In the Garage With EHR: The Formcar Gets its Body
This Formcar Formula V car is a 1964 and is chassis number 157. My dad picked up a while back and everything was rebuilt and (very) loosely bolted back together. We put in a new clutch, and a friend of the family helped get that and the brakes working after my dad made new brake lines. I wired up enough of it to get it running only to discover that the rebuilt trans didn't get the needed ring gear flip to get the now mid-engine 1600 VW to have 4 forward gears. So, since I am swamped with more pressing projects I drove it up to my house and decided to bolt the body back on the little racer so that you all could get a better look at it and it would be self contained, until I get a chance to get to it.
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A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, seat 1-8 people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people rather than cargo. There are over 1.6 billion cars in use worldwide as of 2025. The French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built the first steam-powered road vehicle in 1769, while the Swiss inventor François Isaac de Rivaz designed and constructed the first internal combustion-powered automobile in 1808. The mode...
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