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I know it went back as far as the 60's. The entire bumper had to be yellow, not just striped. But, back then you had real chrome stock bumpers up till the 90's.

IT was no big deal, really. Blew a right rear tire and the wing hit the ground. Both pilots, the dog, and the wife, kid, and jr. WALKED away from the plane, did not even run away from it. Then later it caught fire and burned down. No one hurt from what I could see from the video.

Check out the movie SWAT. They depict that shoot out in the opening scenes and it appears they used some news coverage from that shoot out as well.

Where did you find that at? I've never seen one before.

Not my first car, but I had a 74. All black, 401 big block, A727, and 4.11 gears in a Dana 60. Thing would fly, and it handled very well, too.

Looks good. I like it. Being a short track racer for years I just wanted to mention it's rare to have a dry break on them. Only the lowest of classes would retain the front fender wells without cage bars, and never put a forward facing scoop on one. Never seen a rule book that would allow that one, but you can get away with a ton on dirt track cars. Biggest cheaters I have ever ran against. Might as well build what you want and forget about the rule books. lol Love the oversized air filter too.

The Petty Charger wit the flat hood is a 72, all 73 and up had the power bulge hood. Look at the pic below and you will see that the qtr window sweeps to the rear. That was on 71 and 72 model years only. 73 and 74 the qtr window sweeps forward. Plus, all 73 up Petty cars have the dual stripes over the roof and hood. The 72 car used the hide a way head light covers too, the 73 up had the stock grill with screen over it. Not sure why they would be cut to make a wagon, the Charger we never offered in a wagon version.

They did not use truck arms in the 70's Would have had the stock gm 4 link under it. Did not go to truck arms till the 80's metric chassis cars.

Looks good. Almost looks like Marty Robins colors. Noticed it's a road race car with the fuel cap on the passenger side.

Cant help you with the classes, but you could always go post war circle track racing. I used the car from the same kit to make this one.

Thanks. I'll take a look at it.

Thanks. Still a good looking build though.

Looks good, just one thing, your linkage for the carbs on the wrong side. Cobra carbs mount backwards with the vacuum secondary pod on the drivers side and the linkage and springs on the passenger side.

Bored over 351. They were running 355's and then later on finally settled on a 358 that they still run today.

https://www.mikesdecals.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=tire+decals&search_in_description=0&osCsid=ovcqnhveksmitkhcv4tr4i3hk4 Mikes has what you need. They are decals instead of dry rub though. Just sand the tires so they look used and real, slap on a decal and flat clear and the edges disappear.

Are you sure it's a rear steer chassis? Not sure what year it was, but at some point everyone went front steer no matter what make they ran. Since it's a Nova, wouldn't ya want to use a front steer too since that was stock? Clip the chassis and put the front steer on the rear steer chassis like we do the real cars?

IF you are talking about the tires, nothing but the words on the sidewall if it even says drag radial on it. Most are more low profile on the sidewall as compared to a real drag slick though. As for a real tire, it's the inner construction. Radial tires have their fabric and metal belts ran from one side of the bead to the other in an X fashion all the way around the tire. That's why you can't tell if they are low on air by looking cause the wont bulge very much even when they only have as little as 10 pounds in them. Bias ply tires have the same cloth or metal belts, but they run from bead to bead in a straight line. That's why they look flat even if they have 40 pounds of air in them, but if you drop that down ten pounds you can defiantly see a bigger bulge in the side wall. Drag radials are not worth much. Not for serious racers. Just made to fit new cars with small wheel wells. They are usually wayy to short in the sidewall to do any good as a drag tire too. They wont wrinkle enough in the side wall for a big high horsepower car. You need bias ply or normal drag tires for high hp cars. The sidewalls wrinkle up on launch cause the tire sticks to the ground as the wheel starts to move and then the tire starts to move as it runs out of sidewall. That way the sidewall takes some of the shock of the launch and it helps to keep the tire from breaking loose and spinning uncontrollably. This is a general answer just to get the point across as simple as I could so don't have a fit from the ones that want to get more technical.

Weave some thread and make a border using paper match sticks.

Those ARII wheels look more like the ones used on the tv show. The kits wheels and stripes are from the movie. Wheels and tires too small and the stripe is wrong for the tv car. The tv car had more of a rearward stripe where it curves on the rear quarter. It followed the quarter behind the window where it slants and goes more to the rear before it turns forward. The movie car looks more straight down like the kit decals.

