wow, shows what I know about cars. I never heard or nor seen this type of vehicle until today 
welcome to the forum.
What a young wipersnapperā¦ :lol:
I have seen that kinda car at a car show in vegas that is about it, they are pretty neat!
The best thing about them is all the running gear and consumable are off the shelf north american production, You can buy parts at napa if you know what to ask for. The one Iām doing the body for has a 550+hp 408 V8 with a Viper 6 speed. I have 4 of these stashed out back.
for more info yo can go to www.bricklin.org or http://www.saintjohn.nbcc.nb.ca/~Heritage/bricklin/index.htm
these have always been the common manās exotic, and are quite reasonably priced.
interesting read.
Bricklin, do you have any need for Polycarbonate replacement windows?
My business (me) have been making them for race cars (some illegal street race cars too) nearly 25 years. Just open up any VW mag and look for a drag car and they will have my windows in them.
No need right now, all glass is still available. The windshields are still made by the orginal supplier ($350@) in the original tooling, I have crate of hatch and side glass so Iām OK the glass. The major problem with the car is the non reapair ability of the acrylic panels, They can be repaired but painting them is not āoriginalā and usually leads to spyder cracking of the acrylic due to the solvents, but I do have a āwhackā of original New old stock acrylic panels in various colors. Another problem was caused by the differing expansion/contraction rates of the glass and the acrylic causing the panels to curl on the edges. remember these were built 30 years ago and technology wasnāt what it is now.
My name is Adam and I work for Randtron Antenna Systems in Menlo Park, CA. We design and fab antennas for military aircraft and naval ships. In college I designed a carbon fiber fairing for a human powered vehicle. Iāve always been interested in composites and now I plan to build my very own composite human powered vehicle. I have a friend who has been working with composites for over 20 years and he is going to teach me everything he knows. I am excited about this opportunity. I think Iām really going to like this website and I know I will learn a lot for everyone.
welcome, as a former radioman in the Marine Corps Iāve probably seen some of your companyās work a time or two.
my nameās boogie (switched from james to boogie as my legal name because itās been my nickname literally all my life, but i still use james for legal stuff). iām 20 and iāve been working with various race teams and groups/shops/garages building up engines, turbocharging or supercharging them, suspension work, doing headlight/taillight conversions and other misc bodywork, etc stuff like that.
iām also a moderator for pocketbikeplanet.com, the worldās largest pocketbike forum. itās fun having the ability to order around millions of teens around the world. i help organize local racing events at the track for pocketbikes and such as well. i built a full carbon fiber cateyes bike using regular wet layups and iāve already spotted my bike on 4 other forums.
past few years of my life was building up a track car that i used on the track every now and then, but now iām working on my e46 bmw which is more of a ārelaxedā kind of ride. i also own a ducati 999s, a few pocketbikes, and i co-own a kawasaki/campagna t-rex (yes those 3-wheeled beasts) w/ my brother. two of my close friends are also factory racers for hondaās motorcycles so sometimes iāll travel with them to races and help them in the pits.
My name is Adam, 32. I have been interested in composites for about 6 years. Nobody built a hood for my 1st gen CRX so I made my own. Man that thing was ugly but I learned a lot. About two years ago, just after 911 I was laid off from my software job of 10 years so I thought Iād get a job I would enjoy, in composites of course. I found a company in Utah called MacLean Quality Composites just looking for any composites job basically and I was hired. I started out laying up carbon hoods for the GM Corvette Z06 program and helped them develop their inspection program. I was happy to do it as this was the first time carbon fiber had been used for a class āAā body panel in a high production setting. We ended up making over 3,000 prepreg uni-carbon hoods. No fabric was used in its manufacture. Pretty interesting layup.
After about 6 months I went to the owners with the idea of building aftermarket automotive parts. They liked it so I got an office job. I ran the RacePlates program until 3 months ago. www.macqc.com/raceplates.htm I also did a lot of B2B composite tubing and molded part quoting for different customers. Mostly high volume prepreg stuff. We had the Trek bicycles account. I was laid off 3 months ago because of the high cost of setting up a first factory in China. Now I am running two businesses, they are:
www.lighterfaster.com Carbon Fiber Body Panels - just sunroof replacement kits for now.
www.carbonfiberbracelets.com
Prepreg Carbon Fiber Jewelry
I also act as a composites broker to some extent for a defense contractor.
I will be setting up a faciltiy soon, still in the planning stages. The great thing about this forum is there is a lot of experience with non-autoclave composites. I have done a bunch of prepreg and some wet layup but not much mold building. I am pretty excited about trying out infusion.
Been into kart, drag, and SCCA racing since I was 16. Happy to be here.