Old Coyote

Welcome sir ............ great looking set of Nascar builds .............. love them all, but especially the Kellogg's build ............... glad you've joined us

Beautiful build Wayne ........... so typical of all your efforts ............. stunning B)

Very nice build sir

Congratulations ........... a very deserved win B)

Great build Mark ............. that looks simply outstanding

Beautiful builds .......... all of them ............. talent off the scale B)

Rather proud of his parts .......... $20 for a pair of tail lights ............. sheez

Dunn & Reath Rendon & Prock Kellogg's Phantom Pulde & Hamby Keeling & Clayton Dale Pulde Infinity Phantom Kelloggs Phantom

Pisano Brothers Jim Green Kenz & Leslie Beebe Brothers & Condit Candies & Hughes Jake Johnston Doheny & Fullerton Phantom Kelly Chadwick

Yes Michael, they really existed .............. and they were a handful to drive ............... the mid '60's was a great time to be watching drag racing all across the USA

1. Dick Harrell 2. Jess Tyree 3. Phantom Kenz & Leslie 4. Don Gay 5. Jack Chrisman

Beautiful build sir

Looks great so far

Kelly Chadwick Phantom E/MP Willys AA/GS AA/Comp Bantam Coupe K. S. Pittman C/G Willys Phantom F/G Buick Riviera

Thank you Darryl and Bruce .............. your kind comments are greatly appreciated

You see correctly .............. there is indeed carburetor linkage controlling the Edelbrock 600 carb .............. a lot of people don't even notice the carb when looking at the real thing

The car really isn't injected, it is carbureted (600cfm Edelbrock) ............ the "injectors" are a shroud which contains a K&N filter .......... it was made by Alan Shadwick in Auckland, New Zealand ............... it gives us the old "Gasser" look (which this car really was) without the hassle of real mechanical injectors .................. we have the dependability of a carb

What a cool idea ............ great execution too B)

The most common thing people ask about when they see the car sitting at a cruise-in or show is "How can you drive it on the streets with no license plates?" ................ North Carolina only requires a rear plate, and my plate is on an electric swivel mount ............. turn the ignition on and it rotates down under the drag chute between the wheelie bars

Yes sir, it's a '48 English Ford Thames van ........ powered by a 327 cubic inch '65 Corvette engine ........ TurboHydro 350 trans with B&M clutches and converter ........... 9" Ford rear with 3.50:1 gears ..........it's an old Gasser that's been converted to a street rod

The Rastetter car had a chassis built by Don Hardy from Floydada, Texas (He also built the chassis for Kelly Chadwick's funny cars and some of the Gapp & Roush Pro Stocks) ............. all the pedals and equipment were attached directly to the chassis tubes ............ the aluminum floor bolted to the bottom of the chassis tubes (very much like the floor of a dragster or funny car chassis) ............. I can't tell you about the fuel altered situations, but the Rastetter car didn't throw that much rubber and almost none of what it did made it into the drivers compartment ............ most of the debris which got thrown was fired out behind the car as there really wasn't any body behind the slicks............ almost never had to clean the 9" Ford rear end .......... other than a small burnout, you didn't want that car spinning the slicks at all ..........

All of them have been done in the past five years ........... I have a love affair with American V-8's and small cars ............. as you can see by these photos of my 1:1 toy

Thanks Matt, that's the styrene body out of the Bantam Blast kit .......... there are no aftermarket parts on that build other than a pre-wired magneto ............ the paint is Cobracolors Candy Wild Cherry mixed with a little Cobracolors Candy Aztec Gold over a metallic gold base

Don't know how much I can help you with this question .......... I only saw a few cars with tilt bodies, and those were mostly Fiat Topolinos .............. I don't recall any of the "Tilt" cars having wheel tubs ........... back in the mid '70's when I was racing, altereds weren't required to have tubs at all ............ most all at that time were just the body covering the slicks ........... the Rastetter car (which I am very familiar with) had the body bolted on to the chassis at four points ........... two people lifted the body to get it off Here are some pictures I found