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Found some old pics of my 57 oval rag cal looker I built
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Larry S
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Found some old pics of my 57 oval rag cal looker I built
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January 08, 2012, 23:07:25 pm »
I found some old pics of my 1957 Oval rag I got for my 16th birthday in 1979. My Dad bought it for me from a woman school teacher in Orange California. I drove it for several years stock adding things like dual Kadrons, 010 dizzy, Gene Berg 1 1/2 merge header, etc. it had a 1500 single port but ran great. In 1982 I built a 1750 (69x90) with huge welded heads, 48's, Dave folts close ratio trans with all the good stuff etc. In December 1983 I started a pan off show car build. Santini painted the car in 1984 but it took me a long time to get it all together. I had Roger Crawford build me a 2275 with all the goodies including a set of Dyno Soar heads that Dean Lowry built and ported for me. 5 or 6 years ago the car went to a new owner in Arizona and now is owned by Russell Ritchie.
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Larry S
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January 08, 2012, 23:15:05 pm »
Here it is when I had some 14" alloys with my bad boy 1750 motor, it ran 13:50's on the street, that motor was a great motor, fast and fun, would leave the line at 7200 rpm and shift around that.
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Re: Found some old pics of my 57 oval rag cal looker I built
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January 08, 2012, 23:21:29 pm »
Some pics of her coming apart, took everything done to the bolt, even the wiring harness so it could be acid dipped.
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January 08, 2012, 23:27:49 pm »
Back from the acid dip, down the the bare metal.
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January 08, 2012, 23:38:51 pm »
I had Santini paint the pan first, with graphics. Yes I know it looks a little cheezy but the look was all black on top (dechromed) total chromed out front end and rear suspension and the color on the bottom, remember it was to be a show car at first and then a driver. With us racing my Dads (Sum Fun) and brothers (radical rod) cars this was kind of a change of pace for me. The pics don't do it justice the pan looked amazing. I put the body on another pan while it was gettiing painted
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Back from the paint shop September 1984, if you look close you can see the clouds reflecting in the front hood, thats my kind of patina......
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January 09, 2012, 00:29:40 am »
Some pics after the body was back on the pan and more assembly was going on.
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January 09, 2012, 00:40:54 am »
Sitting in the driveway done and a couple of pics taken at the Classic 2010(Mr. Ritchie owned it at this point) and had it shipped overseas. He changed some items on the car and it looked great, the paint job was 26 years old in thos pics.
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January 09, 2012, 01:37:05 am »
got a chance to examine this car up close and for the age of the paint and other items on the car...wow...great shape...i miss the 80s and all the builds going on around town back then....good times
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January 09, 2012, 09:37:08 am »
Superb photos! Thanks for sharing, Larry.
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January 09, 2012, 11:52:19 am »
cool!!!
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Re: Found some old pics of my 57 oval rag cal looker I built
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thanks for the great pics!!
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Very nice thanks!
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