My buddy had a backyard garage where he & his brother built the occasional dirt car for friends & customers.
He had a couple successful late models & one or two center steer cars running in the neighborhood.
I talked him into building a left-hand-bias late model chassis from the firewall back & a straight axle modified from there forward. :D
I ran coil-overs up front & a mono-leaf rear with coil-over helpers.
Rules said you had to have a stock windshield opening & all steel body.
I wanted to build a Monza Town Coupe but none were to be found in the scrap yards.
Cut an old Dodge roof up (stock windshield opening) then myself & a sheet metal shop buddy hand-built the rest of the body.
Took it to yet another body shop owner buddy & a little bondo & yellow paint finished it off.
Like Smokey says.."They didn't say you couldn't" :shhh:
I did all the lettering myself & we built a 355 inch Chevy small block with some second hand aluminum heads & 180 degree headers
from an ASA buddy who didn't need them anymore. Those headers only lasted one season....Nobody told us how incredibly HOT that
makes the interior on a sultry July evening in the Midwest. :oops:
My budget was awfully small, so it took help from friends & a "do it yourself program" if I wanted to race.
Never did tell anybody it wasn't a Monza or that I snuck in a few tempered aluminum panels liberated from the Bell Telephone garage
where I was working...... :?
The picture shows a windshield, but that was only for one track that required it. Most nights just a screen.
I cut it from some lexan, also liberated from "Ma Bell". It was tinted, but free.....We never used a tinted windshield at night again. :doh:
So here's my version....
I used one of my resin cast chassis with a Jaws motor, Pro-Track wheels, home-cast resin tires, Parma guide, Big Mama Braid & Parma gears.
Staying true to the 1:1, I cut the roof from a scrap-pile casting & formed the rest of the body from sheet styrene
& bondo & a little yellow paint from Ace Hardware.
Printed the "stickers" onto white vinyl & covered with 2 coats of Ace Hardware clear.
