yellowsportwagon

i will resize some more pictures and post them tomorrow.

This is a old Bandit Resin Montego GT that I'm going to do as Dicks Puro racing car from the 1975 Daytona 500.

Larry the cutaway drawing doesn't show frt or rear suspension so you can get away with standard operating practices of the day Here is a pic of the bottom of your Grand Am Body on a TBird chassis. I stretched this chassis 1/16 inch to get the wheelbase right.

I built HB Baileys 73 using your body on a TBird chassis I think the hardest part was getting the roll bars to fit. I'll look at it tonight and post some pictures.

The AMT Thunderbird chassis gets you close to what a 70s cup chassis looked like. The most accurate way to build it would be to do it like my Pearson GTO. Which would be to take the front frame and suspension from the TBird kit and graft it to the stock rear frame and use the truck arm rear suspension from the TBird. The kit I use is a mid 90s AMT NASCAR Thunderbird. I usually scratch build an earlier dash . The chassis will also need to be stretched for the correct wheelbase.

I guess so but this car only raced the one race at Riverside. It was sold and tucked away after that for I think about 18 years. The car now does vintage races with almost all of its original paint still intact.

Exactly.

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This is a MPC Torino on an AMT Thundirbird chassis. Boss 429 engine from a Polar Lights Talladega. The body was modified to better represent this car. The fuel filler was moved to the right side as this car ran at Riverside.I cut the rear spoiler off and modified it to lean back further. The headlight block off and screened Opening on the left frt were also switched . Scratchbuilt Frt spoiler , air cleaner , headrest , and bumper fairings and fillers were also added. PPP wheels and Powerslide decals. Custom mixed dark blue and white paint. Added some camber to both frt wheels for that vintage road racer look. Also added drip rail moldings that MPC left off for some odd reason.

just oder the body from MotorCity Resin . Probably the best resin body I've ever seen. Well worth the money plus the roof line looks better than the revell roof.

David ,sent you a message

The paint is the easy part Dodge Panther Pink and yellow decals I don't know about.

Time to call this one done.

Only little contingencies or small stuff I can scan and print on my home computer. The only ones I made for this car are the Monroe contingencies. Tim

Added some more details to the Matador

I'll start it off . My tips being Pictures find as many as you can. Sometimes you will have to be satisfied with only one however. My second tip is STANCE. Really study the relationship of the cars wheel tire combo to the body.Specifically to the wheel openings. Look at how the wheel openings were modified on the real car.From about 1966 forward almost all of these cars had at least some opening up of the frt wheel openings and sometime the rears also. Tim

Mark the grille is 125 micron stainless filter I got on eBay.

The one in the back is my 16 year old sons I think you'll have to fight him for that. He loves Javelins and other vintage Trans Am cars.

AMC first NASCAR win.Mark Donohue 1973 Winston Western 500 at Riverside.Not finished yet but thought I would show some progress pictures of another stalled project finally coming together. I got this resin body a year or two ago. It was pretty rough to say the least. When it was cast they must have pushed the inside mold to far up . The roof and hood added paper thin. Couldn't even touch them without cracking the body.I smeared some fiberglass body filler inside to stiffen up the body.Filled plenty of pinholes and general rough surfaces. Spliced two AMT Thunderbird chassis together and paddled it on Monogram NASCAR tires with PPP rims.Thanks to Dave Van for the decals.Hopefully I'll have this done in the next week or so.

I did until I killed my old phone and lost them.

I tried to build this car just as Nichels Engineering built the real car. Used a frame from a Polar lights 64 GTO because it was separate from the floor pan.Cut off the frame at the firewall and attached a Holman Moody frt frame section. Put Chevy truck rear control arms on the back . Modified a Polar Light Talledega roll cage to fit.Then I filled the fender and hood scoops. Opened up all wheel openings and flared the frts. Moved the grille forward made the spoilers and narrowed the rear bumper.Painted Plum Crazy and White with Billy Goochie decals. PPP tires with AMT NASCAR tires. Stock GTO kit engine with AMT NASCAR 351 Cleveland heads reshaped to look like Pontiac RAV heads.Lots of other scratch built bits and pieces.Almost forgot that I moved the back wheel wells back1/8 inch to stretch the wheelbase as was common on GM cars in NASCAR at the time. Tim

this car has been restored there is quite a few pictures online. I will post more pictures tonight

This was a ratty promo I got on eBay.Had to replace both missing roof posts fix a huge crack in the roof and repair both beat to death bumpers. Interesting thing about this car is it retained its power windows as a stock car.

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