Just found this site by accident and had to sign up! After looking at some of the pictures of some very fine resto's of street legal G.B.'s I hope nobody wants to lynch me for "tearin em up". The truth is , as hard as it has become to find cores for building race cars I never use aero coupes,T-tops or cars in good drivable shape, partly to leave them for restoration and because they cost too much to use as cores for a race car. All I really need are 2 door chassis with rebuildable front suspension and a good rear , almost everything else is from other cars , aftermarket or fabricated in my shop. Is anybody out there from New York , New Jersey or Pennsylvania area with a line on were I can find race quality cores in this area , please let me know.
New guy sayin' hi! Anyone else race G.B.s on the ovals?
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Hey man atleast your using them instead of simply sending them off to the crusher. Id rather see a car compete in races than compete in a derby or go to the crusher. IMO theres nothing wrong with taking a basketcase, selling all the if any good parts that you wont use and turning it into a racecar. But yea, no aerocoupes please lol!
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Welcome to the site. I am in PA, north of philly. I have a malibu wagon that has a junk rotted body, but decent frame getting all the stock suspension back under it.
I have a cousin who us to dirt track these "metric" chassis. always seemed like a ton of fun!
I have a cousin who us to dirt track these "metric" chassis. always seemed like a ton of fun!
Hi liquidh8, do you know what tracks and when your cousin raced & what is his name? He might have run against me or some cars I built. When G.B.s were easy to find we would build 1 or 2 cars a year. If the offer was right we would sell the car at the track. Our last pure stock won 5 features at Orange County Speedway ( a 5/8 mile dirt oval ) with my son driving. That car also went home with someone else the last night of the season. My son used the money to buy a G.M. spec. crate motor and ran a dirt sportsman the following season. I am looking to get back in the seat for the 2011 season so I need a 2 door G.B. to start building soon. I have a lot of pictures and will post as soon as I figure out this friggin' Mac!
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Don't know what tracks, his name is Jerry heichel. HE lived in Clearfield for the longest time, now he is in shippinsburg, right outside carlisle. If I grew up around him, I would have been all over that sort of racing.
The aftermarket is lobbying to allow later model bodies that they produce ( the new caddy is an awesome street stock that fits on a 2 dr metric chassis ) the name of the co. that makes them escapes me but go on line and ask for race car bodies and it should come up. There is also a co. making square tube and plate chassis that are the same dimensions and geometry as the O.E.M. frames. The problem is ,the powers that be ( race promoters and sanctioning bodies ) are reluctant to allow aftermarket or " racing chassis" or non-stock bodies ( the odd part about that is most of the race teams are buying body parts from non O.E.M. sources like the swap meet importers from china or speed shops that make " skins " or like me buy sheets of 26 ga. cold rolled and make them as needed. As long as they " sorta " look like an 85 monte the tech guys don't usually break chops. If the aftermarket chassis start to gain acceptance then I will build my own in house and probably build some just to sell.racing8up said:
Western PA man, we have MULTIPLE dirt tracks around here, me and my friend race at one called doghollow speed way, points. You can find a good chassis with a roll-cage already setup for around 1500$, lookup the western PA traders guide, good luck!
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