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Here's the little Fairlane that started it all. Chances are at least half of the Stock Cars you saw raced on superspeedways from '67 through the early ninties owed a debt to this little Ford. Combine the chassis building wizardry of Ralph Moody with the sheer audacity of one Mr. Curtis Morton Turner behind the wheel and you've got the recipe for One Fast Ford!
As the first "half chassis" car, it was the granddaddy of what came to be known as the "Banjo Chassis" and was under countless stock cars. If fact, until Bobby Allison's Chevelle based "front steer" chassis came along, it was pretty much the standard chassis in big time stock car racing.
This month features ol' Pops in a natural pose, sideways and half turned over on dirt, in Ralph's precedent setting little Ford. Hope everyone is still liking the pages but if I do one for next year, I promise to not go so heavy on the FoMoCo side. Even if they are prettier. LOL
LARGE FILE FOR PRINTING
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As the first "half chassis" car, it was the granddaddy of what came to be known as the "Banjo Chassis" and was under countless stock cars. If fact, until Bobby Allison's Chevelle based "front steer" chassis came along, it was pretty much the standard chassis in big time stock car racing.
This month features ol' Pops in a natural pose, sideways and half turned over on dirt, in Ralph's precedent setting little Ford. Hope everyone is still liking the pages but if I do one for next year, I promise to not go so heavy on the FoMoCo side. Even if they are prettier. LOL
LARGE FILE FOR PRINTING
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/mitchum/august/AUG.jpg