Hammerdown

Hey guys thanks for looking and enjoying these old nitro burners. Dave the Vega was produced by combining 2 AMT Vega wagon bodies and the chassis is a reversed MPC front engine chassis. Simply cut the front rails off and glued them behind the drivers cage, it also had real bolt on mags using jewellers screws. I did enter them in contests back in the day and they did win. The Camaro won best of show a number of times.

From my 1973 builds, my kit bashed Russ Davis Camaro vs the Mental Cruelty rear engine Vega panel wagon

Pabst Blue Ribbon Grabber Maverick turn'n around to take on the Vegabond Vega in a Pro Stock match race. My brother got the Vegabond from a ways back with his 35mm while me and my Instamatic were playing chicken with the Grabber

Hey Sam great diarama's man. Here's one I set up for a cool shot of my Russ Davis Camaro F/C racing the Snake at BeeLine in 1974, with my trusty Instamatic.

Hey Mike, great pctures of your uncles Thames. We actually raced him at Bison in competition eliminator. I remember that the button tufted roof on the Thames would puff up at speed due to the air travelling through the body. That little Gasser was a hard running wild ride! Richard Woods the track photog got some of those shots I see. I think I use to piss him off because I had to get allot closer with my Kodak than he did with his 35mm, so I was always getting in the way of his shot . lol Here's Don Sherwins Pro Comp car heat'n up the hides. Not bad action shot for a simple instamatic eh? I was about 10 feet from the car to get it.

Thanks man, first time I've shared them and I've got lots more.

I was a Track Rat with a Kodak Instamatic back in 1973. I would help my brother-in-law run his Econo then injected C Dragster so I guess the track crew got use to seeing me in the bleach box and never bothered me when I hung out snapping pics. Here are a few of what I got. Note: I had to get real close to fill the frame with that goofy little Instamatic. If only I had a 35mm I could have become Steve Reyes. Objects in pictures are Closer Than They Appear! Just about got run over a few times, no wonder I have a ringing in my ears still.

Scott I'm just eyeballing the proportions trying to find what looks right. The finished product will most likely be an off scale replica. Bruce if the chassis happens to blow apart during a run from stresses incured then, So Be It, it will all be caught on video. I'll have to figure out how to have the engine blow at the same time with a great fireball effect. Maybe I'll need an RC NHRA Safety Safari rig to attend the runs, just in case.

Sorry for the crappy video guys, I've got some others that I'll have to find and post. The neighbour at the end of the video is known as... "The Count" lol

I guess we've all got our own version of this experiment somewhere in a closet. We should stage an Invitational Jet and Rocket Car national event... I can't imagine what might show up maybe Capt. Jack Mcclure! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_g-X0yMBWQ

Jim I think it is 1/96th scale. An odd scaled "Hawk" kit and the TCA decals came with it along with Capital Airlines decals. Built out of the box in 1992 with muffler tape used for the bare metal surfaces.

Hey John, I am planning on putting an RC settup in it, as small as I can go to get it move'n at a scale speed. I have a 1/10th Parma blown hemi kit that is going between the rails.

The first plane I ever flew in back in 1961. Skipped out of kindergarten to go with my dad to a job interview in Winnipeg. The panoramic oval windows were so big I could sit on the sill and not hit my head on the top. My dad also got me into the co pilots seat during the flight. I built this, mounted it on a base including scale figures of my dad and I, standing at the base of the exit stairs and sent it as a gift to him as he neared the end of his life.

Thanks Mike, I hope to move along on this project and am looking forward to the Videos I will make once the RC stuff is added.

This reminds me of what I'm attempting with my 1/10th Cuda AA/FC but mine is more for fun, yours is a museum quality creation, fantastic work! Pedal to the metal Dave.

Hey Burnout, after realizing how fast my early creations could go when they quickly ran out of line, I started running allot of extra line just so they stopped before the end anchor. The size of the chute also dertermined how quick they stopped.

Here's my rear engine Funny Car.

Wild car, very cool

Forgot to mention that I ran fiber optic thread throughout the refer produce hauler so that all the clearance lights and headlights work. Power source is a small pen light mounted under the wooden base.

Excellent project and subject and FRIKENCOOLMAN!!

sorry trying to get pic up

Scratch built Jet Dragster with styrene tube chassis and scratch built General Electric J85 with afterburner. This car runs on a tether down our street driven by the thrust of a class c hobby rocket engine at a very realistic scale speed. It covers the scale quarter mile in about 5 seconds then the engine backfires as designed through a u shaped pipe and fires the drag chute out of the chute cylinders mounted on top of the engine cowling and stops the car. Lots of smoke, fire and noise. Always leaves the crowd cheering. I will post a video at a later date. side by side races are very cool between this and various rails I've built over the years. I'm working on a 1/12 scale Firebird Jet Funny Car and can't wait to video the future match races Sorry the cars missing the nose cone in these pics

Slowly getting it together. Scratch built Cuda Funny Car with an RC Parma body that I will switch out on the front and rear engine styrene tube chassis's, Parma 1/10th Blown Hemi kit begging for super detailing, nobby off road tires sanded to slicks. Front tires will be Traxxas funny car tires and I'll fabricate the five spoke Cragar mags. I'm planning on incorporating RC running gear so this Plastic Fantastic will eventually be the star of my GO PRO version of Funny Car Summer, that I'll publish to the net. Going crazy deciding on a paint scheme, cool candy blue and orange California Dream'n or an actual car like Snake's feared Black Cuda or Candys and Hughes or fireman Jim Dunn's front and rear engine cars or the Shoe's Stardust? What yuall think boys? Stay tuned.