The 912 was a junker which I bought in Fremont for a few thousand dollars, shipped back to the UK, and rebuilt from a bare shell. I brought it back to the US when I moved here in 2018. The car is very light and will just about out-drag a 911SC, which is a laugh. The RV-6 was bought as an abandoned project. It had been wired badly and left to sit after having caught fire in flight. I brought it home (literally, parking it on the patio) tore it down to the airframe and rewired it properly, so hopefully that won’t happen again. The Roadmaster LS swap was something I have wanted to do for a few years. To modify a car of this age like this in California requires a special emissions-compliant crate engine, which is vastly more expensive than the car. One came up as an abandoned project in a Ferrari 400i cabriolet in Los Angeles. I loaded the engine and big 4L65E gearbox into the back of the Isuzu and drove it home. The engine is in the car and almost ready to run. I also have a 1961 IWL Berlin scooter that I restored many years ago after becoming a bit obsessed with East German history. That’s still in the garage in the UK and I’d love to ship it to the East Coast and ride it across the country (I did a similar trip on a Honda C70 about 10 years ago).
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