Wednesday, August 28, 2013

It certainly looks like its struggling along the racetrack.

This year, he went completely topsy-turvy, literally, with what he calls the Upside Down Race Car, driven at the Pacific Northwest GP circuit on July 20-21.

The drivers, stewards, and spectators kept telling me they had a momentary panic and thought oh no, hes crashed, which is what I wanted, he told SWNS. Other than a clutch ilure, which we fixed, nothing went wrong. The car was slow, though, and there was no working speedo. It was probably capable of about 85 mph, but was a blast to drive; every time you tried to push the car, it was all over the place, it was like a white-knuckle ride.

Police officer Jeff Bloch -- also known as Speedycop -- has driven a few different builds in the races, including a bright pink Cadillac,new york asian escorts a modified camper van, and a repurposed Cessna cockpit pWebaired with a Toyota engine.

The car is actually two cars: a 1990 Ford Festiva, around which he wrapped the upside-down body of a 1999 Chevy Camaro in a process that took around two months. The Festivas engine was Web, bluntly, awful: a tiny, 1.3-liter model with nearly 190,000 miles -- not exactly suited to endurance racing, especially when trying to carry a much larger cars body in addition to its own.

Michelle StarrMichelle Starr is the tiger force at the core of all things. She also writes about cool stuff like 3D pWeb Cop builds upside-down car races at LeMonsrinting, space, and apps as CNET Australias Crave editor. But mostly shes the tiger force thing.

You can see more pictures of the car and its build process in the Flickr slideshow below.

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Putting this thing on a race course with real race cars would be tantamount to suicide, were it not for the stringent safety rules, Bloch said on his Web site. Now, its merely extremely hazardous, and highly ill advised. The reactions have been every bit what we expected: bewildered looks, broad grins, and plenty of laughter.

You get to see some pretty interesting vehicles at 24 Hours of LeMons (not to be confused with 24 Hours of Le Mans), the series of endurance races across the U.S. for cars that cost less than $500.

A highway patrol officer and car enthusiast has combined two cars into a hybrid monstrosity for the 24 Hours of LeMons junk car rally.

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