61 Ford short track late model

[slimlouis]

A reasonable facsimilie of a Chicago area late model from th 60's. These cars ran on asphalt and dirt, with or without there "zipper tops". Mines from an old styline kit with the molded in hood cut open, hogged out and resting on a 60 Ford Starliner chassis. Big block 406 for power, homemade decals and after market wheels and tires.

[nascarrocks]

Nice job Slim. Way cool. Were you getting those decals from

[roadhawg]

I just LOVE your builds! How about some tips on making those decals, huh?

[The Mad Modeller]

Sweet looking car Slim. Love those old dirt trackers.

[oldcoyote]

That's an outstanding build .............. and I especially like the fact that you used a Ford "Y-Block" for propulsion ............. great work

[slimlouis]

Thanks everyone for looking and for the compliments! The decals were made by me using print shop 20 , they give you a limited variety of fonts, colors, (no white) outline, shading, and positions. Then I print on an ink jet printer, very limited. The decal must be darker then the paint or it disapears. They don't print very opaque, if I goose the setting, the ink just bleeds out in the water! But when it works it's fun. I like the graphic arts deal!

Old coyote, thats the FE motor big block came out in '58 as a 332 and included the 352, 390, 406, 427 etc. with the distributor in the front.
The Y-block came out in 1954 as a 239, included the 272, 292, and 312 made till 1964, had the disributor in the rear and the headers were spaced as a chevy small block.The Thunderbird motor! I just aquired this information recently that I'm sharing.
Hers some examples:

FE block


Y block:

[mrchevyblack]

Very nice clean dirt machines!!!!!!!
Good job my friend!
Daniel

[mrglubaum]

Awesome build, Slim! I always enjoy your old race cars! You know I sponsored a '61 Ford very similar to that one back in 1975 when I owned my body shop! It raced on a 1/4 mile paved oval in Meridian, ID.

Lee

[slimlouis]

Awsome, Lee, you still have any pictures of it?

[oldcoyote]

slimlouis said:

Old coyote, thats the FE motor big block came out in '58 as a 332 and included the 352, 390, 406, 427 etc. with the distributor in the front.
The Y-block came out in 1954 as a 239, included the 272, 292, and 312 made till 1964, had the disributor in the rear and the headers were spaced as a chevy small block.The Thunderbird motor! I just aquired this information recently that I'm sharing.
Hers some examples:

FE block


Y block:

Thanks for the added pictures Slim .......... couldn't see the distributor positioning in the original photo ............ but I did recognize the Ford valve covers .............. made a guess it was a Y block .............. guessed wrong (that's what happens when I have a 50/50 chance

Again, a realy nice build, great work

[mrglubaum]

Stupid, but I never even thought to take any pictures of it back then! In '76 we sponsored VW Beetle in the foreign class. In '77, we did a '70 Charger. I don't have pictures of any of them. The drivers probably have pictures, but I lost track of those guys years ago.

Lee

[ronr]

One cool `61 Slimster