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After 27 months and 1800+ hours, the Xxxx replica left the garage under its own power. I took a couple laps around the backyard. Should be road legal by Carlisle.

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It looks great, and must have been a great feeling to get it on the road. Your thread title of "fake" atom, does not do it justice. Find a more uplifting name. Like Atombomb. :D

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Thanks guys.

 

The drive train is a D17A2 from a 2001 Civic EX. 129 HP. 29,000 miles on engine. It's an economy car.

 

Estimated weight is 1000 lbs; need to use a set of scales for final weight/CG determination/corner weighting. The frame alone is 240 lbs. Lots of tubes.

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Thanks guys.

 

The drive train is a D17A2 from a 2001 Civic EX. 129 HP. 29,000 miles on engine. It's an economy car.

 

Estimated weight is 1000 lbs; need to use a set of scales for final weight/CG determination/corner weighting. The frame alone is 240 lbs. Lots of tubes.

 

Hi Jon,

 

Sure looks good.

 

Still remember the evening that you let me spend talking and looking at your Clone ATOM. Still hard to belive your abilities in your garage at your home.

 

VERY NICE.

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All of the panels are not "finished" but were installed on the car so I could take photos for the state. Inspection is scheduled for Friday. The wait for PADOT processing is supposed to be 2 weeks. We'll see. It used to be 6 weeks.

 

Car is insured by Hagerty, VIN pending.

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Looks beautiful Jon, I hope to see it at Carlisle. Congrats on another fine job!

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Jon:

You have done much work since I saw your pictures last Spring. Where do you get all of the energy?

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Again, thanks guys.

 

Bob, I checked my calendar log. I started body panel work over a year ago. I decided it was time to finish the car. Warm weather is also close.

 

I keep detailed records. One month I only logged 11 hrs of work on the car. We went thru some busy times at work. 27-month average is 55 hrs/month.

 

I've recently reduced work hours (down to 27 hrs per week) to concentrate on fun things. Average car hours went to 104 hours per month since Nov 08.

 

Energy? It's about used up.

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  • 1 month later...
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You are all in for a treat as I can say I saw Jon W's clone Atom in his garage when he was building it and even then it was very impressive and I have seen and even driven a real Atom from England and the ones made in Oregon. Jon told me once that he scaled all of his working drawings from photos of atoms by using the license plate as the base line to scale the photos so he could duplicate the structure. Jon W is quite the craftsman and has produced a car that I feel is better than a real Atom, safer, stronger and better looking.

  • 2 months later...
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It took 15 weeks and 3 inspections, one by a PA DOT QA inspector, but the car has been titled, tagged, and inspected. The state inspector came to my garage June 22 armed with a 2-page form, a yard stick, and a 4" protractor. He borrowed my string to check the scrub lines. Nice guy, cut me some slack on a few details and filed a favorable report. I came back from a week's vacation yesterday and found the tag in the mail. Got it inspected today and it's legal.

 

Some of the items added to pass inspection will be removed by me (bumpers) since they look downright silly. I'll leave the engine cover.

 

It's a blast to drive.

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Congrats Jon! My inspection and title process took over a month and 3 boxes of donuts to get through. :D

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Congrats Jon, enjoy the ride! I hope I can check it out in person someday.

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Guess I should have left the bumpers on the car.........

 

I'll buff it out this coming weekend.

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Jon,

 

OUCH! I hope no one was hurt. I don't think that lower suspension arm is going to buff out well at all. ;)

 

Care to tell us what happened to cause the damage?

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