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I was a friend of Cottons back in the late 60s early70s when he was building his cars in a one car shop at home in Barrington. We both were...
I was working on a fuel dragster in the winter of 62/ 63 & the owner put it into the car show at the shrine auditorium in downtown L/A. They...
Yes that is correct one side took the brake force but on a track car especially on dirt tracks one wheel on the front axle takes most of the...
The back story of the Novi is as interesting as the cars themselves. Henry Ford was a racing fan & liked the idea of a v8 car in the 500. He & Lou...
Competition coupe & sedan class started out as a class that was wider open than altered class & pretty much allowed anything goes as long as the...
What killed the gas class & all the other heads up racing was the lack of cars due to the extreme cost to reward. If you were drag racing back...
And that was the beginning of the end for sprint cars being the stepping stone for championship & Indy car careers. I grew up in the Midwest & was...
very nice work. Your tutorioal is great.
Well said vonDyck, well said.
you might want to go to the Spitzer racing web site & see how they build their Bantam bodies for altered's. I have built many chassis for these...
Just to add from "The Miller dynasty" Gerard Kirchhoff did the body for the Chancllor out of aluminum. The car was scraped in 1939 after several...
You probably knew when you asked opinions here they would be all over the place. Do you have the tools & equipment & skills to finish the car the...
Made a die for punching those louvers that Silnes did. They are smaller than other louvers but turn out really nice. WAW
This is just a joke thread I hope!
Josh you found top center not top dead center. Top dead center would be the mid point between where the indicator stopped moving & where it began...
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