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Brian it is looking good. How about that front grill.

I have never seen an Edmonds body on a space frame before, who built it and what is the wheelbase?

Ray

Thanks Trammell. There is an even bigger surprise coming, but that will be later. This is the car I'll be needing a driveshaft for. I need to get the in-out box in so I can get a measure.

The frame is the McClelland I have, based on a Stanton/Challenger/Barnett frame--built for Bob(?) McCutcheon from Tulsa with extra thicker tubing. (DOM tubing?)

The measurements fit the parameters of an Edmunds body--with a Ward/Watson hood and nose. Slightly modified since Speedway makes horrible fitting noses.

The grill is brand new from Joe Lingle in PA. They go for $135 or close to it.

Remember this eyesore? Well, I took the advice and have been saving pieces for the last 2-3 years to get this car back to 'race car type' status.

The sprint car armguard was going to be a foodbowl for the dog, but he thought it was too ugly and untraditional too. It now sits under tons and tons of landfill in an unknown location. EPA compliant of course.

And that exotic lime green seat has joined the armguard in eternal rest.

The frontaxle is destined to be a fender on a japanese car , it is now straight axle and with knockoffs.

Brian thanks for the pictures. I am imprested with the way it sits. Can't wait to see it. Again just bring the shaft measurments and I will fix you up.

This my favorite angle in these pictures. It really does look better in person than it photographs. I spent a lot of time on the lines I wanted, every 1/2" of it. 1/2" makes a lot of difference.

I am really digging this schematic--but with orange and white, no. 26 of course.

I think I know that chassis, it looks familiar.

Nice looking race car. I can appreciate how much work you have put into this already. In post 4391, looks like a rare Atlas Buchron tire laying on the right front tire. You are fortunate to have one of these...I have been looking high and low for a pair. Nearly impossible to find these days.

Is that the car that Bob McCuthen ran in 78-79? If it is it had a T body and was painted Maroon. It was a very good looking car. In 1978 Bob and his brother put the body on Norman's Stanton, Mike and Norman went to pick the car up at Stanton's shop and Norman almost would not take it, the body was so ugly. He brought it Tulsa and had the McCutchen bothers hang a t body on it

Ray

Billy and Bob McCutheon were very good fabricators. They installed the first inboard brake that I ever saw on an open tube rear axle. The took a Corvette calliper and rotor and made their own mounting hardware.That was in the era when you had to build your own trick parts not buy them. There was another set of McCuthon brothers involved in racing and they are not related to Bob or Billy, They bought the first 71 from Norman after the 1977 season and ran it in the modifieds at Tulsa in 1978 and finished second in the standings with Danny driving and several other brothers helping. I don't how many brothers that Danny had, but I remember Pat, Roger and Mike and I think that there are several other. Danny has a hamburger stand in West Tulsa with a lot of racing memorabilia, it is the "Linda-Mar" drive in at West 51 street and Union.

Ray

I understood that it was built in 1984. It had the rear braces to make the cage a six point type. I cut them off so I could get this body onto it. At the time I had no idea there were so many other supers still out there. But, the deed was done and I have found a liking to leaving it this way.

After measuring a T-body, I know for a fact that one would fit just as nice on here.

September, 1987 Captain!

I'd tell you guys the entire story, but you think I'm crazy already!LOL

But I went with JD and his parents to Liberty, Kansas to help get this car in 1987. The four of us all rode in the front seat of his truck and counted $20 bills over and over again!

Brain, It was Independence , Ks. , with counting all those $20 must have got your direcitonal messed up but at least ya knew we were in Ks.LOL

Bkcr, The car was built by Mike McClelland out of Tulsa , It was a Stanton Copy built in 84 and it was the beginning of my ownership of Open Wheel Race Cars in 87.

She was a Heavy Beast , but she was a goodin, liked that car ,always responded well to about everything you threw at it, Won some races and ran a lot of Top 5's at Echo Ranch in Ada and what is now Brill Motor Speedway which was County Line Speedway back then. Sure would like to have some of the pieces off of that car like the In/Out Box, the Halibrand Tapered Rearend, The Steel Nance Driveline, the 33 Gal. Fuel Cell.

Did manage to keep one item from it and it was the rock screen which I have run on every car I have owned and still run it on this Down Tube Eagle of mine today. J.D.