Jim N

Wow Tim, that is gorgeous! Simply stunning.

NASCAR is basically running a spec engine this year. The horsepower in all three engine makes is capped at 500 - 550 horsepower. The days of Robert Yates and other engine gurus getting top power out of their engines is over for the foreseeable future.

Great save. You do a great job with the restorations. I tried my hand at it a couple of times and I just don't seem to have the knack for it.

Great job! Your choice of colors was superb for this car.

It looks really nice. I think you are being a bit hard on yourself, but then we who build a kit know where the flaws are.

Great looking model!

Very nice. The amount of detail in the kit is impressive.

Great work! A really stunning build.

Stunning! Looks fantastic.

Looks great! I like it a lot.

Great job. The purple body with a white interior looks stunning!

By and large, they either know or have a good idea you are not buying these products for yourself. I have done the grocery shopping in my house for years and bought many feminine products for my wife and daughter. The only comments I ever got were that "my husband / boyfriend would never buy this stuff for me". The gals were largely impressed I would buy these items for my girls.

Ed, you are correct. This will be a very big project. Another consideration is that the teams have perfected the construction of a racing chassis. They will only use metal from the same production lots and they have exacting construction specs and techniques, so that one chassis build is nearly identical to another. If the chassis supplier cannot meet these standards, there will be a revolt among the teams. In the early 2010's the manufacturers had a "come to Jesus" meeting with Brian France and they laid down the law. The manufacturers will only participate in NASCAR if they run the cars they want with their engines. They will work with NASCAR to make sure the competition is fair. But the days of France, Sr. and France Jr, pitting the manufacturers against each other, so the France's could do what they pleased were over.

I really don't want to start a fight over this, but this generation of cars is closest to their stock counterparts that in a long time. Below is a schematic for the Camaro and you will see that the race version differs, but not that significantly from the street car. The race car is the lighter shade of blue. I have seen a similar schematic for the Toyotas but cannot find it.

She fought a very valiant fight with cancer. Unfortunately, the disease won.

Unfortunately time marches on and does not stop for anybody.

It will be interesting to see how the spending cap works. There are a number of drivers who make more than the cap. The manufacturers have been lobbying for a hybrid type of system for this generation of car. Mike Helton said that if this is the way they go the chassis will require significant modifications. The smaller teams have been lobbying for a spending cap with the principal or Richard Petty Motorsports leading the discussions. The sport is changing, but it has to change. The simple fact of the matter is that the money is not there anymore and even the big teams are being pinched. If they take the construction of many of the parts out of the race shops, it will make the sport cheaper. A number of people will lose their jobs. This is not good, but it can be argued that the teams should not been permitted to get as big as they did in the first place.

Great job Pat. I like this a lot.

Looks very nice. The weathering is outstanding.

Great job! I really like it a lot. I remember watching this show as a kid. Couldn't wait for school to end so I could get home and watch the show. Once got into a fist fight with another kid over something that either did or didn't happen in a show. I don't recall either of us landing a punch; although it wasn't from a lack of effort.

Great work! Looks outstanding.

Thanks for the information Bill. I greatly appreciate it and will look into your suggestions. I spoke to the dealership after I bought the car to see about disabling the system and the tech said I couldn't. He said the the '18's and 19's can be turned off, but not the 17's. I will be interested to see if I was told the truth.

Good luck everybody. Be safe.

Great job Michelle. Is that the AMT or Revell kit? I built the Revell several years ago and it turned into quite a wrestling match on final assembly. Yours looks real clean.

Looks very nice. I like it a lot.