Oooh, good thought. Hey Tim, buy it and let's stick in a hopped up 1500 cc
Hayabusa motor like the SR3 Radicals use. It's be a piece of cake. 230
horsepower, reliable, light, and completely uncontrollable. Sound right up
the GRM alley.
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Wilder [mailto:mwilder@webryders.net]
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 9:15 AM
To: fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Bought a Berkeley
I'd stuff in a 1200cc and go import drag racing ;-)
Matthew Wilder
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> While visiting Kip Motors in Dallas a couple of weeks ago I fell in
> love
with
> the very rough but restorable 1958 Berkeley that he ahd out front.
> After you've had about six beers, this thing looks like a miniature 289
Cobra.
It is
> bike powered and front wheel drive and will just about fit in the
> trunk of
my TR3.
>
> Anybody know anything about these cars, or have a spare bike engine
> lying around. I was thinking of upping the power a bit from the
> original 2 cyl,
2 cycle
> Excelsior engine that came with it. I don't think I will race it. I am
crazy
> enough to race a TR3, but not a Berkeley.
>
> Tim Suddard
> Publisher/Classic Motorsports/Grassroots Motorsports
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