Gary66

It's not too bad a fit, the scale difference has chassis wheelbase being a tad shorter than the body, but when I opened up the wheel openings that sort of resolved itself. I changed the upper part of the rool cage to look a little better but it was not a fit issue. I had to trim off some of the chassis at the rear but it was one cut and that was it.

Boy, I wish we could!!

This is a different version that Jim Poston ran back in the 70's. Same as the blue car, Amt Nascar chassis with a Revell kit body. Paints are Krylon Gloss White and Satin Black.

The engine block is there, but I call it a curbside, I didn't do any detailing underneath.

This car ran at Concord and Metrolina Speedways in the early 70's. It can be seen in the movie "Last American Hero" in the dirt track scenes. Revell kit body over Amt Nascar chassis, paint is Red Devil spray bomb Caribiaan Blue.

I say this one needs to be a cover car! Way to go Brian!

Take the boom truck out of the equation and we probably are not talking about a fatality. R.I.P. Scott Kalitta......killed by ESPN.

This is a car that ran against Ralph at that time, it's a good reference to use: Here is a good interior shot of another 55/57 Chevy that raced with Ralph's '55, very similar: This is another similar car to Ralph's # 8: As did this car: Hope this helps.

Do not use the car in the movie "3" for reference. That car is totally inaccurate for the real 1960's era car, it was built just for the movie. The most glaring mistake is the movie car has chicken wire instead of glass for the windshield, the real car had a glass .

Jerry, is the page still available that has the "how-to" build up pictures of the car? I lost all my bookmarks when my old pc crashed last month.

That's one of the best I have ever seen of the Amt kits of that series. Well done!

The "Fall Brawl" short track model build off just concluded on Randy's Nascar Model building board. Mark Jeffries was the winner: See all 18 cars here: Fall Brawl build off all cars

That is fantastic! Great save, I really like to see projects brought back from near destruction and you did a superb job of turning into a really. really nice custom.

That is awesome work, and something you just don't see everyday in scale. Way to go!

I check the SAE forum a little every week, I don't post much over there(or here), but I do subscribe to both magizines. I spend most of my time on Randy's Nascar board but I feel more at home with the forum Fred Sudlow has (Fred's Resin Works) , mainly because I'm a short track race car guy and I fit in there better than anywhere else .Scale Racing Lobby is a lesser known short track board but has some great stuff on it too. I check the old Hobby Heaven board at least once a day and still post every once in awhile. I don't post much work on there anymore, and when I do I rarely get more than one or two responses, if that. I think most of the members there have never forgiven me for my part of the great box stock flame war back in 2000/2001 . My only problem, and I stress only problem, is that SAE banned Luke57 from their board for some less than understandable reasons. He'a real good friend of mine and I have a hard time feeling welcome where my friends get kicked around.

I started this one yesterday around noon, finished it today. It's done except for a coat or two of future floor polish. I know it's not a great kit OOB, but I wanted to build one like that anyway. Build up pics here: http://public.fotki.com/Gary66/my_model_cars/69fal/

This was a pre-painted kit I found at "x-mart" a few years ago in the bargin bin, it had a severely crushed top, all 4 posts were broken or cracked. I had to glue in the kit glass and use it to hold the top straight, a silver sharpie pen covered up most of the cracks in the posts. The white walls came from my tire stash box.

As a southerner the whole of my 41 years on this earth, I will say my feelings on the stars and bars: This issue and the controversy surrounding it will be here a long time after we are gone. I don’t criticize those who want to be proud of their heritage, live and let live , I say. However, the stars and bars are no longer a southern thing , they are everywhere, North, Midwest, west coast, places where no way anyone had a great, great, great, great grand pappy fight on the Confederate side in the bloody, decidedly “uncivil†Civil War ( or the War of Northern Aggression as my late Grand dad referred to it). Anyway, the above posters are correct, the stars and bars have long since been bastardized by extreme racist groups that took a historical battle flag with true historic origins and made it into a symbol of pure hate. For my Northern friends, not every southerner cares about who won or lost the civil war ( I don’t). I do care about preserving history. I have spent a few hours lurking around the Fort Fisher state historic site in Fort Fisher, NC, I have read and still have many books on the Civil War, and I support preserving the history of that conflict and indeed, that entire time in America. Those who wish to sanitize history are very, very wrong. Guess where the bulk of all the confederate “trinkets†and do-dads sold in the beach shops in Myrtle Beach, SC end up? They end up North when the tourists go back home after vacation, so to say it’s only a symbol of dumb, toothless southerners is a lie……….

