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Re: Pic request... Old school NASCAR's (WhitePoloCT)
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Pic request... Old school NASCAR's
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Put down the flamethrowers people... All I want is some pics of some old school NASCAR's, preferably 60's to 80's. Basically I'm looking for pics of when they were actually close to stock looking... The reason I ask is because after watching "Cars" and seeing that one commentator that looks like an old NASCAR, I wish I could find an old american car and turn it into a NASCAR replica...
TIA
A couple I found...
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*ducks*
TIA
A couple I found...
*ducks*
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Re: Pic request... Old school NASCAR's (4x4s)
http://****************.com/smile/emthup.gif to a good thread
Would NASCAR ever go back to beach/dirt racing? *dreaming*
http://****************.com/smile/emthup.gif to a good thread
Would NASCAR ever go back to beach/dirt racing? *dreaming*
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Re: Pic request... Old school NASCAR's (WhitePoloCT)
dad's 1950 Replica (even tho it's a recent build, it's done EXACTLY how it would have been in 1950 - virtually no "modern" parts!):
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worked 1950 "Rocket 88" engine,
knee-action shock absorbers (modified)
lake-pipes (underneath)
original dashboard
rollbar
bench seat
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Modified by rx7racr at 5:19 AM 8-9-2006
dad's 1950 Replica (even tho it's a recent build, it's done EXACTLY how it would have been in 1950 - virtually no "modern" parts!):
worked 1950 "Rocket 88" engine,
knee-action shock absorbers (modified)
lake-pipes (underneath)
original dashboard
rollbar
bench seat
Modified by rx7racr at 5:19 AM 8-9-2006
Re: Pic request... Old school NASCAR's (wrx4x4)
there are a multitude of dirt-track venues scattered all over the country(and they are great spectator events). i am sure that you could even find one within a 1-2 hour drive of your home.
good thread. personally i love the late 80s-early90s cars the most, extremely fast, and could stay that way even with a beating to the bumpers/body.
| Quote, originally posted by wrx4x4 » |
| http://****************.com/smile/emthup.gif to a good thread Would NASCAR ever go back to beach/dirt racing? *dreaming* |
there are a multitude of dirt-track venues scattered all over the country(and they are great spectator events). i am sure that you could even find one within a 1-2 hour drive of your home.
good thread. personally i love the late 80s-early90s cars the most, extremely fast, and could stay that way even with a beating to the bumpers/body.
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Re: Pic request... Old school NASCAR's (Tornado2dr)
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How many deaths did NASCAR have back in the day during races? I see they raced in t-shirts and shorts
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Re: Pic request... Old school NASCAR's (RabbitsKin)
T-shirts and polo shirts for sure, but I don't know about shorts. I can't recall who it was , but once I saw a driver light a cigarette while he was in for a pit stop.
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| Helmets and flame suits as far back as I can remember (early '70s), not sure if they ever wore t-shirts and shorts. |
Re: Pic request... Old school NASCAR's (RabbitsKin)
It would be awesome! Something in these lines (this is from an Aussie company [or English?]) :
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Based on stock cars but modified
Modified by .BRuno. at 8:05 PM 8-9-2006
| Quote, originally posted by RabbitsKin » |
| I would so love to see a vintage stock car series. Cap the years from say 1964 to 1974. Allow stock bodies to be built up to racing standards with period engines. Holman-Moody is actually still around, and will build you replicas of some of the stock cars they built back in the day. I remember reading about a '64 Fairlane they recently built from original plans. |
It would be awesome! Something in these lines (this is from an Aussie company [or English?]) :
Based on stock cars but modified
Modified by .BRuno. at 8:05 PM 8-9-2006
Re: Pic request... Old school NASCAR's (.BRuno.)
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What is this a Galaxie? Now I really really want one and to give it this stance!
What is this a Galaxie? Now I really really want one and to give it this stance!
Re: Pic request... Old school NASCAR's (.BRuno.)
That is awsome, more info please.
