they can be on display, I would drive from Brizzle to Aberdeen to check that out! Also, who do you get to do your paint work, there cant be too many people around who can sympathetically carry out that kind of paint work!

Si.

paintwork no problem and at a fraction of the cost that it is in englandshire !!!#

Old Drag cars = not enough....

Come on Russel when it finish are you going to take it back to the salts.

Would be cool you know you want to. ;D

Watch out Nevada here comes Russell . Now that would be uber cool  8)

Russ, how many old drag cars have you got now? I really think you should have a museum, or somewhere that they can be on display, !

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Nah fuck the museum JUST DRIVE EM :)  EBI all the way :)

Russel how to you project manage all these cars though, one car and i get a massive head ache !

hey simon it's not the tera soar with the sprintstars it's an another salt lake car buit by empi very similar but different  ;)

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It appears that the rear wheels could be DDS, but the spindle-mount fronts are Mitchells. The Terra-Soar ran four wheel brakes back then, and that could be current rule to have four wheel brakes at B-Ville!

Russel how to you project manage all these cars though, one car and i get a massive head ache !

Answer: Microsoft Project.

I CANT WAIT TO SEE YOUR WORK DONE DUDE
 ;D ;D ;D

I can only assume that Ken Lowry repainted the Terra-Soar to erase the existance of the (old) DDS, post 1972. But that new paint job is horrible! Also, I notice the original DDS shifter has been updated to the newer syle ARPM one, that Bugpack, Auto Haus and others sold for years (cast, not steel). I do believe that by 1971ish, that 912 Porsche-based engine was replaced with a Type 1 deal. I think those Mitchell spindle-mount wheels were installed so this car could run the drags. It makes more sense, than to ditch the front DDS wheels and front brakes for a land speed car....

Early '70s Ford Pinto tail lights, or so it appears.

(http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=5287.0;attach=16585;image)

He had it pitched somewhere between 70 and 72 so that would make sense, thanks. Is that your car painted on the side of it?

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here's a picture of the tera soar may be at ocir
maybe the picture was took the sunday October 18,1970 (bug in 5)  , on the side of the pictures it's written Nov 70

Fits both Pinto AND Maverick!  ;D

Yes that is probably OCIR. Looks like they were facing back towards the entrance of the Staging lanes.

Yes, OCIR... Did you notice the For Sale sign in the window??? Looks like Dean Lowry leaning against the door...

here's some other picture i found in my hot vws archives   ;D

pictures from the inside and engine

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Thanks for digging that up Fabs :)

no probs zack ;) , one needs documentation for russell to make a good restoration of the vehicle  ;D ;D

   Cool pictures soon after Dean Lowry had past away I was invited by Ken to stop by his house in Orange county to look at this car I have somewhere some pictures of it from 1999 I will have to dig them out and see how it was than.

   Frenchy

Russell, I realy dig your feeling for old vws, yet another cool car


Amen

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What's a news Russell ??

Last I hear Russell was going to invest into a "cargo ship full of salt" and build his own salt flats in Scotland....

Is it just me or does the extended nose Terasoar look like a Daytona superbird ? Where as the way Russell found it looks more like a dirt late model. ;)

(http://static.skynetblogs.be/media/10394/tera-soar_4.jpg)

Donald Lowry, son of the late Ken Lowry, told Paul Schley that there were TWO Tera-Soars......

Deano, Yes thats true however it was a beetle...... surprised you didnt know this !  :D

Ah, no, that's not what he said. Donald indicated that Ken Lowry owned two Amante GTs...

On another note. After talking with Ken about this car, I do not think they ever ran a Porsche 912-based engine. I think it was a misprint from way back when the it appeared in a Peterson VW annual. The engine was either a 2074 or 2180 VW...

have to say would love to build my own take on this car  ;D
any sneeky progress mr Ritchie ?

Sorry none.

Wow, I didn't know this car was being brought back to life.  Fabulous Russel!  Hats off to you for bringing another historic VW back! I know it will be spot on and incredible after you're through with it!

Any news on this, or still gathering dust in someones garage ?  ::)

sorry, still in the too do pile....

but safe.

that's a good news  ;)

The photo below of the white Amante with orange stripes is not the original TeraSoar.  This was my drag car from about 1983-1985 and my dad and I were, at the time of this photograph, in the process of getting this car ready to go to Bonneville.  I would LOVE to find this car or the original TeraSoar (which should be in Scandinavia or maybe elsewhere in Europe), so if anyone has ANY information, please consider letting me know.

Thanks so much!

Don Lowry

always nice to see a piece of history,
good luck with it ;)

All


It would appear the the car I have is Dons old one and not the original Terasoar, still good news it's been saved

Deano, so yet again your right there was 2 sort off. Don't you just love unearthing history.....

Russell

Damn, Russell, nice to hear you are still around. I was beginning to wonder if you had jumped ship. Bonneville 2017?