DoctorLarry

I saw the photos of the car after the wreck. There was not much left and unfortunately it was a fatal crash.

How about this one?

How about this one?

Tim, any decal possibilities on that blue car and who does it belong to? Thanks both of you guys!

Tim-any more pictures of that one? Mike-thanks for surfing the site and tipping me off. The pictures are amazing. There are over 100 shots and they show everything in detail except the undercarriage. My engine is inaccurate as well-their engine used a single plane intake like an Edelbrock Torker and a Holley Dominator. I had to order some resin carbs and will scratch build the intake. It looks like an earlier period car. I mean this thing is really stock-frame, firewall, suspension, dash, steering column and wheel, floorpans, everything.

Can't tell from the pictures, but I would not be surprised if it had stock rear suspension as well. No evidence from interior shots of floor pan mods for truck arm mounts.

It still has the stock steering column! The ignition lock is still in there. My respect for this team just went way up. No wonder people thought they were crazy.

Looked closely at the pictures. The car has stock frame and floor pans. It was not "clipped" in the front with a Holman Moody clip. Front bars and roll cage were added, shocks were added and the front sway bar was flipped and mounted above the frame. Looks like stock control arms and steering as well. This thing was REALLY low-buck! It was literally a STOCK car that had safety stuff added and then, as they say, went racin'. It has the stock cowl and firewall still welded to the body like it left the factory. The trunk was cut out and re-done for the fuel cell but this thing is really stock. How cool that they could run very competitively with professional racing teams with this car. Of course I will basically start over and save my current frame for another body. I made up a resin frame and floor pan for my Grand Am cars so I guess I will start over with that as well as my resin firewall. Good thing I made molds and copies of all the stock stuff! I have a new Pepsi Laguna that will sacrifice many of the other parts and another Elliot TBird chassis that will give up the truck arms and nine inch rear. Back to the table here. Interesting treatment of the rear spoiler as well. I always wondered why you saw squarish decals with 69 on the rear-the entire back of the spoiler was flat and covered up the rear tail lights. There is a shot with that panel off and you can clearly see the rectangular tail light openings. This is really cool and exciting (except starting from scratch, of course).

Totally changes the build as the interior and underhood are different than the model. Looks like it comes back apart for about the 50th time.....

3 full pages, 48 images per page. Everything-now I have to change some things around. Thanks-what a treasure trove.

Have not seen those but I will! The Youngblood cutaway does not have a lot of underhood or interior detail Thanks! LB

Look to the right of it and in the second picture. There is a box with hat appears to be battery cables coming out.

I'm trying to finish my 73 Grand Am project and something has been stumping me for awhile. Where are the batteries on these cars? The early AMT Chevelle had a battery in the trunk but I have not seen any vintage photos with batteries in the trunk. Most interior shots don't have them either. I read that late model cars have them in the driver footwell extending into the fenderwell. I have seen one older picture which appears to have a box there. I think it was Benny Parson's 73 Chevelle. If you look at the Rhine Built web site for the Gray Ghost 77 Cutlass it shows a box with cables behind the driver seat behind the cage. I also saw a picture of a mid 70's Monte Carlo where it was in the driver rear wheelwell extending into the interior. Any thoughts?

Here's a 1973 427 Chevy that shows the pump and pan:

Here's a three stage that might be easier to model. This is what I am doing on my 73 Grand Am.

I'm trying to finish a 1976 Buick Century Pace Car and then create a Nascar version of it as well. I have been trying to find an old discontinued SMH Resins body. In the last year and a half or so ther have been two on EBAY and they have gone for more than I wanted to pay. The last one was missing its hood and one bumper as well. Any body have one in a stash somewhere that they can part with let me know.

Probably polished aluminum.

Here is a top view of the engine in Ricky Rudd's 1987 Thunderbird. Good picture but not of the bottom!

The underhood is a Wood Brothers car, though.

No problem. Happy building.

don't know why it loaded them upside down. Another try:

Here's some more photos:

Can you post a picture of it?

Particularly engine compartment photos.

Please! I would not object at all because I'm sure that similar design thinking went into both cars. Also, on your Javelin post, was that a Mencken book lurking in the background?