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Old 08-17-2012, 08:17 PM   #3
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This soon enough was not enough for me as I have been wanting to build an all out drag car for a while. I

was planning to do this with my 72 Rx2 but decided that car was for to gone and would be a 10 year build

easily. I wanted to be racing much sooner than that, so I sold that chassis and replaced it with my street

car 73 Rx2. (search "my new 73 Rx2")

So looking at my massive parts storage and noticing I had plenty of hard to find 1st gen drag racing

parts, I decided the silver bullet would become an all out Drag Car never to see the street again. 1st

order of business, Go on a diet!

I had a set of fiberglass doors, fenders, front bumper, hood, and valance for over 3 years. I bought it

origanlly because I had never seen these parts before and figured I would use them in the future. I didnt

even own a 1st gen at the time. and paid $300 bucks for all of it!!!


None of these parts are bolt on. Nothing had hinges, holes, markings, ect. to install these parts. These

are drag race specific parts made in PR to be as light as possible. just the door weighed in at around

5lbs! Now thats without the lexan glass it will have and the frame to fit it, but that will barely add a

1lb or 1.5lbs. Maybe 2lbs depending on how I finish up the door handles. These also took a lot of trimming

ans massaging to get them to fit. I'm no body man so they arnt perfect, but I'm not goin for show here...

Function is key and form takes a back seat. I also threw on some draglites and did some trading to get.

These are just for the time being until I build my front end and install the new 9' rear...




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what I have:
1985 Gs:12a All motor Drag car - 1973 Rx2: Play car
What I had:
93 Touring: TRADED - 91 Coupe: TRADED - 90 GTU: RHD - 88 10AE: SOLD - 87 Base: SOLD - 86 Base: SOLD - 1985 GSLSE - 85 Gsl: SOLD - 80 Gs: TRADED - 1972 Rx2
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