#22 Daytona w/KB 305ci

[Bladecutter]

Santini 2014 Birds 2008

Piece is the Santini named for Santini the painter..."master of the painted flame lick. 1st plane is Baron P-58 i restored all plexi on..complete polis on bird, had no reflection before hand and the pitot tube and the wingtips with strobe and nav lite, plex lense sand & polish...painted cavity w/ wrinkle......2nd bird is 310Q i did all the plex on....both birds have inner panes that have to be pulled to get at all the surfaces. Baron is pressurized, 310 is not

** Santini is backwards in this shot, front has 1/8' bevel running inside edge, complete perimeter**

 

[Bladecutter]

Can anybody make an educated guess as to why there is a grid of masking tape on back side of Baron windscreen?..There are 2 1/2 reasons i use it during cutting process.

 

[Bladecutter]

gallery shots

440.......Pete lost near 10K worth, most irreplaceable @ any cost...trays of 3/4" drive sockets & extensions, old american, one part was an aluminum hemi intake, dual quad, scared to know what that was worth.
I put the composite pic with my 68 B-Body and other rides in the gallery and the sepia tone goose pic......he Coro image enlarged some making it possible to see the Cars and Jaques , Stearman PT-17 in bckgrnd. Goose pic resolution went to dogs in gallery but the Coronet can be seen much better.
Man, this sure is a hard crowd to play to....You guys think that this is all B. S.? No bro, i know a little and babee i can guess the rest........to use a line from Lynard Skynard......i'm like Frank Sinatra...i do **** my way and don't take **** from Anyone....62 years old, if it ain't broke don't fix it.......and like Budnick slogan sez,,,,F what others may think. I'll go my way now, but if any of you ever come across a fast back 4 door 68 coro w/wing in future, guess who, and i'll take any comers in the canyons

 

[Photon440]

Interesting stuff Bladecutter. You should start your own thread about it so all would see it, not just people looking for the Superbird info.

 

[Bladecutter]

Yes i Will......nod to You

Thought i had lost You 440 in BC....Know of the Tragically Hip out of Toronto...kil'r rock n roll. Thanks for the nod man, sorry i got a little cocky, i just got the impression people were thinking i was spreading embellished BS.....i talk a lot of **** @ times, but i can back most of it up.....i brought some of my stuff to the table to bear, and there's stuff left in the bag. What do You think the best category would be where to star thread? The pics i posted in gallery yesterday drew a comment from moparcrazy...He said a Friend of His in LA bought a Goose 7 yrs ago for 21K...i cross my fingers that it might be 1148...at any rate the guy scored! huge...even if it's a burnout. 8MA-1216 sold in europe last year for 332K....i rember that You commented in the thread i started a while back, Pregnant Porsche's. When i bought the Goose in 79, a Friend took delivery on a new 928.....You remember the story. Thanks for coming back...yeah i'll start a new thread AFTER i get some work done today...hope your week goes well Dude....jimi

 

[Bladecutter]

a Baddass Bird.....63 Howard 500

1963 Howard 500....a very fast airplane, # 14 of 17 built....description in for sale forum......testosterone riddled, not for the inexperienced......landing speed is about 120 mph across the fence and this is one big assed tail dragger. I rode on a 350 when i was 14 in a thunderstorm Tucson to Long Beach and return, IFR training flight. the 350 is same motors but is Ventura conversion un pressurized....the 600 airframes were scratchbuilt and get this, the bird maintains a sea level cabin to 16,000 ft and was built to cruise @ 41,000 ft, but the wimp feds because of Grumman's politicking with the restricte passenger altitude to 26,000 and cago to 35,000 Grumman didn't want any competition for the Gulfstream 1 turbo prop( my old man flew one of those as well) This bird will outclimb and out speed a G-1 a little noisier but same level of comfort in cabin last restorable 500 left, it runs.....see Phillipi's two fully restored 500's that fly regularly on youtube Dee Howards heroic effort to corporate aviation in 50's-60's

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Oh yeah, i started this thread in general discussion forum, i didn't realize it was a "type" forum.....thought it was non specific....i may not be popular as Budnick seems to indicate in thanking your last post recommending a move....sorry, but I, me started this particular thread, and not a bad subject, it got some activity.....it is afterall a Heroic car, the mouse motored Daytona. If i misunderstood Budnick's intention in posting Thanks to You, my bad, i apologize, but things meke themselves evident usually. ......ledfoots away, turn up the music.....if you can't rock n roll, then don' focken come.....love that line as much as David Arquette in Robert Rodriguez's Road racers where He sez to John Hawkes...."me....i just want my music to scare the **** outta people, screw love songs".....oh yeah, i tear into the axe too, 45 years... "i know a little...........

