yellowsportwagon
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Mark are you on wastebook at all? There is some great vintage nascar groups on there.
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That cars has been restored. It did run at Lemans back when. But that engine shot looks pretty typical of Fords back then.
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Forgot to add above that I had to build a package shelf for this car. Looking closer at pictures all that metal remained intact on this car. Got a fuel cell made roll bar door and interior painted
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It’s too bad the 366 Pontiac Motor wouldn’t stay together. That coupled with the bad aero at the tail end of the Grand Am killed the Pontiac NASCAR effort
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That’s a better explanation than mine.
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The blocked were slightly different too. But for all practical purposes a Cleveland was like a Boss 302 headed Windsor.
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Look at the shape difference and number of bolts. First photo is Windsor second Cleveland
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The cylinder heads. Are completely different on a Cleveland. They look like a Boss 302 head. A Windsor head looks like a 289 head.
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I’m pretty proud of my cobbled rollbar. Made from MPC Johan and Polar Lights parts. The frt down bars are the only pieces I had to make.
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Mark it would have been a Cleveland engine. I don’t have any pictures but it would look like the engines in the later NASCAR Ford kits. The valve covers would not have been Ford Motorsport like the amt kit used. I just sand the fins and writing off and paint them silver.
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Painted the frame and put the body in filler primer.”
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Also built up the hood edges. Hood was way narrow. And built the engine cage. Engine and radiator test fit again
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Added vinyl top moldings. Car had a painted hardtop which used the moldings.
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Got this thing de trimmed. Opened the rear wells a bit and flared them out slightly. Also pulled the bottom rear of the rockers out in frt of the rear tires.
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Ok so you did the same as I did with a Reventlow Scarab. I scratchbuilt a brass tube space frame modified the BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH out of a Strombecker Scarab body then got lost on making a DeDion tube rear suspension . So it sits 20 years later. At least it’s in the company of others in the same boat.
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I’ve never seen that kit.
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I don’t know Dave I’ve been known as the undisputed king of unfinished projects. I’ve got models that have been half done for decades.
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Since I’m stupid or something I always have about 6 cars going at any time. I switch off between them. This one is a pretty simple build aside from rollbar and interior stuff.
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Had to get back on this one today just adding final details now.
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Thanks Mark As long as I stay focused it will be cool.
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Capped off the top of the frame rails. Engine test fit. Had to move the oil pan sump to the rear. Rivs had an odd center sump.
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Cut the control arm and spring perches from the old axle and put them on the new one.Quick mock-up for stance.
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Drilled the spring pockets through the frame and floor. This will lower the rear even without cutting springs. Added these spacers. They have a smaller I’d than the holes I drilled so they limit the springs from falling through. They also look like spring pockets for screwjacks.
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Progress pictures. Had to shorten the frame and floor at the rear. Narrow the frame rails by the tires. Hog out the wheelhouses too. Added a 9”Ford rear. Made a frt and rear firewalll. The 442 firewall was too tall and had too much stuff molded in.
