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Post by 41chevy on Jan 18, 2021 11:39:51 GMT -5
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Post by Bernard Kron on Jan 18, 2021 13:10:30 GMT -5
Gotta love the period funk, which is not to say that the execution is anything but sanitary. The grill treatment, painted wheels, and injected flattie all push my buttons. How was the injection setup accomplished?
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Post by Duane on Jan 18, 2021 21:49:23 GMT -5
Paul; i have to agree with everything B. said; plus, this sucker's sick; i love it !
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Post by chepp on Jan 18, 2021 22:19:13 GMT -5
Nice job! It's great to see lower class drag cars instead of the usual A or AA for a change.
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Post by skip on Jan 18, 2021 22:45:06 GMT -5
As a self admitted Gasser-Phile I gotta say I love it! Gas Class and the Jr. Dragster (Jr. Fueler’s) are my two most favorite classes, mainly because of some of the TrueType innovative things they did to achieve the greatest amount of speed that the rules and equipment would allow! G/Gas is almost up there with racing against the VW gassers in H & I/Gas, some of those lower (higher alphabet) classes were really great cars and even greater drivers whose skill behind the wheel made up for the limitations of their equipment. Is was especially true when they would start down the line with class winners to race class against class to find the “Top Eliminator” for the day.
I wouldn’t change a thing, you obviously did your homework and researched what a G/Gas car would have looked like, not too flashy, not too ratty (as in freshly drug out of a wrecking yard and made into a racer), finish is right looks like an owner who cared about his cars appearance and wanted to go racing with what he could afford. Color is spot on for early ‘60’s gasser, or other race car for that matter! It’s Neat-O, I like it a lot!
(What intake manifold did you use? The injection manifolds that I have seen on flatheads place the injector tubes on the inside and the fuel distribution and metering valve blocks to the outside, opposite of the manifold yours has. Not saying it’s technically wrong, just a manifold configuration I’m not familiar seeing.)
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Post by spex84 on Jan 19, 2021 10:07:23 GMT -5
This is different! Very cool. I like the grille treatment and the half n' half wheels...it has that feeling of authenticity (or "period funk" as Bernard calls it, haha!). We don't see a ton of injected flatties here on TRAK, so that's a treat. Nicely done!
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Post by lo51merc on Jan 19, 2021 10:34:12 GMT -5
Something very different from the old Revell SWC kit, and very cool. Nice job! Gary
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Post by 41chevy on Jan 19, 2021 13:58:34 GMT -5
As a self admitted Gasser-Phile I gotta say I love it! Gas Class and the Jr. Dragster (Jr. Fueler’s) are my two most favorite classes, mainly because of some of the TrueType innovative things they did to achieve the greatest amount of speed that the rules and equipment would allow! G/Gas is almost up there with racing against the VW gassers in H & I/Gas, some of those lower (higher alphabet) classes were really great cars and even greater drivers whose skill behind the wheel made up for the limitations of their equipment. Is was especially true when they would start down the line with class winners to race class against class to find the “Top Eliminator” for the day. I wouldn’t change a thing, you obviously did your homework and researched what a G/Gas car would have looked like, not too flashy, not too ratty (as in freshly drug out of a wrecking yard and made into a racer), finish is right looks like an owner who cared about his cars appearance and wanted to go racing with what he could afford. Color is spot on for early ‘60’s gasser, or other race car for that matter! It’s Neat-O, I like it a lot! (What intake manifold did you use? The injection manifolds that I have seen on flatheads place the injector tubes on the inside and the fuel distribution and metering valve blocks to the outside, opposite of the manifold yours has. Not saying it’s technically wrong, just a manifold configuration I’m not familiar seeing.) The intake is based on a Scott unit with the Hilborn style injector set up. The Scott injector units actually bolted in place. the Hilborn units had a base plate attached. Bernard it was about a half hour to do the intake. These are the type of cars I grew up around o it is easy to build them Hosted on Fotki
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Post by dakotajohn on Jan 19, 2021 14:03:25 GMT -5
Great period build !!
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Post by ChrisV on Jan 23, 2021 6:08:43 GMT -5
This is probably the most refreshing take on Revell's new tooling I've ever seen. Nice to see some of the "lower ranking" cars get some attention as well!
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Post by HotRodTom on Feb 7, 2021 17:39:00 GMT -5
Got my attention! Wow what a nice job! "Sherff" gonna keep his eye on you.
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Post by froghawk on Feb 11, 2021 22:54:49 GMT -5
Outstanding period-perfect look!
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