Another (!) monocoque Mustang vintage funny-car...

[Claude Thibodeau]

Hi!

Everything old is new again, goes the saying... Sure goes for vintage Funny-cars!

When I got back to modeling in 2014, my first "re-entry" built was this scratch-built Mustang, inspired by the famous Mickey Thompson xperimental monocoque F/C that was the cover car of Hot-Rod back in 1970... Used a Going Thing Polar light body (already good proportions) and used a few parts from the kit, plus mucho scratch-built. Not an exact duplicate, more of an hommage...

Not perfect, but certainly better than my original attemps at 15, that was "crude", of course. 

Goes to proove that you can do virtually anything with some styrene and some time at the bench!

CT

 

[Chris in Berwyn]

Great bodywork and paint!

[Rocking Rodney Rat]

Awesome engineering.....I tried to build this car when I was a kid....cut the body with one of those heated plug-in x-acto knives! Got any pix of the car buttoned up? -RRR

Edited August 31, 2019 by Rocking Rodney Rat

[cobraman]

Wow !  Great job, looks great !

[Claude Thibodeau]

Hi!

Thanks for the comments.

The pictures I got all show the car with the clamshell up... because when it is lowered, most show spectators think it's just a "regular" funny-car. But, here are 2 pix taken during construction. Sorry for the quality... photography is not my forte!

CT

 

[bigdrag1]

Claude, this is just Beautiful !  I just love seeing your builds !!  Thanks for posting !!

[Force]

Very nice.

[Deuces]

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[echo]

Very nice scratch building effort !

[vintagercr]

Awesome build!

[TooOld]

It doesn't have to be an exact duplicate to be a great looking model ,  excellent fab work !  Always loved the look of this car . 

[Fairfax]

Very nice result !

[bytownshaker]

Claude your Mustang looks fantastic. Awesome scratch building skills too.

Edgar

 

[Claude Thibodeau]

Thanks for the comments. This one was long to come... so it's appreciated!

CT

[ChrisR]

Very nice!