Closer and closer.

Not much to update these days as the car is coming along swimmingly. A second tranny had to be obtained and cleaned but that did not seem to warrant a post. Once the rear end is installed, wheels are obtained and new front shock bartered for the car is more or less ready to roll. Of course there are some finishing touches but really we just want to drive the damn thing again! We do have a boat load of cool old ads and article from Australian car mags that we need to scan and share with every one. But we seem to get interrupted by the barley pops and good food.

The Monaro motors/Mr. Motorhead engine is in its initial prep stage but the end of this project seems a long way off.

Well back to the grind!

Well it is done... almost

Well we here at the OSS have almost finished the restoration of our Monaro Motors Dual SU carburetor kit and if the bastard 61 gets finished any time soon it will be installed on our OG 1958 36hp motor. Not sure how much HP gain this kit will produce, though we did read some where that it jumps up to 41hp!

There is a motor in the works specially built for this kit and will be show cased next spring when the build is complete!

Interesting little Gauge.

The more we look at the little devil the more we think that this is one of the coolest gauges we have come across in a long time. It's an old rally gauge that tell your cars acceleration and deceleration G's. Not sure how accurate it would be but i looks SWEET!

On an interesting side not to the 1957 Mobilgas Rally in Australia, article bellow, Lukey Mufflers placed an ad congratulate them on there win! Wonder if they were running a Lukey 4 tip??

VW racing in 1957

Here is a little article from 1957 that show that the VW Beetle was able to keep up in "some" forms of racing with it counter parts. Enjoy the read!!

Other Vintage Speed Blogs and whats been going on.

We here at the OSS are getting back in to the swing of things. The bastard 61 beetle is almost drivable, not finished as it may never reach that point, but it will be on the road soon. We have a motor in the works, Aircooled Research is building a to spec: 1300cc 36hp based short block that we will top off with the Monaro Motors Dual SU carb kit(picture of our kit to come). Not to mention all the searching and parts diving we have been up to in the last few months.

What we are looking for today though is links to other vintage speed VW sites, even vintage speed Porsche sites! If you know of any that we don’t have listed submit a link in the comments field under this post.

Thanks

OSS

A few more pics from the 36hp challenge from down under!!