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hy pip  , you're not content   I don't criticize your car  , it's built in the spirit of the 70' S, but for my part if I had money to buy a gasser that would be one which lived one, a history,  for my part I don't have a gasser to make runs , but well a oldspeed  that I hope well to put on the dragstrip to make a time of that wouldn't be badly for an 1200c engine with period engine kit also this's a forum from where the right to express and say the bottom of its thought and as regards my blog if you don't like my pictures of old gassers whom I don't have never seen to run, hold that you not to go there , and to finish I will not answer to the next attack keep cool pip  fabianFabian, I took your post the wrong way.... It's all good my friend And thanks for all the good comments... This car was alot of work... no problem pip fabian now that I see that Picture with it White I remember that Car looks like OCIR in the Back ground |
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« Reply #32 on: August 16, 2007, 18:03:19 pm » |
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« Reply #33 on: August 16, 2007, 18:16:16 pm » |
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« Reply #35 on: August 16, 2007, 21:08:45 pm » |
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Pip shaking the waters all the way across the pond. Glad its all cleared up cause either way the car is fricken awesome!
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« Reply #36 on: August 16, 2007, 22:15:08 pm » |
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« Reply #37 on: August 16, 2007, 22:24:34 pm » |
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Gary See what youve started.
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« Reply #38 on: August 16, 2007, 22:29:35 pm » |
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Gary See what youve started.
No see what you have started you go and let KS have a go in a car and now he gone out a got him self a bug.  |
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« Reply #39 on: August 16, 2007, 22:36:01 pm » |
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I think I've just found my dream garage [/quote] What about the other half   |
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« Reply #40 on: August 17, 2007, 16:11:07 pm » |
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Not as nice as the first half. I don't really like bikes (although a Triumph Speed Triple would be nice), and you have a lovely engine room, but I have sausage fingers and wouldn't have a clue what to do in there other than look at the posters on the wall I know my limitations |
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« Reply #41 on: September 20, 2007, 22:21:48 pm » |
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here's a photo of the white lightning , there car was in the der california volksmaster club
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« Reply #42 on: September 20, 2007, 22:30:00 pm » |
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the "bad news" car is allso a really cool car..
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« Reply #43 on: September 21, 2007, 17:06:17 pm » |
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I have video of an early 80s Bug-In with Dean Lowrey racing the White Lightning car. Pretty cool!
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« Reply #44 on: September 21, 2007, 17:15:30 pm » |
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The owner of the White Lightning car was Bruce Lowery, no relation to Dean. It ran very well!
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« Reply #45 on: September 21, 2007, 18:09:59 pm » |
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Ahhh, I will have to watch that video again. Thanks for clearing that up Dom.
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« Reply #46 on: November 27, 2019, 16:12:01 pm » |
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i've just noticed something , the original white lightning didn't have semaphores and here as show on the picture , flakey jake have semaphores
someone can explain??
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« Reply #47 on: November 27, 2019, 17:22:56 pm » |
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Maybe simply covered over when it was built as a race car – hard to tell on white paint in an old photo. I covered the semaphores on No Mercy and had them painted body colour, so they didn't show up in some photos, either. Just a thought.
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« Reply #48 on: December 31, 2019, 15:59:19 pm » |
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Flakey Jake is a 58. White Lightning is a 59. I am good friends with Jim Jones who did the original build on this car in the early 70's in California before it was sold and called White Lightning. It did not have semaphores. He sold it in 1976, possibly to Bruce Lowery who then continued to race it.
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« Reply #49 on: February 03, 2020, 16:10:26 pm » |
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Flakey Jake is a 58. White Lightning is a 59. I am good friends with Jim Jones who did the original build on this car in the early 70's in California before it was sold and called White Lightning. It did not have semaphores. He sold it in 1976, possibly to Bruce Lowery who then continued to race it.
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« Reply #50 on: December 24, 2020, 18:58:03 pm » |
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After reviewing a few of the interior shots on Pip's thread, the original builder Jim Jones confirmed that it was indeed the car he and Dave Wasson built in the early 70's. This is based on the headrest in the pic, Pip confirming it had aluminum floor pans when he got it, as well as the Bug-In plaques that were originally on the car. After Jim sold the car, it changed hands multiple times. Martin Crossley bought it, drove it for about a year before Bruce Lowry got it. Sometime after that it, according to Pip's recollection, it ended up at the DeCoppen Bros shop. Then onto OldSpeed VW with LennModica. Then it came to Pip at The Compound with primer paint. I have some early pics I'll attach. First is one just after they bought it as a green / blue 59. Soon after, it was painted at B&S Autyo Body in Santa Monica, and pinstriped by Steve Feinberg who also did the graphic on the license plate light. It was originally had an 1835 that did 12.8, and was used for street races near LAX. Then a 2276 / Fumio heads/ IDAs was installed that did 11.70s.
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« Reply #51 on: December 24, 2020, 19:00:12 pm » |
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Here's a plaque Jim made with pics from Bug-In 16 at OCIR.
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« Reply #52 on: December 24, 2020, 19:02:18 pm » |
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Pre White Lightning 2276 engine.
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« Reply #53 on: December 24, 2020, 19:05:20 pm » |
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Some OCIR action shots.
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« Reply #54 on: December 24, 2020, 19:08:27 pm » |
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A couple shots when Martin Crossley owned it prior to Bruce Lowry.
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« Reply #55 on: December 24, 2020, 19:11:35 pm » |
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As far as the semaphore question goes, the only logical answer might be that somewhere along the line, someone grafted them in. I am told it may have been sold by Russell Ritchie. Anyone know where the car sits today?
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« Reply #56 on: December 27, 2020, 20:48:45 pm » |
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As far as the semaphore question goes, the only logical answer might be that somewhere along the line, someone grafted them in. I am told it may have been sold by Russell Ritchie. Anyone know where the car sits today?
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« Reply #57 on: December 27, 2020, 21:30:55 pm » |
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Flakey Jake is in Norway yes. Owned by my friend Thomas Böker.
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« Reply #58 on: December 28, 2020, 03:35:50 am » |
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Thanks for the info.
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