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Unlike my father-in-law's racecar, this one does not exist. At least that I know of... :lol:

One of my wife's relations wanted me to build a "companion" NASCAR racer to go along with her dad's car, so I took a few liberties with the build...

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I didn't use a "dust catcher" on the front of this one because if the driver had left the front grill on the car it would not need anything...

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I actually had to clip a small triangle in the middle of the front of the bumper bar to allow it to fit in the front.Talk about "Moonshine Engineering"! :lol:

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This one is named "Cherry Bomb".... I used Tamiya Dull Red and Semi Gloss Black for the paint scheme....

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And now... paired up with Henry's "Sparrow"....

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This is the Lindberg kit. I stole the large flathead air cleaner setup from this very kit to make the Sparrow engine and still built a not-too-shabby racer out of the rest. :lol:

Posted

Cool Allen, but is the tires wide enough...

I would assume so, I mean, this would be late '40s to mid '50s, so they really didn't have a lot of fat tires back then for these cars...

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And talk about "ironic"... :lol:

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And a car from someone else's build...

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I think I got it pretty close as far as accuracy goes in the way of suspension and tires.

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