This is Reading Speedway, street stocks painted like Chamberland and Brightbill.
"Stock" Car Bodies
Started by KPotter, Jun 24 2013 10:40 AM
54 replies to this topic
#41
Posted 26 June 2013 - 06:02 PM
If you ain't live'n life on the edge, yer taken up to much room.
#42
Posted 26 June 2013 - 07:46 PM
If you want good looking "stock"cars go to a damn car cruise. Racecars are built to go fast and handle well not for beauty pagents
Dirt...i like it
#43
Posted 26 June 2013 - 08:02 PM
Cool! wish there were more like them!
#44
Posted 26 June 2013 - 08:20 PM
I love the street stocks that run the Bedford/ hagerstown/Winchester circuit, definitely some of the sharpest looking ( and fastest! ) cars around!At Bedford you can still tell what type/make of car they are.
#45
Posted 26 June 2013 - 08:42 PM
new york is on the right track to...personally the best looking "stock car" body's i.m.o
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#46
Posted 26 June 2013 - 08:49 PM
Right on ill second that..If you want good looking "stock"cars go to a damn car cruise. Racecars are built to go fast and handle well not for beauty pagents
#47
Posted 26 June 2013 - 09:11 PM
new york is on the right track to...personally the best looking "stock car" body's i.m.o
They mostly run the 5 star dirt grand national.
#48
Posted 26 June 2013 - 09:17 PM
If you want good looking "stock"cars go to a damn car cruise. Racecars are built to go fast and handle well not for beauty pagents
No, they are supposed to look good also!
#49
Posted 26 June 2013 - 10:27 PM
No, they are supposed to look good also!
Hey Ed, correct me if I am wrong here but back in the old PRA days if a car got banged up didn't they have to have the body straightened out within 3 weeks ? I'm thinking of back in the dirt track days. Those cars always looked good.
And I also remember when tracks had a rule theat late models had to run a body of the past 3 model years.
Why do I like racing ? Well the colors are bright and there is a lot of movement, so it holds my attention.
#50
Posted 27 June 2013 - 05:47 AM
Hey Ed, correct me if I am wrong here but back in the old PRA days if a car got banged up didn't they have to have the body straightened out within 3 weeks ? I'm thinking of back in the dirt track days. Those cars always looked good.
And I also remember when tracks had a rule theat late models had to run a body of the past 3 model years.
Pretty much right on. But then again, all through the years of who I have been associated with, i.e. Luffy, Borawiec, Buccella, The cars were always pounded out straight and touched up weekly, which kind of how I got my start.
#51
Posted 27 June 2013 - 12:10 PM
The PRA had a 10 year body limit, and back then those guys kept up on body work to a point. Funny though, at the big end of the season races at Heidleberg, a lot of the out of towners had pretty rough looking cars. I'd say today's late models, (like them or not), keep up with body work also. Statline and Eriez had a 3 year limit in the 50's-60's and 70's, wanting there late models to be "late models"Hey Ed, correct me if I am wrong here but back in the old PRA days if a car got banged up didn't they have to have the body straightened out within 3 weeks ? I'm thinking of back in the dirt track days. Those cars always looked good.
And I also remember when tracks had a rule theat late models had to run a body of the past 3 model years.
#52
Posted 27 June 2013 - 09:22 PM
new york is on the right track to...personally the best looking "stock car" body's i.m.o
#53
Posted 28 June 2013 - 02:02 PM
new york is on the right track to...personally the best looking "stock car" body's i.m.o
Those bodies are quite expensive and very labor intensive to keep straight. They look great, but they are as impractical as impractical can be.
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#54
Posted 28 June 2013 - 05:01 PM
those bodies look the same as my car does but the hood is different the only difference between these bodies and the late model look a likes are that my body guy used a half of a piece of plastic pipe to make the aluminum roll instead of the sharp bends and he did it on a 6 foot break with the turn buckle hold downs , you would be surprised how many compliments i got from even the young fans at the last fan appreciation night i raced at a few years ago. you can still knock the dents out but instead of the sharp bends they are rolled .
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#55
Posted 28 June 2013 - 08:37 PM
some of the "home built" new york pro stock bodies are completely hideous looking, not everyone is going to spend $1500 on a body every year.
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