Again within the Seventies, the CitiCar was a reasonably distinctive little EV. I imply, it has a bodily form and presence that stand out, seemingly it doesn’t matter what decade you are viewing it in. It had humble aspirations as an EV, however this one is now an absolute drag strip monster because of Vasily’s mile-long checklist of modifications.
His opening premise sounds sort of easy: Stuff a Hayabusa engine behind this factor and see what occurs.
After all, since he is no stranger to constructing issues himself, and has the welding and machining information and expertise to make such feats sensible, he went into this venture understanding full properly that he’d have to do a complete lot of labor to get that Hayabusa-plus-Citicar imaginative and prescient to work.
Nonetheless, over the course of many months (and movies on his YouTube channel), he did it. He bolstered the chassis, obtained the engine efficiently mounted within the rear, welded in a roll cage, added racing seats and harnesses since he needed to take this factor to the drag strip, and extra. On this video, you may see him add each a candy Pingel electrical shifter and a super-cheap paddle shifter unit he discovered on Alibaba. (Hey, he says he paid for each out of pocket, so he can do what he needs together with his cash, proper?)
However whereas these mods are nice and useful, it is arguably the third improve he installs on this video that makes the most important distinction to how Tacky (that is this automotive’s title, in response to the very alternative license plate) performs on the strip. A candy Takasago drag race chain goes on the again, lastly giving this factor the energy it must persistently carry out via all of the pulls that Vasily places it via.
And take a look at it, he does. There are a number of roll races (finished from rolling begins as an alternative of standing begins) the place Tacky smokes the competitors. A C5 Corvette? A BMW M5? A turboed S15 Silvia? Please, convey Tacky some severe competitors, will you?!
What’s additional superior about this, although, is that seemingly everybody (or not less than, everybody we see on this video) is drawn to Tacky prefer it’s an enormous individuals magnet. It’s very comprehensible, too, as a result of there’s actually nothing fairly just like the CitiCar when it comes to slicing a dashing, fromageresque determine. The automotive guys, as soon as Vasily chats with them and talks in regards to the modifications he is made, can not help however admire all of the work he is put in to creating this factor the unassuming beast that it’s.
It appears prefer it needs to be your finest pal, however it’s going to completely destroy you on the drag strip. Should you’re cool with that, it is best to comply with Vasily’s YouTube channel, as a result of he says he is planning to place Tacky up on the market quickly. Just a bit extra work (he already swapped the rear glass window out for Lexan) and it will be good to go, if he can convey himself to half with it.
And also you’re in all probability not going to search out one other certainly one of these exhibiting up at your native drag night time.
