i didnt take a whole lot of pictures... but i took plenty of this!

hope this topic is in the right place!

enjoy!

and the famous no3

Where is that? I'm close to Joe Gibbs Racing. I can hear the air guns when they practice pit stops along with the engine synonymous from my back yard. I love it!

Nice !

Welcome nc

Wow....very cool but I can't help but notice how many things I don't like safety-wise on that car. Scary to think about crashing one of those even once at 180+ much less doing it on a regular basis.

Thanks for sharing. Very interesting to see older top-shelf cars up close.

Who needs safety, don't crash lol

I'm not a Nascar fan and not really bothered by your comment - I know it was a joke, but....if you stop and think about who's car we're looking at here....starts feeling a little awkward doesn't it?

A HR seat, properly anchored harnesses, a HANS, and some real rollbar padding and I'd trust it at 180.

The rear part of NASCAR cages, even modern ones, look sketchy to me, but they have some real sturdy frame rails back there, and lots of forward bracing from the middle of the main hoop. I think they figure on more of the rear being a crush zone that we are accustomed to in club racing.

What I wonder is how many yahoos stole a 'real Earnhardt shift knob' for their car before the museum just quit replacing them.

Now that you mention it... Is a little awkward. And the shift knob, lol who knows

This was 1985 and things have progressed a lot, but it does look pretty simple for 180mph cars.

I am crrently renovating a 1977 2nd Gen IROC racer seen here at the front being driven by Richard Petty as Daytona and Unser at Atlanta, mine is the beige car. Gotta get it looking like that! Its 99% complete with all the right bits including Mooneyes drysump tank etc. Trust me the build on these Banjo matthews chassis is tank like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLr93R4BzA8...feature=related


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doyCfkgUoHk

Thanks for posting those pics!

(I always thought that those things were full tube frame cars, just like the Cup cars, as I've never before seen close up detailed pics of them.)

They are! You could take all the panels off and still drive the thing even the seat is slug off the tube frame.

Pre 77 they were just a stock bodied car modified but IROC found it too hard to get them consitantly equal the essence of the series, so they went over to Banjo Matthews tube frame aka NASCAR chassis, its the same chassis in the 3rd Gen. The drysump tank is in a better position than the 2nd Gen mine is in the cockpit and if I was ever to put the car on the track overhere would have to cover it over. Some facts that Ford boys may want to rib you about. Rear Axle, Ford 9", Steering Box Ford, front uprights Ford Lincon, entire chassis Banjo Matthews, all panels apart from the roof, rear section and rear quarters including the floor and bulkheads are fabricated!!! And if you saw the adds a copy I have somewhere and will try to post it you would think they were 100% the General's lol!.

^^^Thanks for the info!

When did they go from the (real) Minilite wheels to the Aero (or whatever brand they are) steel NASCAR style wheels??

All changed in 1977 and they were just a pure tube framed NASCAR racer under the skin. The Road & Track article states they detuned the engine as the more slippery shape was hitting speeds of 190mph and was concidered a bit too fast.

so i went several months ago and snapped some pictures.....
I have been lucky enough to be able to go inside the shops and see the current build process.
My bother-in-law worked there.

sadly, he passed away around christmas. RIP
here im standing by him. He was a fabricator for the cup shop.


here you go.
louvers..

most girls would slap me for doing this...


but look at the money shot!



templates


got ducts?


new car suspension


over $90k worth of motor


updated safety

ill update full album when i have better internet.

http://s734.photobucket.com/user/91CamarosRS/library/rcr

ford 9"




rear end shop

Thanks for all the great pics in here.

It's crazy to see all the hardware / cars in a shop like that and know that it's somebody's job to build all that stuff (and that there's so much money in NASCAR to support all the people / hardware). Sounds like great fun to me.