GoatGuy

Chris is right. Family is priority. I pray all goes well.

Body looks great, color looks great.

Beautiful. I have two Birds in progress collecting dust and this will get me going again. Appreciate the inspiration.

Hey Ted, any updates on this build? Lookin' forward to more.

John the belt shroud looks GREAT. I'm going to have to download that, shrink it in Photoshop to scale so I can better appreciate what you did. That is what, 1/8th inch wide at most? Some day I have to see this up close.

If you go to the Mecum Auction website you can read a history of this dragster and see some great shots of it.

Dr Cranky is right. Good stuff. Good progress. Question- looks like the rotors are made from styrene? If so, how do you make a perfect circle out of styrene? A blade attached to a compass?

I like that a lot. Great job.

My unprofessional opinion is to put plastic pieces under the nuts. The gaskets look great.

Looking great, Master Teresi. Keep the pics coming.

Looks great John. You never disappoint.

I'm not a Ford fan but this looks really good. Great job so far.

I just spent an hour reading all this because I hadn't seen it before. Wow. Excellent job. Can't wait to see more.

This car looks familiar........................

Check this out, guys...... http://youtu.be/aTLyfAmA8WQ

http://www.flickr.com/photos/studio_782/sets/72157629626903740/ Here are a couple pics of some of the models given to Bruce over the years, including the MPC Camaro prototype that he built (on the plate). We were fixing loose parts. You can see the Vega Pro Stock has lost some of the decals over time. Also one of his '32 Ford coupe.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/studio_782/sets/72157629627345942/Here are more pics of the Ivo/Honest Charley dragster.

Great start John. Can't wait for more.

Excellent additions guys. Thanks. kitswapper- I'll ask him why the MPC kit is incorrect since they sent him a prototype to approve.

Here's the later Camaro as it sits in Bruce's barn now. He bought the body from someone who had repainted it years ago for a different car.

Work ?? It was pure fun. I know what you mean. Wish all you guys could have been there.

Hey tbusch- Bruce said the engineer that designed the two barrel valve idea was Tim Richards, Joe Amato's crew chief. He also answered my question about the A-arms. The drivers side is welded to the frame, and the pass side is attached with rod ends so they could adjust the stagger and run-in for staging. I had the opportunity to go back there today so I jumped on it. I will have more pics uploaded by Monday. Also- all the brake rotors they used were solid which was mandatory. I didn't know that. I was about to use vented ones on a kit I am building of that era. Now I know better.

I got to spend over three hours at Bruce's place today, taking more pics, helping him fix a prototype model that he had built years ago, AND he asked me to help him push the Ivo dragster into the trailer. Then he drove the trailer around back where there is more room for the moving van to load it next week. We then unloaded it and he started it up !! It was awesome. When I get the photos off my camera, I will post them.

Bruce says the 70 car was the same Logghe chassis as the 68 Camaro. In one of the pics I posted you can see the levers in the driver's area, to the right of the seat. The black knobbed lever was for the chute, the red lever in front of that was the fuel shut-off and the knob labeled "Air Heater" was actually connected to a primer pump instead of using a squirt bottle to prime the engine for starting.

Count me in. I'll be watching what you do, and we all know it will be worth it. I will have more pics for your reference as soon as I can get them off the camera. I was at Bruce's again today for over three hours taking pics AND helping him fix the prototype of the 70 Camaro that he accidentally dropped. Fortunately most of the loose pieces were due to lack of glue or gluing areas that still had chrome. I got pics from different angles of the Camaro, Vette, and the Ivo dragster that I hadn't taken last time.