He owned a beat-up Toyota minivan, The body was shot, but mechanically it was otherwise okay. Then someone told him about an abandoned Cessna aircraft at a junkyard. No engines, far too many hours to be rebuilt and made airworthy.
An empty garage, a lot of tools, and some very talented friends and.....a street-worthy Cessna.
He drives it around town when the weather is good; to the gas station, the drive-thru, the store, and so forth.
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What's the chassis?
Never mind. First sentence. :)
A man can't have too many tools.
Hey, the mystery of where Studebaker got its chassis shape is solved!
He spelled LeMans wrong.
I defy a woman to do this. They can't. They just don't have the vision for this kind of awesome. Sorry ladies, please don't hate me for too long. Thank you.
@ricpic: the spellingnis correct. The 24 Hours of LeMons is an amateur racing event in which no car may cost more than $500,
https://www.24hoursoflemons.com
They used to build restaurants in them.
It looks like a Sky King "Songbird" 310-b except it's missing the tailfin fairing and has a steeper sweep on its replacement.
Bothers me that I can't identify it. You may be on to something hardin... but that nose is too rounded, the windscreen too large. I'm going to step out on a meager limb and say a Piper product. Aztec, PA-23?
I would have a hard time parallel parking that vehicle.
WV: dosta
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