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SHORT TRACK MODELS by Jim Hehl

Tommy Maier's "GOING" #61 Camaro - 1974 season

decals by BULLRING GRAPHIX!

Notes From Jim (and others from Fred's Forum):
"This one is another super stocker chassis with some cage modifications. Man, I need to find some more of those kits, as they make a great short tracker! Fred’s wheels and Bullring decals! After much swearing and frustration with the paint job ITS DONE!!! I did try for the first time the bolt through plates on the doors which were on the early Ed Howe cars. I searched high and low and bought a bunch of paint I didn't use. Maier said it was Emerald Green, so I found some in Krylon and it worked out ok.

Howe didn't like the silver added to the green that year. I guess he got over it with all the winning this car did! "

"Tom Maier and Ed Howe raced as far south as Jackson, Mississippi and Pensacola, Florida in those 60 and 61 cars." (John Gorday)

"That car perfectly represents the last of the welded together "factory steel" body panels era... JUST before the "plastic-body-in-a-box" movement began. (Note the indentation where the door handles would be, and the hand-formed fender flares) A season or two after that picture was taken, Howe and others began producing their fiberglass or aluminum body panels, and combined with his pre-fabbed chassis, the days of the junk yard parts/garage-built Late Model were affectively over... Most experts will say it was good for the sport, but I'm not a 100% sure... We didn't realize it at the time, but it was the beginning of the trend towards all the cookie-cutter stuff we're stuck with these days...".(Mark Seiler)

Tom's Actual Car:

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