Old Coyote

another pair of stunning builds John .............. stellar work as always

Instructions found and e-mailed to you this morning .......... have fun John

George, If you'll PM me your e-mail address I'll scan the instructions and e-mail them to you. John

now we're into the subsystem fabrication phase ........... wheelie bars, chute pack, tilt nose mechanism, steering, dashboard .......... plus the aluminum rear doors had to be stripped by hand, they are so thin that a media blaster would have destroyed them I'll continue to post pictures as we move along

then we had to get after all that rotten (acid dipped) sheetmetal ...........

So, the first thing we had to do was get a new chassis built for the car ......... we got Fatman Fabrications in Charlotte, NC to build us a new 90" chassis ....... Mustang II (Pinto) rack, four link rear suspension, narrowed Ford 9" rear, discs up front & drums in the rear

We are in the process of a total ground up rebuild of a 1948 English Ford Thames 1/4 ct panel van ........... thought you guys might want to see some "underneath the skin" reference pictures The car led a long life (25+ years) on the dragstrip and we found out it was in really bad shape when we started this project ......... all those years of hard launches had done a job on the frame ......... it was stress cracking in several places and was warping badly .......... this is what we started with when we got it disassembled, we saw all the problems

Beautiful build ........... very nicely done

very nice build ........ outstanding work

Very clean build .......... nicely done .......... impressive

Great build ......... that's really too cool

In 1962-1964, the timeframe these two cars were on the track, towlines were not required on drag chutes. While Jim Deist of Deist Drag Chutes made a model with a towline, neither of Tony Nancy's cars used it. The Modified Roadster used a standard Deist chute attached to the roll bar behind the driver's head, while the dragster used the standard chute mounted to a steel brace which was tucked inside a rear body cavity. Neither of these two cars had external towlines attached at all. The only "lines" to the chutes were the release cables.

Only one...... from nearly 20 years ago ......... not one of my better builds

Darrell Waltrip's Mountain Dew Terry Labonte's Apache Stove/Stratagraph Bobby Allison's Miller Ricky Rudd's Quaker State

Mark Martin's Winn Dixie Rich Bickle's Kraft/Bulleye Brett Bodine's Quaker State Terry Labonte's Budweiser

...... "Big John" Bateman's dragster driven by Pat Foster ........... Two Much Chassis, Bantam Blast engine, Altered States body, MCW painr, and Billy Gooche decals

..... the "Rainbow" car ........ built from an old MPC Garlits kit

If my old memory serves me correctly, it ran in the low 9's right at 150 mph ....... and that was at Amarillo's 3,700 foot altitude

Amazing ............. simply amazing ........... your modeling skills blow me away

Larry Pearson's Chattanooga Chew Terry Labonte's Budweiser Dale Earnhardt's GM/Goodwrench Geoff Bodine's Levi Garrett

Dick Trickle's Mannheim Auctions Stanley Smith's Ameritron Batteries Terry Labonte's Kellogg's Corn Flakes Darrell Waltrip's Tide

...... one of my favorite cars from my hometown of Amarillo, Texas was Roger Allred and Marvin Clarke's record holding D/D ......... powered by a pair of 310 cubic inch GMC fuel injected inline six cylinders, it was a sight to see (and hear) The model combines a Two Much chassis, a shorty body from Altered States, and a pair of "Jimmys" from J&S resins

.... this build combines the chassis from a Two Much dragster, the engine from a Bantam Blast, and the body from a Jawbreaker .......... Daytona Sunset Orange Metallic paint from Cobracolors and Slixx decals