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Dan.......what do you do to make the "turnouts" on the exhaust pipes AFTER the collectors? I've used aluminum tube, but that limits me to slash cut or a straight pipe. I've tried plastic tube, but always end up with a collapsed pipe on the inside of the bend.

I have cut out and used the "bendy" part of a flexible drinking straw.

This has REALLY caught my interest! Great fab work. Might I ask what frame and body did you start with?

Hey Scott......you refer to the red Willy’s as being “at Englishtown”. Those photos are definitely not from Englishtown. While the license plates on the Chevelle and the Willy’s look like New Jersey plates, it’s also not Island Dragway nor Atco. I’m just asking because wherever it is, it looks like they have a very nice pits, staging lanes, and strip. Would like to visit. And yes, that red Willy’s is one clean gasser!

You gotta be careful when you bandy that term “LANDY” around! I saw the headline and got excited. Thought maybe someone bought the trademark of the late Dandy Dick Landy and was opening Mopar Dyno Tune Centers like he had! Oh well........

Johnny Thunders interpretation of Pipeline. Absolutely manic!

Eddie Hazel in Maggot Brain, the 1971 P-Funk classic. Still get chills when I hear it live in concert.

Been really feeling the new Stones, “Angry”. Keef has often been overlooked in the pantheon of great rock guitarists, but I’ve always thought a lot of his stuff was simple and clean.

MAD fabrication skills! I’m jealous.

When younger, many times when I needed parts or a project, I went "junkin'", picking through junk yards, wrecking yards, scrap yards......whatever you want to call 'em. More times then I care to remember, I'd knock on some farmers door if I saw something interesting sitting out in his field. So........when did the sighting of every old abandon car become a BARN FIND? Is it just me, or do you also find that term haute and presumptuous? They are OLD ABANDON or junk cars.......be it a Hemi Cuda or a Rambler American!

66 years old.......mentally mid 20’s.....LOL!!! Heart attack 15 years ago, couple of stents. More recently, heart valve. Due for a new shoulder and knee. Been getting shots to prolong the inevitable. Still pretty active. Lots of yard/farm work. Matter of fact, shoveled/threw about 5 yards of mulch today. Still help a kid out with his Modified at the Saturday night track. Get in a few two hour bench sessions each week.

Can't remember if it was this car or one of his Pontiacs. At Daytona, NASCAR was suspicious of why Smokey was getting better gas mileage than everyone else. They impounded the car and pulled the fuel cell. It pumped to the stipulated 22 gallon maximum. With the cell laying on the ground next to the car, Smokey got in, fired it up, and proceeded to drive it to his garage a couple of miles from the track. Lesson learned? In the rulebook, NASCAR limited the size of the tank, but they made not one mention on the length and diameter of the fuel line!!! Smokey had 1" diameter hose snaked all through the underside of the car, thus giving him a few extra gallons of capacity!

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When I was a real little kid, our neighbor had a '59 Buick. Whenever he parked it in the street, I refused to go out and play!

Hey, Charles!! Chas here......not too far away from you in NJ. From time to time, Mike's Decals sells complete AMT NASCAR kits, less bodies, for something like $10. They come in a clear plastic bag. I bought about a half dozen to do exactly what you've done here. Couple of questions on the build: I've never tried to make a fender/quarter opening smaller. I think someone mentioned using .030 sheet and layering it. Is it added to the backside and then bondo built up? Added to the front side and seam sanded flush? Also, what pan did you use with the AMT motor to convert from dry sump to wet sump?