MartyC

Thanks, obviously another Steve Mqueen fan!

Soda cans work great for spoilers, they're scale thickness and cut with a pair of scissors.

Actually, I've never been to ARCA headquarters, I always got my licenses at Daytona in Feburary.

Thanks, those are all old ones I built back in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

Steubenville, right along thr Ohio River.

This car was built to run in IMSA and ultimately, LeMans. I saw it run in the 24 Hours of Daytona along with a few other stock cars. It finished 1st in class and 16th overall. It never made it to LeMans because John Holman, who built the engines for it, passed away.

Here are some of the models I built in the old days. 85% are all hand lettered.

An old timer, but started out pretty young. Built my 1st model in 1955, a red '55 Buick I got for Christmas. Built some model planes and ships for a few years after that, then got back into cars again around 1963. Built a little bit of everything, then in '64 my 1st NASCAR stock car. From that point on 95% of my builds were NASCAR stockers. Back in those days there weren't many NASCAR kits, I had to convert a lot of stock kits into race cars. There weren't any non-kit decals available either, so about 85% of my cars were hand lettered. I lived in the Tampa Bay area at the time and worked as a professional photographer. In the late '70s I started photographing races for International Speedway Corp., who, at the time only owned Daytona and Talledega, but I shot all the races at both tracks, stock cars, sports cars, ever motorcycles. You would see my pictures in news papers, magazines, and the following years program, even though I didn't get credit for everything, credit was listed as "Staff Photographer" because there were quite a few of us and they didn't know who shot what. I always carried an extra camera to shoot pictures for myself, so I amassed quite a collection of reference photos. In 1983 I started helping a part-time NASCAR/ARCA driver, Bill Scott, with his car. I still built the occaisonal model. About 2 years later we were in the garage at Michigan, parked next to David Pearson's car, and I made friends with the crew. They invited me to work with them at races where they were racing and Bill wasn't. At one of those races I gave David a model of his car that I had built. A few races later I gave Bobby Hawkins, the owner of the team, a model of the car and the hauler. I continued to work with them when I could. In '85 I moved to South Caralina and went to work full time building the cars, went from building models to building the real thing. Needless to say, that kept me pretty busy and I got away from building models. When the racing thing ended, I moved back to Florida, I still had my house there. I worked "normal" jobs until I retired. Then, about 9 years ago I moved back to Ohio to take care of my ill mother. About 2 years ago my cousin got me back into building model cars and it's been down hill ever since 😉 Attaching pictures of some of the teams I've been with.