Ace-Garageguy

Or maybe the builders all grew up in the everybody-gets-a-trophy environment... Praised Regardless of Outcome.

And apparently it's accelerating so hard, the front wheels can't keep up with the rest of the car.

I was hoping somebody would post pix. Very convincing, and exactly what I need to get a hung-fire build moving again. Thanks.

Not listed as "pro built", but somebody paid almost 50 bucks for it.

Wow. That is real art. Your ability to capture surface, texture, material, weathering, and aging effects is brilliant.

Most of my builds are long-time-ago started threads. And most of my old photos are hosted on P-bucket. As I will be revisiting these old ones as time permits, it would be nice to be able to replace the sometimes unreliable (down as I write this) P-bucket hosted photos with fresh ones. Not too much point continuing to bother otherwise.

THANKS for the additional info. I have a long standing fascination with CCKWs, M-34/35s, and M-135/211s, amassing piles of reference material and kits to get into once I finally get all the way retired. Almost bought a running M-135 back in '95 for $1500, but was put off at the potential cost of rebuilding the automatic gearbox when the time came. I had been told by "experts" it was a big Allison, and only years later did I find out it was actually an old-school GM iron-case Hydramatic. Had I known at the time, she'd be sitting outside today.

Can't believe I just watched all 2 minutes and 54 seconds of that...

The fact that they're all Monogram kits narrows the possibilities considerably. Top row, no. 2 appears to be the "Slingshot" Dragster. Next to it is the Hot Rod, Monogram's second plastic kit. Next one looks like the Forty Niner Dragster. Second row far right is Monogram's first plastic kit, first issued in acetate, the approximately 1/20 scale Midget Racer

Never mind.

Here's a TE448 that has had the sides of its rear cage raised to comply with sanctioning body regs. Probably should have gone a little higher...

The classic Dragmaster is more like this, kinda like the Chassis Research K88, but different... or with double hoops like the Mooneyes frames Both were available as Revell parts-packs. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The other Revell parts-pack frame was a Kent Fuller version of the TE448, identifiable by its small-diameter-tube X at the rear, with upper and lower forward rails forming a shallow triangle, the basis for the twin-nailhead powered Tommy Ivo car above in Snake's original post. The TE448 had double Us at the rear, and generally more parallel forward rails, as in Snake's first photo. And I don't know who built the first one, but I find the Fuller version to be the superior design.

Check this out...non-mandrel bends, oxy-acetylene welding on a T.E. 448:

Like you said, both Kent Fuller and Chassis Research built the style of frame you're asking about, but so did others. T.E. 448, below ("totally enclosed") was kinda the "kleenex" of the type, and is still a name commonly used to refer to this design. https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/retro-te-448-fed-dragster-build-tech.576068/ So you can call it a "Chassis Research T.E. 448-style" frame. Or not.