AMC Rambler dirt tracker saturday night special

[spotarama]

got this one as a glue bomb swap meet special, it's a johan kit. it was missing an A pillar and its wheels. it had a complete motor with beautifully formed headers. i replaced the A pillar with a length of 'angle iron' welded in place, upgraded a parts box roll cage, replaced the runk and hood panels with alloy sheet roughly bent to shape, they attach to the body over very short lengths of dressmakers pin through holes in the panels. the sills were also done the same way and then bent and twisted with my special bending and twisting pliers courtesy of the dentists surgery i was given (seriously, a whole surgery up to and including the chair)

the motor came with the dual carb set-up so i drilled and meshed two holes in the hood for them to breathe through

the trunk contains the fuel cell, battery and engine fire extinguisher with a smaller personal extinguisher beside the race seat inside the cabin

theres a minimal amount of wiring but not plug wires (i'm working my way up to them...any day now)

Edited September 2, 2013 by spotarama

[1930fordpickup]

Great way to save the glue bomb, looks great.

[slusher]

Nice stocker...

[Ira]

GREAT BUILD!

Real Nice Weathering...

[Danno]

Wow, that's nitty-gritty nasty nice!

[wisdonm]

Very unique. Those are interesting headers.

[Austin T]

Pretty cool. And just a heads up that's a 1969 AMC AMX.

[outragis]

Very nice!

[bbowser]

Very convincing work, I really like the bent-up body panels. Do you use the dentist chair for modeling?