MarkJ

Thanks, Gerald. If I could just get this interior done, I could assemble this thing and get her done. Had a few personal issues I had to tend to last week. Anniversary and two birthdays.

Thanks, Mark. For some reason I'm having a hard time getting this one done. Maybe next build will be strictly oob. Except for tires and wheels. and a roll cage of course.

Pierre, check your private messages. I found the link to that YouTube video.

Gotta love the side draft weber, small block Chevy engine. It is so badass looking. That's a great ref picture you have there to follow. Traco squeezed a lot of power out of it for its time back in the sixty's. I believe they ended up with 377 cubic inches. i studied up on it back when I did mine but have forgotten most of what I learned. There is a you tube video of the guy that was one of the main guys behind the Grand Sport project and he goes around one of the remaining Grand Sports explaining a lot of things about it . A video well worth watching. I will post the link if I can find it.

Finished the dash, steering wheel and rear axle cooler.

Pierre, that's the thing. I'm using the photos of a car that is presented as being the real car in a Hot Rod magazine article. So it is a close match to that car, but if its like the real car from 1966 that won the Southern 500, I don't really know. I'm hoping its close. I finished the seat and almost through with the axle cooler. still need to paint the motor that sticks out the side of the cooler. Also got the dash mostly done. I just need to add the guages before I reveal it. It turned out pretty rough. Thats what's good about dashes. when they're installed in the model, its really hard to see them.

Sounds like they print them after they get the order. Thats a good thing. This way your getting Fresh product. It also might be good that they are backed up getting the product out . It means they are getting a lot of orders because the product is so good. A little communication though, would be nice.

Got the base interior painted. Working on the stuff that goes in it.

Thanks, Pierre. I think you will have much better results with the AM kit. If I ever decide to do another one, I can follow your excellent directions for fixing this kit. I believe this kit is better then the Revell kit for this car I have seen posted. It has a lot of ride height issues as well and some other things if I remember correctly. It would probably be very hard to find the Revell kit and expensive.

Yes, that is a much better choice for the tires. I had to use kit bashed street tires for the front tires on my Grand Sport, built from an amt kit, to make it look like the ref pictures of the 005 car I built, Penske won at Nassau with it in 1964 . I used 1964 P.P.P. Nascar tires for the rears and they seemed to look pretty good on it. I modified some P.P.P. 64 Holman and Moody wheels to look like Halibrands. I was deep into the project when i found out that accurate miniature Gran Sport kits even existed. So I stuck with it to the end. It was one of those builds I always wanted to do.

Thanks, Pierre. Sometimes I overthink things. I just tried straight flat red and it's a great match for what I need for the red in the interior. I had in my mind that I had to lighten it even before I tried it. I wish hobby Lobby would offer more color choices from Vallejo.

Got most of the stuff primed. I'm trying to get the right color for the interior. Its brighter than the outside of the car according to the reference I have. So far, I'm using 7 drops of flat red and one drop of white. It's still coming out too pink. I tried using crimson, but it is really an orange color. Those are the only Vallejo red colors my Hobby Lobby sells. I have a Creatix red but the Creatix paints are very thin like they already have thinner in them. They don't cover well with a brush like Vallejo does.

Looks like you nailed it to me Pierre. The fender openings look so much more like the real car now and the car is sitting down like it should now. I think you also cleaned up the work you did on the fenders perfectly.

Thanks, Pierre. if i try to hurry I make lots of mistakes which makes the process longer so it's faster for me to go slow. if that makes any sense.

Yes, that sounds like the way to go. Are those Tamiya colors or Vallejo?

Thanks, Pierre. I'm just glad I can finally prime everything and get it painted so I can finally assemble this project. it seems like the older I get, the longer these projects take. But that's okay. What's the rush anyway. There's no boss standing over me saying, when is this going to be finished? It's not just getting to the destination, it's the journey along the way. But there's nothing like getting it all assembled and adding the wheel /tire assemblies to finally get it sitting and looking like a car. The decals are just the frosting on the cake. It's weird how so many people rush to paint the body and apply the decals first and then never actually finish the build.

Thanks, Gerald. I finally finished the last two items for the interior. I just need to figure out where they mounted the fire extinguisher. I had to copy what Smokey Yunick used in his 66 Chevelle because I could find no reference for it for this car.

Okay, so you're doing the blue #3 car. Looking forward to your color mix for that metallic blue. Should be awesome as usual. I guess it will be like the #65 car that someone posted earlier in the thread. I've always liked that color.

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.