MarkJ

Thanks O.C. I will give it a try. Bruce, I hope it wasn't in the summer months. It can be brutal down here.

Thanks ,Bruce. I'm south and west of there.

Thanks O.C. I appreciate the reply. Also how do you get such a crisp line between your colors when you do a two tone paint job. You do some of the best paint work there is and of course your builds are always excellent as well.

Always loved the 59 Chevys. You did a fantastic job on this one.

yes, TS-23 is the right way to go. That is what I used on my Petty 66 Plymouth.

that's a bit too dark. Tamiya has a lighter shade that escapes me now but is pretty close.

Excellent build. May I ask where you got the decals?

That kit would not do me any good because this car is a rear steer car and those are front steer. I would need the 1983 monogram thunderbird kit and he has 0 of those. I'm just going to keep modifying this chassis to look some what like a banjo rear steer because even if I used the 83 thunderbird rear steer kit it would not look anything like the real car I'm building any way. And stretching this nova body over it would not turn out very well either.

Like I said, if I was able to get one of those old kits I would not want to canabalize it just to get some parts. This is just going to be a shelfer so it does not have to be an exact duplicate of the real car which was scrapped a long time ago and nobody knows what it really looked like inside and underneath anyway. You just have to make educated guesses.

I'm going to have to redo the roll cage. The front bars need to be closer to the a pillars.

it was pointed out to me that the real car had a Banjo chassis. Well this is going to be a highly modified version of a Banjo chassis. I'm not going to try to find an amt 1/25 scale nascar ford kit from that time and rob the chassis out of it and then try to squeeze It under this body and get everything to line up properly. Its way too much trouble. So when the model is finished you don't have to let me know that the real car had a banjo chassis. I already know. Or I guess I could just scrap the whole project and move on to my next build.

On to the chassis.

Both look fantastic. Cant wait till hobby lobby starts selling them.