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03-08-2011 03:47 PM #1
Rail Job?
Anyone know what a rail job is? My buddy just said he did one on his old volve bug
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03-08-2011 04:29 PM #2
Well it always meant a dragster as far as I know... but today people interpret things however they want.
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03-08-2011 04:35 PM #3
rails to me were always VW bugs with the bodys removed and a roll cage addediv`e used up all my sick days at work .. can i call in dead ?
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03-08-2011 04:42 PM #4
Hoss has nailed it !
http://www.google.com/images?client=...w=1024&bih=562.
" I'm drinking from my saucer, 'cause my cup is overflowed ! "
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03-08-2011 04:43 PM #5
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03-08-2011 05:07 PM #6
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03-08-2011 06:01 PM #7
I can see where anything automotive that runs and drives with only the barest of essentials could be called a rail job and I guess a different picture flashes through different minds when it comes up. What flashed through my mind was a dragster with rails made from the wing struts off a PBY (shortly after WWII).PLANET EARTH, INSANE ASYLUM FOR THE UNIVERSE.
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03-08-2011 07:58 PM #8
Alex....I'd like engineer's profession for 200 please ."PLAN" your life like you will live to 120.
"LIVE" your life like you could die tomorrow.
John 3:16
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03-08-2011 08:06 PM #9
IIRC, the earliest dragsters usually used frame rails with narrowed crossmembers and were thus known as "rail jobs." The name remained even when the frame rails were replaced with tubular frames. VW "rails" came much later.Remember, Freedom isn't Free, thousands have paid the price so you can enjoy what you have today.
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03-09-2011 07:48 AM #10
Maybe some confusion also came from the term "sand rail"... which surfaced years after the dragster terminology. The VWs would naturally be linked to that.
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03-17-2011 02:32 PM #11
I'm doing this from memory, sso cut me some slack.
In 59 or 60 Don Kraft stripped everything unecessary from a lakes car and ran it at the Santa Anna strip and turned about 110. His competetors called it a rail job and purpose built dragsters were called rails for years till the advent of the long wheelbase cars when they became slingshots. Personally, I still call them rails.theres no foo like an old foo
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03-17-2011 03:46 PM #12
I guess we should know what his car is.
He said a "Volve bug". Is that a Volvo?... or a Volkswagen?
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