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.............................Tried to duplicate my early 80's something super dirt mod for the Summer Showdown.............................
I used part of a resin roof from some blemished casting I had.....(Just like the 1:1 was a roof from a Duster laying behind a
buddy's body shop)
Created the rest from 030 styrene & lots of Bondo. Graphics are home-printed on self adhesive vinyl.
Sorta' like the 1:1 again......................
I conned a sheet metal buddy, Art Keim, into bending up a steel body ( I measured an actual Monza Town Coupe for the side
roof panel dimensions. I represented it as a Monza Town coupe at tech ........(Who could tell anyway)
I built the front sheet metal from some aluminum cabinet side panels that I liberated from my AT&T garage/shop.
Also "found" quite a bit of Lexan spoiler stuff from the same cabinet rear doors. (nobody was using)
Bud's Auto Body welded up & painted the body for me. I did the graphics from vinyl on my kitchen table.
The 1:1 car was a coil over front straight axle with a mono-leaf/coil over rear.
I had another buddy who built chassis' in his garage & I talked him into using a late model chassis from the firewall back,
but a straight axle modified front clip.
Ran a "Brodix-headed" 355, pulled from a wrecked Vette. Also ran maybe the only Chevy Powergluide at the track.
I had another racing buddy who no longer needed a set of those 180 degree spaghetti headers.
(I found out why.....It made the interior HOT HOT HOT
Chassis is 3/64 brass rod with WPD guide & motor mount, Pro-Track wheels, PGT tires, Parma gears, Piranha motor
& guide with Big Mama braid......
I used part of a resin roof from some blemished casting I had.....(Just like the 1:1 was a roof from a Duster laying behind a
buddy's body shop)
Created the rest from 030 styrene & lots of Bondo. Graphics are home-printed on self adhesive vinyl.
Sorta' like the 1:1 again......................
I conned a sheet metal buddy, Art Keim, into bending up a steel body ( I measured an actual Monza Town Coupe for the side
roof panel dimensions. I represented it as a Monza Town coupe at tech ........(Who could tell anyway)
I built the front sheet metal from some aluminum cabinet side panels that I liberated from my AT&T garage/shop.
Also "found" quite a bit of Lexan spoiler stuff from the same cabinet rear doors. (nobody was using)
Bud's Auto Body welded up & painted the body for me. I did the graphics from vinyl on my kitchen table.
The 1:1 car was a coil over front straight axle with a mono-leaf/coil over rear.
I had another buddy who built chassis' in his garage & I talked him into using a late model chassis from the firewall back,
but a straight axle modified front clip.
Ran a "Brodix-headed" 355, pulled from a wrecked Vette. Also ran maybe the only Chevy Powergluide at the track.
I had another racing buddy who no longer needed a set of those 180 degree spaghetti headers.
(I found out why.....It made the interior HOT HOT HOT
Chassis is 3/64 brass rod with WPD guide & motor mount, Pro-Track wheels, PGT tires, Parma gears, Piranha motor
& guide with Big Mama braid......
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OH YEAH!!!
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