Fuel Coupe

sorry for the lack of updates. I work alot of hours so it takes a while So here is the chassis shot in Lacquer and heres the radius rods for one side I ran out of rod ends so I had to put in an order so I can finish up the radius rods. In the meantime I'll be building the Jacobs ladder for the front axle so stay tuned..

Len, the underside color varied as much as the cars did. some painted it base color of the car others painted it black and still others left it bare (gel coat finish). I hope this helps...

Does anyone offer a 72 or their about Challenger ( not including the MK funny car) stock body or pro stock body or trans kit. Im looking to build this 72 version of Dick Landys Pro Stock

very simple but but one of the most elusive ones out there. I'm so glad to see this one coming back....

Where did the wheels come from and the nuts and bolts holding the front end together. Looks real nice...

Probably not what you thought

lets see, I have gotten several great kits from some new friends here on this site. Daddy Warbucks. Dick Brannan's 'Bronco' 'Wild Child' Two Much Twin Hemi Front Engine Rail Dragster Georgia Shaker Chevy II Pack Rat Just to name a few Went to my LHS' (which are 2 hours away) and picked up Sheet styrene , rod, Tenax 7R (I never used this stuff before and now I LOVE it) Tamiya paints Alclad Paints GTO Funny Car LA Dart Chevelle Short track car..

its been slow here for about a week as well....

Im intrested in one of these bodies... How do I contact him....

Guys let me know if mt pics are showing up. I started a Fotki account and Im having he!! with it. Thanks everyone. Charlie I'll be giving you a call about some parts soon...

I love it...

I like the progress so far...

oops pics are fixed.. Hmmm, over 300 views and only a couple of comments...

I wont be able to come tonight but like to in the future. Can you get Creig to contact me. I tried an old email be it no longer works, I sent you my contact info in a message

I used to be involed with the Texas Outlaw Modelers but I think they are no more. Who's still building over here Matt??

Looking for anyone building Models in Southeast Texas area, Beaumont Port Arthur, Nederland, Groves,Lumberton etc...

still got alot of clean-up to do on the glue joints

after much deliberation Ive decided to build a more "correct" chassis for the build. Heres what I have so far

go try it now.... Sorry about that...

I found this one, while not a bucket it does have nice ascetics vaccuum forming

started on the back wheels. I cut the centers from the Bantam blast kit and used a set of unknown rims to complete the wheel Here they are as well as a set of 18" rims on the freshly completed axle... I got my Gibson small block today, I should start on it tomorrow...

Today I got a little more done on the front axle. I built the spindles for it. Using thin aluminum I bent up the spindles and drilled them for the kingpins which will be trimmed down later. I then cut out steering arms and drilled them for RB motions bolts and nuts heres the side panels I cut out very thin aluminum sheet. this stuff is called Maid o metal. Its very pliable and polishes up nice. Its soft enough to run a bead in without alot of effort..

I've decided to take the plunge and started where I left off in the ninties. I was building 2 cars for shows that were taken from me off a primer table at a Local show. One was the Twig Ziegler Pizza Heaven Satellite the other was an early version of Rich Guasco's Small Block Powered Altered "Pure Hell". To me Rich's car (when I say car it ran the same chassis for 1964 to 1969) was what Altered racing was about. Granted The Marcellus/Borsch "winged Express" is the most recogozied cars but to me Pure Hell was different from the rest. Its taken me 10 years to get over my cars being taken but Im back and better for it. Thanks you for allowing me to post the build progress of one of my all time favorite cars in drag racing history. First I cut the side panels out of the chassis in order to repace them with aluminum sheet. The stuff I have is very thin and has been annealed so it is quite pliable. Next I changed the front suspension setup to run the front suspension set the car ran in '66 after it took a bath in a ditch at Fremont. Upon closer inspection I think I'll need to trim the grill shell a bit mor. I have already peaked the top of the shell and got rid of its "roundness" Next I started working on the front axle. Ive started with aluminum sheet, round tubing and brass rod to pin everything together. I cut the batwings for the radius rods and have those glued in place. If you note Ive put quite a bit of caster in the axle. there is a bit of camber too but Im probably going to take some of that out. Thats it for today, sorry Im just getting back to it so alot of what you see was built two and three times today Let me know what you think and any and all comments are welcome...

I just ordered the mouse motor for a project Im working on. I've heard good things about the RG motors...

heres my 32