fireball Posted February 1, 2022 Report Posted February 1, 2022 This is a model of Jim Lytle's Quad Al dragster from the mid 1960's that i just finished custom building. The model has (4) V1710 Allison air plane engines, I Chopped the Fiat body, Custom built chassis and drive train, Including some misc. parts from the Revell Tommy Ivo Showboat dragster & The Revell Mickey Thompson Challenger 1 salt flats race car. It has 96 exhaust pipes (3D printed 4 at a time from Shapeways). I saw the original car last year at a car show and it blew me away, So i had to recreate one for myself. There was a magazine article in the October 1965 Rod & Custom magazine that helped with the reference's in building this wild dragster. There are also some misc. articles on the web. I started the build in May 2021 and just finished today (January 30, 2022). I tried to wire & plumb it accordingly. Thanks for looking, Jr. Roberts 3
johneaton Posted February 2, 2022 Report Posted February 2, 2022 Nice project. There was also a dragster with four Merlins, wasn't there? A local fellow had me cast four of the engines from an Airfix 1/24 Hurricane for such a project.
cheveuxroux Posted February 19, 2022 Report Posted February 19, 2022 Beautiful work ! What was the source of those V1710 Allison air plane engines ?
mustang1989 Posted May 7, 2022 Report Posted May 7, 2022 WOW!!!! WOW and some more WOW!!!!! This is just crazy cool!! Love the subject and really like how the build turned out!!!
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