Farley Demo

These first pictures show the car "repaired" after the Grant Co. demo. The fuel pump wires kept getting disconnected during that demo, so the car came away relatively unscathed. Just the left rear wheel was pushed forward when the rear floorboard buckled. We wired up the trunk better and flattened it some so I could see. Little did we know it had the integrity of a pop can on it's side.

Punkster's birthday party was this weekend.

One Eye'd Jack - a McD's Happy Meal toy.

Post Farley Demo. I'm not sure how the car kept running as long as it did. It was very hard to steer due to the shortened wheelbase. The rear wheels are right behind the front doors. The car was so rusty that the body separated from the floorpan/running gear all the way up to the A-pillars. The sides of the body are bowed out and the rear floorpan bucked all the way into the drivers seat. I have a contusion in the small of my back where the metal punched through the seat and my pants. OUCH. Needless to say, after that happened, I started hitting with the front. The radiator is halfway over the intake plenum. She held water until the second to last hit!

Mid-size to Sub-compact

Here you can see the rear wheel is just behind my seat.

It's hard to see in this photo, but this shows the floor into the rear of the driver's seat. The rusty piece of meal across the top is the cross bracing we put in. The red block-like thing in the left center is the seat belt mechanism (no wonder the seat belt tightened up on me). Just to the rigth of the seat belt is where the floor has punctured the seat.

The weird thing is that all four wheels are still rolling. I lost brakes after about the second good hit and the throttle stuck WFO about halfway through the event. No biggie, forward, reverse, hit, forward, hit, reverse, hit, neutral, take a breath, forward, etc. This was a hell of a lot of fun. The only things I will do differently next time is a) pick a less rusty car and b) install a steel plate behind the driver's seat for safety.