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| It would be awesome! Something in these lines (this is from an Aussie company [or English?]) :
Based on stock cars but modified Modified by .BRuno. at 8:05 PM 8-9-2006 |
That is awsome, more info please.
Re: Pic request... Old school NASCAR's (.BRuno.)
That there is Baby Bertha- raced in yurrup in the 70s- with the saloon car legend Gerry Marshall. That poster is on my wall. That series had some absolutely Frankenstein-ish awesome cars.
That white slammed Galaxie (?) is the shizznit.
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It would be awesome! Something in these lines (this is from an Aussie company [or English?]) :
Based on stock cars but modified Modified by .BRuno. at 8:05 PM 8-9-2006 |
That there is Baby Bertha- raced in yurrup in the 70s- with the saloon car legend Gerry Marshall. That poster is on my wall. That series had some absolutely Frankenstein-ish awesome cars.
That white slammed Galaxie (?) is the shizznit.
Re: Pic request... Old school NASCAR's (chaynik)
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That's not white - though it kinda looks like it in the first pic. That's the infamous "Yellow Banana", built by Junior Johnson, and one of NASCAR's most famous "cheats":
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... That white slammed Galaxie (?) is the shizznit. |
That's not white - though it kinda looks like it in the first pic. That's the infamous "Yellow Banana", built by Junior Johnson, and one of NASCAR's most famous "cheats":
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| The first occurred in 1966 at the Dixie 500 in Atlanta. Ford had sat out most of the season up to that point in a rules dispute with NASCAR, winning only a handful of the first 36 races of the year. But with race attendance falling off drastically, NASCAR needed Ford and some big-name teams and drivers back in the sport in a hurry. In early August, Ford made its return in the form of car owner Junior Johnson's Ford, which came to be known as the "Yellow Banana," a 1966 Ford Galaxie to be driven in the Dixie 500 by Fred Lorenzen. Nothing about the car's lines even remotely resembled those of a production Galaxie: Its windshield was steeply raked back, its tail curved upward, its front snout dropped. Clearly, the roof had been chopped. Smokey Yunick, who like Johnson was a master of skirting the rules, showed up with an equally outrageous Chevrolet Chevelle for Curtis Turner, complete with an offset chassis and a roof spoiler. But when those two cars passed tech inspection while three others were disqualified for much lesser infractions, tempers flared. "If you're in a fight and your opponent has a glove filled with lead, who's going to win?" said former Ford factory driver Bobby Johns of the Yellow Banana. "It's very obvious to the eye what a laugh that car is." While Turner and Lorenzen qualified first and third, respectively, both fell out early in the race due to mechanical problems. According to the book, "Forty Years of Stock Car Racing" by Greg Fielden, NASCAR founder and president "Big Bill" France reportedly admitted the two cars were illegal but were allowed to run because they had been assembled just prior to the race. But under pressure from other competitors and track promoters, NASCAR cracked down. Junior never ran the "Yellow Banana" body again after Atlanta, and Smokey's car ran only twice that season. For 1967, NASCAR instituted the use of body templates to help prevent recurring problems with its cars. Yunick, meanwhile, pulled out of the '68 Daytona 500 after a fight with France over the inspection process, although he denied the oft-repeated rumor that he drove the car away from the track after NASCAR inspectors had removed its gas tank. "The next day I picked up the morning paper and it said I drove out on an empty tank," Yunick told American Racing Classics in 1992. "I went back and asked France what kind of **** he was putting out. He said, 'That's what the inspector said.'... I got the inspector and dragged him over to France.... Finally, he told France that I ... poured gas into it." |
Re: Pic request... Old school NASCAR's (4x4s)
Awesome... Need more!
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Awesome... Need more!
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Re: Pic request... Old school NASCAR's (WhitePoloCT)
Buick FTW!
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(model kit)
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Ive got an awesome poster at home with all of MOOG Chassis's winning cars since back in the 60s.
Buick FTW!
(model kit)
Ive got an awesome poster at home with all of MOOG Chassis's winning cars since back in the 60s.
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