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Also looking for 50 ft of 2 inch 120 wall DOM tubing maybe more . Two 5 point race seats also needed. I will try to keep posting updates as the build progresses and parts needed.

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Chump truck racing is going to be on road courses like Daytona Charlotte ,Road Atlanta so we will be going left and right. JT the trailer is a take 3 wedge with center rail ball towers has winch and comes with all straps 51 ft 3 7000lbs axles had picks on here under the for sale section trailers a while back.

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Hopefully it won't evolve or maybe I should say devolve into what the GATR did back in the 80's as soon as the big money sponsors got involved.

It was a great and affordable series initially.

The little guy could be quite competitive if he had the cojones to drive it and more than average mechanical & fabrication skills.

At Atlanta E.J. Utley's Superliner ran up on slower moving trucks and when he checked up he spun out and hit the wall.

When his hood flew open I got to see the innovative first and only twin turbo setup on a Mack six cylinder engine that I had ever seen..

After seeing him try to pull out of the spin and how he stood on the throttle and started the tires spinning while trying to get it under control was some of the best driving I'd ever witnessed and after that I was hooked.

We built an R-Model with a Cummins twin turboed VT-903, RTOO12513 with 3:55's on torsion,it was a beast but I never got the chance to run it anywhere other than practicing on local dirt tracks.

We found in practice (after I had spun it out several times) that we had seriously miscalculated our final ratios with the high revving engine and double O.D. 13 because our original intention was to run on longer paved tracks(not short dirt tracks) and by then the big money sponsors had already ruined the GATR for the average truck nut like me.

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