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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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03-09-2011 07:48 AM #9
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 #10
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 #11
I guess we should know what his car is.
He said a "Volve bug". Is that a Volvo?... or a Volkswagen?
Yeah if we have to go changing lifters I am taking those comp cam lifters out.
New guy from Utah.