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Old 01-11-2021, 08:18 PM
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This is a little random but too good to pass up.

We got these little 1/64 scale Ertl '65 GTOs, which are kind of generic, but for some reason have an obvious gray tool box in the trunk.

The connection is that we would flat tow the GTO with the towbar and with Dad's gray Craftsman tool box in the trunk of the car, for ballast (it drops the tail of the towed vehicle, improving the caster, thereby making it tow better).

When we got to the track we would weigh in for our class with the towbar and these huge logging safety chains still installed, full of fuel, the toolbox in the trunk and me (all 45 lbs or so) standing on the scale. Then when we got back to the pits all that extra weight would come flying out of the car for eliminations.

This little Ertl GTO has always reminded me of that.

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