satterwhite78

72 Chevelle SS 77 Monte Carlo 75 Ford Gran Torino

I was up in my garage looking over my stash for the next project to start on. I came across the Revell 72 Cutlass convertible (not the special Edition 1st release) and a AMT 70 Monte Carlo body that I had. It appeared to me that the M/Carlo roof and the roof of a 72 Cutlass hardtop are similar.....as to which the question I am posing is....Would the Roof of the M/Carlo and cutlass hardtop of the two actual cars the same or were they different between the two GM divisions? I know that Missing Links offers a resin hardtop and that would save a lot of hacking, cutting, puttying, Etc......but the roof line of the two look eerily similar? Any comments?

Testors One Coat Laq. #1840M Flaming Orange. The rims were out of the parts bin...no earthly idea where from. Thanks for the comments

Before Brad, Brad's uncle Ron raced in the Grand National/ Winston Cup Series from 1970 to 1974. 0 wins, 11 top tens and 0 poles. Most active season was 1972 were he competed in 22 out of 31 races. Most of his top ten finishes came in the 71 season with the exception of the Daytona 500 where he was only able to complete one lap. In addition to be a driver, he was a team owner of K-Automotive Motorsports from 1995 to 2000.

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Recently built..just getting around to posting. Paul Goldsmith #99 68 Dodge Coronet early 68 season. Paul Goldsmith #99 Plymouth RoadRunner. Paul "lil Bud" Moore #1 Dodge Charger Curtis Turner #14 68 Plymouth Road Runner

Any chance of making extra copies and selling? Would be interested in a few. One of my Holy Grail to do builds! Chuck

A great tribute to your brother and nice looking piece of plastic machinery. Welcome to the forum and keep them coming off the assembly line!

Rumors,gossip, innuendos, secret government activity?.......any info.

I think you're on Route 66! Lol! That is sharp!

I wish it was! I came across some Heating & Insulation duct tape that had the chrome foil on it from a friend, thinking , " Hey! this might come in handy with model building!". Once you peel the wax like backing paper off, that stuff would stick to anything. So you had one shot to get it in the right spot. A lot of time the right spot was the exacto blade or handle, which ever finger I used to get it off the other finger or any area that it was not intended to go. Pulling it off was like pulling the Excaliber sword from the stone if you weren't King Arthur, Needless to say the first and last time of use!

Actually it's the AMT 70 Monte Carlo. Used the chassis and suspension (though probably not correct, I believe truck trailing arms were the possibly the rear make up), a donated roll cage assembly out of another AMT nascar kit, the M/C kit engine, fabbed the front engine hoop, Monogram solid nascar tires and Super Stocker rims with Yesterday's decals. It was built a few years ago and "dragged" it out when going through stored away builds. I've built B. Allison's Coke #12, Fred Lorezen's Lemon Tree #28 and Donnie Allison's North Gas #27 with the same set up.

Eleanor B.C. ( Before Cage), Some bonus scenes that ended up on the editing room floor........ Well gotta go....horoscope says "A good bath always changes one's appearance"!

Back this past summer I purchased a SMH resin firebird T/A and a formula hood. Used the Smokey and the Bandit 77 T/Am for the donor, filled in the frt fender side vents, used the AMY parts pack white letter F-60 polyglas and borrowed the Honeycomb rims out of the AMT 75 Dodge Dart for period correct rims. Enjoy Chuck!

Awesome....definitely could see that rolling down the highway in the day!

A-1 and sharp. Be careful, Dr. Oldsmobile has been working in the lab.........http://www.inlinetube.com/articles/OLDSPAGE02.htm

Great kit to build and a great looking build! Looks like you just drove it off the car lot!

Bandit Resins does carry them....bought one earlier from a swap meet in NC this year.. Can't seem to post a pic of it mounted on a 75 Duster at the moment.