1977 Alpine A110 Meyrignac concept car - photos

[WmRMeyers]

There's a company that's been somewhat successful in turning that into a business.

Uncle Walt was a great engine man, from what I understand, but he was no kind of business man. You may have noticed the line about handshake deals? He wasn't good about paperwork or details. I know there was a time when my aunt kept his kids fed selling tupperware and avon. OTH, one of his karts, IIRC, did somewhere around 240mph. I don't know about later, but when I was building them, late September and early to mid-October of 73, he was using 90HP McCulloch chainsaw motors that he'd modified. Two of them on the real racing karts. I know we sold two of the karts to Lee Michaels just before I left to go in the Air Force. I don't know if they were the racing karts, though.
It was fun. My brother and I were doing a bunch of the scut work to get the frames ready to paint. This is where I learned to use a spray bottle of muriatic acid to strip rust from steel, and that a nylon shirt wasn't a good thing to wear around an arc welder. First week we were there, we doubled production. 2nd week we did it again. Seems to me we did that one more time the third week. I think the other guys who were working for him were glad to see me leave. They had a good thing going and we kinda spoiled it. But Uncle Walt was one of the guys in our life that taught us to throw ourselves into doing whatever we were doing. And we did.

Bill