That's one sleeper I would not want to meet up with at a stoplight!

Some of us who own up ( on rare occasions) to being a friend of Hadley take delight in bantering back and forth with Mark ( he can dish it out just as much as he can take it), but all of us who know him are very proud of his cover shot and the article, Mark is an outstanding builder and it shows in that truck and others he has done. Way to go Mark!

Looks like a killer short tracker....lean and mean !!

OK, I'll go next. I don't post much here but I lurk all the time and I do subscibe to the magizine. I am Gary Lyles, 41, and I live in Kannapolis, N.C. ( yes, the same one a certain famous racer named Dale is from). I have been married to a wonderful woman since 2000, she lets me be "me" and doesn't mind the endless stock piling of kits for "down the road"...LOL. I work in a metal stamping company setting up and operating big steel stamping presses and handle most of the ISO paperwork that we have to do. No kids but I have numerous nieces and nephews. I come from a long line of honest, hard working poor folks. Both of my late Grandfathers were already working in the Textile Mills around here before age 10. Cars and trucks have always been a big part of the family, a lot of my uncles terrorized the local Dragway back in the 1960's and some took a turn racing stock cars. I like racing, building model race cars, fishing and traveling the "back roads" of the Tarheel State looking at old scenery before it all goes away to development. From late March to early November, most Saturday nights I am at a race track around here, either Bowman Gray Stadium, Concord Motorsport Park, Caraway Speedway, Hickory Motor Speedway or any other track within a decent driving distance of my home. Building scale model race cars is how I "race", been doing it off and on since I was about 11. My building style is heavily influenced by Jerry and Jackie Sims ( Luke57 and Gator on most of the boards) who I am also proud to call my friends, along with Bill "Ancient Modeler" Little ( who coined the term "darkside" that has become the catch phrase for pre -1972 Nascars), Jacky Ireland, and all the guys on the darkside section of Randy Ayer's Nascar board. I also have a great group of guys I hang with twice a week ( Thurs and Sun @ 9 PM) thru the chat room Brian Fowler( Monoped) has on his site, including Ricky Moore ,Andy Wyatt, Randall Cooper, Mark Hadley, Mark Bailey, and everyone else who pops in from time to time over there. Fred Sudlow runs a great and clean short track forum off his site for Resin parts that I like a lot. I post more at Fred's and Randy's than the other places, not because I don't like other boards ( like this one) but simply both are geared toward race car models and that 95 percent of what I build. ok,who is next?

As long as the tooling doesn't get scrapped there is always a chance for it to come back ( talking about Amt). But, that tooling is now in China and they don't play over there, if something is not being used to make product it gets sold for scrap, they are not known for keeping a big inventory of un-used production tooling. The one thing I find amusing in all this is all the guys who used to post on HH that they "only buy from Tom" and never, ever would buy a kit anywhere else. Maybe that is true, I'll stop short of calling anyone a liar but given that he is closing the doors leads to the assumption that some who posted that were not exactly telling the truth. Tom has always been 100 percent with me in any dealings I had with him, and I think he will be successful whatever direction he goes in. Model Round-up is good, so is Model Express ( I order from them every once in awhile, great service), Phoenix Model Company is good IF they have what you want in stock, and I am sure all the vendors who I see at shows with piles of the same kits they drag around year after year are salivating over the current trend in the marketplace. BSR and SMH will keep the stock car guys busy.

I like it! The car has a sinister "stealthy" look to it.