Show your slant 6 a body!

Rockerdude said

I'm pretty excited to see how both your and Aarons cars run.. I want to get myself a 63-66 Valiant or Dart two door post car to do. But who knows what I will end up with.. I really like that your doing a four door, too many four door cars are being tossed away in the trash basically these days. My money has been really tight lately though too so if I can pick something up for super cheap (I've picked up free cars before too) I will probably do it.

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Since you don't have a car to build right now, let me say just a couple of things in defense of the generation ! cars. Those '60-62 Valiants are lighter than our car and will be faster with any given drive train. They have full rear wheel openings, so you don't have to worry about the slicks rubbing the inside of the fender panel.

We built a 4-door because we decided to build a car on Sunday and Freddie's wife found a '64 Valiant in the paper the next day... and he didn't want to spend a lot of time shopping for a 2-door (which are 25 pounds lighter) and got it in fairly good cosmetic condition for $700.00.

We can't get a lot of tire under the back of it (9"-wide, 26"-tall 15-inch slicks are the limit without moving the springs and/or tubbing it) but otherwise it's been an ok car to build.

But an earlier ('60-'62 car) would have been better. We spent a lot of time and effort getting a reasonably-wide tire under this thing; hopefully, we're gonna need it!!!! :prayer:

Good luck!!!