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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.

Nice looking color. I like that.

You are correct ammonia will clean up the brushes and Windex will remove it from models too if you make a mistake.

I used a regular wide brush on smaller parts, but you can air brush it too.

Use that Future floor polish for clear. It's self-leveling and you can even brush that on. It's not as glossy as a clear coat, but it does look good. It should not interact with your decals and paint.

Looks good. When I ran dirt I used to run against Jay Bird Marlin. He's a cousin to Sterlin I think. Sterlin lives right down the road from a friend of mine. On occasion you can hear some loud engine fire up from my friends house.

Some may know this or figured it out. The first pic in this list was taken from the south end garage area of Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway. I went there as a kid and when I stopped playing in the dirt, I ran a grand National Sportsman car at this speedway. I built a 4 cyl car for a friend of mine to race here on the inside 1/4 mile track too.

Anytime. I used some old NASCAR slicks on mine since I wanted an asphalt modified. those wheels fit the NASCAR slicks perfectly. Plus, I had them in the parts stash. The car came from that Lindberg kit that had the Dodge L series tractor and flat bed trailer on it. I wanted it for the truck and trailer and did not want to waste the car, so it became a circle tracker.

Thanks. They came from some ASA Camaro kit my brother robbed from. He was going to toss some stuff and I took em. Ron Coon has them as w15 and w16. They are two-part wheels just like the ones I have in that pic. Scroll down to the bottom and find combo 1 and combo 2, that's what you want to get to save you the money. Ron Coon Resins | Wheels & Tires - For Circle Track Builds The finned aluminum Buick brake drums came from the Parts Box. I made an upside-down V bar for a roll bar. I made the shift that's in it. Gauges on the dash were from my stash along with the battery and gas tank in the back of it. I wired everything in it from the coil and dist. to the starter and battery.

The Lindberg kit has a 312 Thunderbird engine in it that might fit right in. I used it in my 40 Ford to build a circle track modified instead of going with a flat head. Just an idea.

It's a collectable thing. I used to date this woman that was a Coke collector. I don't recall ever seeing her drink one though. They make telephones, plates, dolls, those Christmas bears and tree ornaments and all sorts of that stuff. I doubt it will ever be worth more than what you pay for it, but people collect it.

More than welcome. I used to have a 70 Road Runner that I drag raced. You sure can tell where the Road Runner left off and where the Superbird took over.

That's the underside of the hood and you can clearly see where it was pieced together and the extra structure added. Hard to find a pic that shows just how big that seam is on the outside of the hood.

Well, you need to rescribe that line across the hood as that was stock. The Charger was used for the Daytona, and everything was made just for that car. The Daytona nose and wing will not fit on a Superbird and they are not the same design. The Superbird was created by taking a 70 Road Runner from the firewall back. It used Dodge Cornet front fenders and had it's on unique nose made for that car. The 70 ROad Runner hood was used, but it was too short and a panel was welded onto the hood. That's your scribe line you filled in that you need to rescribe now to make it look corrrect. And the Superbirds aero numbers were not as good as the Charger numbers either. And still till this day the Charger and Superbird has the lowest drag co efficent numbers among all makes. And since Mopar still has a military manfucaturing facility to this day (M1 Abrahams) the Daytona and Superbird were designed by Red Stone Arsenal rocket engineers from Alabama.

Love the color. Can't wait to see the final results.

I have a couple of those and the convertible version too. Using the converitble version to build the Jag from the original Vanishing Point movie to go with my Challenger.

Negative. The '68 Barracuda did not have the shaker or the same air cleaner. Only the '70 and '71 could have a shaker hood and air cleaner assembly. No Hemi after '71. There's two pics of a 68 notch back and fast back. Great cars though. I'd love to have a 65 though. I like the big window, but not a lot of room for big tires.

I use the same tubing for mine too. I have used old NASCAR cages in some cases too. I know I have a Chevelle I built, and I got lazy and did not want to build all the door bars, so I used NASCAR side cage pieces and built the rest myself. Worked out good in that case. Just depends on the body and interior design of the car as to what you can do with it cage wise. That file set has a round file that has some taper on the front end of it, but not the full length. I also find that file good for opening up and truing a tube after you cut it and it's no so round on the end anymore. They have lots of uses and if you get glue in it, just toss it and buy another set at just 6 bucks a set.

For your next cage, go to Harbor Freights website and get this diamond file set, Needle File Set, 10 Piece (harborfreight.com) The diamond files are 0nly 2 bucks more than the steel and it cuts the plastic faster. One of the files is flat on one side and curved on the other side. Use the curved side and cut your tubes long and make notched in there like I do to my roll cages in my real race cars. You can't but a round tube to a round tube. The fish mouth notch mounts to the round tube. And allows for a tight fit for welding, and in your case less glue and it makes it a tight fit when finished. It's a little extra work, but it makes the cage look like the real thing if you do it that way and like I said it makes it stronger and tighter fitting too.

Thanks. I did not think about those. I'll check one out. My real intake comes in two heights. Since we are using the plate, we used the shorter intake since the plate makes up for the loss. Should make for an interesting build.

I gotcha. No worries. I just thought I'd throw that out there since I put those pics in there with it.

Yeah, we've done a lot of research and testing on this animal so far. One patricular truck block is stronger than all the rest. There is a 426 stroker kit avaiable for them as well. The Eagle heads are the best box stock before porting and polishing. That intake in the pic is not fully machiend and tested yet. It will run a holley 1050 dominator on it with that tested nitrous plate. The bungs will the drilled and tapped for nitrous fogger nozles. Fogger is the first kit plate is the back up or secondary kit. We are looking for 1000 hp or more with weight in the 1600 to 1800 lbs max. The whole truck body weighs 240 lbs. We have some work to do. Not in any hurry to get it finished anyways. Hope I can find what I need to make the model mockup. Would be cool to have a model of what we built.

I have a kit that is on the way, and I need a source for a specific engine and an intake that will fit it. I'm building a model of what will be a real 1 to1 drag truck with a composite body. The model will use a tube chassis like the one we want to build for the 1 to 1. I guess I'm using the model as a mockup of the real thing. Right down to using it to test what paint job will look good for the real thing. What I need is a source for a 2010 or newer Hemi that comes in the trucks. So, nothing supercharged. And I need an intake that looks like the one in the pic. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. Resin pieces will work too, even 3d printed as long as I can get the part, I don't have a printer yet. THanks.

Thanks. The Charger is the bag guy's car from the '86 movie Gladiator. It stared Ken Wahl, Nancy Allen, Robert Culp, Rick Dees and Stan Shaw. I am working on the GMC now, but I may build Nancy Allen's '61 'vette too. The Gladiator (1986 film) - Wikipedia That Camaro in the pics has a Chevy engine paint color on it too. I try to use the same name brands on everything I paint. It reduces the chance of having things clash and causing a repaint. So, yes, same brand primer. If you use their gray primer, I have noticed they have different shades of it. Some darker than others. And htey still have the old red oxide primer too.