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  1. These I already had in my parts collection, they are not wide enough being for the 289. I dug around in my basement model stash and found a Revell 70 torino GT street burner kit with some valve covers that look okay. Thanks Draggon, I'll have to do an eBay search. Your in fremont? that was sort of the home drag strip for the Souza bros. as well as Half Moon bay. I lived in Los Altos util moving to the midwest in 1971, spent lots of time at Half moon bay beach. Wish I could have witnessed the drag racing scene there around 1967 or so.:)
  2. Huh... Thanks for the input. this old car was some kind of mutt of Ford parts it seems. I am just a smidgen away from building this as a (what if the Souza Brothers ran a Blown 427 SOHC Fantasy car). LOL! Seriously, those are not quite rite but closer.
  3. they look like this... zoom in on the lower part of pic.
  4. Thanks afx, I did a test last night with the Evergreen 1/8" inch square tube w/carbon rod epoxied in. Then sanded down two sides slightly to create a more scale like appearance. I think it will work. I'm still still thinking about the reason for two brake pedals in the photos of this car. Studying the pictures I have found of it, it looks as if it had no front brakes of any kind. Could it be a trans. brake?... thought that was usually on some kind of switch. Speaking of photographs, I just found yet another iteration of the Souza brothers car on a Facebook post. This time w/the blown 427 and long nose, different lettering. I did buy a second AMT kit, so I have a donor body to stretch the front end if I decide to. Do like the look of the longer front end version w/blown engine, and think it would present better. every thing else about the car on this later version looks pretty much the same . The Revell parts pack 427 I ordered is very much a bust, Valve covers are incorrect shape and the rest unusable, so I'm working w/the 390 block from the Moebius Ranger kit. Just need to find some properly shaped valve covers, none of the ones in my stash will work
  5. Thanks, it's turned into a very different type of project than it started out as hasn't it. Always happens to me. I do work on other things but this is getting the most bench time lately.
  6. Ive been using Scotch removable double sided tape. it dosent work for every type of mockup, but you can cut small pieces the size of your part to temporarily hold it in place. Ive also used just about everything mentioned here: had no luck w/white glue, tried Testors window glue and found the residue difficult to remove. Sometimes I'll just use a blob of Bostik Blu-Tack. By the way the Scotch double sided tape is great when you are trying to make identical parts from sheet styrene, use it to hold two pieces together and cut them out at once or make a copy of a finished part by using the tape to hold it down to another sheet, rough cut it out and cut sand or even drill holes to match the original
  7. Got the interior tub finished, it's going to be painted to replicate aluminum so I had to take extra care making good clean seams in the 15 separate pieces. As well as some fine sanding. (shown with my mockup rear axle) I had sanded some .100 x .188" Evergreen strips down to .100 X .132" for the frame rails, only problem with them is they are not going to be strong enough to hold up the front of the car without some kind of additional support. (see picture) The real car had no diagonal bracing up front. Have thought about brass but can't find the size needed (something close to 1/8x3/32") or Evergreen 1/8" square tube with a brass or carbon fiber rod slid into it would work but look slightly out of scale.
  8. Great win for Ferrari,HTP Mercedes tried to stretch there tires for the last stint and crashed out. Needed to see some real racing while I impatiently wait for the F1 circus to resume. Did anyone enjoy as much as I did?
  9. Only 1:30 left, live coverage here... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmLdnnjC0q4
  10. The Moebius 71 Ranger has a really nice c-6, the 350 block and heads in the kit I think I can use as a base for an FE. The injectors and manifold will probably have to be scratch built.
  11. Some progress to report, I had to redo the rear wheel tubs. Stupid mistake, when I glued things together I attached the inside panels to the wrong side of my pencil lines. So that made them to narrow. It's now sorted and the transmission tunnel is finished as well. Stupid question... why did this car have two brake pedals? Was one for the front other for the back? Yah I know, stupid question but I don't know about these types of details of early drag cars.
  12. (Bosozoku cars) , haven't seen this exploited in styrene yet. google it.
  13. I found this old thread on the BOSS 302 forum from 2007. A member there owned the original car and was looking for info to restore it. unfortunately his photo links no longer show up. His last post from 2011 he says he got the info he was looking for and even some from the guy who lettered the car. It could be that he (his handle is "69shelby") is still active on that forum and could be contacted. http://www.boss302.com/smf/index.php?topic=29514.0 I think this was actually a 1965 year car that he raced in 66. also ran a 66 427 Fairlane.
