Texas Special

[MIGZ]

I had planed to do one of these, I was just waiting on the right frame and I will soon have one. So I started off this afternoon with some of the loose part I had in my parts stash.

Quick pic to draw inspiration.



The beginning of the project.

[FatBoy]

This is gonna be SWEET!!!

[Walker]

What's that rim?

[Chips_Mahoy]

Great idea!

[Toeslider]

There was one of those in the Felt Bikes thread. Don't know how many they made. Cool idea though, I can think of a lot of other themes like that to do. '69 Z28 Pace Car comes to mind...

[NewOrleansFlyer]

Wow.....nice work!

[MIGZ]

Thanks for the feedback. I looked at a lot of different vintage hot rods but the Gulf racer stood out to me, I also already had the orange 24" rims so it was matter of lacing them up.

As for other bikes I built a white bike last year so that pushed out all white hotrods/racers.

Here is a pic of the white one I built.

[MIGZ]

In an effort to visualize my plans to the wife I did this. Now I just have to figure out the rest of how this sucker is going to go together.

[Gravelo]

Instead of using traditional nuts on the wheels, you could get oversized wing nuts like the knock offs on the gulf?

[vanilla_gorilla]

[url]bicycledesigner.com[/url] has wheel nuts that look like knock offs if you want to go all out

[Skipton]

Great idea I love all the GULF livery stuff.

Looks like you have a killer work shop.... How many wheels are you building ..... sure are a lot of hubs on the workbench

[scott brownsey]

sweet

[wheelbender6]

I was going to say that Steve McQueen drove a GT-40 in the Gulf colors just like the one you posted in the classic movie "Lemans". However. Wikipedia says McQueen drove a Porsche that sported the Gulf Oil colors. It's been a while since 1971. The movie was considered revolutionary because they mounted cameras on the cars in a variety of ways to catch authentic action. they also used actual race footage from the 1970 24 hours of Lemans.

[Peatbog]

Your paint idea looks really good.

[Len]

Here is a little racer I put together for my nephew as Christmas present