18 WHEELS OF STEEL PEDAL TO METAL

This is what keeps me busy at times...this knive was forged from a billet that I made out of 440 layers of 15N20 (Band Saw Blade) and 1084 (Used to make bumper bars for old cars) with a tool steel core of O1 (Found in cutter blades on planes and chisles)

The handle was fashoned from the "Crown" of stag from a Sambar Elk...they cast off their racks each year, so I did not have to kill an animal to get this.

The spacers are brass, leather and knife makers paper.

The guard was re-cycled from a wagon wheel rim found in the Golden Triangle of Victoria...said to belong once to Major Mitchael...sure !

The engraving was all done with a Hammer and Chisel, and push graver...no power tool were used.

Now I can take a bit of time off and visit the Outback on Walkabout !

The picture was taken by my Sweetheart, Linda

View in Original size if you want to have a closer look !!!!

This was my Mitsubishi 3000gt vr4 twin turbo. I built this back when we had Street Freeks import shop in Glendora, CA. It was pretty much a one-off custom. In the 70's I worked on and crewed for a number of road race teams. Including Barr motors in New York, a BMW team and John Greenwood corvettes.

I tried to bring back those feelings of a Trans Am road race car that I could drive every day with a new generation of car. The only original body part was the hood. The rear fenders were widen 10" and the front 8". I made these huge billet wheel spacers to fill these huge fenders. I guess it's the old drag racer in me, but no matter how fast the import car, and there are some killer fast imports, they just will never have the sound, feel and plain macho muscle of an American v8. It was my last import.