james460

The cast iron headers from the 60 Starliner ,I can't remember if they are in the stock 60 are the coustom 60, the later release has both. I think are correct for this application. You can also get those headers in the 64 Galaxie superstocker and the 65 Fairlane superstocker. At least they are correct for the Nascar version. I would assume they were used in the 63 Drag version. I believe there is an article in Model Car Mag and the cast iron headers were used on the red 63.

nice work so far. I'm using the same pieces to do the 63 Daytona winner. Does MCW still make the light weight interior. Looks like the interior trim is what is in the Woods car. The kit interior is the Galaxie 500 interior. I cut off the bottom of that interior and it fits nicely with the 60 hump and floor. I did need to make a new fire wall panel for the 500 interior. Great work keep the picture coming.

Nice work on the Torino. Did you have any trouble getting the chassie up under the interior tube. For some reason everytime I try to build one these the chassie rails don't want to go up under the body so well. Thought you might be able to help. Again it looks really good.

Chevy engine red is correct.

Building the Z-28 from AMT right now. It's the one that got away. Will be Dark green. Any surprises when building the kit. I followed one of the builds in one of the mags. He said the dash needed to be shortened. What are your thoughts. I've got all my parts painted starting the assembly process.

I bought one a couple of weeks ago an like you was surprised about the content. I do wish it had a scoop and front bench seat. hopwfully mine is going to be white exterior with red interior. i'll be watching your build.

It always amazes me how you get so many "it should be like this" from test shot photos. Anyway alway liked the 65 Bel. any chance there's going to be a racing version?

Man that's a really nice piece. I've always thought that the AMT 63 Impala body was as good as it get. Hard to believe that a 50+ year old model. Looks great.

Hate to see that coming up in the rear view window. Too cool.

If you look at the last picture, which is really a good one for info, you can just see the top of the bucket seat poking it's top out over the dash. I noticed in the clone it has a bench seat. I remember a few year back seeing an interview with RP. He stated in the interview that the Daytona car had a bench seat with the back removed. This picture proves that's not so. I think sometimes we've got to remember these guys, remembering things, are gettin old. I'm 66 and can't remember nothing. The one thing that bugs me about clones is someday some guy will come up with the cash to purchase the 64 Clone and sware up and down that the Petty's told him the car was the Daytona 500 winner and he'll have something signed by them stating it is. Don't get me wrong it's a beautiful car and the workmanship is top notch but I doubt Richard ever drove that car in a race. I wish, when clones are built, the guys building them would pay a little more attention to what they really were and had. I guess if they did it would be harder to tell a fake. LOL If you're building a Petty race car specially the 64 there is tons of info on the net and you can't go wrong with the info you find on Randy Ayers board. When it come to the older cars these guys know just about everything and are not afraid to let anyone in on the info. And they build some pretty nice models too.

That a restored car and may be how the car looked later in the year. The car RP ran at Daytona was a little different. The car came to the Petty shop painted a really light blue. The exterior was repainted Petty blue at the shop but the underside was left the light blue. There are a couple of pic out there that show verly clearly the light color under the hood. Looks white but it is a very light blue. The interior was a vinyl metallic blue sorta medium blue, dash, seat and probably the interior door panels. The engine color was probably hemi orange, The valve covers were not painted at Daytona.The Pettys usually painted their engines a blue but remember these engines arrived at Daytona stright from the factory and were probably a shade of orange. Later pics of the Pettys installing an engine at Darlington show it being painted a light blue. I have a 64 Racing pictorial that show the Plymouths and Dodges at Daytona and you can see clearly the the Dodges have interior panels that are a factory color. I figure the Pettys went the same route. I'm not a Petty expert and thing changed as the year went by but I'm pretty sure about the Daytona deal.

