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SUPER STOCK RACE CAR FOR SALE

The History

Dirt oval track Super stock race car is a  ’70 Camaro. This car last ran in 2008 as street stock.  I took 5th place for the season, but a better driver could have brought this car in closer to the front. I hadn’t been in the top 5 for 2 1/2 years. My first 5 races I was in 4th place.

The Car

This is a leaf spring car. It has a Fordracecar-right 9″ 6:30 rear end with gun drilled axles. I’m selling it as a roller with a 3 speed tranny. Included is a mini Disc racing clutch.  I have both bead locks and regular wheels. Coils springs augment the mono leaf springs which have slider mounts vs. shackles.

  •  Rear engine support brackets
  • tubular upper control arms
  • round tube front and rear bumpers
  • fiberglass “flexglas” side panels and nose piece

The Extras

There are additional body panels, some were original with the car when I bought it. There was a fiberglass hood, but I replaced it with aluminum.

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The tethered hood pins are unique push pins with steel cable tethers.

The tires are old so they won’t be usable on the track. This car has been in the garage since 2008, so it’s been out of the weather and the sun.

 

 

a few of the photos.

And the asking price is $2500

I do have the engine available for those interested. All Inquiries should go to contact us page.

 

Project 2- The Corvette Car Hauler

On of the first problems with hauling a corvette on a car hauler trailer is that the trailer fenders stick up so much higher than the bottom of the door of the car once it’s loaded on.  This makes getting out of the car difficult if you drive the car onto the trailer since you can’t open up the door.

I had an old utility trailer, which has the railing 12″ above the bed and at the same level as the top of the fenders. This old trailer had a wooden bed and it was rotted.

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I started by stripping all of the wood off and wire brushing (mostly wire wheel on grinder) and cleaning all of the rust off.

 

To solve the problem of getting out of the car I made a raised bed on both sides of the trailer 18″ wide. This is ssimg_9680- car hauler in progresswider than I would have used if I had put more thought into it. 14″ would have been fine. In fact I made the ramps 14″ wide, and they fit into slots that place them at the outside edge if the raised area of the trailer. I covered the trailer with 14Ga. diamond plate steel.

 

car hauler adding the steel. ssimg_9684

This does however create another problem. I need to keep the slope of the ramps around 7° so the front end doesn’t scrape as the car is starting up the ramp. The the top angle as the car goes over it to the level must be around or below 5° so the car doesn’t high center on that hump.

But my text is getting ahead of my photos. I painted top and bottom with Rustoleum “Hammerd Coat”.   Then on to build the ramps.car hauler finished and painted ssimg_9690

I’m pretty happy with my Corvette Car Hauler. I still have to re wire it. I have however found the greatest way to mount the tail lights so I won’t crunch them,

Most trailer have little wings with the lights in a vulnerable position. These are tucked into the underside of the raised ramps.

tail light location on corvette car hauler trailer

 

Project 1- The Super Stock Race Car

car-1-s-race car ready to be cleaned up

The first project was to get my old dirt circle track race car out of the garage and ready for sale. This has been a great race car but I haven’t raced since 2008, and I need to let someone else have some fun with it.
I’ve had that car in my garage since I stopped racing after the 2008 season. We didn’t have a “Super Stock” class until 2009. This car ran as a Street Stock, But it fits into the Super Stock Class better than the existing Street Stock class.
The body was pretty beat up so I made new side panels and front fenders.Looks pretty beat up doesn’t it?  That’s the way it was left in the garage for the last 8 years.

I had to make all new fiberglass for the sides and both front fenders.

car-5-s, race car in the garage

The front fenders that I was using before were ABS plastic sheets cut to the shape and then just bolted in place.

So I decided to make the body panels “Race Friendly” by using a flex agent in the resin. This makes the panel bend when hit instead of crack or shatter. Check out the video

 

 

So with new side panels and new nose the car ends up looking like this.

Super Stock Race Car for sale

Super Stock Race Car for sale