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John, I had to go grab the model off the shelf to be sure, but yes, the roof numbers have a thin black border around them. Thank you for the question.

We went to the Indy Car race in downtown Houston when it was still run there. It was awesome. When they switched it to the astrodome we stopped going. They never could really get up to speed there. They had a long straight away when they ran it downtown. We walked all over the course and had many different vantage points. I had a small cooler I could stand on to see over people in front of me.

Okay, thanks. It will probably be a while before I get to those trans am cars.

Thanks for the link. It looks like the Halibrands are sold out. I wonder if that means they won't get any more. They also have minilites that I need to do some trans am cars. I had to make my own minilites and halibrands that were a pain to make and didn't turn out that good, so seeing some good ones from this site will help a lot for future builds.

With the primer on you can really see the improvements you have made to the body. Are those Halibrand wheels, and did they come in the kit?

Thats true. When working on a 58-year-old car with ref pics to match its really impossible to say what it really was and even if I could ask Ned, I don't think he would remember or care if the panels were painted or left bare aluminum. You can barely see them any way when the model is complete. Just trying to get the interior and then the chassis finished so I can get back to the fun part, finishing the body paint and hoping to finally get rid of the brush strokes.

Pierre, I painted it white like the real car. The dash also had the aluminum on it, but it was not painted so I will just dull coat it. too bad they didn't leave it raw aluminum on the real car's doors and quarter trim. Thanks, on the guages. The aluminum on Lorenzen's doors and quarters were painted black. I was going to make window crank handles but the windows and regulators and vent assemblys were removed from this car so they had no place to attach them to, so I will leave them off. The early season car still had the windows and regulators and vent assemblies, so the handles were on that car. the picture below is Fred's car.

Slowly but surely, step by step, inch by inch.......

Working on the guage decals,

Yes, I'm just going to show the bars going into the trim panel right at the vertical bars on the left side. So that's four short bars and the right side is just one bar at the bottom. These cars were very dangerous for side impacts. Lorenzen came close to losing his left arm at the 64 firecracker 400. I have heard that somehow, they made the sheet metal thinner as well to save weight. But that might be one of those fake tails about things that happened back then. Like saying that Smokey's Chevelle was a 7/8 scale car. I took a side profile picture of Smokeys Chevelle made it 1/25 scale and it fit on the side of the model perfectly.

That detailing makes my head hurt. Very impressive. Looks 1:1.

Pierre, looks so much better with the mold lines gone and the opening reshaped. Coming along nicely. Another winner from your bench shaping up.

Thought I was through with the cage but realized I haven't done the side bars. Thats why it's good to do a wip and study the pictures. Eventually you get an ah ha moment when you say to yourself "you almost forgot the side bars you dummy." I actually used another word, but I don't think it would be acceptable in the forum. It had an a in it and ended with an s.

Pierre, those rear flares are looking perfect.

Thanks, Barry. I appreciate your interest in the build.

You might want to get some ref pictures of the interior of the car you're doing. I don't think yours is a Holman and Moody car either. If it was, there are plenty of pictures of Holman and Moody 64 ford interiors.

Here are 2 ref pictures I found while searching for 1964 Ned Jarrett photos. I'm assuming they are his car being prepared. You can clearly see that the seat is not a bostrum and it appears to be white with a darker colored rib pattern on the inner section of the seat. Got a good view of the cage behind the seat as well. I know it's a 64 Ford because of the feature lines on the body.

i believe this is the Bostrom seat you are talking about, but it still doesn't look like what I'm seeing in that picture of the top of Ned's car I posted.

Yes, I've seen Bostrom seats, but they don't look like the one you have pictured here in Hutchersons 65 Ford. I believe the seat in Bud Moore's 64 Joe Weatherley Mercury was a Bostrom seat. I've got a picture of it someplace in my files.

The dash doesn't fit like that when its glued in. it's down more.