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Front Rails

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Rear body 1/4 view with rails in place

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Owen fitting in the rocker edges

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Looking Down the Rocker-Frame Rail

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I'll really be interested to see this in the end and on the track.

Me too, need to give your Road Runner some company. should be running for the spring Scottsdale & Del Mar

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please tell me it will be white and look like the vanishing point car.....

Sorry to dissapoint (I love that car) But, this was a 'Plum crazy' car on day one, and it will be again when re-born.

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Now we take the tubs out

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Whoa this is a killer build. I'm watching!


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Laying Out New Tubs

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Using a Quick Compass

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While Tina is posting up more picts, I'll chip in a bit. The chassis was built in our frame jig, so it's nice and square. This body had rear quarters and some other metal repair done to it. We started by rebuilding the door hinges, and then spending some time aligning the doors and fenders. This takes a while, but has to be done to get a good finish. However it fits now, is how it will fit when it's done. We tacked some legs onto the chassis, appx 18" to make it easier to work on. We fit each leg to the floor so that the chassis is perfectly level, and we mark the floor where it sits. This way we can lift it up to wrk on it, and each time we set it down to weld, we know it's square and level. The base chassis weighs 163 lbs. the floor we took out weighed 226 lbs. This type of construction is usually the same overall weight as stock, but the weight is lower, farther back, and the unsprung percentage is much less. These cars (uni-bombers) are also much stronger than stockers.

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Cutting the tubs out-4 at a time

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This is what we started with

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mocking up the center lines

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Closing the door fit

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Start Cutting-taking out the floor

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Forming the rail caps

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Punching plug-weld holes in the rail caps

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This is the rail caps in place. The seam to the frame will be fully welded later.

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Tub side panels being mocked up.