Internet “Barn Find” #6: British Steam Car Challenge
August 1, 2009 by Hechtspeed · Leave a Comment
Speedweek begins this week (7 days and counting). For this Internet Barn Find, we go across the pond to scope out a Steam Powered Streamliner. Check out British Steam Car Challenge website. Take a few minutes and read up on this beauty of a racecar.
The record for a steam powered land vehicle stands at 127.659 MPH according to this site. The crazy part is this record was set in 1906. It’s about time this record gets beaten, don’t you think? Another tid bit of information from the steam car’s website is the unofficial (not recognized by FIA) steam powered record is 145.607 MPH set in 1985, and that is the record the British Team is shooting for.
Check out this youtube video linked from their site too. Sounds crazy!!!
Hechtspeed
Internet Barn Find #5: Mooneyes Japan
July 20, 2009 by Hechtspeed · 1 Comment
If you’re not aware of hotrodding in Japan, its actually pretty big. Check out one of Japan’s own, the early Toyota Crown that Mooneyes Japan has done up in a cool hot rod style. Browse around their website, there’s some cool stuff to see.
Got an in on foreign countries doin’ the hot rod thing up right? Drop us a line in the comments section below so we can check it out!
Hechtspeed
“Internet Barn Find” #4: Rare American Made Cars
June 13, 2009 by Hechtspeed · Leave a Comment
So, I was “stumbling” around on StumbleUpon, a cool search tool/website where you can tell it what you’re interested in and just hit the stumble button. I stumbled upon “Rare American Made Autos” page. Here’s a quick quote from the website that explains what the Red Scarf Club is. Of all places to find cool pictures of rare American cars, an artilleryman’s website!? Car Nuts are everywhere!
“The RED SCARF name comes from the color of the artilleryman’s parade neck scarves. (ie; The infantry color is blue, the engineers – green, the artillery – red, and so on. Each section of the army, has its own designated color.)
Our present day club was loosley formed by a small group of 553rd FA Bn veterans, their wives, friends and familys, to get together once or twice a year in Branson, Missouri for a “Dinner and a Show”, and share old “War Stories” – as we call them – and each others company, for a couple of days.”
Here’s some teaser pics…if you can name any one of these cars, well…you’re just sick! ha ha Try out StumbleUpon and tells us about a cool car related website you dig and maybe we’ll make it an “Internet Barn Find”. You can also give a “thumbs up” to your favorite MyRideisMe.com stories. Until then, enjoy these crazy cool rare American rides.
Hechtspeed
“Internet Barn Finds #3″: 70′s Funny Cars
June 2, 2009 by Hechtspeed · 1 Comment
For #3, MyRideisMe.com went in search of Nostalgia Funny Cars. We scored a great find when we discovered the www.70sfunnycars.com website in our internet search. The website itself is vintage too, as it was established in 1998…was the internet even around back then? Ha Ha
Real Funny Cars, and not show cars, actually appeared at car shows?
Funny Cars had names, showed up to the races on open ramp trucks, and used tow cars often supplied by spectators after the crowd was pulsed by the track announcer for “volunteers?”
This Vintage Funny Car website has many hidden jewels and is sure to bring back memories! You’ll need a couple hours to soak in all this ‘Nostalgia’. We’ll launch into more in the future from 70sFunnyCars.com…we’ve only just gone through the waterbox and started our 1st burnout (…”Remember when Funny Cars would do 5 burnouts”)!
Have your own pictures or stories about your favorite Nostalgia Funny Car from ‘back in the day’?
Please share them by emailing to: nostalgiaFC@MyRideisMe.com
Or, leave a comment below, you don’t need to be a member. If you like what you see, please Join us! as a member and add your rides to your MyRideisMe virtual garage. Here’s an example: Vintage Dragster Garage
Take a minute and look around at our other Nostalgia/Vintage Car stories here at MyRideisMe… it don’t cost-ya nut’n!
“Internet Barn Finds” #1: Miniature Hot Rod Engines
April 21, 2009 by Hechtspeed · 5 Comments
Before I dive in, let me introduce myself real quick. I go by Hechtspeed on all the car forums I join. I’m a certified car nut. It doesn’t matter what type of car, if its modified and customized, I can dig it. I’m really excited to be blogging for MyRideisMe. Hopefully I can bring cool content that you readers will enjoy. 
So, let’s get to it shall we? The internet is home to thousands, even millions of websites. That means there has to be cool websites out there displaying hidden hot rod treasures. This “Internet Barn Finds” series of blogs will venture into the world wide interweb to see what we can find.
Part 1 takes a look at a couple cool Scale Miniature Hot Rod engines. These are not your typical scale plastic model kits you put together during Christmas vacation, these are billet aluminum, high precision, CNC machined engines that actually run, some even powering 1/4 scale radio controlled hot rods.
The first Barn Find is from weberprecision.com. Searching through Weber’s website you’ll find detailed pictures of both the end product and the tools/machines used to build it. Said engine is this amazing supercharged V8 that took a few years to build. Weber says this is his first attempt at a running miniature engine. I say it was a successful one for sure. The horsepower is unknown, but this little sucker revs to 12,000 RPMs! Yeeehaa!
It displaces 5.655 ci using a 1.000″ Bore and 0.900″ stroke topped off by a supercharger. Check out the rest of the spec sheet, its a work of art. See the video: 
The second Barn Find is conleyprecision.com, a link from weberprecision.com. 
Conley has quite a history of building running scale miniature hot rod engines… try 30 years! Conley’s website has some nice videos of his latest miniature engine. The coolest part about this engine is it’s mounted in a driving, miniature hot rod. You’ll get a kick out of these video’s. I just kept shaking my head in amazement!
Conley’s latest Supercharged V8 is called the Stinger 609 (named after the cubic inches, but be careful where you place the decimal point, that’s 6.09 ci ha ha) Enjoy! 
That’s all for “Internet Barn Finds”. Post up in the MyRideisMe Forums your own hot rod Internet Barn Finds!
Hechtspeed
