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Railfreak. The fuel inlet is just a very short section of styrene tube witlled out to have a concave edge and then capped with a small round piece of flat styene sheet. You can get a hole punch deal from micro mark that allows you to punch out diferent sizes. The decals I used on the 88 car I got from Southern Motorsports hobbies. Their link is http://stores.intuitwebsites.com/hstrial-RSetzer/StoreFront.bok The power slide decals I'm waiting for are from Mikes decals. His link is http://www.mikesdecals.com/ The kit is the Revell 2007 Jimmy Johnson kit. Thanks for the props.

Ricky, compared to the movies of today its pretty corny and it was no oscar winner by any means, but things were alot different back then. For a 9 year old boy in 1960 I was pretty impressed. It was the first I had ever seen of a stock car racer and I was hooked. If you can dig up a copy of it some where it is definitely worth a look.I don't know how old you are but if you have ever seen a rerun of "Gilligans Island" the captain of the boat was the Head mechanic for the car in the movie his name is Alan Hale. Also if you have ever seen the old tv show "Mister Ed", a show about a horse that could talk, The wife of the horses owner was the lead actress in "Thunder in Carolina" her name is Connie Hines.

This model depicts the car that Rory Calhoun (Mitch Cooper) drove in the 1960 Movie "Thunder in Carolina" It was filmed during the running of the 1959 Darlington "Southern 500". I saw this movie as a kid and always wanted to build it.

Sounds great. Looking forward to seeing your Rex White 57 Chevy.

rlz58, I am also waiting for thr Danica Powerslide decals. I used Model Masters two part laquer system sublime green and Hugger orange. Purists will tell you its not right because they are not flourescent like the real car but the flourescent paints I tryed are way off and the only way you could get it right is to go to JR motorsports and steal some of their paint.

Just finished this one. My first modern Nascar build.

Actually there is a COT kit coming out by AMT. I have heard that it will only be the Chevy version first. Another problem will be that the kit will have the wing but by midseason they are going back to a spoiler for the COT and so you will have to fabricate your own spoiler to build a current car after mid year. A link about the the COT kit discussion is below. http://randyayersmod...der=asc&start=0

Or maybe they could get rid of the Nascar and drag forums and just have a race car section. Any model with numbers and contengencies would go there.

Great job on the Challenger. The only reason they created the Nascar section was to keep the nascar builds out of the rest of the forum. Since your Challenger was from the SCCA Trans-Am series you did not have to post it here. You might have had more views in the "Under Glass" section. Again awesome job on the Challenger.

Shoot, I cant get nothing past you, Mick

Sorry about this post but I was trying to see if I finally got the board to work for me correctly and I did. I would delete this post if i could but I can't so there you go.

Thanks guys. I really appreciate it. Eric, I'm real close to your location . I live about halfway between Houston and Galveston. They always say you should not give up your exact location on the internet. Thanks again.

Sorry for the extra post

Looks like the real car.

Finished this one last month.

[lef Fin Finished this one back in the summer.

This Saturday, April 4th at Stafford Centre. IPMS Modelmania. http://www.ipms-houston.org/ipms-houston.o...54/Default.aspx

It shows in there that the Texas contest was in Houston. I wish!! It was really up around Dallas somewhere. I think.

In the latest issue of MCM, the contest issue, which I must say is awesome. There is pictured 3 Kiekhauffer Chryslers. The caption says that the 57 Chrysler pictured is a phantom because the team switched to Desotos in 1957. This is incorrect. The team was disbanded at the end of 1956 and ran nothing in 1957. Karl Kiekauffer was tired of Nascars rules and quit racing. That is why it is a phantom.

Outstanding!!!!

Another beauty, Jerry!! Some day I will build Rex's 1956 "X" car Chevy.

Tri -five Chevy's are the best!! Great job Jerry!!

Excellent job!!

Great job!!

Great Job!!