Slingshot Kits
By Dave Wallace

Among the highlights of NHRA's California Hot Rod Reunion VII was the appearance of the prototype kit car from second-generation digger-builder Dave Tuttle's California Chassis Engineering (818/341-4919; http://www.cce-tuttle.com; digrtuttle@aol.com).

Every tube for the 200-inch, Top Fuel-spec slingshot is cut, fit and labeled by CCE. The basic $4500 package includes a blueprint, welded rearend housing, front axle, spindles, steering, motor plates and mounting tabs. For another $400, Stage II provides a rigidly welded back half (from the rear motor plate to the cage area). Construction blueprints are available for $100 (refundable with a chassis order).

Brendan Murry owns and Nick Arias III drives the first car delivered (pictured), which runs the three-pushrod Hemi Chevy designed two decades ago — and recently reintroduced — by Nickie's famous father, Nick Arias Jr. Also now available in kit form are the Stirling slingshots favored by a majority of West Coast nostalgia teams.

Chassis-builder Rob Stirling has always sold his diggers in any stage of completion desired by individual customers, but is only now marketing the packages as kit cars.

Inquire at Stirling Race Cars,
10237 Reese Cir.,
Salinas, CA 93907;
(831) 663-4236.

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