Early rails

[Crizila]

Pic is of me and Tommy Ivo at the NHRA museum in Pomona at the 2016 winter nationals

[Crizila]

and it was pure hell.

[Flatout]

Nice Stuff John...especially like your Cosmic Charger, not an easy kit to get together and decaled.

[6bblbird]

I have a suspicion that you are a nostalgia fan.

Great cars! How about showing them one at a time! Would love to see more pics.

WF

[caine440]

Very nice looking racers.

 

[Hubert Rollins]

Cool collection!!

[PARTSMARTY]

Totally awesome !!!

[cobraman]

Nice cars and nice display.

[espo]

These are beautiful looking Drag Racers. Look forward to seeing more.  

[Crizila]

Thanks all for your more than kind comments. Here are a few pics of the car I raced back in the 60's. This is an older model long before the 64 Dodge came out in kit form.  It is a resin body and mostly kit bashed everything else. No decals.  All dry transfers - ugh!

[Crizila]

Nice Stuff John...especially like your Cosmic Charger, not an easy kit to get together and decaled.

Yes, not for the decal challenged.

[Davewilly]

Great looking collection.  I have a few of those Ikea glass display cabinets as well.  For the price they are fantastic!

[MAGIC MUFFLER]

I love threads like this!  Great display of cars in the case. ( and you raced..!!! )

[High octane]

Great lookin' models John as I'm a nostalgia fan, and I just love them Mopars too! I also knew a girl in Forest Park as I'm a Chicago native.

[Crizila]

Great lookin' models John as I'm a nostalgia fan, and I just love them Mopars too! I also knew a girl in Forest Park as I'm a Chicago native.

Hey Nick, Small world, as I grew up in Forest Park.  Went to Proviso East HS.  Raced at all the near by tracks - Oswego, Rockford ( now Byron ), Union Grove, US 30. 

[DrKerry]

Kool stuff. I spent many weekends at Byron growing up from about 84 to about 86 helping out in the pits... my cousin now owns and operates the Dragway!!!!! I now live a little ways away from Union Grove.....

[High octane]

Hey Nick, Small world, as I grew up in Forest Park.  Went to Proviso East HS.  Raced at all the near by tracks - Oswego, Rockford ( now Byron ), Union Grove, US 30. 

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John, Did you hang out at Skip's Fiesta Drive In in Maywood, or Duke's Drive In on Harlem & 76th?

[Crizila]

Oh ya!  Skips was a regular Saturday night cruise for me. Had a 63 Max wedge Plymouth at the time that ran mid 12's. Pretty much owned Skips.  Dukes came in to being long after Skips was closed by Polk Brothers, who owned the property.  Dukes was a little haul from my house ( about an hour ) while Skips was only 15 minutes away. - The good old days.  I now own a 79 Chrysler 300 that runs mid 10's.  I need to grow up.

[W-409]

Great looking builds, all of them! But as a Stock Eliminator racer, the '64 Dodge is my favorite of them all. Very nice work and good looking 1:1 toys too, that '79 Chrysler is not a lightweight car either so nice to see someone running with one of them.

[6bblbird]

I too like the '64. Reminds me of the first real race car that I drove. It was a '63 Max wedge car, push button torqueflite with a reverse pattern valve body.

The owner forgot to tell me about the reverse pattern! Almost scattered that thing when I hit "third"!!

I have a Johan '63 kit to build that car someday! It's been at least 20 years since I got that kit!

[10thumbs]

John!

Thanks for the build pics, and also the real pics!

Question:  The pic you posted last, the one of your real car from back in the day....Can you please give some insight about the rear tire you have mounted?  Looks like a lot more than a 7" tread, plus the deflated look is killer.  These are exactly the cars that I learned to admire back in the day.  Brother-in-law bought a new 64 426 Sport Fury, and I became then Mopar-addicted.

The cars were really good.

Thanks, Michael

[bobthehobbyguy]

Very nice work. Some great looking dragsters.