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Mon Aug 08, 2011 9:56 am

Hi,
I was wondering what happened to Billy Mitchell's "Thunderbug". I tried to contact him several times, but never got any response.

I know, he is now racing V8 and has a performance shop on Long Island. Apparently he does not talk much about his old bug.

Does anyone know, if he still owns Thunderbug? If not, does anyone knows who is the current owner and if the car is still around?

Thanks
Karsten

Mon Aug 08, 2011 10:47 am

Don't expect to ever hear back from him, he never talks about the VW years.

Mon Aug 08, 2011 11:00 am

Glenn wrote: Don't expect to ever hear back from him, he never talks about the VW years. Is this the same Bill Mitchell that's been selling Big Bock Chevy racing engines for years and years?

Mon Aug 08, 2011 11:01 am

RockCrusher wrote: Glenn wrote: Don't expect to ever hear back from him, he never talks about the VW years. Is this the same Bill Mitchell that's been selling Big Bock Chevy racing engines for years and years?
Yes

Mon Aug 08, 2011 11:15 am

Glenn wrote: RockCrusher wrote: Glenn wrote: Don't expect to ever hear back from him, he never talks about the VW years. Is this the same Bill Mitchell that's been selling Big Bock Chevy racing engines for years and years?
Yes I hope in the future you can be less loquacious in your responses..... :wink:

RC

Mon Aug 08, 2011 11:22 am

Glenn is not, by any means, sesquipedalian.

Mon Aug 08, 2011 12:59 pm

Glenn wrote: Don't expect to ever hear back from him, he never talks about the VW years.

Do you know why he never talks about it? I know NHRA outlawed Thunderbug because of the chop, where they changed the angle of the windshield.
Is it because of that?

Mon Aug 08, 2011 3:23 pm

Is it me or does the picture of the car look bent in the middle or is it a center fold in a magazine?

Casey

Mon Aug 08, 2011 3:39 pm

I grew up 5 miles from Baldwin Motion and spent many afternoons hanging around.

Mon Aug 08, 2011 5:29 pm

earthquake wrote: Is it me or does the picture of the car look bent in the middle or is it a center fold in a magazine?

Casey
I think it is a centerfold!

Mon Aug 08, 2011 6:42 pm

i have talked to joel rosen. he told me that he did not know what happen to the thunder bug . he told me that bill mitchell was head of motion mini car and that bill would know what happen to the thunder bug . i do know that the thunder bug number 1 was cut up for scrap . after bill hit a wall with it . i herd from a guy that bought the porsche race car . said that the thunderbug number 2 chassie is under thec porsche. and that the porsche is being restored . the guy that owns the porsche could not get bill to talk to him . even though bill has a picture of the porsche race car on his wall in his office. there is a guy on samba that has. i think thenuber 3 motion race car that was built by bill at motion. he is in florida he goes by the name fubar1425 on samba i think his motion race car is called the buzzing bee that he is restoreing he knows a lot about motion . i only got to the frount desk at bills shop and the lady said no way bill will talk about the vws. joel told me he does talk to bill . so i dont think bill is mad at joel i think bill is mad that they said he never turned the times he did with the thunderbug there was a big stink about it back then . i can say that joel rosen is one nice guy and he will talk to you hope this helps spencerfvee..........

Tue Aug 09, 2011 1:30 pm

Thanks, I will contact him!

Tue Aug 09, 2011 3:58 pm

I had wondered if that was was the same bill.spent a lot of $$ with him, and saved him even much much more$$$$$ by doing the R&D his shop/ world prod should of done, you would think he would atleast make us some good parts so we dont have to runn this shit were getting now. I think he was in the 1974 crane cams winners hand book with his bug also.

Tue Aug 09, 2011 4:04 pm

^^^THAT^^^ is a really stupid post. :roll:

Tue Aug 09, 2011 4:45 pm

Any specs on the car that were printed in Hot Rod mag. etc??

Tue Aug 09, 2011 5:37 pm

hay darth weber dont hold back lol lol i did not understand what he was trying to say. god and they get get all over me .on how i write a post .on forums . on samba lol lol this guys way out there in his own world lol i like samba theres allways some one doing something spencerfvee DarthWeber wrote: ^^^THAT^^^ is a really stupid post. :roll:

Tue Aug 09, 2011 5:50 pm

Not so much what he said but he took it from normal screen to 60" Ultra Mega HDTV W - I - D - E screen!!!

Tue Aug 09, 2011 6:45 pm

sorry I thought everybody had those.

Tue Aug 09, 2011 7:05 pm

I have the MegaMicro E-Droid Palmputer with 1.5" monitor. :wink:

Wed Sep 21, 2011 12:48 pm

Small snippets on amongst the V8s:

Thunder Bug is at 3:16 and 5:11.

Enjoy