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The other thing unique to this car for this time period was the fact that it retained its factory seat and dash. I have to make a racing gauge cluster to fit the stock dash.

This is how the rear was done on this car. Kinda odd. I like to add some character to the totally flat floor that comes with the kit too.

This car was the last nascar Grand National racecar to be made from a driven home from the dealer new. Built by Red and Bobby Allison in Hueytown Alabama. The kit is a Johan Torino. The rear suspension is scratchbuilt around an AMT 9” rearend. I worked off pictures I had found on line of the rear suspension. Its getting a 427 out of a Polar Lights Talladega.

Cool guys keep them coming!

Nissan should fire its entire styling dept too. Everything they make is hideous even the GT-R. The Puke was bad but what about that Cube abortion? Infiniti isn’t far behind in ugly. The big SUV thing looks like a Sperm Whale. To top it off they are junk on top of it. The Chrysler of Japan.

True and On old race cars the lettering was in fact painted

The best ever left us today. RIP David Pearson post your Pearson builds here

We ran some in the Chicago area. Not as popular as the smaller cars but they worked if set up right.

I always clear over them. Will last forever with my clear. Yes the real cars weren’t cleared over but they didn’t use water slide decals either. A lot of older cars had the numbers and major sponsors painted on . So I don’t care if the real ones were cleared I don’t want messed up decals

I like it . Looks like it could have been.

Yes exactly.

Clarence was from Texas. So was this car. B&B Racing out of San Antonio owned the car.

Revell 70 Cobra on a Polar lights chassis.Custom decals and PPP tires.

It’s really not right but it is similar to what it looks like. Chevys had to get around the rear mount distributor. Do they used a cowl plenum like these.

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They were brake cooling ducts.

This is the latest issue Allison Monte. I built it like the car Bobby drove for Junior Johnson in 72. It has a amt TBird frt frame and truck arms added to the kits chassis. Modified the front to be like a 71 nose. This is how the real car was. Used the cage from the TBird as well with lots of mods. Scratchbuilt engine bars and air cleaner. Kit decals except for the trunk from a set from Mikes. PPP wheels and later AMT tires

This is the Laguna Dick drove in USAC in 74. It was updated after this to a slantnose Laguna and Bruce Jacobi drove it in NASCAR. It is a lastest release Pepsi Laguna backdated to a 74 by reshaping the back end and adding a spare 73 Laguna nose to it. Sitting on a stretched AMT TBird chassis with a Revell 427 engine. Resin wheels from Mikes decals. Custom decals.

Nobody except Johan has gotten the Colonade body GM windshield right. The back of the roof on Montes seems difficult too. Never seen a model or diecast I thought was even 90% correct there.

I love the 89-96 AMT Thunderbird kits. Just never built one as a Thunderbird. But they have provided a great chassis for at least 40 seventies builds. Torinos Montegos, Chevelles ,Lagunas a Grand Am and now a SalvinosJRModels Cutlass. They pass for a Banjo chassis on so I use them for that.

I like the short one. Lots of short bumpers around in the seventies early eighties.

The frt bumper on the diecast is closer to right. It wraps around the corners better and has the intake slots that are missing on the kit. I do think the diecast rear bumper is wrong too.

I will say the body is free of sink marks and has minimal part lines. Most of the big companies can’t pull that off.