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Pierre Rivard
Joined: 25 Feb 2021 Posts: 378 Location: Montreal, Canada
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Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2021 7:44 am Post subject: Help needed - Pearson 1971 Pontiac GTO |
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I am starting planning for this project
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I have been doing lots of internet searches but little is available.
Any knowledge you can share about this car would be greatly appreciated.
I am intrigued by what type of chassis Ray Nichels would have built
Did he retain the GM short arm/coils rear or something else?
Again same questioning about the front, standard GM or something else?
I believe this was the period where Nascar was migrating towards the long arm rear and Galaxie front clip setup but I have no idea if this car had integrated any of these ideas.
A call to the experts and historians for your insight, and any pictures you may have in your files for chassis, engine comps or interior.
Thanks![/url] _________________ "When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it" - Yogi Berra |
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hawk22
Joined: 28 Jan 2018 Posts: 298 Location: Northern Virginia
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Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2021 11:49 am Post subject: |
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Check this out, may provide some useful information.
http://www.svensworldofwheels.com/pearson_gto.html
MPC made a model of this car. But don’t know how accurate it was.
Never liked this car, especially the color & the owner. |
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Firefly
Joined: 28 Jan 2018 Posts: 810 Location: New Jersey
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Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2021 6:57 am Post subject: |
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There are a couple of interesting build images of the original Nichels car on another car modeling forum showing the fabbed front clip and side cage bars that protrude into the door cavity.
Keep in mind GM intermediates had a factory wheelbase of 112" - which needed to be stretched to 115" for Cup competition. You may notice on some images how the rear wheels are pushed back a bit.
The original MPC issue has a chassis/cage that is all wrong for this car, except for maybe the front clip and acceptable GM-style head/valve covers. I'd use a '90s AMT Tbird chassis/cage as a basis. _________________ Bill Jobson is my real name. |
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Pierre Rivard
Joined: 25 Feb 2021 Posts: 378 Location: Montreal, Canada
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Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2021 10:44 am Post subject: |
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Firefly wrote: | There are a couple of interesting build images of the original Nichels car on another car modeling forum showing the fabbed front clip and side cage bars that protrude into the door cavity.
Keep in mind GM intermediates had a factory wheelbase of 112" - which needed to be stretched to 115" for Cup competition. You may notice on some images how the rear wheels are pushed back a bit.
The original MPC issue has a chassis/cage that is all wrong for this car, except for maybe the front clip and acceptable GM-style head/valve covers. I'd use a '90s AMT Tbird chassis/cage as a basis. |
Thanks Bill. I remember seing that picture but I can't find it on the web.
Good advice on how to set the front, roll cage and pushing the rears a bit. I will plan for that.
I still need to figure out if I should go with a short arm rear ou truck long arms.
Thanks for the help! _________________ "When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it" - Yogi Berra |
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BVAUGHN
Joined: 29 Jan 2018 Posts: 504
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Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2021 10:57 am Post subject: |
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Power slide coming out with the decal sheet for a couple versions of this car
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jh63fan
Joined: 10 Sep 2021 Posts: 351 Location: Tarheel State
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Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2021 2:16 pm Post subject: |
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What are you planning on using for an engine? |
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Pierre Rivard
Joined: 25 Feb 2021 Posts: 378 Location: Montreal, Canada
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Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2021 3:15 pm Post subject: |
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jh63fan wrote: | What are you planning on using for an engine? |
Good question, I don't know.
I'm building off a production spec GTO kit which supposedly has a 400cid small block so we'll see if this could be useable _________________ "When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it" - Yogi Berra |
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Firefly
Joined: 28 Jan 2018 Posts: 810 Location: New Jersey
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Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2021 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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Below, comparing a production GTO and the Nichels race car. The guidelines are set at key areas of the production car. Note where they go out of sync on the race car.
( these shots were taken through different lenses - a telephoto on the blue production car, and a wider angle lens on the Pearson car, which makes that one distort a bit especially at the ends. However the guidelines show the modification at the rear wheel pretty well.)
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Pierre Rivard
Joined: 25 Feb 2021 Posts: 378 Location: Montreal, Canada
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Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2021 6:00 am Post subject: |
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Wow, thank you so much!
By looking at these picture, looks like there wasn't much stock left in this stock car. _________________ "When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it" - Yogi Berra |
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