Came across this Guy in North Carolina. Builds cars. Don't know the story. Just took these pictures.
Rick Kreiskott
Came across this Guy in North Carolina. Builds cars. Don't know the story. Just took these pictures.
Rick Kreiskott
1) and 2) Alloy tail-piece, a replica of Ken Miles' Mark IV J-car aka the 'Breadvan' . . . the one that killed him at Riverside?
3) Rear-view 'periscope'
4) Box-o-snakes
5) Mark IV in assembly; cast magnesium trans, cast magnesium up-rights, and, in previous photos, cast magnesium wheels
Rick Kreiskott
. . . . one more thing, stuck back in a corner . . .
Rick Kreiskott
north carolina is a stock car central neighborhood. the local area guide book in the place we stayed listed attractions, in addition to southern plantation mansions, wineries and civil war stuff, as being a couple of major NASCAR builders, "tour by appointment". a fellow guest from Maryland explained that moonshining was hot in the southern appalachians, so hot-rods, and then post World War II, former pilots, tank drivers, all found an adrenalin outlet in stock cars, which was escape from "ploughing the back 40(acres)"
Help ma they're gunna wash my car
Rick,
I think the last picture is of a genuine early "narrow" Cobra. That does not look like a replica. If you'll notice the fenders have tears very similar to the failures of your alum. 911 S engine lid.
Why don't you contact him and get an estimate to repair your decklid ? If he's capable of recreating the K. Miles Mk IV to the standard shown, surely he can handle a minor repair.
Before it became Ruprecht, my Porsche was a '70 911 T
Paying member No. 895 since 2006
" slavish adherence to originality wasn't for me, because the car wasn't as good as it could be."
Rob Dickinson's response when asked what motivated him to build Singers
Holmen-Moody was based in Charlotte NC and they were very very involved with the GT40 and the Jcar ( Donahue, Andretti,Foyt, Ginther Hulme, Revson all drove H&M gt40's) Holman Moody was also a main Ford stock car shop ( may have been the un official ford factory team when the big 3 steped away from racing. for the longest time they stored the "old gt40's" in the rafters of the shop....
George -
BTW my understanding is that the remnants of the company is still in NC making.... GT40 replicas. So maybe you stumbled into meca so to speak.
PSS, fix the lid ? why don't we chip in for a buck and have em knock off 50 or so, we sell the majority and get ours for free.....
1971 911E
1964 26R (narrow arch)
1965 26 GTS ( sold to fund 911E restoration)
1965 912 ( sold to pay for 26R head)
U.S. F1 also was in N.C.
Where is he in NC. I would like to see this shop first hand. I have a Healey front aluminum shroud that I would like to see if it is repairable.
Olin
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