
Builder Last Online: May 2017


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Started: 01-09-08
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I have a number of favorite dragsters and I was looking for one to do, the first one to get enough information together is the one I would start with and it’s the famous Surfers. I want to get it as close as I can to the original, but getting detailed information isn’t easy, not to mention the fact that they changed from a race to race. No original Surfers car is known to exist, I found a site where a couple guys are reconstructing the car as it raced at the 1966 Bakersfield meet which The Surfers won out of a field of 104 entries! The two Surfers that are still living are giving their guidance in the reconstruction so I’m sure it will be about as accurate as it can be.
http://www.drag-city.com/surfersupdate.htm
Here’s my drawing for the side view of the basic frame, the dotted line is for where the frame curves for the seat. Tomorrow hopefully I can start cutting some plastic tube for the frame and start assembling it. Next I will start working on the top view of the frame and the engine, after that I will start working on the drawings for the suspension pieces.
Any comments or suggestions on making it more accurate would be most appreciated. I’m trying to get it as close as I can going by the photos of the reconstruction, original photos, and screen captures from video. If anyone wants, I can put up the full size drawings. They’re just working drawings so the rectangles for the tubing will overlap helping show me how much I need to trim away.
http://www.drag-city.com/surfersupdate.htm
Here’s my drawing for the side view of the basic frame, the dotted line is for where the frame curves for the seat. Tomorrow hopefully I can start cutting some plastic tube for the frame and start assembling it. Next I will start working on the top view of the frame and the engine, after that I will start working on the drawings for the suspension pieces.
Any comments or suggestions on making it more accurate would be most appreciated. I’m trying to get it as close as I can going by the photos of the reconstruction, original photos, and screen captures from video. If anyone wants, I can put up the full size drawings. They’re just working drawings so the rectangles for the tubing will overlap helping show me how much I need to trim away.
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