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The car in the Petty museum is his only surviving 66/67. There is a replica at Darlington now. The car at the Petty museum used to be on display at Darlington.

Equipment Blue aka Petty Parts Blue was used for many mechanical components during this time. It would be accurate for an engine block and heads as well as suspension parts, the rear axle and the whee ...

Just received my Cyclone bodies from Proxie Models. I highly recommend them. The body kits are back in stock.

Welcome to the forum. You made the Cyclone kit? They look nice. There are several guys on this forum that can do the 1/32nd scale decals, Dave Van, and Mike's Decals if I recall correctly. I have abou ...

As was suggested on Facebook, this rig may have been one that simply had Petty decals added for the press photo picking up the car at HM.

http://wowabunga.com/fun/bigred/haulers/Petty_1969wedge ...

The hauler with the 1971 Road Runner is Clyde, the Dodge truck.

http://wowabunga.com/fun/bigred/haulers/Petty_1969wedgecolor.jpg

Curtis Turner Fairlane no. 41... first Fairlane raced in 1966 , I believe.....was this a Holman Moody or Wood Brothers build?

All the cars of the factory supported Ford teams at that point in time ...

From board member Runnernut2: In 1966 or 1967. Chrysler Corporation did sell Plymouth Belvederes marketed in the South that were painted "Petty Blue." It might of been a regional deal, b ...

Just heard that long time board member Doug Dempsey, aka wingcarbuilder passed away unexpectedly from a heart attack last Friday. He was 54. Doug used to post here a lot in the days before Faceb ...

For what it's worth:

I have the original data sheets for the testing the guys did at Talladega, near the end of August, 1969, prior to the first race.

Bobby's absolute best lap was in the 198 ra ...

Mojave Yellow is the hue for his Nichels cars through 1970 and his early 70's cars run as an independent. A friend had asked Don many years ago at a racing dinner about the color, and he said it wa ...

Note from Runnernut about the '64 kits. He's had trouble getting re-registered.

There's a current question on there now asking about building the 'AMT' Petty 1964 Belvedere. Which I would like ...

I would use an AMT 68 Roadrunner or 69 GTX chassis. Much closer to real life.

I think this is your best answer in regard to using with the JoHan body. Ditto for the other newer 1/25 street based ...

So... the question arises for me at least. When exactly did the MoPar teams start eliminating/modifying the k-members, and front frame rails on the NASCAR builds? With the introduction of the 426 c.i. ...

I recall reading elsewhere ( maybe one of the Winged Warriors books ??? ) that Chrysler chose Huntsville, AL., for several reasons :
1) Lots of in - house engineering talent available
2) Close to ...

Pretty sure that Jim Radke in California owned the #02 Bown front end many years ago. Someone must have it today. The front end from the #7 car appeared on a different race chassis for sale a few ...

So,...all MoPar Chassis race cars originated at Nichel's facility, correct?

This is how it was supposed to work. But there were exceptions. The Pettys were able to build their own cars through ...

Wow. So there really wasn't that much of a jump from an independent to a factory team, at least not on the Mopar side. Thank you that sheds a lot of light on things that people were led to believe abo ...

Seriously now, the cars were not sold or given to the teams? How did that work and who were the beneficiaries, is this why so many teams rebodied their cars year after year? And out of the factory sup ...

My big question has always been, how much different were Nichel's, and Petty's builds. I know they each had their own unique variations to their builds, but really how much different?

The two Pett ...

The car that started this discussion?
https://www.imcdb.org/i764986.jpg

https://pics.imcdb.org/9656/chips-309-5400cr640.jpg

Note the tail shot of the 70 Plymouth and the painted o ...

So would that be the car that used to sit in the lobby at the memory lane Museum?

There are no documented Petty 1969 cars that exist. The 1970 Torino work in progress would have gone back to HM w ...

So that means that petty Enterprises had inside information into the king cobra program. Very interesting.

Probably no more knowledge of the KC than any other Ford team. They likely would have kn ...

I have also heard Harry Hyde used a lot of mopar parts on his Chevys when Stacy had him switch over to Chevrolet did Petty's Buick and Hyde's Chevys have torsion bars and leaf Springs?

Hyde used M ...

This is what I consider to be a fabricated frame rail. Can anyone identify what it is from?

http://www.superbirdclub.com/publishImages/PAbird~~element49.jpg

...my sources told me that the MacTavish crash was a great concern to them and things changed or at least discussion started of things changing in the name of safety and unibody race cars.

I don ...

The letter at the following link states that according to Harry Hyde, the mid-year 1970 Road Runner (the current trophy room Superbird) had fabricated front frame rails. The letter was penned by Harr ...

And in no way is that a stock torsion bar crossmember in the Baker charger restoration pictures

I don't think anyone suggested it was. The torsion bar crossmember got wider front to back in 1970 ...

April 1971.

Stamped rear rail. Modified stock inner wheelhouse.

Now, what appears to be true, is that this rear clip was built on a jig outside the body shell. Similar to what is show ...

Thank you Aero 426! Are there any stock frame rails in this the 70 Roadrunner being built in mid to late 1970 at Petty Enterprises in the Meet Richard Petty book? That sure looks like a panel car to m ...

http://www.superbirdclub.com/STRRbuild.jpg

Here is the mid-1970 short track car under construction from the Meet RP record album. Appears to be a hybrid still utilizing a heavily cannibalized bo ...

Didn't Bobby win a race at the old Texas Motor Speedway with the Daytona?
Or was that in 1969, not his championship year?

Thx

Correct, Isaac's win at Texas was at the end of the 1969 season.