SFVISBF: CARS

The Widowmaker is one of the "loaner" cars. It was Juan's car sans the front scoop and keg tank. He crashed it into a tree on our first run and has yet to return to racing. We took his car and brought it back to life in a classic rat rod style that is sure to please the eye. Its also a fast car, but has been prone to accidents, thus it's death-seeking moniker. Stolen by Lucky 13's gardener, Que lastima!

It is built to the strictest illegal standards available The entire car is steel, except for the aluminum rear hubs and High Strength Wood Fiber body (cardboard) High speed tapered bearings, adjusted slightly loose, on all 4 wheels. Dual caliper rear disc brakes, with all steel mechanical linkage. Ford truck steering wheel with airbag removed. (Considering putting it back in.) This car was used technology developed by the builder called "blow and go" hence the name THE BLOW N GO SPECIAL. This low tech method of building uses only what is lying around and always moves forward, never backward. Simply put. just add more, weld more, keep moving forward. The main motto of this technology is " make it appropriately complicated, quickly" This fine balance between form and function produces minimal results after much time invested. It is predicted By Maddog that this car is - soon to be the fastest in all the land build pictures available in the photo section of the discussion board

Build info on the Blow & Go Special... Rev. 2.1 After Maddog got The Fear, retired the Blow & Go, and then took it out of storage for #41 to drive, he decided to auction it off to make room for/fund a bigger, faster and never-to-be-finished car. Wanting to get in on the wonders of the SFVISBF, Sam came to me about bidding on it for him. Jason and I offered to be partners on the little hot rod, and the three of us took custody of our new car in late August/Early September. First to be replaced were the rear wheels/tires, which showed bends, dents and even splits from the Blow & Go's earlier exploits. New, skinnier rubber was chosen to reduce rolling resistance. The Blow & Go has always been notoriously twitchy at speed - much of this was probably due to the lack of any real alignment done until we got our hands on it. To further promote high-speed stability and provide a couple of much-needed inches of legroom, the entire rear axle/brake assembly was moved rearward. Jason and I now fit within the cockpit's confines just fine, but Sam's larger frame and melon-like head required more clearance, so a new arced roll bar was added at the rear of the car. The poster board and masking tape bodywork of the Blow & Go had a tendency to inflate like a balloon at speeds above 30mph, inspiring us to coat it in fiberglass cloth and resin. A coat of black paint gave the now lumpy bodywork a tar pit-covered look, and we ran it for a period of time with "Spirit of La Brea" lettered across the now-closed nose. Following this look is the current smoothed-with-Bondo-and-flamed appearance that it's sporting as we ready ourselves for the 2008 season... or at least it was until Sam flipped the car on New Year's Day, leaving a couple of pounds of paint and filler on the asphalt.

The Bone Shaker Evolution.

The Bone Shaker I

Frame 50 gallon drum hand truck

Tires Solid HARD! Rubber with ball bearings

Seat Sears Creeper

Steering L.A. County issued shackles

Brakes Sort of

Suspension Rigid

Fabricator Paul de Valera

Owner/Driver Ty Jones

The Bone Shaker I was built in 4 hours and entered its first race On October 8^th 2006 UNTESTED at the Dip of Death race course. It was given its name by Paul de Valera because of its solid rubber tires. You could roll over a pubic hair and feel it. On that day it completed its first race. Doing better than expected considering the Dip of Death caused two compressed vertebrates, nine loose teeth, whiplash, a bent front suspension and perforated leather cheerio. That day I decided that there would be some changes.

The Bone Shaker II

Frame Same 50 gallon drum hand truck

Tires Pneumatics

Seat Sears Creeper

Steering L.A. County issued shackles

Brakes Really non existent. Had to use secondary brake, BHPBBS

Suspension Full front and rear

Fabricator Ty Jones

Owner/Driver Ty Jones

The Bone Shaker II has evolved into a fierce contender. I have scrapped the solid rubber wheels and replaced them with pneumatics. I still haven¢t been able to install a proper braking system. I¢ve had to result in using the S.F.V.I.S.B.F. approved BHPBBS or Butt Hole Puckering Boot Brake System. The BSII was first entered on November 12^th 2006 at the steep Par 4 race course. Sitting in an upright driver position and riding the sissy brake halfway down, I finished a comfortable 5^th place. I knew there was a lot more in the BSII and on December 10^th 2006 it showed its true racing colors. At the Malachi Crunch I changed my sitting position from straight up to lying down. The sitting position in combination with the Rascal 600F full suspension, I managed to win four out four races. I finished the 2006 season with my first win, the trophy and a big bulls eye on my back.