Scott is correct about the 67 Camaro. I don't think Minilites came into play for any team until sometime in the 68 season. Ford didn't run Minilites until 70. I did confirm last night that the Penske Camaro only use the roll hoop with two down bars, a least for most of 67. I know of two "69 Z-28's" in my area that started life as something else. One was a big block 396. It's been tubed and may still have the 396 in it. But it has all the badging and strips of a "Z". It's silver and is a beautiful car but not a "Z". The other one is yellow with black strips. I'm told it was once a six but don't know for sure. It's also very attractive. At least the guy with the Silver car doesn't try to pass it off as an original Z.

Thanks Deuces. I knew it was less than 700 and more than 600 but didn't have my source in front of me at the time. A couple articles in SA, can I say that here, really got me interested in early Trans Am racing again. I bought a book called "The Cars of Trans Am Racing" which has a lot of info regarding the series and some really nice pictures although you do need to be careful because a lot of the pics are of restored cars. If you're interested you ought to pic up the book. Thanks for setting me straight.

While there are some things wrong with the racing version. It's closer, body wise, to what was raced in 67 than you might think. The hood may need to be changed, The actual roll hoop is pretty accurate. Even the Penske team raced a roll hoop with only down bars early in 67. It was only after Bud Moore and his Cougars showed up with a full NASCAR style rollcages that the high dollar teams started putting them in their cars. Even the Mustang Factory team started out the year with only a hoop and down bars. Moore had to prove how much chassie flex there was in the cars before Ford engineers would go along with rollcages. Also fender flairs were not allowed. If the minilite wheels are to small that would be a shame. As an aside the Camaro Z-28 was not really eligible for the 67 season but was still allowed to race. You were suppose to have a thousand units built to be homolagated for Trans Am Racing, I'm pretty sure that's not spelled correctly. Any way only around 700 Z-28's were built in 67. The engine, by the way, was a 327 block with a 283 crank. Ford raced the 289. At that time, 1967 no American Manufacture made a 302.

That's as good a build of the PL kit as I've seen. And the paint is out of bounds. Nice work.

In the right setting might not have know that was a model. Where I grew up in the 60's the Super Bee was a real popular car. You nailed that one. Excellent.

Having turned 21 in 1969 I've seen my share of Novas. All kinds, most were turned into some kind of street racer. Your 69 is refreshing and spot on. Great stuff.

Maybe with Mobius doing the 65 Plymouth they'll see fit to do a 65 Dodge.

The PPP wheels are really nice. They are molded between 1/24-1/25 scale so they work well for both scales. They come with decals for the call out either Goodyear/Firestone. I haven't tried their newer dirt, square treaded tires which would probably go nice with the any of the stocker kits. I think they may come with hoosier decals but not sure. Most of the major after market model suppliers have them listed as in stock. They are good stuff.

If you decide to detail the wheels try using a silver and black fine line sharpie. The silver contrast to the chrome looks good and the fine line point on the black sharpie with fit in the grooves on the hub and holes on the wheels. .

Doesn't it come in both orange and white? I think it's marked on the box. There are several nice articles in the model mags that deal with building the different variations of the car. I think all mention taking a little off the back of the dash and a little off the bottom of the front glass. I have all three issues, the Z/28, the first Balwin car with out decals and the Models King issue. The later Balwin Motion Cars have, I understand, a really nice decal package for that car. I think its as nice a Camaro kit as you'll find. A 2 in 1 would be sweet.

Having been a teenager in the sixties I've seen about as many Roadrunners as anyone and that going to be a really nice one. As for the rake I've seen them subtle and I seen them jack so high with big tires sticking out way past the fenders. All that missing is a set of Gabreial highjackers. Yours is just right.

Nice work. I had that car back in the day and it was way pass my modeling skills at the time. It's not the easiest kit to put together. Again really nice.

nice job on the 17 paint fade. That's dead bang on.

nice work on the AMT Old's. I alway thought the body on the AMT Olds was much better than thr Monogram. All are nice but the AMT stuff is really good.