Only reason would be simplicity of removal. I noticed VFN carried the pro front.
Racy stuff is really cool, right up to the moment when you don't have your pit crew around.
I'm building this car to be a nice, quick, street/strip drag car. My reason for wanting to go fiberglass is to preserve my original hood and fenders and to lose some weight. And I'm missing my header panel and haven't found a reproduction. I am also new/green/all of the above/ to this so I'm learning and appreciate all and any info from what works to what doesn't from you guys.
I live where whitetail deer outpopulate humans by 4:1 or more. I "preserve" my original parts by keeping an entire spare front clip on hand for all my cars... literally everything from the windshield forward.
I'm pretty sure nobody wants to go home and tell Mama they got their ass handed to them by a rusty '69 Valiant with half the vinyl top missing, but I've got one with a solid-roller W2 340/4-speed that will present that opportunity. It's quicker than the either that Firechicken or Cha-Cha, but I haven't had it to the track yet. I love my sleepers, but I want my Challenger to be arrow-straight (and black) and to simply enjoy the car (and others' appreciation for it). Will it be fast? Fast enough. Will it run with the Valiant? No way. I have different priorities between the two.).
No, they're not. Racers are concerned about weight above all else (well, except maybe horsepower). Spend some time in the pits and you'll see that those cars aren't arrow-straight, either. Of course, lots of them have graphics, contingency decals, what-have-you to distract the eye. You're also in a different context, so to speak... when you're looking at a racer, you're usually drooling over their engine/suspension/rolling stock/[insert racy bit here] rather than whether the car has ripples in the fenders.
It's a tough call, I ain't gonna lie. It's a trade-off. I've had some really shabby-lookin' street cars with which one didn't want to necessarily tangle, including two 12-second dailies (back in the 1990s, a 12-second street car was pretty formidable). One was a '78 Trans Am to which a previous owner had riveted the quarter panels (long story) and my Dad backed into with his car--the day I got it. The other was a '72 Charger in which back-seat-passengers could pull the armrest/lower door panel outward and eject beer cans by firing them under the tires through the rust holes.
Figure out where your priorities lie and run with it. Hard to fault a guy for having a few ripples or waves when he showed you his taillights, and equally difficult to deride a fella with a drop-dead gorgeous car that runs high 15s. You're the only person you need to make happy, unless you're married (it's self-explanatory if you are
Just have fun. There's no other real reason to own one of these cars.
No, they're not. Racers are concerned about weight above all else (well, except maybe horsepower). Spend some time in the pits and you'll see that those cars aren't arrow-straight, either. Of course, lots of them have graphics, contingency decals, what-have-you to distract the eye. You're also in a different context, so to speak... when you're looking at a racer, you're usually drooling over their engine/suspension/rolling stock/[insert racy bit here] rather than whether the car has ripples in the fenders.
It's a tough call, I ain't gonna lie. It's a trade-off. I've had some really shabby-lookin' street cars with which one didn't want to necessarily tangle, including two 12-second dailies (back in the 1990s, a 12-second street car was pretty formidable). One was a '78 Trans Am to which a previous owner had riveted the quarter panels (long story) and my Dad backed into with his car--the day I got it. The other was a '72 Charger in which back-seat-passengers could pull the armrest/lower door panel outward and eject beer cans by firing them under the tires through the rust holes.
Figure out where your priorities lie and run with it. Hard to fault a guy for having a few ripples or waves when he showed you his taillights, and equally difficult to deride a fella with a drop-dead gorgeous car that runs high 15s. You're the only person you need to make happy, unless you're married (it's self-explanatory if you are
Just have fun. There's no other real reason to own one of these cars.
No, they're not. Racers are concerned about weight above all else (well, except maybe horsepower). Spend some time in the pits and you'll see that those cars aren't arrow-straight, either. Of course, lots of them have graphics, contingency decals, what-have-you to distract the eye. You're also in a different context, so to speak... when you're looking at a racer, you're usually drooling over their engine/suspension/rolling stock/[insert racy bit here] rather than whether the car has ripples in the fenders.
It's a tough call, I ain't gonna lie. It's a trade-off. I've had some really shabby-lookin' street cars with which one didn't want to necessarily tangle, including two 12-second dailies (back in the 1990s, a 12-second street car was pretty formidable). One was a '78 Trans Am to which a previous owner had riveted the quarter panels (long story) and my Dad backed into with his car--the day I got it. The other was a '72 Charger in which back-seat-passengers could pull the armrest/lower door panel outward and eject beer cans by firing them under the tires through the rust holes.
