Yea, are you restoring it back to original, or just making it your own for racing? do you have more chassis pics?
Matt
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Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 09:36:32 -0800
Subject: Re: [StockSSDragRacing] OT - "Loose Caboose" Video
| Steve, you've got a real interesting piece of racing history there. Thanks for the pics. Wayne.
--- On Wed, 12/2/09, Steve Stasko <superpro140@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Steve Stasko <superpro140@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [StockSSDragRacing] OT - "Loose Caboose" Video
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Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 11:51 AM
Mine is #3 of 4, originally built for Max Naylor. Herb said it was the "sister" car to Johnny's. -Steve On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Matt Conte <lookoutmcp@msn. com> wrote: Steve,
What car do you have? Very cool. Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:05:46 -0500 Subject: Re: [StockSSDragRacing] OT - "Loose Caboose" Video I've been after good detailed photos of the suspension on these cars for a couple of years now. When I bought mine, it had already been converted to the strut front end and had the rear shock arrangement modified. I still believe that 1 of the 2 "missing" cars may still have the A-arm setup. It's just a matter of finding them to see. I attached a couple pics of the original McCandless roll bar before it was redone in my car. -Steve On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Matt Conte <lookoutmcp@msn. com> wrote: If I could get good, detailed photos of the chassis and suspension. I can duplicate it in scale. I have very good fabricating skills plus I have built and worked on real race cars for so many years AND I was a chassis and suspension specialist. It all helps me quite a bit in my model building. Decals are a bitch for me because I just cannot afford the best technology to do them. I can. Just ask Wayne. But I cannot do them as nice as I would like.
Matt
To: StockSSDragRacing@ yahoogroups. comFrom: superpro140@ gmail.comDate: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 01:21:49 -0500 Subject: Re: [StockSSDragRacing] OT - "Loose Caboose" Video The hardest part would be duplicating the original McCandless interior and A-arm front suspension. There's plenty of photos to make the decals. This was car #2 from Herb's shop. -Steve On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Matt Conte <lookoutmcp@msn. com> wrote: Thanks Wayne. Johnny is one of my heroes in drag racing. I have been wanting to build a model of that car for years. The hard part is making the decals. Thanks for the video. Matt
To: stockssdragracing@ yahoogroups. comFrom: hdhtjh@yahoo. comDate: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 18:08:46 -0800 Subject: [StockSSDragRacing] OT - "Loose Caboose" Video | Here's a video clip from the early eighties of Georgia's Johnny Labbous making a time run in his Super Gas Omni 024 at my home track, Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip. This was before trans. brakes were used and the tree still had 5 ambers. Herb McCandless built this car for Johnny and Johnny built his own engines. Labbous won several Div.2 championships in Super Gas. He was runner-up at the Gators in 1983 and won the Summer Nationals in 1985. Wayne. |
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