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Well, I had a couple of requests for more pictures of this, so here they are. This is an older build, I think it was '93 or '94. By the mid 80's, dirt track cars had pretty much stopped resembling their street counterparts. While this particular car would've been called a Camaro, the bodies were hand fabricated from sheet metal and the roofs were fiberglass. The tube type chassis were built on a jig, and most were coilover suspension with a torque arm connected to the rear end attached to a "5th" coilover. This model represents such a car. The chassis is a modified unit from a Revell ASA kit. The front clip was replaced with parts from an AMT Nascar Thunderbird. I scratchbuilt the coilover shocks and the torque arm. The hubs are from the ASA kit, while the wheels are homemade. The engine is a small block Chevy. Most cars hadn't made the switch to dry sump oil systems yet. The Schoenfeld "weedburner" headers are modified parts box pieces. I added wiring and linkages. The body is made pretty much just like the real ones....from hand formed sheet brass, using the roof from the ASA Camaro body. The interior "tin" is various pieces of Evergreen styrene. While the paint scheme was based on a real car that was running at Lanier Speedway at the time (it was still dirt back then), this represents a fictional car. Lettering is a combination of different decals and hand lettering. Thats about all I remember, but if you have any questions, just ask. Hope y'all like it, and thanks for asking about it. More pics..........