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Recently purchased the Ross Gibson pro Stock Hemi (RGE 603), Somewhere I lost the oil pan. Does any one have a picture of what it looks like. If someone could post a pic I would scratch build it. Thanks Terry

Are the tires in the original kit the same size that was in the re-issue Mongoose II Front Engine Dragster. If so why not use those. tb

Not to hijack the thread, Bob Plumer passed away last night. link http://classicfunnyc...p?topic=20806.0 Have not gone through the photos but here is a link to some of his work http://nitrogeezers....umer-Collection tb Looks great

Great looking model, Here is an article from the Hemi Challenge this year at Indy. Notice intake runners and also carbs. The carbs are offset from center not much but still offset. http://www.dragracingonline.com/raceresults/2011/xiii_9-hemichallenge-1.html

What engine did you use in the Duster. Everything posted here is awesome!!! Terry

Been trying to upload one photo as a trial, not working. Need to work on it some more when I have more time. If anyone would like to host some chassis photos, I have some chassis pics with no body work that might help in building a chassis. With motor and trans Terry

Guys, Some Funny Car bodies do have door panel lines, they are real small and would not show on a scale model but they are their. Looked at my photos I took at Gateway, you have to look real close on a large pic but they are their. I do not post photos online but if someone wants me to send them a pic or two I can e-mail them to them. tb

Maybe Mike over at IndyCals http://www.indycals.net/ Terry

I probably do not have to tell you this, but the Mustang has a completely different engine set up than the ivo dragster. While i think that the speed city kit is the next best thing to running water, and understand that it would have taken a lot more modification, the engines are back to back and turn a gear cluster that turns a torque tube, then turns (as someone put it)a overly used clutch to turn front and back wheels. Note the gear cluster between front and back engines. This is not a critisism of the Speed City kit, the way that he has done the ford engines is genius. I have one on my wish list when I finish my two top gas dragsters and duster fuel coupe. The speed city site had a pictures of the kit as it was being designed and as i said it was the next best thing to running water. tb

Try this http://jbhobbies.freewebspace.com/ Even google said that jbhobbies.net would harm your computer terry

It is correct for the car that the model is based on, It sits in a private museum in norhtern Illinois. The actual race car did have tin over the injector. tb

All I did was post a website for more pictures, never mentioned who Mongoose got the car from. Nice pictures of Leals/Schumacher car, notice the tin work on schumacher's a solid bulkhead behind the front tires then a tin skirt at the bottom of the car that extends to the rear tires tb

This site has the two pics that Jim posted, plus about 500 pages of classic funny cars http://classicfunnycarboard.com/CFB/index.php?topic=834.6960 A search on the same site turned up a rear pic, Type Mongoose in the search, scroll all the way to the bottom, also click on pic and it will bring you to the original picture have fun scrolling thru this message board tb

Go to Snakeracing.com and click on collection, then click Mongoose car, scroll right and there are several pics of the car with body up. Depending on sunlite the chassis looks different colors in several pics. Terry

This is weird. Looking through some old built models packed away last night and found both McGee dragster and Spitit of 76 in the same container. They are not the same body. The McGee body is like the Prudhomme car, the Wedge part of it is long and starts about halfway on the chassis. The '76 body is short, it reminds me of the Poncho Rendon car that Connie Kallita crashed at Indy in '71, The wedge part starts about the drivers compartment. Mongoose never built a wedge car. His first rear engine car was built by Don Garlits IIRC. Remember seeing Prudhomme's rail in a Car Craft magazine when it came out (yes I am old) and thought it was the neatest looking dragster ever built. Snake's dragster was built by John Buttera, and what a piece of workmanship. It is at the Garlits museum and it is a lot different from the Chris Karamesines wedge that was also their. It has moveable flaps at the rear for adjusting to different track conditions. I have pictures from the garlits museum if you would like to have some reference material. I do not know how to post pics on a site. I can send them to someone if they want to see them here. Terry

Do not know where to post this, so here goes. TV Tommy Ivo on the NHRA website has given a big shoutout to John Teresi's Ivo hauler, also a nice recollection of Ivo's trailers through out the years. Link http://www.nhra.com/blog/dragster-insider/page/2/

Let me add another issue of spray booths. If you have it in a basement and a older style furnace when you turn on the fan you need to have an outside air source, open a door or window, A few years ago a friend of mine suddenly died, while this was not the cause of death the autopsy showed a high level of CO in his blood stream. The gas company was called to look at his condo and the first thing they pointed was the air booth, It was stated without an outside air source the fan is pulling air down the flue pipe. The new high effiency furnaces I think do not have this problem