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Wow you guys are no joke ! Nailed it just from my description, that’s definitely them. Thank you.

Thank you very much coxbros1, I now can post up the photos I have. Unfortunately these are the only pics I have of these cars.

So what do you all think of the purple ?
Kills me that even the shock mounts and body mount were dyed as well. I mean I know I can probably get new ones from Factory Works but both of these cars were built by a gentleman back when they were brand new when he was going to start going racing but never did.

If you don't like the purple, they can always be dyed black.

Yes that’s true, definitely a viable option. It’s either that or possibly replace all the parts with like new original white parts.... that’ll be easy

Clearly I now know what the turnbuckles are, what about the rod ends ? Their shafts are so long it must have been a real chore to thread them on when new.... almost covering the entire turnbuckle.
What wheels do they look to be ? Of course I’m sure they were white originally and even though it’s hard to tell from the angle of the photo I can tell you the fronts and rears are matching.

Most likely Proline wheels

Thank you RC10resto, I’m glad to finally know what parts I’ve got here.

Simple yet trick looking wheels. I definitely like them better in white though.

MarkyDents wrote: ↑Sun Feb 21, 2021 10:43 am Clearly I now know what the turnbuckles are, what about the rod ends ? Their shafts are so long it must have been a real chore to thread them on when new.... almost covering the entire turnbuckle.

They look like Rocket City ball links. The shape of the ball end is different than a Du-Bro.


I've got a few that came on a parts car from a dirt oval guy.

In the pic, the bottom one is commonly available Du-Bro end for comparison. Although, I do have some older (20+ years) Du-Bro ends that look more like that.

Looks like your spot on ! Nice job figuring that out from my not too clear when zoomed in on old pics. Thank you juicedcoupe

Alright, today I finally had the chance to grab both of my graphite’s from storage. I really got tired of just seeing only my pics of them. I also wanted to take stock in what parts I have for them considering I couldn’t remember for the life of me if I had anything. Well I really didn’t remember the one original box I do have being almost half full of wheels and tires, I was pretty stoked to see that. I’m going to post up some more pics and more questions soon.