MarkJ

The final photos are over at the under glass forum. if your interested

This is a likeness of the car Bobby Allison drove to the win at the 1972 Darlington Southern 500. He battled David Pearson all day till finally passing him with 7 laps to go and holding him off for the win. I built this model 53 years ago and always wanted to do a do over of it. It took 120.5 hours to complete. I had to use mostly captured photos from two YouTube videos of the race and one actual photo of the car from a front view in the pits. I know the red bumpers look odd, but the car really did have them. I used the AMT Model King 72 Monte Carlo kit which if you have ever tried to build one know how poorly it is engineered. I had to do a lot of work to the grille because the real car was a 71 Monte Carlo not a 72. I used Createx acrylic paint shot through an airbrush and PPP wheels and tires. The decals are Power Slide.

Got all the final photos taken. I just need to send them over to my editing program to size them right and also add my texwardfan logo to the top right corner of the photos. In the past I would see a photo of one of my builds on ebay and the guy was trying to sell my model on ebay but it was safely on my shelf not for sale. So that's why I put the logo on all my final photos. I've actually seen my builds that I know had logos, but they were removed, and the guy was using it to sell his decals. In a way it's kind of flattering but I still wasn't too happy about it.

Looking pretty sharp. What decals are those? Look pretty high quality.

Novi. Wow. This is really going to be special. Those Holley's look so real. I bet the song this engine would sing at full throttle would be music to any car enthusiast's ears.

Charlie, there are no words that can be used to describe how awesome this creation is. I'm just glad I got to watch you through my computer screen put it together. Thank you for sharing it with us mere mortals.

Thanks, Todd. I can see how responding to that post might be difficult. You're not sure if you are dealing with a person who has all their faculties or not. I assure you the real build looks somewhat better than that one. Now if I can just find time to take some photos, I will get them posted. Thanks again for your reply.

I can see from the response to my last post that like my wife nobody understands my weird sense of humor. Let me splain what's going on here. I built this model 53 years ago, I might be wrong about the exact year but when MPC came out with their Nascar series of kits, I could not find the Coo Coo Marlin Monte Carlo kit, but I wanted to build Bobby Allisons Coke Monte Carlo because he finally brought Chevy back to being competitive again and win some races. I had to buy the Jim Hurtubise kit and also an AMT Monte Carlo kit for the donor body. I put it together the best I could, and brush painted it with some testors enamel bottles and then painted on the numbers and sponsor info and his name. I used the decals from the Hurtubise kit for the contingencies. I always wanted to do a do over of this build and the real one is safely sealed in the display case till I can take the final photos and get them posted in the Nascar Under Glass forum. Back then we did not have the resources we have today like computers, the internet, Aftermarket decal makers, that I knew of, and a place to share our models in discussion groups. So, forgive my lame attempt at some humor.

Andrew, you are the king of finding ref materials to build your projects. I'm so jealous that I have no knowledge of how to find what I need to build my projects. I have to rely on the kindness of others to give me the info I need and usually somebody always comes to the rescue, so I don't have to guess. But sometimes I do. Which is perfectly fine too. Model on, oh master of the metal.

Looking Awesome, Gerald. Some fine detail work you have going on there.

Thats good. I wasn't sure if they had plexiglass in 1954. Must have come up with it for World War 2 aircraft.

Thanks Carl. I really have appreciated your support on my latest journey.

Well, I finally finished her at 4 this afternoon. I fixed the left quarter glass fairing and installed the hood and trunk pins. I then put a coat of future on. it's my usual ending to any of my projects to protect the decals from peeling in the future. Hopefully in a couple of days I can take the final photos and get them in the Nascar under glass forum. It took 120.5 hours to complete. Started the project in April. Here's a sneak peek below. I will have better lighting when I do it for underglass.

Andy, that should be nice when you get the cover done and add it when needed. If the male snaps were already there it must have had a cover when it first came off the show room floor. At least you would think it would have. Probably went bad a long time ago if it hasn't been garaged its whole life. Oh yeah, I wanted to know if that roof is hail proof. You might have already covered if its real glass or something else.

Here is the process I use to make the hood and trunk fasteners. If you look at the picture of the pliers you will see a sneak peak of the model. I didn't know it was in the shot right before I'm posting these wips. Just a really small partial shot of the left front fender.