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The first mention of "cheater slicks" applying to stock class cars appeared in the 1961 NHRA rule book. They were allowed but could not exceed the width of a tire " one size larger than the originally equipped tire". In '62 your allowed tire width was dependent on the o.e.m. wheel width with no tire to exceed 7". It was 1966 when NHRA removed all references to o.e.m. tire widths and tread type and allowed 7" "cheater slicks" across the board. WF P.S. The NHRA rule books are listed in this section

If you would like to see pics of the A-12 restoration, go here: http://public.fotki.com/announcerguy/road-runner-restoration/ Yes, I had to massage the tail lights before applying the decals. I don't recall the pie tin decal being on the sheet, but then again, my memory is not so hot. I do know that I always seem to have problems getting pie tin decals to lay down and not wrinkle. You have just reminded me to look for that car's air cleaner!

Probably Butternut Yellow, Ditzler #87500. Don't ask me how I know that! lol

Me too! I thought to myself " Now this looks like a real car!" That is a winner!!

Great group of cars there! My favorite is the Mustang, WF

Mine is Sunfire Yellow, Snake's is.......?

Very few people would have known which engine was in that car. We still don't know what color the roof was! lol

I like that one! Especially the dog dish caps. No, you have the horn in the exact right location. (The kit instructions tell you to mount it on the firewall!) One thing that a lot of people miss is the horn color. 1968's were black. After '68 they were lavender.

Pete, Landy ran two different cars during the'64 season. The hard top was his first factory sponsored Dodge. It was a Stage IV max wedge. He ran that car until mid August of '64. The sedan is the car that got the most press and most photos taken of it as Chrysler wanted the emphasis and exposure put on the new Hemi powerplants. What I can tell you about the paint on the sedan is that according to Geoff Stunkard's book Landy's Dodges, the sedan was painted a Mercedes metallic grey. The roof is hard to tell because I only have one color photo where it looks to be a lighter shade of silver. The Hemi sedan was also painted with Mercedes paint but looks to be a lighter shade than the hard top. Geoff relates that information on many of his cars was not easy to come by. It seems that the family did not keep accurate records of his cars and combinations. Everyone seems to be quite confused as to how many '68-'69 Chargers he actually campaigned. WF

Here's your '64 Landy, max wedge car with fender well headers.

Those headers worked out well on my '57 Ford! I modified them a little. (a lot) Max wedge powered of course!

Thanks! If no one can find any photos, they can't argue with my choice of colors!!!! I will most likely build my roof transplant car as a phantom.

Great job bringing this one back! Those old 1/24 Monogram kits were and are highly underrated. I make it a point to look for them.

Great resurrection!

Please post the pic{s}!!

This was absolutely not one of my favorite colors along with green! I did not have a whole lot of choice back then. True story: NY city cabs are all yellow. On a trip to Manhattan I had numerous people try to flag me down. Some even came over and grabbed the passenger side door handle trying to get in! It was not long after that I added the vinyl top and hood stripes! WF Went looking for pics of the green '68. Don't think I took any! I really hated that color!

Thank you. Yes, I saved all of my newspaper delivery money (remember paperboys?) and bought the car for $750.00 in 1971. My uncle was a sales manager at a Plymouth dealership so I got a good deal!

Yes, the Vitamin C, A-12 car is now a giant kit ( some assembly required).

The Johan fender well headers on that car came in the Re-Charged kit. There is a problem with them. Those headers would never work in real life on a hemi due to the exhaust port angle. Hemi exhaust ports aim straight down towards the ground, while a wedge exhaust port is nearly perpendicular to the ground. The kit headers meet the cylinder heads at an impossible angle. Those headers are more suited for the Max Wedge engine and would be proper for a 413 or 426 wedge car but the port spacing is wrong! You have to modify them, unless you find some early Johan headers designed for a wedge. What I have found by studying many '62 thru '65 max wedge and Hemi car photos is that early wedge cars have fender well headers and Hemi cars generally don't. If that kind of stuff doesn't bother you...........

The body work on the roof is just about done. I made the door posts by applying two .020 strips of styrene to a backing piece, notched the body and glued in place.

Very nice rendition of that kit!

The site did the same thing to me earlier today. I exited the site, reloaded, and it took my pics.

You really brought that one back! Nice job on the chassis! WF

I know! I've done a few. Two of them eventually became box art!

No, I sold that car in 1975 to buy a new road runner (74). It went through a number of different looks in the time that I had it. Have no idea what happened to it after the next owner. Of course I wish that I still had it, but you can't keep 'em all! I've held on to this one for forty years!: WF