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#27 Rusty Wallace Car Technical Details

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Keith explains the mechanical setup of the #27 Rusty Wallace car. He opens the hood to reveal a non-race-spec small block 350 engine with a simple air cleaner, noting its purpose is to run rather than compete. He highlights the period-correct brass radiator, indicating that not all components were top-tier race parts. Inside the cockpit, he points out a factory dashboard, manual steering, and a 2.56 rear end, emphasizing its 'super speedway car' design for high-speed tracks.

Goal: Understand the detailed technical aspects of the #27 Rusty Wallace vintage stock car.

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nose or where the cowl is so later on they got a little more racy later on they didn't have all that extra on the bottom see where it looks like it's got a splitter you know yeah it's real first rendition like an 88 or an 89 28 grand prix like 93 it was yes 93 it was super arrow all you had to do was cut your brake ducts in it's super trick really nice but i mean these cars they took a lot of pride in building these things you see all that b roll front right there [Music] [Applause] what's under the trunk is there anything cool to look at in there you can see the factory decklid deal and right here same deal this is like the trunk this is a factory part like i guess they call it the package tray but that's that's a factory part they just trimmed and tacked it in they would have got that from pontiac and yeah tacked it in there's the factory number for the whatever well not not factory like streetcar but from gm gm produced this this panel here exactly but you can see even in this car i mean the fuel cells are the exact basic you know same dimensions amount of bolts into his here's a bolt into mine even a car from the 2010s and even later the theory is all the same yeah i need one yeah they're out there if you find any for sale send them to me oh you don't messed up now you'll get them all we'll send them day after day they're they're hiding everywhere man some people hold them away some people uh won't you know the typical i'm gonna fix it up one day and some people like my dad you know they got done with them either sold them or crushed them but they're they're out there i found one sitting in a guy's front yard he's sitting in the front yard that comes

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