road race trucks?
 

has anyone done their truck like a scca trans am or road race style car? ive always been in to the trans am cars, and would like to gear my 87 up like a phantom trans am truck. anyone give this a go?

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Maybe like a Craftsman truck (Nascar) take the 87 Wrangler body, mount it on a used race car chassis. The nascar chassis uses truck trailing arms like the 67-72 trucks with a 9" ford floater rear axle. Drop in a 302 zapper chevy engine and munsey 4 speed buckle up and hang on.

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How about Frizzle Fry's '69 Autocross Suburban -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1exT5n2zxU

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in order to make it really work you're going to have to do major surgery to the firewall and the dash to allow for enough engine setback which will allow a better weight bias and let it actually perform rather than just looking the part.

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The SCCA guys around here will not allow the full size trucks. S10's can. I wouldnt want to my truck, however, I would like to get it on road atlanta sometime.

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been thinkin about the nascar truck look,, wide tires on basset wheels, and a few other things.. like a 76 race truck.. Dunno tho..

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Like bigblock73's avatar, how can I post it :lol:

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i dont think id ever go so far as to hack my truck up. im gonna try to make it handle half decent thou.

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Frizzle Fry is so cool. All the stuff I've ever seen him post is chock full of awesome.

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i have a few old craftsman trucks that are waay out of date and setting outside our shop. Let me know if you are interested. '98-'99 bodystyle. 1 laughlin standard snout, standard rail, and a hutch standard snout standard rail.

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That looks bizarre and fun at the same time -- that thing could smash the oh-so popular miatas if they got in its way

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How do you get your hands on an old craftsman truck anyway ? I've seen some on ebay but I always wondered how to get one from the source.