Originally Posted by Eric Bell (Post 627787)

I don't believe so......been wrong before though. The engines are, for the most part, the same in both forms. The only difference, if I remember right, from when Dave told me is.....the street version (non RO) doesn't have a hood scoop and no transistor ignition. The RO's had both the hood scoop and ignition. Not sure if anything else is different. NHRA rates them both the same I think.....that's why Dave runs his as an RO

I'll ask Dave when I see him again.

Originally Posted by BRETV (Post 627818)

Ray Paquet's Tbolt is an original, If I remember right.

It is not. While it was built at DST, it is not one of the hundred.

Originally Posted by 4284spd (Post 627829)

Sorry I don't know much about the history of Thunderbolts, but if it was built in the same era at the same place but just at a different time why is not not original? I can understand it not being in the first batch but why is it not orginal?

Now if it was built twenty years later by DST I understand.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by 4284spd (Post 627722)

Nick Rieters 1971 is a real 440-6 Pack car.