MarkJ

Glad I found your WIP, Pierre. I agree that the ride height is a bit too high on the oob model. I'm glad you're fixing it. If the 3 car above is an accurate miniatures, it also seems that the tires are a bit too large compared to the refence of real cars posted. Maybe with tire decals it wil make them look less large. The stripes and the Firestone decals should help. Can you share which driver and what color the car will be?

Thanks, Mike and James. James if you go further back in the wip you will see how I lined up pieces of 1/16 inch styrene rods and glued them together to make a faux tuck and roll seat, door panel, and headrest. You just put them down on 2 sided tape to hold them in place and paint the plastic welder glue on like it was paint. then you shape the ends with needle files. The headrest started off as a square and then it was shaped into a triangle with xacto knife and belt type sanding stick. Not perfect but kinda looks like the stuff the real car had, that may or may not have been the real car. Photos of the 1:1 car are in the wip.

These should be the last two things I need for the interior. I will have to figure out a place to mount the fire extinguisher. None of the ref pictures show where it goes. But I know the car had to have one. The car did not have a strut going from the middle of the rear of the cage to the right side under the dash. So I have no idea where they mounted it.

That should be a great wip. I wished that I could have gotten one of those kits instead of what I did to the amt kit. Sounds good on doing the 64 Ford at the same time. I will try to keep up with you.

Are you talking about doing the same one or two different ones? you would probably finish yours in half the time I will take. By the way, what is your current build and is there a wip on it?

Thanks, Pierre. Most of the reference for this model comes from a car featured in a Hot Rod magazine article that says that the car in the article is the actual car that won the 1966 Southern 500. The more photos of the real car from 1966 is starting to show that, that is not exactly true. But you use what you have, so the interior of the model will be like the car in the article, whether they are correct or not. My guages will just be what I came up with because some of the guages in the car look like post 1966 guages. The headrest in the hot rod car is big and square but the actual headrest was triangular in shape and not quite as big. So, the model will really not be correct but good enough for me. Finding good reference photos of cars from the sixty's is getting to be quite a task anymore. I already started looking for reference for a 1964 Ford I'm thinking about doing with not much luck.

Seat is almost finished. Just need to make a headrest and brackets to mount the seat to the floor and have a place to mount the seat belt and shoulder harnesses.

Thank you, Gerald. Those 1/16 inch rods are painstaking to put in place to achieve the look of the real seat and left door panel.

I finally found a photo of the area behind the roll cage. It also shows me what the head rest looked like.

Thanks, Pierre. This car had tuck and roll seat and left door panel. The right door had no panel. It's good that the left door had a panel, so I don't have to do a complete 4 horizontal bar cage with vertical supports. I just have to show them going under the panel as you can see depicted here.

If anyone has any photos of the area behind the driver's seat on both sides, I would really appreciate if you could post them. The 66 and 67 Fairlane should be the same. I need to know how the struts for the main cage look back there. The only pictures I have are these small ones of a Fairlane.

Need to shape the switches a little. They are kinda flat looking.

I could not find a Tamiya polishing kit I could phone order, so I ordered a Novus polishing kit from micro mark. I will see if it can improve what I have done so far with the 4000 to 12000 polishing cloths I have. It comes with the soft polishing cloths as well as the polishing liquids, in 3 stages, in bottles. I would like to remove the very fine scratches I still have even after the 12000 cloth is used.

Yes, it's an aluminum box on the left side of the radiator foundation with it looks like two oil filters hooked to it. but I only have a top front view of it.

Thanks, Pierre. I would like to add an oil cooler and shocks but my ref pictures for this car are very limited. I don't even know what the back part of the interior and roll cage look like, so I guess I'm just going to have to make it up as I go along. I can tell that the rear package shelf is not there on this car but how it looks below that area is a mystery.

Thanks Pierre. Had some home projects I had to catch up on. The worst of which was replacing the torsion spring on one of my garage doors. It was kind of dangerous winding up the new spring to make it work. you have to quarter wind it 31 times to get it to make the door weightless. Not fun at all.

I need to do more work on the expansion tank and redo the nuts on the air cleaner. Neither one is installed yet. Just put in place for photos.

Thanks , Bill for the clarification on that.

Almost have the engine done. Will have to make an expansion tank and an air cleaner. I don't know why the tank is not in the kit. Hoping to post some pictures this afternoon.