 

[Photon440]

Hey, don't get me wrong. Of course it's your right to post whatever topics come across your mind, I wasn't suggesting otherwise. But your fancy aero-art, the #22 car, the great Howard 500 (too bad it wasn't a turboprop) would all be great threads on their own, you'd probably get even more discussion going because you could have the right title for each thread. And no, other than catching splinters, I don't know why there's masking tape on the plexi window.

 

[Bladecutter]

440, you're alright man....You are the the one Who did give me some face time beyon a couple others in beginning. No harm no foul. thanks for putting me on path of understand computer function a little better.
I use the tape as a visual depth guage, look directly over each intersection and can see thickness, also it helps differentiate between flaws on back and front. The light is to see crazing and other flaws,... light will refract in crazing fractures....use the light and tape through all abrasion process and initial buff. IA's would sign off my work anytime i did pressurized birds The 'Speedslope' like on Barons and Bonanzas is a difficult one to keep the optics on because of the compound curve.......when one establishes a cutting pattern of long continuous strokes overlapped generously, whether by machine or hand and repeats it as closely as possible there is an arduous amount of time to skin away just 5000 th's... more time one spends is more chance of distortion too if not getting aven cut. Thanks for the early post about the model of #22...bucket list. I'll get a page going for the sculpture and seperate ones for cars, planes n guitars I have my Aluminations brochure formats in pdf.... i didn't know if it was ok to put stuff like that in since it's advertising w contact info. Thanks for the nod>

 

[Bladecutter]

i completely spaced Thanking You for the shot's when You posted these.....my bad, Humble Apologies

 

[Bladecutter]

Mouse Magic

A Good shot of My Hero Car pullin some G's

 

[knucklebuster]

I saw some footage just a while ago & now i can't locate it on the net. Anyone able to direct so i can find the footage of the 1971 Daytona 500, with richard brooks driving mario Rossi's Daytona( bobby Allison previous season ride w/ BB)w/ the Kieth Black prepared 305 ci....prepped from a destroked 340. The ONLY winged car to run in 1971, the only race...after that the aero cars were killed by the paranoid France, nasty nascar rule mak'r. Brooks led the race for 5 laps, got ot sideways coming out of a turn and got t-boned by Hamiliton, took almost the whole straight(infield included) in a beautiful recovery, getting passed by a lot of the field....car was pretty severely damaged, must have tweaked the wheelbase, but Brooks clawed his way back thru the field with the damaged car to finish in top ten, taking seventh.....this proves my exact feeling....SMALL BLOCKS are ultimately faster....pushing all that extra weight of a big block just makes for worse understeer, faster tyre & brake, and just harder on the car in general. This was such a significant race, because when Francy pantsy imposed the 5 litre restriction on the aero cars, he thought he had gotten rid of the winged cars altogether, but Rossi flipped him the bird by showing the pos that it WAS possible to compete under that over the top restriction. If Brooks hadn't slipped and taken that bad hit from Hamilton, there is every good chance in the world that that little KB mouse motored car would have put egg on ALL of the factory preps. I've had three bone stock 318 B-Bodies in Northern Cali where there is a plethora of bitchin' roads and i have embarassed many exotics and quasi exotics....porches for one are WAY fukin overrated......tyres and low cg are most of the trik bag, the rest is skill, finesse with a light touch. Keep the BB's, i'll mouse anytime, anywhere. So if someone knows a link where i can find the footage, i would appreciate a holler. For me, that is THE Mopar of Mopars.

Just posted about this footage on YT here

The Last Winged Warrior! how a 1969 Dodge Daytona with a 305" Small block Mopar ALMOST made history

Just found this with great restored footage featuring close ups of Petty, Yarborough, etc. with AJ Foyt and others. This is a great tip of the hat to the 340 that battled the big block and almost won! "Today on Unity Motorsports Garage, we take back at the Last Winged Warrior! The 1969 Dodge...

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