  14. About bashed headers https://youtu.be/azPKIjxmmdU LOL. I am luv'n this old school type build. Go Go !
  15. My experience also, A tip, if you have a Swiffer sweeper wet mop in your abode, the plastic refill container is perfect for the pond.
  16. This is such a fantastic build. And like others have already said that black paint is beautiful.
  17. I needed an engine block and c6 transmission to move on with the mock up of the interior (firewall and trans tunnel) as well figuring out the setback of the motor. I found a 1971 ford Ranger(Moebius kit) locally. Has a 390 block with as far as I can tell a c6 transmission. Is it? Anyway I'm using them to lay out the cutout in the firewall and make sure the hump clears everything until I can get the correct parts. The Transmission in the Moebius kit is nicely molded and looks like the c6 ones I can find online. Please let me know if I'm wrong, not a ford expert. The 390 Block is not that great and I need something with better detail for such an exposed engine situation. Made a mockup frame, well more like a cradle to hold the engine in place while I work on the floorpan. I'm leaning toward doing an early version of the car (short wheelbase, leaf spring front and coil spring rear suspension) less body mods and easier livery. Still wish I had a bitt more info on this car as far as what they did with the frame towards the back of the car. Some things that are unusual to me is the wide spacing of the main frame rails (around the same width as the grill if you look at how the fiberglass front end attached them). Another being there are no front diagonal braces to the rollcage and it looks like only one leading back from the hoop. Here are the pictures. (you can clearly see what Snake is saying about the not correct rear wheel openings in the side view). Honk if you like it. LOL
  18. Bear , Thats from one of my favorite albums. Da Capo is also fantastic. Arthur was a very cool and demanding artist, sort of the "Miles Davis" of pop art west coast rock and roll.
  19. Wow, nice to see an old build like this. You did good work, myself I was around six years old and building ship models to light on fire and sink in our pool. Memory lane
  20. here is a view from below and the frame laid on approximately. They need to be bent to shape, the frame behind the coil spring mounting points for the rear axle will be round stock. It seems strange, but that is what I am seeing in my documentation.
  21. Here is the interior so far. It's not accurate but I have found no photos that are helpful. I'm just trying to make it look plausible at this point so I can move forward.
  22. Thanks Bill, that gives me something to work from. I saw a hood with the tear drop hood for this year of Mustang (I would have to fill in the cutt out on the AMT kit) somewhere on the net. Don"t remember the site, could that be Speed City as well?
  23. Thank you all for the comments. This is really turning out to be a enjoyable yet challenging project. The chassis I worked so hard on is now in the scrap pile. It was just not correct in so many ways, The body in the old AMT funny car kit is really a quite good representation of the factory cars that were sent to Holman Moody( rear wheel wells moved forward etc.), the rest of the kit ehh. I have bene bussy with the razor saw on the interior tub, and my workbench is covered with card stock templates. I have done a LOT of research, but there are just some things I will have to guess at. One thing I really don't know is what the rear interior looked like behind the roll bar, I am guessing it was uncomplicated. The documentation I have collected on this car so far is my guide and I am trying hard not to let my inner engineer to take over. The motor and trans look good Paul, I just don't know about the Algon injection. Bill, here is a side view of the car. To me it sure looks like a stock hood length with the lower portion of the wheel well extended forward. What do you think?
  24. Being winter here in Wisconsin with all my usual gardening leave duties finished till next summer, I have resserected this project. I did spend some time resurching old early funny cars, and found a car with a fair amount of documentation. The (Souza Brothers and Dad) steal bodied w/glass front end funny. Though most every photo found shows that this car was under constant modifications. I did find good info from an old (drag-zine) that gives me some great info, so I will try to base things from it. There is lots of missing details like what was the actual wheelbase of the car I am trying to create. I will have to find a good 427 Wedge W/C6 trans. Algon injection (some photos of this car show Cobra valve covers) is that an A.C. Cobra motor? There is a fair amount of styrene editing going on at this point. If I could ask. 1) what is a good source of an 427 wedge block w/c6 trans.? 2) Do you think this photo depicts a lengthened body, or just the front wheel wells moved forward? 3) is there a way to have decals made for this car?
  25. OOPS , I guess I blurted there.
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