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WOW. I did not even think it was that low. I was born in 69, after my Dad got back from Nam. So, I missed out on the 60's.

If the glue was a dime and a quarter for the bottle, how much was the kit? $2 bucks?

That's awesome. I just ordered the Pontiac Lemans. I gotta have one of these to go with the car.

Good start. But for future reference that distributor sits at an angle to the passenger side on big block engines.

That was my problem too. Every interior shot I found had black seats in it. I could not find an interior pic of any of the Chaparral cars that had a roof on it at all. I'd go with black if it was mine. Side question: Can anyone say why the Sucker cars doors were left bare aluminum instead of painting them white to match the rest of the car? Wreck, maybe, but both doors. No. Maybe they were not completed in time before painting and the race. No. Gotta be a reason for that, but I've never heard what it might be.

The starter wire does look big in the pic. I built and raced mostly dirt and asphalt circle track cars, but I did drag race in the beginning. With 2 batteries in the trunk and no alternator for power we used a very large 00 ga wire. With alternator we ran 0 and with the battery behind the driver's seat we dropped down to a 1 or 2 ga wire. 00 is like welding cable size and it's very big. There's a chart below. Maybe you can figure out how to scale the wire that you need. Hope that helps some. Tell me that Road Runner drag car of mine does not look the 70's typical nose down rear up big drag slick car. lol And there's nothing like sliding sideways at a buck twenty with the LF 6 to 8 inches off the ground under full power coming of the corner.

Smaller one for sure. Don't want to see the empty hole behind it, unless you put an engine in the back of it too.

Looking good to me.

I have one of those that I started and boxed back up. I need to find it and finish it. Not a bad idea opening up the rear screens and putting some wire in there would look great. I cut an engine in half and put that in my car. I should have cut the floor pan out and put the hole engine in there. Maybe I will since my skills have improved a lot since I started that kit.

Thanks, just looking at them reminded me of how the cones are set up to center the wheels on a tire balancing machine. They work great. Hope it works for everyone.

This is what you need to sand tires with. It's a toilet seat bolt. Take one nut and put it on the bolt backwards so that the bevel faces away from the bolt head. I usually take ca glue and make that a permanent fitting at that point. Then take a Dremel or back saw and cut the hex head off of it. That end fits in your drill. Slide a tire on it and then screw the beveled part of the other nut onto the bolt and that will center up the tire, so it runs true. You can over tighten it if you want to bulge the tire to modify how you sand the surface. And this way it won't slip as you are sanding. Pretty secure and easy way to sand any size tire.

I might have one in a few days. Working on a deal. I'll let you know. I'd be interested in that cop car and that camrao.

Understood.

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