Introducing: The Shaguar! Its a 78 Triumph Spitfire that a friend and I rescued from a guy planning on a diesel swap and welded back together with rebar and angle iron. Its mostly bondo under that shiney paint; which I did myself for free using expired aircraft paint. I welded the diff, put on a skidplate, and taken on the gambler 500 2 years in a row. Its been beaten hard and rarely gets new parts, just hand-me-downs from my other spitfire. This thing is made of spare parts. It currently using the muffler from a yugo that is safety-wired up, for example. Its hand-me-down 1500 engine will not rev over 4 grand because valve springs are so wore out. But it has enough power to do stupid things off road that a spitfire should never do. The best part is it looks pretty enough to fool people into thinking its a nice car and we are idiots. We have an absolute blast with it all the time. Was looking forward to making it to concours de'lemons this year. I made a quick video of it: https://youtu.be/RIn_lmu_Zr8
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