Hello Codi
Welcome to FABO and thanks for your 1st message to me!
Glad you are doing your homework.
Sounds like you are going to do a very detailed build.
The upper and lower frame rails are indeed 1.5 inch.
The main frame bars out to the sills are 1.5 also.
The diagonal bars from the 2 frame rails are 5/8.
Mr. Hardy used a lot of different size bars, the passenger side bar on the cage is smaller.
Feel free to ask any questions about the construction as it has not been changed in 40+ years.
Pretty sure there were many Hardy Colts done but I can only be sure of 4.
Roger Denny, became the Rod Shop Colt, Became the Sox White Colt, Mark Panos last.
Pretty sure Roger Denny had the first Hardy Colt.
Ronald Lyles, this was a Sox team Colt, was later driven by Ronnie Sox Red/White and Blue.
Billy Stepp got one.
Cashed at Bristol after the wheelie bars were not put down.
There are pictures of it being taken apart and statements about that being the end of it.
However..... I will just leave it as gone.
And mine, Kocanda and Patrick.
The current restored S&M Colt is the Lyles Colt.
It originally had rectangular front frame rails per the NHRA Rules at the time.
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