It has a full roll cage, side, front & rear bars made of brass soldered together to form one integrated bar system which straddles the top plate & sits on the top of the chassis. The photo does not pickup the driver's roll cage detail. Notice the driver's easy access.
The front view shows the fine brass mesh soldered in front of the driver & the nose of the car. The driver name is on the side & the girl friends name was always put over the front windshield at our short tracks.
This is the sponsor shot (local Shell Station) emulating speed. The car's bars need a new paint job.
AFX chassis with a green armature, blue magnet & brush tension was high (torque) for the corner exit. For the sliding, after market wide G-Plus pickup shoes were needed.
This racing was done only on very short tracks with sweeping curves with large aprons (2-3 in.) on all curves. The large machine rims combined with the bars, made the car rearend heavy producing the desired slides! You throw the car into the corner, slide & used power to exit. Plenty of rubbing but two good drivers could drift through the corner together then fight down the next short straight for position for the next corner.
(Note from Ralph- that is ONE SWEET CAR<above>, both in Looks and Performance!)
Another find build from XracerHO, and in his words- Blue Duece Coupe Modified #02,
The guys did a good job on the metallic blue paint job to replicate an actual modified that ran on the local track. The Driver called it his own two cents worth! These modified are on AFX chassis and screw mounted using the front recessed hole in the chassis.
It has a full roll cage, side, front & rear bars made of brass soldered together to form one integrated bar system which straddles the top plate & sits on the top of the chassis. This has a different rollbar set up with front box with a criss cross bar at the rear window which you can just make out in the photo.
The radiator which was fabricated from brass mesh & flat stock bent then soldered together. It is behind a front protective mesh and front bars.
Camera man tilted but you can see the roll bar & more front end detail. The shop guys sure liked their little deuce coupe!
Al Tasnady44 Archie Myers111
Billy Osmun 81 & Gerald Chamberlain's 76
The Norcia #81
Ken Brenn Jr #24 chases Al Tasnady's 44
Ken Brenn Jr leads "The Shillington Slingshot" Kenny Brightbill
Hot Laps
Glenn Fitzcharles #R-10 and Archie Myers #111
"The Everett Express" Gerry Chamberlain
Comin to the Races
Kenny Brightbills 19 pinto and Gerald Chamberlain's Falcon
Concours
Coupes Field
Coupes Podium
Fairgrounds Field
'55 Buick
'56 Chevy
'57 Ford
1958 Impala
Heres my newest ride
I don't have any good close ups but here is what I have
