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In this project it is the look and the attitude change of the conversion from road racer to drag car that I am
focusing on. These are stubby little cars so what I wanted to achieve was getting a "longer and lower" result
from the transformation.
The car has a detailed wired and plumbed Liberty Classics S.O.H.C. Ford presented as a 722 cu in Jon Kaase
piece that makes 1030 hp on gasoline. The dual quads have been removed and a NASTEE resin Holley 4500
Dominator carb with fuel lines and throttle linkage has been installed in their place. A custom oil pan was
created and painted Ford blue to match. I made the side-exit exhaust headers from scratch.
The RF inner fender mounts a wired NASTEE resin MSD box and an ignition coil fashioned from a Radio Shack
electrical capacitor painted MSD red. The decals came from Steffan (Steve) in Germany.
A Lakewood blowproof belhousing and a HEMI A-833 slick-shifted 4-speed trans are under there along with an
all-metal Dana 60 rearend and larger diameter (but shortened) driveshaft from a GMP '70 GTX. The differential
sits on coil overs and links.
The inside has a hand made Monster Tach and shifter T-handle. The RF seat has been replaced with an aluminum
panel that mounts a plumbed NASTEE fire bottle.
The rear area was gutted and wheel tubs were fabricated from Crystal Lite cans. A NASTEE fuel cell with line
was painted and installed. The wired battery was mounted in the right rear of the compartment.
The front of the car has been lowered dramatically (as low as you can get one of these things) and the front rims
were made so as to narrow the track a bit. The rear wheels/tires started out as Road Legend gasser pieces but I
used cut lips from some GMP wheels to deepen them (then cut the corrosponding amount off of the back part of the
wheel to keep the original overall width). The reliefs were painted flat black and the "treads" of the slicks were sanded.
The hood scoop started out as a NASTEE resin piece but has been cut down (shorted in height) for the one-carb
application. The carb protrudes into the hole in the hood. Even though the scoop extends back over the cowl, the
hood still opens.
I hand-formed the rear wing from aluminum and painted it to match the hood scoop (the body of the car still has all of
it's original red paint). I made the parachute with it's lanyard and release cable. A moddler friend of mine, Bob Errett,
sourced me the "REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT" pennant from some of his custom aircraft stock.
The wheelie bars were chrome Hot Wheels pieces. I stripped the chome and painted them a realistic dirty flat/satin
black. There's real white shoe polish on the bronze colored wheels.
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