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Old 10-30-2002, 06:49 PM
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Default Re: Dick Harrell drag car (new thread)

Tim
Not sure where your body came from but the frame is probably homemade or made in the '80's or '90's. Some '69 F/C from that era besides Harrel was Mike Burkhart, Bob Steakly, Dale Chevrolet Super Hugger among many others. I just looked at some pics and all three of the above body's were identical including the Harrell car body.
Even if you take off all the updated rollcage tubes per NHRA specs, it is still not an early design. The Harrell '69 chassis was all round tube, front to rear, even the main bottom tubes. The firewall forward section for instance had 2 parallel tubes, one on top of the other about 10 inches apart running horizontaly to the front. I sold a mag on Ebay about 10 months ago with the Harrell '69 F/C and made a copy of the article for the second highest bidder and remember how the tube frame was configured-compared it to a Harrell F/C model kit for sale on ebay and was curious how close the model was.
Dave
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