Pro Touring Dragster

[JayR]

Ask 100 people, get 100 opinions. You're making a perfect case for hiring a designer. It's a lot cheaper than the bill for an ugly paint scheme.

[Discoquik]

Bezels are on the way. I can pay Eddie Hollon $800.00 to do renderings all day long. Problem is I am into this thing $4800.00 and counting to fix front end damage that happened in the water box at a Pittsburgh area track. Super Gas style IROC backed over the nose of it after he was prestaged(!) and after trying to talk with the guy he told me that's racing and he wasn't gonna pay for it, much less help. So apparently when he is prestaged and feels like backing up he is the inly racer in the country with this privilege as the track let him continue to run. So new front suspension, steering and body later I am at a point where I can redo the car with funds I didn't have. So I am just looking for positive input to maybe help me do a theme not normally seen on the drag type cars.
If I was not a Mopar guy I would love to do a 1st gen Back-halved Camaro with all the PT goodies for that look no one would have on a car everyone races.

[Discoquik]

Ask 100 people, get 100 opinions. You're making a perfect case for hiring a designer. It's a lot cheaper than the bill for an ugly paint scheme.

The reason why I posted here is the fact that there is an enormous amount of talent in the regular Joe on here. The response to the post prove it isn't as easy as it looks to put in a good suggestion for making a simple machine look good. It's alot easier to do a F-body, or Mustang, or even a Studebaker. They have character to start with. The dragster is a jungle gym on wheels with zero character. It's tough to do tastefully. So one designer's idea wouldn't necessarily be the right answer IMHO. My Dad's Volvo I built with the Martini Rossi cars of the 70's in mind. Their protoypes always had Martini colors on flat black prototypes and finished products mostly silver or white. So I sprayed it as a what-if "one of none" drag program research car if there was every to be one.

[Steve Chryssos]

Then perhaps a Gulf Oil scheme on a dragster will do:

[Discoquik]

Funny you suggest that as I have LOVED that paint scheme ever since I was a kid watching those cars on ABC Wide World of Sports! LOL

That's the flavor I'm after, even the newer Jaguar Team cars are pretty good looking cars as well. I will post as I go if anyone is interested.

For Pontiac guys here is a Firebird I just finished to help me put my Dragster back together. Couldn't talk him into different wheels but did get him to upgrade brakes an suspension components. Pretty nice piece.... 455 with a Turbo 400.

[rednecknate]

Then perhaps a Gulf Oil scheme on a dragster will do:

If you go this route My new Mountain Bike that i built will match this theme perfect Even has Huge disc brakes,cutom shocks, super fast and big wheels.. LOL ... I alway's loved those color's as you can tell