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  1. 03-08-2011 05:43 PM #1
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    Quote Originally Posted by HOSS429 View Post
    rails to me were always VW bugs with the bodys removed and a roll cage added
    Thought that was a VW dune buggy?? To me a "rail" is a full blown dragster, long and lean, big engine, fueler class ideally.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rspears View Post
    To me a "rail" is a full blown dragster,
    that also .. just a matter of which came first
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    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).
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    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.
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