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[dc-65x]

The body is finally finished and ready to become one with it's skinny chassis with tall tires:

 

 

I love those MESAC style fat treaded front tires:  

 

 

That's a lot of yellow:

 

 

 

Nothing like 4 dual choke Weber carburetors sticking out above the bodywork:

 

 

There is the cool single coil over front shock:

 

 

Hmmmmmmmm............I should compare this scale version to the low and wide Pro car version............

[Larry Horner]

Just stunning! And the intake trumpets look even better than I imaged. 

[Mark Onofri]

Sometimes, there are no words. This is one of them.

[pn6]

Fantastic Rick!!!

[dc-65x]

Thanks guys.   

 

Here's the comparison of the scale car and a late 1968 Pro car handling body version I promised. 

 

The scale car is on the left in all the pics:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mad Mark]

So cool!

[Martin]

Great build and thanks for taking the time to show comparison pics.    

 

Will you be doing a lap time comparison also? I am interested to have a better idea on how much time you give up and your driving impressions to have scale looking cars.

[dc-65x]

I want to do a comparison of the low and wide and scale body Honker I'm building now also.

 

I wish I could do a track comparison on Eddie's (now gone) tracks. He had a technical flat road course and a big fast Blue King. Lap times are important but I'm really more interested in if the scale versions fun to drive than in how fast they are. 

[Martin]

Agreed lap time is only one factor, the feel is what I am mostly interested in. 

 

I only got to go to Eddie's a few times. I can still smell the tobacco smoke