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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2024 12:28:08 GMT -7
Sure looks like a washer or a small magnet stacked. I do not think that is in the rules. Is it?
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Post by dave632 on Jan 17, 2024 16:07:06 GMT -7
Yes, that is a small magnet added to the underside of the stock magnet. Unfortunately, it is NOT allowed according to the current rules, would have made things easier. I was experimenting with downforce. Very observant.
Factory stock, I like that 55 Chevy. I ran several 55 Chevy's on the drag strip many years ago. What a great car.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2024 17:32:58 GMT -7
Back when I had hair I ran a 55 in B/MP. Pics were destroyed/lost when we moved from Dallas along with my slot cars. Snow white with a big blue strip down the center. Just a little 409 sitting in that BIG engine bay.
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Post by dave632 on Jan 18, 2024 10:22:26 GMT -7
The 55-57 Chevy may have been the best car ever made to turn into a drag car. Full frame, decent stock rear end, and a HUGE engine bay. I made many a trip down the drag strip in them. I don't have any pictures of my old 55s either. I once had hair also.  Here's a more recent car I had that I have a picture of:  Smoky Mountain race poster 2018 |
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Post by Steve-E-D on Jan 29, 2024 18:13:51 GMT -7
Fresh out of the paint booth....  |
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Post by Steve-E-D on Jan 29, 2024 21:57:40 GMT -7
Staged and ready...  |
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Post by dave632 on Jan 30, 2024 9:13:28 GMT -7
Looking good, you had the patience to disassemble them, I did not.
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Post by crazynski on Jan 30, 2024 17:47:30 GMT -7
Patience? I nearly broke it into a million pieces getting it apart. AW can create a deluxe pit kit = a complete car in parts. But they can't make a body kit with it being pre-assembled? I don't believe it. Not for a second. Someone in upper managment is putting their foot down and simply saying "No".  |
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Post by dave632 on Jan 30, 2024 18:35:05 GMT -7
Usually, upper management has their head firmly where the sun don't shine. Look at Bud light and Disney for current examples.
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Post by Steve-E-D on Jan 30, 2024 19:14:43 GMT -7
Even the unpainted body that I got in a Pit Kit had all the pieces heat staked together.
I may have got lucky but I have disassembled 3 of 4 so far with little difficulty. I removed the glass, but not the thingypit housing and driver.
*edit* love the auto censor for the part of the vehicle where the driver sits. LMAO!!!
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Post by ecbill on Jan 31, 2024 6:23:37 GMT -7
Good point Ken and Dave! Hearing rumblings on eBay that AW is under new management or ownership. Perhaps the new management will be more responsive.
When I asked previously, was told it was not possible to do unpainted without welding parts in place, but Tommy Galloway ordered his exclusive 56 Ford truck pit kits, with chrome bumpers and stacks, that are not attached. So it is possible when they want to do it. Seems like it would save them money to do it that way.
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Post by mazda on Jan 31, 2024 9:41:16 GMT -7
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Post by dave632 on Jan 31, 2024 16:00:11 GMT -7
Looks good Clive. How much time left?? I should send mine in, they have been ready for over a week now.
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Post by cozwurth on Jan 31, 2024 18:52:10 GMT -7
Usually, upper management has their head firmly where the sun don't shine. Look at Bud light and Disney for current examples. Recto-cranial inversion. It can be terminal, if not treated early, lol. On the assembled body pit kit thing, I recently bought a '57 Nomad pit kit and the glass was "welded" in, but the bumpers were not. I'm not looking forward to removing the glass for paint. |
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Post by skillet on Jan 31, 2024 22:04:46 GMT -7
Clive that is banging! Beautiful work!
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