|
|
|
| Welcome to Swifty's Garage. We hope you enjoy your visit. You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free. Thank You, The Swifty's Garage Team Join our community! If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features. |
| Car Of The Day: June 6, 2018; Racing Champions '01 Pontiac Firebird NHRA Funny Car | |
|---|---|
| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 6 2018, 02:54 AM (123 Views) | |
| Dean-o-mite | Jun 6 2018, 02:54 AM Post #1 |
![]()
Muscle Car
|
![]() Today's car of the day is Racing Champions' 2001 Pontiac Firebird NHRA Funny Car. ![]()
![]() For more information and pictures of the real car please visit: Pontiac Firebird ![]() ![]() As far as straight-line race cars go, I am more of a fan of Pro-Stock models over dragsters and funny cars, but when this was new (the real car and the model), I was working for Kragen Auto Parts and was drawn to models with the Kragen name on them, so there was no hesitation to add this model to my collection. ![]()
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
|
| juantoo3 | Jun 6 2018, 07:19 AM Post #2 |
![]()
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
![]()
|
Hard to believe this style funny car is closing in on 20 years old now...where does the time go? |
![]() |
|
| daniel60 | Jun 6 2018, 09:12 AM Post #3 |
|
Personal Luxury Car
|
Beautiful contrast. |
![]() |
|
| corvairjim | Jun 6 2018, 09:36 AM Post #4 |
|
Fullsize
|
I miss the era when "Funny Cars" looked like the car they were based on. This one doesn't really look all that much like a Firebird. Especially that rear window that is almost upright. Think about HW's Snake Barracuda and Mongoose Duster duo back in the '70's. Those two looked like a Barracuda and a Duster. This car, if I take off my glasses and squint just right, I guess it looks sorta like a Firebird. A very narrow Firebird. Nice model, though. They did get it right as far as looking like the 1:1 goes. |
![]() |
|
| pjedsel | Jun 6 2018, 01:42 PM Post #5 |
![]()
Muscle Car
|
I got a few of these RC funny cars in the day just to have a little variety in my racing collection - at the time was mostly NASCAR, think I still had the Polistil F1 cars and the newly offered Indy cars from RC. I remember at least two of the sponsors on the car - Checker and Schunk's.
|
![]() |
|
| tksjohn | Jun 6 2018, 02:04 PM Post #6 |
|
Station Wagon
|
This is almost word for word what I was going to post, I agree 100%! |
![]() |
|
| Pegers | Jun 6 2018, 05:01 PM Post #7 |
![]()
Pony Car
|
dont look back Wes,i think time is catching up to us. |
![]() |
|
| juantoo3 | Jun 6 2018, 08:52 PM Post #8 |
![]()
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
![]()
|
It's June already...Christmas was just last month! |
![]() |
|
| 1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous) | |
| « Previous Topic · Car Of The Day · Next Topic » |
| Track Topic · E-mail Topic |
2:34 PM Jul 11
|



















I got a few of these RC funny cars in the day just to have a little variety in my racing collection - at the time was mostly NASCAR, think I still had the Polistil F1 cars and the newly offered Indy cars from RC. I remember at least two of the sponsors on the car - Checker and Schunk's.

2:34 PM Jul 11