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  1. I have several too. And I'm tired of posting up the beginning on here and not getting to the end so you can ooh and aah or bash it. I think either way is good. If it's bashed, makes me try even harder to do better and further my skills. If aahed then I did something right. Both means it can use improvement. I'm going to try to start completing mine one at a time. I'm going to finish this one and then do the vette that I traded with Phil on cause I said I would. Then I'm either going to do some more race cars or some tv cop cars.
  2. I don't know, that V8 looked pretty sweet sittin in there.
  3. That's the 70 Bee engine. I've got several of those kits that I used chassis and parts to put in other cars. Everyone of those engines are like that. IF you get the intake to sit in the middle of the engine correctly there is very little gap on each end. I filled it with a little CA glue and painted it and you can't tell the diff.
  4. Might be because chevy and ford made a 100,000 plus of ea. model and Mopar's 25,000 of ea. Made up number to get my point across. And you can't use those as comparisons to a restored antique either. Those cars were either given to them from Mopar through sponsorship or sold cheap to them as BODIES in White. I have the address and number where I can buy bodies in white today. It's nothing but a body with mounts for stock suspension and nothing else. And you have to go to Mi. with a flat bed to pick it up when it's ready. When it comes to those cars, there is nothing to restore. There's not even a vin on those cars. You can still argue the fact they are worth more restored as a race car. Soxs car would be worth more restored as his car than it would be if it was restored as my car if I once owned it and raced it.
  5. I have some stuff set aside to do a Gl and cop car and a Jeep, but I need the F250 and the I have the 71 but I need the 73-4 Road Runner.
  6. True, but that was what I was getting at when I said that. You don't see people building that kind of a car and calling it a replica of the General.
  7. Yes, and they fact that you can't find them cause so many were raced and destroyed, destroyed on the street (usually cause of racing or drunks or wrecks) and that many are just rare to begin with. Some are as rare as 1 of 1 or 1 of 4 and such. That's the problem. Everybody does not have one. Anything under the '80's in a Mopar is getting hard to find in an original state making them all worth more than they used to. They are chevy's where they built a 100,000 compare to 25.000 Mopar's. YES, it's just a number I made up to make my point, it's not real so don't no one get there panties in a wad over that number.
  8. No, I meant the stripped out stunt cars that got totaled that have double main hoops and more bars than a Winston cup car. You ever seen the ones from Dukes Fest that they jump? Nothing inside but a seat, wheel and many roll bars.
  9. Yeah, I've seen a couple of them. What was the name of that Champ drifter that did the stunts? Something like Ryes Millian or something like that.
  10. You sure it was not GM. I don't remember it in either make, but I remember that was about the time line for Fords paint problems on there trucks. '80's early '90's. Clear coat and top coat would just come off and leave that gray primer finish showing through. Remember that problem and all the warranty repaints they had to do??
  11. I'm familiar with them, but no one runs them around here. Only in the higher classes and they are heads up. By roll cage, I mean the stunt cars roll cage, not that little roll bar in the story line cars or that horrible movie car. Actually the car was not horrible, just the movie other than the stunt drivers.
  12. They ran heads up, not bracket racing. Totally different thing, but as I already, if someone could do it, he would be the one. RIP.
  13. It's in my title. Go by DW, and don't call be Darrel Waltrip either.
  14. Your not comparing apples to oranges anymore. A stock Volar'e wont be worth more than a stock Road Runner and neither will a modified Volare' be worth more than a Road Runner. I'm not saying you can't use the 4 spd to bracket race, just don't expect to be a winner with it then if that clarifies. Brackets racing hinges on consistency an I've never seen a 4spd car when a bracket race cause they are not consistent. My guess is that the only person that could do it is long passed on now and that was Ronnie Sox. Mr. 4spd. is a Volare based Roadrunner a desireable "antique" To answer that question, YES.
  15. I'm talking about the premise behind the show. You base your replica on the show, not what they had to use to make the show. IF that was so, you'd see stunt car replicas with roll cages in them. And you don't see them built up.
  16. You can't do any of that either if you are making a replica of that car. They all used stock suspension and a 440 with an auto. IT was based on the premise of being a stock car. There's one scene where you see the engine, the only scene of all of the seasons, with the engine in the barn on a stand before they got the car. It was a very far away shot, but anyone could tell it's a 440. The only time it ever had a Hemi was in that horrible remake movie. The only reason I even watched it was to see Millan's stunt driving in it. Replica means replicate, you know, make a copy, so air bags and 318's and such would be out.
  17. Road Runners are Plymouth's, not a Dodge such as the Aspen. If you take that car and mod it, you just wasted another antique car that should be restored. And you don't use 4spd cars to bracket race. No consistency what so ever. IF you want a bracket car why not get a stock Volare' and build one instead of ruining an another antique muscle car that should be restored. There's no reason not to make a modified car, but there's no since in using an antique that should be restored. I've built many a drag and circle track car and not once used an antique car of value to do it with.
  18. Thanks. I finally got off the net and got motivated last night to make the sides to protect the drivers legs in the tire area. Got them cut out and the holes punched for the axle to fit through. Need to file an trim a bit and paint and install them. Going slow, but at least it's going. Determined to finish it before I start another one.
  19. Tub wont work, since that would be against the rules for the kind of race car I am trying to build, and then your still stuck in the front. See that little lip on the front fender just under the body line, that's about all that needs to be removed on both front and back. I'm trying to do some things that I have not tried before and with only one body, I need to get it right the first time. That makes me a little worried about it I guess, but I'm going to have to start somewhere and stop worrying about it being so dang perfect. As I know from real life exp. circle and road race cars do not stay perfect for long. Racing is a contact sport.
  20. No way. I have a Road Runner that never had that option and it's worth more restored with it's original small block than modified with a Hemi or big block. An original is always worth more than the sum of the parts of clone.
  21. And the fact that they tied Han into the 4th one as well.
  22. http://www.autoblog.com/2010/02/04/fast-five-official-walker-and-diesel-reteam-for-fifth/ Fast Five official: Walker and Diesel reteam for fifth Furious movie. It's official – The Fast and the Furious franchise will get another chapter. Speculation about a fifth installment had been rampant since Fast and Furious once again struck box office gold for NBC Universal last year. The rumors of a fourth sequel came to a head last month when Dominic Toretto himself made the announcement to his 7,385,034 Facebook fans that writer Chris Morgan had handed him scripts for a fifth and sixth movie in the series. Yet, there was no official word from the studio, until now. Besides Vin Diesel (Toretto), Paul Walker (Brian O'Conner) and director Justin Lin will also return for what's now known simply as Fast Five. Apparently the gang isn't so furious anymore. The franchise should be in good hands, as this crew has ridden through at least two movies apiece and Chris Morgan was the author of the screenplays for the last two installments (The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift and Fast and Furious). Those two chapters were arguably the best in the FNF filmography. The official announcement didn't include word of the suggested sixth installment, but if Vin is to be believed, they might be filming episode five and six back-to-back with a staggered release schedule possibly taking the franchise to its ten-year anniversary in 2011.
  23. Thanks. I need to be working on my side panels for now instead of being online, but I can't seem to get motivated. Maybe before the nights out ... lol.
  24. That's a good idea for making a lip or flared fender, but I want these to follow the stock lines of the original car for that showroom stock look. I'll keep that in mind though for other projects. I never thought of that.
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