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Tommy was moving from his burned RR apartment building when I spotted his car last week. His LeMans has a stock 250 cu. in. six (Chevrolet-built) making 145 hp, sucking hard through a one barrel carb. Tommy has owned it for about eight years and had to replace the engine at some point.
See link at right for Murphos, an outstanding custom car fabricator.
Eccentric, by his own admission, Walter Russell is co-inventor of the essential crowd pleaser: the T-shirt cannon. The prototype is displayed in his office, and pictured below. He also owns Raven Auto Body at 1804 S IH-35 in Round Rock. This Bricklin SV1 is his second Bricklin, the first one he bought new. Powered by a 351 cu. in. Ford Windsor V8, they weighed about 3500 lbs. and were built from 1974 to 1976 in Canada. The body was unique at the time: fiberglass with bonded acrylic in five “safety” colors: white, red, green, orange and suntan. Suspension and brakes come from the AMC Hornet. Check out this surprising comparison between a Bricklin and a Corvette. Only car built with power-operated gullwing doors.
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