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Started on the truck arms. I will need to add the fuel tank so I can locate and install the mounting point for the track bar. They actually had them on both sides of the car, and they are located very close to the front corners of the fuel tank. I will have to add a bar to the floor to hook the shocks to. My ref pictures show both 2 and 4 shock setups for the rear axle. I'm choosing the two-shock setup because I'm doing a car that ran at Michigan. And I'm lazy. If you look at that horrible ref picture hard enough, you will see the track bar mounts. They are square rods with holes in them on each side, close to the front corners of the fuel tank.

Beautiful build as always, Pierre. The whole look of the model says that it came from an advanced kit instead of a snap kit. Love the brick wall and signs backdrop and your paint finish as always is magnificent. the wheels and tires were definitely worth waiting for. Another great build from the master.

Looks Awesome, Pierre. Let us know when it's in the showroom or whatever they call it here. I always enjoy your presentation with the backup photos.

I had to remove the floor that I had added because it was too close to the axle and there wasn't enough room for the shocks to be mounted and be too short. The springs will be mounted on a pedestal on a landing on the front wall. There will just be enough room to squeeze them in. The real car has them mounted that way.

Looking fabulous, Andrew. Love that shade of red and its applied and polished perfectly. On to the decals. Will you be clearing them?

Spectacular and have you done any polishing? Because if you haven't, I don't think you need to. You got it on so smooth there is really no need to.

Pierre, Awesome body work again. So clean, so perfect. Can't wait to see some color on this baby.

I had to make some saddles, so to speak, to be able to locate the tires in the middle of the wheel openings. They can easily be removed after I get the axle located to attach the truck arms to it. they also allow the tire to be at the right stance. I had to add a new floor above the axle where the springs will be located. I will have to add a new rear wall for the opening where the new fuel tank will be located. There will just be enough room to install a track bar. It's actually coming together better than I thought it would. I was afraid I was going to get to a moment where, uh oh, this is not going to work at all, and just have to end the build after over a year of working on it.

Got some gloves to put the wheels together with just to make sure I didn't put fingerprints on them. Had to remove the stock fuel tank so the axle would fit plus it would have been ridiculous to leave it there anyway. I will have to scratch a fuel tank once I get the axle properly located and some truck arms installed. It's going to be dicey to get the right stance and still get the truck arms looking like they are in the right position. That's the trouble when you try to make a stock chassis into a Banjo chassis. But a Nascar kit chassis would have not worked either.

Wow, that blue is so deep and luxurious. LP looks like a winner to me and no fear of a disaster.

MM, looks perfectly good to me. Worst thing about BMF is getting the tiny wrinkles in it. I do not see any in your work. That engine looks amazing. Can't wait to see some color on it.

I was needing a ref picture for the rear axle, and I found a you tube video with Ray Evernham talking about getting ready for an event at Lime Rock where former drivers were going to drive their IROC cars from the past. Turns out Evernham worked on the 3rd gen IROC Camaro's back in the day as a young mechanic. He went over one of the cars that he helped build and I found the ref picture I needed that also confirmed that those cars had the Stock Car Products quick change rear axle.

Thanks, Pierre. I will do that.

Finally, finished the "Stock Car Products" quick change rear end. I added some ports so I can plumb it if I can come up with some braided hose. I'm hoping to use some bracelet cord and the chrome spray to make some if it doesn't look too hairy and the paint doesn't flake off of it when I bend it to install it. I need to buy some necklace jewelry chain today. This car had chains attached to the truck arms to limit travel. Hopefully I can find the right size, so it looks like 1/25 scale chain.

It's exhausting just thinking about the work necessary to build one of these kits. You are doing a fabulous job though and I am watching with great anticipation for each new post. I love the way you mix the scale photos with the 1:1 and make scale appear to be 1:1. Well I think you're doing that. Is that you leaning on a real car or the model? I really can't tell. Maybe it's not even you. Again, Awesome work going on here.

Mark, its looking crisp and clean. beautiful paint separation for such a small scale. Looking forward to completion.

Wow, Pierre . That looks like a kit part. Looks just like the ref photo and it fits perfectly too. Your usual excellent creation of just what you needed. I don't know why it's called scratch building. Looks more like beautiful building to me.

Wow. Daytona Cobra. One of the most beautiful race cars ever made. I can already tell this one is going to be magnificent. I'm tuned in till the end.

May you have safe travels and enjoy yourself. Take care.

Thank you, guys, for stopping by and giving the positive input. Any comments are very much appreciated.

Just need to add the fanbelt and the pulley bolt to the pump sprocket and I'm going to call the rear axle finished. I then need to mockup the axle with installed wheels and tires so I can locate it for the truck arms. Then I can install the axle after I paint it. I won't actually install the tire wheel assembly's, just device a way to slide them on to the ends of the axle.

Finally found a ref photo of the rear axle oil pump but it was very small, and I had to blow it up, so the detail is not really good. I was thinking about plumbing it, but I can't because I can't figure it out so I will just leave it unplumbed. I also found out that it's not a Halibrand rear axle. It is made by "Stock Car Products".

There you go, Helmut. Looks like you've got it figured out. Looks just like the ref photo to me. That sure was a beautiful race car. I had never seen one before you got this build going.

I did a 1964 Pontiac GTO B/stock drag racer but that won't help doing a trans am car. I've seen photos of the one I think you are going to build, and it will be a great project for you. Looking forward to the wip on it.

Looking great, Helmut. I'm sure you can get the stance right and figure out how to get the headlight covers flush to the fenders. This is going to be awesome.