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I know, it's soooooo slow. Just get to the point if there is one. lol Just fast forward to the end and watch the drag race down Mulholland Drive in the hills on the edge of the San Fernando Valley. Steve runs the 356 Porsche Speedster and Cal runs the 'Vette. The movie is loosely written about Chris Banning, who owned and raced a heavily modified Porsche 911 and Charles "Crazy Charlie" Woit, who owned and raced a vintage, 427 'Vette. In 2006, Chris Banning wrote a book entitled "The Mulholland Experience" detailing his experiences, what it was like being a part of that street racing community and being the inspiration for the film. Hopper is crazy nuts in that film. That was a perfect character for him to play. And for the heck of it, watch the Holley throttle on the 'vette. It does not match the sound track. lol

The Daytona used the Charger 500 body. They had time to do those and only had to build 500 of them. The rules changed after that car was built. They did not have time to build the required cars before the season started. They barely had enough race car bodies too. Pic just for you. lol I bet not everyone gets that.

Vinyl roof could not be an option for these cars. The vinyl covered up the rear window plug and unfinished body work on these cars. I500 or so of these cars had to be built in a hurry to beat the NASCAR rules so the car could be legal for use in NASCAR at the beginning of the 70 season.

Welcome, anytime. This might be what you were looking at under the Sox and Martin. You can find it in the Mopar Performance Chassis manual. You need these floaters to use leaf springs with ladder bars. Less weight going coil overs and ladders though. The floater lets the springs slide back and forth as the ladder bar transfers the rotational motion of the axle to the front of the ladder to transfer weight. If you don't use the floaters on a leaf spring car the leafs load and unload and it will axle hop and smoke the tires to no end.

There's bunch of pics on this site, but even with the wheels up, it's still to dark under the car to tell. Billy "the Kid " Stepp???? - Moparts Forums

Anytime. I can understand wanting to stiffen up your build. I cut two frames to make it longer and did the same thing you did, but it was hidden by the floor pan. Yeah, not a lot of good reference pics of the cars from that era too. I would imagine they left the trunk floor pan in them since they needed some weight back there, but who knows. It's looking good though. My Mom had a 71 Dodge Demon in Plumb Crazy Purple. Only new car she ever owned. Miss that car.

On the factory frames, the front does have a wide depression where you filled that in, it's just not as deep as it is on that frame rail. But the rear frame rails are 100% correct. They are U shaped and just as deep in the inside as they are tall. The only thing that covers them is the trunk floor pan. If you removed the floor pan, by drilling out the welds, you would see that open channel. Not sure if they covered it on the car you are building though. You can remove the two lines on each side of the firewall too if you're not using the fender wells.

More than welcome. I've seen it happen in real cars too. Too short a spring for the ride height and it requires either the right spring or a frame mount relocation. Dangerous to have it facing forward in the real thing. Sometimes I hate to mention things like that, don't want to make anyone mad, but I also know that many want it to look right. I'm not sure if I have built more models or more real cars at this point. lol

I have one of these. The slots in that box are very tight and it makes for a straight cut with a stiff back saw like the one in the pic. Midwest Easy Miter Box Deluxe 83277 | Zoro And Micro Mark has this handy electric one. MicroLux® Mini Miter / Cut-Off Saw (micromark.com)

By the rules, there should be two of them. Both six inches away from the U Joint. The spring hanger on the frame should be slightly in front of springs eye. The way it's mounted now, is backwards. The shackle should angle to the rear of the car, not to the front. It can actually flip over if it's angled to the front on a real car.

Yes it would. I love doing movie and tv cars and such. As well as the race cars.

ooh, I need one of those 'vets. I can do the car from King of the Mountain with those rims it's perfect. A car ole Dennis Hopper would enjoy driving. lol

Like the race car. I built one of the old Lindberg kits into a race car. Asphalt modified with a Thunderbird engine in it. Here's a pic for inspiration.

Looks good, including the lines.

Welcome anytime. Glad to help.

Bottom return, side from the tank, and top is the outlet to the barrel valve and from the valve to the injectors. The barrel valve is controlled by the throttle pedal. on the pics with the injector hat the barrel valve is on the side of the hat. The throttle opens the butterflies and controls the valve at the same time. Your engine looks like it has 8 short stacks. One line to the bottom of each stack and the throttle opens 8 butterflies inside the bottom of the stacks. Hard to see your pic, but it looks like it has a base under the stacks. Your injector lines could go in there. Trying to keep it simple, but hope that helps.

Depends on the years, but they have a huge fuel line and a smaller return line. Fuel pump mounts off the camshaft and sticks out past the blower belt. From the pump to the barrel valve to the injectors.

More than welcome. I figured it was an update. They changed our plates to blue last year for no good reason. I don't like em. lol

More than welcome. That must be the new plate design. Georgia is centered on Trent's plate. Either way it will work. Most will not notice that. Glad to help out.

Georgia across the top of the plate. White plate with the peach in the center of it. I can't read the county name but it's rather long. The tag number is PR9Z084 Watch at the 40 second mark.

You can YouTube Flashpoint if oyu want to watch it. They have the S.R.U. the Strategic Response Unit. It's just like a S.W.A.T. unit but they are trained in phsycology as well. Helps em talk down suspects and try to stay two steps in front of them if they can understand them. I liked it anyways. lol

I hope it comes back MrMike. And Rob Hall is right, it's taxes. That's why a bunch of stuff is filmed in Canada too. That's why Flashpoint was taped in Canada. I loved Flashpoint and at first, they tried to make it look like LA and implied that it was, but they gave up on that. You would see all the local cops with the red striped bands on their caps and their Canadian police uniforms. It was still a good cop show.

Brings back memories. Looks great on that open trailer. That's the way they used to haul em and towed em with a 10 ton box truck.

Looks good. Can't wait to see it finished. Hope the show come back on soon too.

Has anyone ever tried painting a piece of glass and then sitting the tire on the white paint? Seems like it would be smooth and stiff and just let the raised letters touch the paint in most cases, but not all.