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04-12-2017, 08:10 PM | #11 |
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My 2 favorites are cars with personality like Travis Hess' Hemi Or clean and simple like Dennis Alveys. I still appreciate sticker cars being that there stockers. It does suck that the stickers aren't worth the paper their printed on anymore.There all still way cool!
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Yeah, I'm one of the old school guys. When we started racing, most all the race cars had a name & decals. We referred to the cars by the car's name, not the owner or driver's name. The car's name seemed to give it it's own personality.
When I built my first '68 Bird, I didn't even know where to buy all the decals. I got the Lunati cam decals out of the cam box, the Stocker cam came in. Picked up the others at NAPA or wherever I could. Later became a speed parts vender, and found out where to get the decals. So, when I put the Bird back on the street, it had a lot more decals. For you younger guys who don't remember it, Easy Lovin was a very popular radio song, back in the early '70's. It reached #1 and was song of the year, 2 years running, on the country charts, and made it to #17 on the Billboard pop chart. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_Loving Last edited by oldskool; 04-12-2017 at 09:15 PM. |
04-13-2017, 12:41 PM | #13 |
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I like the clean look myself. I can remember Bobby Warren's black Camaro winning back in the 1970s with just a few decals. I can appreciate guys running the decals to get the contingency money. The NHRA purse barely pays for the fuel hauling to the race and maybe the entrance fee?
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Decals make a beater look good.
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There certainly is something to be said for putting a little bit of time into arranging the decal layout. There are a lot of cars that look like Ray Charles did the application. It might be time to remove a few of the out of date ones also, pretty sure the Grace Cup one is out of date...
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My Stocker
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