The intake is under the blower. You mean the carbs and stacks. The carbs fuel bowels face forward as in the top pic.

Good looking Mopar's.

They really should not be lowered at all. Rules require 4 inches of clearance around the cars when sitting still. They only get close to the ground at top speed when areo forces push the car down on the soft springs they use. They have been using the stiff bar, soft spring approach since the 90's. So, unless you have a driver in it and trying to make it look in motion, you might not want to lower it in order to make it look more authentic.

Depends on the year you are talking about. 90's and up, no window trim. They have a black out tape strip around the glass. It does several things. It blocks out sun, looks good, but most of all it helps to keep the Lexan windows from cracking around the edges when it's under stress. It's held down by metal brackets screwed into the sheet metal and some are screwed into the glass as well. They come in different shapes from triangle to rectangle to inside braces as well. Now the 80's and older cars have factory chrome trim and from the 60's to the 80's you'll find some to all of them have the same kind of screw in tabs that I mentioned above. I guess there was no one was to do it rule other than the windows had to be secure until the 90's when everyone pretty much used the same thing. Hope that helps.

All of those MPC kits have a generic wheel base adjustable chassis that looks nothing like what they ran in those cars back then. They used that same chassis in Dodges, Fords, and Chebby race cars. Best to find a stock Daytona and use some of the MPC race parts and body on the stock chassis. You have to remember when they ran those cars in the 70's they were still stock frame cars with reinforcements and roll cages and beefed up stock engines. That link will have some interior cage shots for Daytona's. https://www.google.com/search?q=NASCAR+Dodge+Daytona+interior&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwin5Iimhf_VAhWIyoMKHQ5JB5YQ_AUICigB&biw=1366&bih=636 There's some decent chassis pics at this link. https://www.google.com/search?biw=1366&bih=636&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=NASCAR+Dodge+Daytona+chassis&oq=NASCAR+Dodge+Daytona+chassis&gs_l=psy-ab.3...108190.109126.0.110561.7.6.0.0.0.0.209.729.0j2j2.4.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..3.2.376...0i8i30k1.4HpAU7VWQIk#imgrc=zNU-ChLLMEXRUM: Hope that helps.

Builders Jim Schaeffer and John Collier performed extensive modifications to the A100 in order to fit a 426 Hemi engine and TorqueFlite automatic transmission. Since the A100 was a cabover design, Schaeffer and Collier opted to install the drivetrain in a roughly amidships configuration behind the rear of the cab, in the pickup bed, within a welded steel subframe. Parts deemed unnecessary were removed from the body, among them the heater, dashboard, front bumper and all body sealer. The passenger doors were replaced with fiberglass units. The Little Red Wagon's first dragstrip run netted a mid-11 second quarter mile at 120 mph (193 km/h).[1] The vehicle was not originally intended to perform wheelstands; the slight rearward bias caused the nose to lift in the air for nearly the entire quarter-mile run. Golden soon purchased the truck from Dodge for use as an exhibition racer. The Little Red Wagon debuted in the 1965 season opener at Lions Drag Strip in Wilmington, California in front of 10,000 fans and reporters from major newspapers and automotive publications. The vehicle suffered three wrecks in 1969, 1971 and again in 1975. After the 1975 wreck, Golden converted a non-operable show truck and campaigned it for the next thirty years. Golden entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 1977 with a 4230' (1289m) wheelstand, approximately the length of three quarter-mile dragstrips. In 2009, the Little Red Wagon was sold at RM Auctions Icons of Speed and Style Auction. The vehicle was expected to fetch US$300,000; it was instead the auction's top seller at $550,000.[2] It is also the subject of a 1/25 scale model kit from IMC and was later reissued by Lindberg Models. Besides the wreck, there were several versions with different engines, and induction systems, and paint schemes. The original truck just had two 4 bbls carbs,then it was hillborn injected, and supercharged at some point. I dont think it ever had a tunnel ram on it, but dont rule that out. It ran different wheels over the years and it did have gold wheel wells at one time. When Dodge first built it and Bill Maverick drove it, the driver was on the left as normal. At some point it was rebuilt with the drivers seat in the center of the cab. Just like that movie Hot Rod. So many versions of that Willy's coupe to build. You just have to pick a version you like and build it.