Thanks to Burton Sanders for introducing illegal soapbox racing to me. Thanks to Paul de Valera for the birth of the Bone Shaker and putting together the best balls out events EVER! And last but not least to all the S.F.I.S.B.F. drivers and members for an awesome 2006 season. I¢m sure the 2007 season will bring lots of new innovation and fierce competition. I will see you all in 2007 to defend my title.

The Bucket: Parts of this car have been around since the start, it was a 50's era go-kart. Yes we cut it up, too fucking bad! The first incarnation was not driveable, so it sat rotting in the yard for some time until Paul found an old wheelbarrow. Using the wheelbarrow in reverse, gave the car a old school rod/rat rock-a-silly look. I made a Z'd frame for this bitch, floating rear end with a faux differential scabbed off an old trike and a leaf spring from a riding lawnmower. The car was used a few times with ok results, you looked cool but the checkered flag would be just a dream. After it was in a pile up the rear end was bent up good. After some straitening and gussets, you see what you have before you here.

After viewing the videos on YouTube and seeing the Hang'em High race in person the 805's "Jousting" Jay was hooked and immediately began fabrication on what would become the SFVISBF's first all-plastic body car, the #805 Hot Puss out of Ventura.

Jay was at a junkyard looking for some parts and found in the back of a truck a plastic kiddie shopping cart.

Jay purchased the junked kiddie shopping cart, took it home and started to chop it up where needed to build a matching frame and steering assembly to the body.

The first was a dropped rear axle, with camber and 20 inch bmx forks with brakes.

The next was the steering cut out of a broken riding mower, that was welded to the frame with acromin applied.

Then a seat was placed and bolted directly to the frame, paint was done by Dirty Dave, and the PBR "airbag" was glued to the steering wheel (after a minor wreck, it was replaced with a Guinness can).

The Hot Puss usually gets lots of laughs as a commodity car, but it has surprisingly good performance. The Hot Puss does very well in tight turns, without losing much speed. It's top speed is something slightly above average, and is considered to be a "middle of the pack" car.

After Seeing the Home Invasion Race, I could not wait to get behind the wheel to race, and being stuck at Ren Faire Jousting for 3 months proved to be quite frustrating. Wanting to “just start driving” or “Being lazy, I bought a go kart that had a indy look and pulled the motor off. Not caring about building something from scratch or getting the respect from the other racers, I decided to take the quickest path…… Boy was I wrong.

The cart, later dubbed “Dredknight”, came with 1 disk brake on the left hind wheel, and that wheel itself was Plastic. That had to change. The frame of the cart was just a flat go-kart frame with a spoiler covered by a plastic body. There was no protection from a collision if someone happened to T-bone me. There was also no protection in the front of the car. The steering Tie Rod was a thin ¼” rod that could easily be bent by hand.

After seeing on U-Tube how rough the SFVISBF plays. My first project was to strengthen the frame. With me doing the designing and cutting and Jay doing the welding. We put together an internal superstructure framework with a roll bar using ¾” steel tubing and a left over 1940s hand truck. All Joints were reinforced and a bumper made from a set of Drag-bike handle bars was installed.

After many hours of research, Dave and I found matching Steel wheels with welded hubs. The original brake disk would not fit the new hubs, so I purchased 2 small Sprockets and ground the teeth off to use as Brake disk. Two new Calipers were purchased. A mounting bracket was installed for the right side and the new dual disk braking system installed. 2 Motor cycle brake levers were mounted in place of the single plastic brake lever.

The thin steering tie rod was tossed and dual top of the line tie-rods were installed giving me more aligning adjustment and greater stability at high speed.

So much for buying a go-kart and just start driving!!!

This car is not super fast but it handles remarkably well and is sure to prevail in more curvy courses.