{"id":343,"date":"2007-12-10T12:12:11","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T18:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/?p=343"},"modified":"2007-12-10T12:12:11","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T18:12:11","slug":"the-fletcher-aviator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/10\/the-fletcher-aviator\/cars\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fletcher Aviator"},"content":{"rendered":"

I bumped into this in the classified ads at CarsOnline.com<\/a>; very, very cool. <\/p>\n

57aviator27850-1.jpg<\/p>\n

Asking price is $55,000, but I found another version of the ad where he’s asking $70k, so I’m thinking the price is pretty negotiable. Probably not negotiable to where I’d be able to afford it, but…<\/p>\n

57aviator27850-2.jpg<\/p>\n

57aviator27850-4.jpg<\/p>\n

57aviator27850-3.jpg<\/p>\n

Here are the specs for the thing as listed in the ad. I wasn’t able to find any other info on the Fletcher Aviator through a Google Search, so could it be that this is the only one?<\/p>\n

Fletcher Aviator.<\/strong> Custom built wing tank car. Same as used as bonneville land speed car of the 50’S and 60’S. Street legal car clear title. Built in the year 2006, Has never run at bonneville. This is a custom car just for the street. <\/p>\n

  • Complete tube chassis straight axle front end <\/li>\n
  • Willwood brakes all four corners <\/li>\n
  • 350 Chevy engine <\/li>\n
  • 350 Transmission <\/li>\n
  • 471 Blower <\/li>\n
  • Franklin quick change rear end <\/li>\n
  • Wheel vintique wire wheels <\/li>\n
  • Wing tank F100 all aluminum <\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Apparently the body is made from the wing tank from an F100 Super Saber jet (photo of one mounted to the F100 here<\/a>.) Too bad he didn’t keep the fins<\/a> from the originals; that would’ve been a great addition! The ad also says he’s got more tanks available… If that don’t get the creative juices going…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I bumped into this in the classified ads at CarsOnline.com; very, very cool. Asking price is $55,000, but I found another version of the ad where he’s asking $70k, so I’m thinking the price is pretty negotiable. Probably not negotiable to where I’d be able to afford it, but… Here are the specs for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-fun"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}