Size: 19" x 8" x 6"
Weight: 6 lbs.
Finished: 2005
Hours: 190

Price: $5,000

I knew I was going to put this Offy in the car. I knew that it was an inch longer than the standard Offy Midget engine used for this car, so I added the inch in the frame at the engine area.

The full-sized racers used to modify the frames (and anything else they needed) to accommodate the rules established for whatever the event required.

Some time ago I bought an old midget with a Ford 60 in it. The frame looked like it had been in a horrible accident, or fight. It was bent and twisted all over the place. The engine I brought home in baskets and buckets. The car was a mess and I had no place to work on it, so I gave it to a friend who races in a couple of antique races during the year.

Restoring this car would have taken more effort than building it from scratch. What I did get were some of the full-sized parts that I used to make scale model parts. Look at my Ford 60 model. I had real parts to measure from, the carburetors I used on the Flathead were Stromberg 97s. I was able to make these

parts exactly correct. I made the molds in three parts just like the real molds were made. I had the engine block, Edelbrock heads, exhaust pipes, fly wheel and the other hundred parts to make this engine perfect from the outside view.

– Will Neely, October 2008