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Please Contact Us if you can provide ANY additional
Historical Information about this car. Note:
Due to scarcity - not all equipment on car may be period correct. Certain items
may need to be reproduced or sourced over the next few years. Your help in this
process is requested & appreciated. Since
the car was raced over 2 decades a year had to be chosen to restore the car to
- the year chosen was 1983 - the year Nick Fornoro Jr. won the ARDC
Championship driving the car for Mike Scrivani. The
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| Closer
view of frame & new lower aluminum panels. An exact match of the originals. |
First
Batch of Chrome back. Due to cost we may
spray a few temp "silver"
then come back and
catch up on rest of chrome. 10/19/2002 |
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First
batch of nicely polished stainless hardware, some are a special Grade 8+ stainless.
Contact me if you need Grade 8+ stainless hardware. brianwatson@teamwatsononline.com |
10/20/2002
- Front shocks mounted, started to run new brake lines, bolting on new chrome
& new hardware (bolts), front axle almost complete, (more seems to be happening
behind the scenes than on the car). These shocks are not exactly 100% period correct.
The car will be "run" with these. An original set is in the works which
will be on the car when "shown". |
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These
are the actual type of shocks that would have been on the car in 1983. These are
"Gabriel" shocks with the covers cut that now have a threaded sleeve,
a welded nut, a disc and a heim joint. Very innovative. |
Wheels
had bolts replaced with original style bolts (old stock left over from 1983) and
polished by original manufacturer. (Goudy) Wheel look great and the price was
right. I highly recommend them. |
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Two
axles came with car. One for payment and one for dirt. Here is a photo of us reaming
out and prepping the dirt axle. The plating on the axle will be redone when finances
become available. The spindles were cleaned up and test fitted to the axle before
being painted. They were painted temporarily. In the future they will also be
platted. | Spindles
were painted, mounted on axle, hub cleaned up, bearing cleaned & repacked,
rotor polished, magnesium pressure plate was polished and coated with a clear.
Tie rod spacer is from Edmunds AutoResearch. These two radius rods ware original
Edmunds. |
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Car
had two (2) updated aluminum radius rods. They were replaced by these two steel
ones that were manufactured by AutoResearch for us exactly the same way as the
original ones in 1983. |
Here
are the two (2) new radius rods mounted on the car. They will be chromed later.
Right now they have been painted a temp silver. The yellow in the photo is just
a reflection. |
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