satterwhite78

1988 Daytona Winner Bobby Allison 1974 Daytona Winner Richard Petty 1970 Daytona Winner Pete Hamilton 1971 Daytona winner Richard Petty

The track is actually a remnant of a old TV stand the was up in my garage. The stand width is about 48" long and 16" wide and basically pressboard. I used some dark/med grey stone textured spray for the rough surface. Use some flat black to mist a couple of coats or give an uneven coloration in different areas to resemble asphalt fade. I taped off and spray flat white for the lane stripes and used a 2" x 3/4" strip for the retaining wall. I painted the wall white, added some tire scuffing by taking a tire mounted on a backing rim with a metal axle, smearing it in some flat black paint and rotating the wheel assembly down the retaining wall. Apply heavy for initial tire contact to light/fade upon coming off from sideswiping the wall. Plan to add either track name or add some color scrapes in addition to some background billboards. Also to give the effect of different sections of the track, paint the backside of the retaining wall, either leaving clean or adding different enhancements to simulate different points/areas of racing around the track........hope that helps! Chuck

If only you had worked for FoMoCo at the time and presented that concept to the designers! Sharp and a great looking Mercury!

Sat on it? That Chebbie tougher than the 1/1! Good job!

Booo teeeee full. That car today could make two compacts and a scooter, Great job!

A little out my comfort zone in what I like to build. Nascar to me belongs to the memory of "Race on Sunday, Sell on Monday!" and that the cars on the track had more of a persona equal to or more than that of the driver. But we who build what we love are entitled to our own biases....and then their are times we need to try something different. I bought this kit a few years back with the hope of getting to complete it. A little over a year ago when I was inbetween builds . I broke out the Buick finished up the chassis and painted the body at least twice....not to my satisfaction or to at least 4 can of paint so I decided to store away until I was ready. In the meantime PowerSlide came out with the correct sheet aside from the Kit decals (The Miller logo on the hood and door #'s is slanted, the kit's are straight) and those were acquired to do a more correct version of Bobby's ride. When painting the Andretti 68 Cyclone I thought the gold ( Krylon ShortCuts Gold Leaf) was more towards the "correct" gold than Testors Gold Met. for the Buick. With the Styrene Gods blessing they granted me a Do over on the paint job that I got in one shot . It wasn't the best that I have done but Thank Goodness that Buick of Bobby's had a lot of decals to hide those "little" flaws . Good or bad it's a done deal and now it's rolled out of the box and onto the track. Thanks for looking and hope ya enjoy...Chuck! P.S Still ain't figured out how to date a camera

Back in December I ordered & received three resin bodies of Mercurys ( one 68 and 69 W nose Cyclone and a 73 Montego GT). Since I had the decals for the 68/69 versions of Mario Andretti's #11 68 Daytona entry and Bobbie Allison's Holman/Moody #12 Cyclone, they were a done deal to complete. A friend of mine notified me of the Richie Panch #98 Grey Rock/ Budwieser sheet on Ebay and they to were quickly acquired. Both the #11 and #12 have P/L chassis underneath and the only issue I am waiting to resolve with the #11 is that Mario ran Firestones and I haven't yet got the correct letters for it and when I do, I will post more pic. The Montego GT of Richie Panch was constructed by using a stretched chassis of AMT T Bird. Taking two chassis, cutting one long frt piece and one long rear piece and joining together to make an enhanced (longer.. about 3/16th) wheel base. The 73 Montego obscure footnote in Nascar history is that only three drivers drove the Montego GT from 73 to 75...Davis Pearson #21 for the Wood Brothers, Dick Trickle #75 for owner Del Puro, and Richie Panch 's #98 Grey Rock. Pearson being the only driver that drove the Montego GT for almost two seasons, Trickle and Panch were a one or two race deal. By 1980 Neil Bonnett at Talledega won the final and last race in a Mecury. Thanks for looking, hope ya enjoy...Chuck Yea ...Way to bright/Flash

Great looking bunch

Glad to see some early Nascar Bow Ties'. Very rare to see them from the early day of real racing.

There's only one small problem that I see........It's not on my shelf! That is A Winner's Circle build!

I bet you still crack a smile when you see it on the shelf with the rest of your collection. Looks good in the photos and even as far away as North Carolina!

Could have sworn that car actually sat on the Chevolet Dealers' lot. Sharp build!

You don't need to do another thing.....It's perfect!

