It took a while but this thing is now ready for the paint shop.
The entire engine compartment and gear box had to be rebuilt from salvage parts from a donor car.
The naturally aspirated 4.1 liter engine features a 6 cylinder layout, 2 valves per cylinder. It develops 155 bhp at 4200 rpm, and maximum torque of 235 lb ft at 1600 rpm which is delivered to the wheels by a 3 speed manual gearbox.
And if that sounds awfully under powered for such a huge engine on today standards, it's because it is, not only that this car has a curb weight of 3870 lbs, which in short is quite a lot. So you either have to be a complete lunatic to have one, or own an oil company.
But then again it would be heavy because it's not exactly what you'd call small.
The wheelbase is 119 inches, it's 54.5 inches high, 79.5 inches wide and 213.3 inches long! More than twice as long as a dreadful Smart ForTwo!
As for fuel consumption, lets just say it has a 24 Gal (US) tank that is always getting empty every time you blink an eye.
When it was original released power steering and power breaks were optional extras, and if that sounds bad enough, you probably don't wanna know that all four wheels were fitted with drum breaks.
Luckily all of those are an easy fix, and if you can forget about fuel consumption and no available parking spaces big enough, you'll end up with a car that puts to shame anything that's coming out today with bag loads of character.
Now I just need to wait for it to come back from the painters, and fingers crossed they'll do a good job.
