New Doherty Motorsports class 8

[Old School 8]

Enclosed couple of photo's taken around July 1st. Construction was started around Jan 1st ('07). After the sale of my old class 8, I spent too much time (a year) helping out other racer friends go racing, and not building my own ! I've been holding off starting this thread, until I had more done. It's been slow going, after working all day, and then spend a few hours every-night out in the shop. No CAD design, no laser-jet cutting, and lots of help from my friends. As you can see the cuts on the glass doors, I had to shorten the TT body, to fit the rule-mandated class 8 wheel-base. Now with the body located, I am busy bending up tubes. I will up-date this thread, as I get more done........

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[BajaFand]

Looks very cool! Any pictures of the fabwork?

[chicken lips the ocho]

yes another class 8

im really looking forward to seeing this truck and Newhans take the green flag

when do you think the trucks gonna make the first race?

I LOVE CLASS 8

[BRINGTHERUCKUS]

yes another class 8

im really looking forward to seeing this truck and Newhans take the green flag

when do you think the trucks gonna make the first race?

I LOVE CLASS 8

I TOO LOVE CLASS 8!

Its what i was raised working on! congrats on the new ride...

[Mark Newhan]

Get R Done!

[Alex Paterson]

Good to see Mike.

-Alex

[Old School 8]

As requested, I dug through some of my first photos and came across some
spindal / up-right pictures. I posted that I had to locate the body, to start bending. Well I had to build all the major suspention parts first, to locate the wheels, to locate the body. I will keep posting a few pictures at a time. I also have to Thank my friend Nick Vanderwey, as I used his jigs, and design, to make all my front susp. parts.

[bcampbell04]

glad to see you guys are getting back to racing. bring the truck to some SNORE events and give Monty some competition.

[hangten33]

Nice!! Post more Pics soon!!

[MikeLeung]

About time we see some progress on the truck!!!

Looks good Mike...keep us updated