DoctorLarry

They must be way up there if yours are "pretty simple".

Did you win any prizes or just enter them for display?

Thanks, all. It was definitely the most challenging of my NASCAR builds.

When I did my Herb Adams 1973 NASCAR Grand Am, there were only about 3 published photos of the car. One of the original engineers/crew members on his car told me about the Petersen Archives. There were dozens of pictures of the car including almost every imaginable close up. I could not have done the car correctly without those photos. The same was true with my Buick Centuries. There were a lot of vintage photos there.

Amen to that.

I'm calling it quits on this one. Not a great outcome. Paint fought me, chassis fought me. I had to remove and reinstall the engine, stance is not great but it is done, finally! Not my best work but looks OK from a distance.

Try the petersen archives. https://archive.petersen.org/pages/home.php?login=true Go to the NASCAR page and search by year.

What did you use for seat belts?

That's the plan ultimately.

Can't take them all everywhere! Where do you keep 100 models? Must be a big wall!

Where's the Grand Am?

My last efforts

Thanks- for some reason I have ventured off the trail into Buicks so we will see how this one turns out. The other three I did came out pretty good.

I agree that this was an attractive car. My usual routine is to collect as many pictures as I can and measure and scale things out as well as get the shapes right. The bumpers are always a challenge to me. I am starting with the Monogram GS bumpers and cutting and pasting using them as starters. It will certainly take awhile.

I knew about the rear window and had not gotten to the quarter window opening. I also saw the front wheel well issue and have that pretty much fixed. Lots of compound curves and body lines on Pontiacs and Buicks. Very hard to model accurately!

Looks good. Great detail here.

Yep.

Another idea I use for plug wire boots is heat shrink tubing. Cut it to the same length, put it on the plug wires and shrink it. It won't fall off after that and looks like an actual plug wire.

Last post duplicated for some reason. This will be a master for a resin kit. Body, hood, bumpers, tub, seats, dash and console. It takes awhile.

Thanks! LOTS of very unique body lines on this one and bumpers are always my biggest fight for some reason-lots of compound curves.

You can drill out the distributor center like you did and anchor the wires with a drop of super glue. I spritz it with ZipKicker to set them in before they can move.

You can also go to Hobby Lobby and look in the beading section. There are lots of different sizes and colors of beading wire. I use that for anodized hard lines and braided lines like oil lines.

Thanks! LOTS of very unique body lines on this one and bumpers are always my biggest fight for some reason-lots of compound curves.

I did the same as DragonHawk. You can look for computer wire or small gauge wire. It makes very scale-looking plug wires.

Lately I have been straying outside of my normal G3 (1973-77) Pontiac builds. I moved over to a 73 Buick Century GS and 75 and 76 Buick Indy Pace Cars (still G3's, though). I am in the middle of doing a 74 GTO hatchback and a NASCAR 77 Buick Century side project but decided to add another ground up scratchbuilt, a 69 Buick Skylark. I always had a strange affinity for the side swoop and Buicks and Pontiacs have some of the most unusual (and very hard to re-create) body lines. So this will be based on a 68 Chevelle body but the rest will have to be built from scratch. There were a couple of resin kits of this (Perry's and J&J, I think) in a 68 version but they are long gone. I also love the lime green and olive green cars of the era and this one was particularly attractive in both hues. Keep in mind this is a rough-in shot so the body lines are not fully in place or the final shapes. It should be a challenge to get them all right.