mancini tube upper control arm failure....

dennis said

hey 360scamp you guessed wrong...mark was going through a intersection when the car started topull right slightly thought it was because of the skinny tires then all of a sudden hard left could not control it. went up a curb then into a tree.he never launches his .

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Sucks that it happened but isn't it kind of a waist to have all that car and never launch it?

All that motor under the tarp in the pics, all the work that went into the car, the big and littles and drum brakes (first pic)? What was he doing driving that car on the street in the first place? You would think that if you were going to build that car that way and put the cash into the front end you would spend it on disk brakes instead of fancy control arms first.
The 390 with a 4bbl in our 72 ford pick up is about all the stock drums can take and if for some reason I ever wanted to have something sticking out of the hood that would require a set of big and littles you bet your *** I would upgrade the hell out of the front brakes.