Picture of the Day, 26 March 2015

photoman · 3/27/15, 5:54 PM

Travis Henry - Gas City 2014

65 Push Truck · 3/27/15, 6:04 PM

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Originally Posted by 1121

Yes, I am. It's a 1968 Nance car with a Buick Nailhead motor. LaVerne Nance told me it was one of the first true sprint cars he built. If you look close, it has a bolt on roll cage. My dad sold it in the early 80's and about 10 years later my brother found it in a junk yard south of here. I've been trying to find the correct parts ever since. Dad was a Frankland rear end dealer back in the late 60's and the real challange has been been finding the correct rear end.

This is the first race car I really got to work on (more then just chase tools) and in honor of my dad, I want it to be right. Right engine, right brakes, right wheels and of course the right rear end. I've got almost everything except the rear end and the injection for the Buick.

Tom

Not sure if this is the right rearend Tom, but found this on eBay. http://m.ebay.com/itm/331440380155?nav=SEARCH

1121 · 3/27/15, 9:54 PM

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Originally Posted by 65 Push Truck

Not sure if this is the right rearend Tom, but found this on eBay. http://m.ebay.com/itm/331440380155?nav=SEARCH

Thank you for looking, but it's not. The one Dad had was closed tube like that one, but the axle tubes bolted on the side bells with a flange rather then pressed in like that one. Almost all of the Franklands of that era were like that one on e-bay. And I have one like that in the shop. I used to have an old catalog that showed the correct one, but I can't find it any more or I'd post a picture. Leave it to Dad to have the odd one.

Tom