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Slim
Joined: 21 Feb 2018 Posts: 40
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Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 8:02 pm Post subject: Billy Foster 1965 USAC Dodge |
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Built from the Polar Lights "snap" kit.
When the Polar Lights Snap 65 Dodge Kits first came out I built two of them, cut out the back seat, built a cage and just snapped it together. The first, this one, I didn't even paint just made some nice Nichels decals and put them on. Over time the white got dirty and the decals bled from washing. I did not clear coat them. So a do-over was required! Dis assembled, Added bars to the cage, a fuel cell, replaced the snap kit wedge with a hemi, and got some cool USAC Billy Foster decals from Plastic Performance. The #20 Joe Leonard car will be built from a Johan 64 Dodge, as the real car was.
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Mack
Joined: 28 Jan 2018 Posts: 731 Location: deep south
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Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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Dadgum!!! that's a good looking hot rod. Not to mention "obscure". Mighty fine build there. _________________ life is hard, it's harder when you're stupid. John Wayne |
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George Andrews
Joined: 30 Jan 2018 Posts: 459
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Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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Nice build. Was Palmer Dodge owned by ELDON Palmer -- Of Indy 500 pace car fiasco fame ??? |
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hemiman_1999
Joined: 29 Jan 2018 Posts: 296
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Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2019 7:22 am Post subject: |
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As always great build Slim you do some of the best out there and its been to long since you posted a new build |
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Slim
Joined: 21 Feb 2018 Posts: 40
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Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2019 7:50 am Post subject: |
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George Andrews wrote: | Nice build. Was Palmer Dodge owned by ELDON Palmer -- Of Indy 500 pace car fiasco fame ??? |
Yes, that is the same person. The car was owned and prepared by Rudy Hoerr.
Thanks for asking. |
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Slim
Joined: 21 Feb 2018 Posts: 40
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Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2019 7:51 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the comments fellas! |
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sentsat71
Joined: 03 Feb 2018 Posts: 1237 Location: Fenton, IA
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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2019 9:09 am Post subject: |
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Slim...
VERY NICE BUILD!!!
Really like seeing the builds of earlier days of NASCAR and USAC, as this is how I get to see the history of these cars, as I really didn't start following NASCAR, etc. until 1968 when I found the Sept 1968 issue of Stock Car Racing magazine, and then only because it had the write up of the '68 Indy 500.
Was also about the time I started going to local races with one of my brothers who had just gotten out of a 2 year stint with the Army (too young to have a driver's license at that time) Prior to this, had only been to to 2 races,....just cant remember if the were the same year (1966) or one in 1965 and the other in '66, just before my brother went into the Army, as my dad treated him to a race at the then fairly new Fairmont, MN track. The ONLY time I remember my dad ever going to any races! _________________ Ed. K |
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Slim
Joined: 21 Feb 2018 Posts: 40
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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2019 1:01 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you Ed, good story, too! |
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Henryjint
Joined: 28 Jan 2018 Posts: 1967 Location: NY State's Hudson Valley
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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2019 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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Very nicely done!!! _________________ Forum member since 10/25/2010 |
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Tony Mabe
Joined: 26 Dec 2018 Posts: 23
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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thats an obscure build, its a mopar so i love it great looking build Slim |
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