mustang1989

Oh man!! I can't WAIT to see progress on this one.

Fantastic work Ray!

This build right here is a testament to the great skillsets that are on this site. There is no end to the great talent here. Stunning work Bruce.

I forgot this thread was going on over here too Simon. This is in......sane!!!!!!!!!!!

Great paint work Mike!!

That .....is freekin' COOL!!!

Folks.....it's been real and it's been fun. This puppy is now moved to the Under Glass Section. Thank you all who either peeked in on, commented and encouraged me along the way and to those who contributed parts to this build. You guys ROCK!! The link: Dyno Don Maverick - Drag Racing - Model Cars Magazine Forum I'll be in the "All the Rest" Section for a few months building this bad boy here:

First....let me go into the actual car. I've been wanting to build a Maverick for a VERY long time but there aren't many kits to choose from. The best offering (and this isn't saying much) is the Jo-Han kit. I was fortunate to get mine from someone on another forum for the mere price of $50. These kits are running around 300+ bucks nowadays so 50 bones is a friggin' steal. Then there came the matter of subject. I was looking for a car to build....you know....a pattern. Nothing struck my fancy for the longest time until I found Dyno Don's car. Man....I was smitten! Just an evil lookin' car! So .....I set out to build it. The real deal: When I started this project one year ago almost to the day I just didn't realize what ride I was in for. This started life as a Jo-Han kit and I quickly found out that it would become much more on down the line. The only things used out of this kit were the body, base interior tub (which got modified at that) and the engine. The rest....went in the trash. The chassis is from AMT's 67 Mustang Fastback, interior is almost all aftermarket stuff to include the 27 piece shifter and the 25 piece seat belt harness. In fact so much scratch and up level detailing was done in the interior that I don't even know where to start. Total parts count for the interior alone is 125 pieces in all. Extensive mods were done to the chassis to get everything to "work" and although not accurate it allowed me to achieve the stance and overall look that I was after. Probably the BIGGEST hang up I had with this car was trying to figure out how to fabricate the shock tower/ inner fender wells for it because I just couldn't get anything to work. After MANY hours in thought and experimentation I ended up fabbing them up from soda can aluminum. Paint....I used Tamiya's Pure Red with a Testor's Wet Look clear. Car decals were from a supplier on Ebay....forgot the vendor. Wheels and tires are from the parts bin except for the rear wheels which I used from Revell's 41 Willy's gasser kit. All lettering on the sidewalls of the tires are from Slixx decals. The engine has details from so many different suppliers that I forgot half of where I got everything from. LOTS of scratch work though. Cooling fans are from the Revell Rick Dobbertin Pontiac J2000 kit and again....were heavily modified to fit into this car. This was definitely a test of my abilities as a modeler to say the least but I learned ALOT from this build (as well as learned a few new curse words). There are inaccuracies that'll be noticed by anyone who knows anything about this car and a few liberties taken here and there in the name of adding interest to the car but I feel like it came out alright. I also left off the wheelie bars. I was going to scratch build a set but the longer I looked at it the more I thought that they would detract from the overall looks of the car. Any how.....I present here...the finished product. I'd like to thank everyone who either peeked in on the build or encouraged me along the way.

Those Sandy Elliot, Dyno Don and Fast Eddie Mavs are tops. The rest are awesome as well but I've got an eye for Mavericks.

Dude....that's some good paint work! Beautiful car.

Masterfully built! Man....just an all around fantastic build. That's how it's done right there.

Good lookin' build. The black Weld Draglites add a neat touch to it.

This is impressive. Very good work on this one James.

I've added the lower and upper radiator hoses and then went to work on the throttle return spring and bracket. I got all that installed this morning and have aluminum oil breathers/ caps for the rocker covers coming in the mail. For the time being here we are with the coolant hoses and throttle return spring installed.

Man.....you could almost stop right there and it would still look great Francis. This is going to be one build for the books right here.

Thanks all you guys for taggin' along on this build and for all the encouragement along the way. I simply cannot believe it's been a friggin' YEAR since I started this thing. WOW!!!

This one's coming along still. I managed to get the wheel/ tire assys mounted up and the chassis installed finally. I've been all over the engine like a rat on a cheeto!! Just a little closer today but has taken alot of work to get this far. I had to redo the throttle linkage twice at the intake due to weird angles I had with the linkage set up. Got it all straightened out now. Also added a PE radiator cap for a little extra detail. I'm back to having to work with the hood just a tad to get it to close fully but it shouldn't be too big of a problem.

Are you freakin' kidding me??? You're building seat adjuster assys now?? OMG!! Pure awesomeness!!!!

This friggin' metal work that you and Francis do is just top notch Tim!! Are you guys related? lol

Damm.....IT man! Friggin' nailed it!!! MAN that looks good.

Not yet Dan. lol. Thanks for the good comments brother.

This is turning into one helluva build Dan!! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Roger!

This has got some definite promise to it.