With 5 "projects" going on at the same time and getting a little frustrated with each one at some point , I decided to take a different route....a simple one tone paint scheme, nothing fancy. Sometime back I had seen a photo of Al and Richard lined up together on pit road of Daytona for a photo op and wanted to do Al's ride, but like everything else something always takes over it gets pushed back. A Revell 68 Charger graces the Testors' Bright Red paint with decals from Southern Motorsport Hobbies (? on the maker). Inner fender wells removed and an front hoop fabricated, driver seat from the kit has an side bolster with the head rest made from an drinking straw capped at the ends, the frt/rear bumper guards removed and rechromed with SpazStix Ultimate Mirror Chrome #10009 spray and PPP rims. Unser qualified 8th at the 68 Daytona and finished 4th being the last car on the lead lap while Cale took the Checked followed by Lee Roy Yarborough and Bobby Allison

Most of the time you see a car on cider blocks after it been stripped, but in the last two pics all they left was the interior! That one Clean looking Vette !

with the addition of the shock towers greatly improves and enhances the engine compartment overall. Both the 66 Fairlane and 67 Cyclone kits are a joy to build. Great job!

You never go wrong with a Mopar.....unless you post a Dodge Omni/Horizion or Dodge Aries, Reliant....and that looks Right On!

Excellent job. Those big boys didn't just "drive" down the road, they "owned" both lanes

LOL....Just my luck! A day late and a dollar ( with adjusted inflation $1.50) short. Betcha He was a happy camper!

If by chance that fella doesn't make it to your house to claim his "vehicle in question", just shoot me a PM. There's plenty of room on my shelf for that Poncho! Swell lookin build!

Black and White Firebirds I remember seeing most of the time and an occasional red here and there, but a gold Firebird was a treat for the eyes. Sharp looking !

Definitely got that 70's vibe! You sure you wasn't Stateside when those cars were on the road? Great job on all! Being in High School around that time and taking Auto shop, there was always one kid who drove one that had a V-8 compared to several others that were 4 bangers. The V-8 Mustangs were fairly quick but were noisy and clunky in changing gears (auto). 4 cyls were way underpowered. Leaking oil from a 4 cyl valve cover was the only saving grace that kept the engine from rusting & seizing from the outside . I dated a girl that had a Monza 5.0 5 speed M/T and with her driving she put to shame any Z/28 or T/Am. Took a trip with her for a wedding in SC and back home and that Monza got 32mpg! Figured it three times...same 32 mpg. Great power and gas mileage. The Vega...with the aluminum 4 cyl you never worried about having to change the oil or filter. If it didn't leak oil, it certainly burned it out the tailpipe. Thus having to add fresh oil (sometimes daily) the crankcase oil never got dirty or black. It was cheaper to put gas in it than it was to put in oil! Great job on all three and thanks for letting me share some good memories down on Memory Lane

Ya did good! Good to see a classic done right!

How many time while listening to the broadcast of a Nascar race on the radio did you all of a sudden catch your breath and key on every word the annoucer said from then on. Old color photos were recently found at a yard sale that provided a visual to one such incident in Turn Two. "Looks like trouble off Turn 2 with the #98 of Leeroy Yarborough hitting the wall and spinning down into the grass. Flagmen in Turn 2 report hearing the left front tire blowing out from debris and Yarborough's Mercury slamming the wall, apparently rupturing the oil lines and spinning wildly down the backstretch tagging the wall again before coming to a rest on the lower apron of the track......Leeroy is climbing out of the Jim Robbins Cyclone and walking to the infield wall as the oil-splattered Mercury is still smoking, seems to be a small fire developing as the Yellow Flag is out and the leaders are headed to Pit road...... [/url Without the Smoke and Mirrors....... I had the body laying around while I used the chassis as a test fit subject for other future projects. While everybody enjoys seeing a clean rolled off the starting line build, I thought it would be different to see a "fresh run into the wall" wreck . Thanks for looking!.......and now back to the race.... [url=http://s1193.photobucket.com/user/Satterwhite78/media/Stock%20cars/Speedway%20Photos/Speedway%20wrecks/000_0230.jpg.html] To all of those who serve and defend this great country of ours, I extend my deepest thanks and everlasting support! Chuck "Satterwhite78"

Great build .......It definitely cranks up and rumbles Attitude. Feel sorry for the road crew that has to repair the road after those rear tires hook up!