Altered Ego

No, I used the Olds Rocket 88 from the AMT 40 Willys kit. The original car had an Olds Rocket 88.

I built this one for my friend, NASCAR Xfinity Series team owner Johnny Davis. This was his dad and uncle's car they raced at Shadyside Dragway in North Carolina back in the day.

I am going to have an assembly line setup that would have made Amblewagon proud

35 Years?!? I admire your patience my friend. My attention span on a project like this isn't even 35 days. Regardless, very nice and very well done. Your incredible patience has been rewarded.

Does anyone know what decals will come with the standard wheelbase Super Stock version?

My initial thought was the Revell chassis, but I avoided it because of the scale difference.

Time for me to clean off the bench and get ready for a serious "binge build"!

This is an exciting project. Probably the most accurate rendition I have seen.

Man, there are so many things I could say about this model. This is a perfect rendition of a car you would see at your local dragstrip in the late '60's or early '70's. The paint scheme is wicked and I love it before the signage was applied, as well as after.

Very cool concept, original and well executed.

Very nice work. It would be nice if one of the resin companies (Fremont?) would build some 2% AFX bodies so we could build some accurate renditions.

Did you post it? I would love to see it. I am thinking of doing another as the Blue Hell Corvette.

I don't follow many on the WIP page, but this build intrigued me. You showed amazing patience on this build. I can say with 100% certainty that I would have given up and rushed a finish on this project. Reference, my Flying Dutchman build, I simply ran out of patience. This is probably THE most amazing build I have seen on here!

As always, another fantastic rendition. You are starting to make the rest of us look like slackers, LOL.

Yet another fantastic build. I love it, keep them coming!

Great Job John, I had thought of this one for my "spare parts" project, but of course, I would have to alter the wheelbase for the later look. Regardless, great job, as always.

Very cool. I have wanted to build this car for a long time, but really have no idea where to start. You always do a great job.

Here are more pics per papajohn97's request showing the stripped down front end, a rear shot and the Max Wedge engine with fenderwell headers (that I should have painted white for contrast).

You said, nice easy box build, but the results are far better than the box shows. Very clean and well done!

Scott 8950, that is a cool piece. It looks really nice cleaned up.

I am starting a new one for standard wheelbase cars (yes, I can build stock wheelbase cars too!). This car was nothing more than a bunch of leftover parts from previous builds. The chassis and Max Wedge engine were donated by my friend papajohn97. Thank you for that. Most of the parts were leftover from other Moebius kits. The fenderwell headers were from the Nova Gasser kit and fit the Wedge heads nicely, as did the Hemi cross ram manifold. I stripped the headlights, front bumper and inner fender panels for the outlaw super stock look. The interior was a mix of California Flash and Golden Commandos AWB parts put together. The windows were scratch built and the front tires were from the Revell Thunderbolt kit. I have no idea where the rear tires came from and the decals were an extra set from Fremont Racing (I ordered a pack of decals at Christmas time).

I must say that when I do a project of someone else's race car, usually an old car from someone's past, it is more joyful to see the look on their face when you give it to them than any joy over building and displaying it. Great job!

Just plain neat idea and execution

Wow, this is a really cool build

Beautiful start, this be a cool project.