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Shirley Shahan’s Experimental Hurst/AMX
dragmodels44 replied to dragmodels44's topic in WIP: Drag Racing Models
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	Very nicely done!
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Shirley Shahan’s Experimental Hurst/AMX
dragmodels44 replied to dragmodels44's topic in WIP: Drag Racing Models
Update. Just wanted to post some pics of the progress. I did a little engine detail adding fuel lines. The rest is mostly paint detail, and I added the American Motors on the rear fenders. The dry transfer letters were a nightmare, with most of them being old and wouldn’t stick or one off the transfer. But I tried to get it as correct as possible. Thanks for looking! - 
	
Shirley Shahan’s Experimental Hurst/AMX
dragmodels44 replied to dragmodels44's topic in WIP: Drag Racing Models
Thanks for all the tip on articles. I down loaded the Muscle Car review one. Good info. Here’s an update. I did the glass lettering over, exactly like the photos and did the lettering on the doors - 
	
Shirley Shahan’s Experimental Hurst/AMX
dragmodels44 replied to dragmodels44's topic in WIP: Drag Racing Models
Thanks. I’m going to try and find it! - 
	
Shirley Shahan’s Experimental Hurst/AMX
dragmodels44 replied to dragmodels44's topic in WIP: Drag Racing Models
Thanks Snake! - 
	Looking forward to seeing it. I was going to do an original looking BOSS 302, then decided to do the Larry Shinoda prototype version, which was actually a 69 428 CJ Mach 1
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Shirley Shahan’s Experimental Hurst/AMX
dragmodels44 replied to dragmodels44's topic in WIP: Drag Racing Models
Shirley was the only woman ( at the time ) to win a major drag racing championship, which she then switched to American Motors and drove the Hurst prepped ‘69 AMX that was wrenched by her husband, H L Shahan. The website superstock AMX.com has some great photos and history on the car. The kit scoop is wrong, nothing like the prototype, but I couldn’t find any good photos showing it so I went with the kit scoop. I cant figure out what color the interior is. The pics are B&W, in one of them it almost looks like it could be blue, and I’m guessing the car was white, then they added the red and blue. I did replicate her prototype paint job, which looked like it was a metallic blue, not Big Bad Blue. I just guessed... - 
	
Shirley Shahan’s Experimental Hurst/AMX
dragmodels44 replied to dragmodels44's topic in WIP: Drag Racing Models
WOW nice pic ! Thanks Ya know... no matter what they build, they’ll NEVER build cars like that again - 
	
Shirley Shahan’s Experimental Hurst/AMX
dragmodels44 replied to dragmodels44's topic in WIP: Drag Racing Models
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	Hey All, While I’m working on the Strickler Impala, which I was going to use the Gardner 62 amt kit, I found the Strickler kit on eBay. So, I decided to start work on another kit that’s been waiting too long. Shirley Shahan’s Hurst/AMX experimental. I found some good pics of the car but they’re black and white. I had to piece the decals together and I used dry transfer letters for the door glass.
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McQueen's $1.3m Le Mans Porsche 911S in 1/32, by Arii
dragmodels44 replied to Matt Bacon's topic in Model Cars
Realy cool! That was a great movie too! - 
	Thank you! The Strickler Impala is in the shop now!
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	Great story and nice build. I love the 70’s SCCA cars!
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	Hey guys, I wanted to post a few of Grumpy’s toys I’ve been doing. The Dave Strickler and Grumpy’s Vega are on the work bench.
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	Nice job! Definitely cool movie cars!
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	Those are going to be cool! Too bad you couldn’t resin copy the bodies when they’re done!
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	Nice job! One of my favorite all time car movies. I actually got to talk to LeMat about the cars. Nice guy!
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	Thanks! I remember building those as a kid and I had to add them to my sports car builds.
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	Thanks for all the compliments. Those older Revell kits are challenging! The Cobra is a Scale Motorsport kit. It still had the price sticker on it. 160.00 It was a tough build, and once completed it has some weight to it.
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	Thanks!
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	Thanks Ray. They’re curbside, but they filled another void in my collection!
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	Hey Guys, I wanted to post the pics of the BRE Datsuns I finished. I added the Allison car after the Brock cars were done. (There’s also a pic of Brock’s Daytona Cobra,)because I’m a Bobby Allison fan.The Bodies were all done in 2013 and I finally finished them. I’ve been on a roll finishing up all the painted bodies I’ve done!