Thanks Rett,
We raced for three seasons. By that time it was becoming obvious that it was very quickly coming to the point where it took good money to win. You no longer could build something out of junk and be competitive. Being married and having 2 children drove the end of my racing career. I still followed it for a long time, but from the stands, often thinking if I could get back into it some times, but didn't. My buddy went and build a modified but 2 seasons of that finished him too. I am only 30 miles from Speedway 95 in Bangor but don't go there either. In the upper classes you have to have crate engines to compete. A major expense before you even do anything else. Money has destroyed NASCAR too, can't stand to watch that anymore either.
Building this model was fun but exhausting trying to build it just as it was. Back in the day of that old car it was just gobs of fun. We paid $50 for the engine out of a junkyard, and $40 for a set of shocks. Most everything else was picked up for about nothing. You could buy a tri 5 Chevy out of a junkyard for $50 and you could find 40's fords behind barns that they would give to you to haul off. The memories of all the fun we had are still there, time can't take them away.
Wish more people were posting, don't want to see this place die out, there are lots of good people and good stuff to learn here.
MB