Figure out where your priorities lie and run with it. Hard to fault a guy for having a few ripples or waves when he showed you his taillights, and equally difficult to deride a fella with a drop-dead gorgeous car that runs high 15s. You're the only person you need to make happy, unless you're married (it's self-explanatory if you are
Just have fun. There's no other real reason to own one of these cars.
No, they're not. Racers are concerned about weight above all else (well, except maybe horsepower). Spend some time in the pits and you'll see that those cars aren't arrow-straight, either. Of course, lots of them have graphics, contingency decals, what-have-you to distract the eye. You're also in a different context, so to speak... when you're looking at a racer, you're usually drooling over their engine/suspension/rolling stock/[insert racy bit here] rather than whether the car has ripples in the fenders.
It's a tough call, I ain't gonna lie. It's a trade-off. I've had some really shabby-lookin' street cars with which one didn't want to necessarily tangle, including two 12-second dailies (back in the 1990s, a 12-second street car was pretty formidable). One was a '78 Trans Am to which a previous owner had riveted the quarter panels (long story) and my Dad backed into with his car--the day I got it. The other was a '72 Charger in which back-seat-passengers could pull the armrest/lower door panel outward and eject beer cans by firing them under the tires through the rust holes.
Figure out where your priorities lie and run with it. Hard to fault a guy for having a few ripples or waves when he showed you his taillights, and equally difficult to deride a fella with a drop-dead gorgeous car that runs high 15s. You're the only person you need to make happy, unless you're married (it's self-explanatory if you are
Just have fun. There's no other real reason to own one of these cars.
No, they're not. Racers are concerned about weight above all else (well, except maybe horsepower). Spend some time in the pits and you'll see that those cars aren't arrow-straight, either. Of course, lots of them have graphics, contingency decals, what-have-you to distract the eye. You're also in a different context, so to speak... when you're looking at a racer, you're usually drooling over their engine/suspension/rolling stock/[insert racy bit here] rather than whether the car has ripples in the fenders.
It's a tough call, I ain't gonna lie. It's a trade-off. I've had some really shabby-lookin' street cars with which one didn't want to necessarily tangle, including two 12-second dailies (back in the 1990s, a 12-second street car was pretty formidable). One was a '78 Trans Am to which a previous owner had riveted the quarter panels (long story) and my Dad backed into with his car--the day I got it. The other was a '72 Charger in which back-seat-passengers could pull the armrest/lower door panel outward and eject beer cans by firing them under the tires through the rust holes.
Figure out where your priorities lie and run with it. Hard to fault a guy for having a few ripples or waves when he showed you his taillights, and equally difficult to deride a fella with a drop-dead gorgeous car that runs high 15s. You're the only person you need to make happy, unless you're married (it's self-explanatory if you are
Just have fun. There's no other real reason to own one of these cars.
No, they're not. Racers are concerned about weight above all else (well, except maybe horsepower). Spend some time in the pits and you'll see that those cars aren't arrow-straight, either. Of course, lots of them have graphics, contingency decals, what-have-you to distract the eye. You're also in a different context, so to speak... when you're looking at a racer, you're usually drooling over their engine/suspension/rolling stock/[insert racy bit here] rather than whether the car has ripples in the fenders.
It's a tough call, I ain't gonna lie. It's a trade-off. I've had some really shabby-lookin' street cars with which one didn't want to necessarily tangle, including two 12-second dailies (back in the 1990s, a 12-second street car was pretty formidable). One was a '78 Trans Am to which a previous owner had riveted the quarter panels (long story) and my Dad backed into with his car--the day I got it. The other was a '72 Charger in which back-seat-passengers could pull the armrest/lower door panel outward and eject beer cans by firing them under the tires through the rust holes.
Figure out where your priorities lie and run with it. Hard to fault a guy for having a few ripples or waves when he showed you his taillights, and equally difficult to deride a fella with a drop-dead gorgeous car that runs high 15s. You're the only person you need to make happy, unless you're married (it's self-explanatory if you are
Just have fun. There's no other real reason to own one of these cars.
I need to frame this and hang it in my garage!Really great advice. Thank you!
Steel for the win. I appreciate all your advice! My next thread I'll be asking for suggestions when rebuilding my suspension.
