M W Elky

January 26

Nice job here on both of them especially the snow man . I can remember being about 14 years old and watching the winter nationals on the tv with my dad and seeing him in a plain white top fuel dragster. My dad had to explain to me that he ran on his own nickel as I thought it was really odd that there was no lettering on his car. I was a big fan of him from that day on

January 26

25 minutes ago, Shark said:

Love those old altered wheel base cars. Whose resin body and decals are you going to use. MCW at one time produced the AWB Nova fastback. I have one but don't have the decals. Will definitely be watching your progress.

I got them both from southern Motorsport hobbies. However they don’t have the fastback Chevy 2 body on their website so I ordered it through their eBay store. They also have the decals for the Arlen Green Chevrolet version they have the decals on their website under yesteryear drag decals. They offer a lot of good stuff both resin and decals

January 25

All sanded down and ready for paint I use this nice little plastic container which allows me to sit on the couch and watch tv while sanding nt

January 25

On 1/23/2025 at 3:00 PM, Wild Child said:

You have some cool drag cars. I am new to this site, and I love the whole Building the Covers theme.

Thanks they’ve been a real work in progress over the last two years you’ll have to check out all 96 of them the first three aren’t numbered

January 25

Sweet build man that straight six is a tire work of art and goes nice with rough primer lakes car finish. It looks like it’s ready for some S.C.T.A action

January 24

When I cut out the quarter panels off the AMT donor body I cut them out bigger than what they needed to be . So that trace them out to fit the smaller cut outs of the resin fastback body . When I cut them i cut to the outside of my line then file fit them to the opening. When doing this you want a very tight and precise fit to eliminate as much filler and sanding as possible. When fitting the quarter panels determine the desired wheel base and make sure the chassis fits. I sand the joints down from 180 grit to 600 grit with my magnifying glasses on . Then I give it a good heavy coat of filler primer then and filler were needed. Then sand the whole body down starting with 600 finishing with 1500 grit. Once I’m done sanding it will be sprayed with Tamyia gloss black straight from the rattle can.

January 24

It’s time to start on some plastic surgery with a lower quarter panel swap from the AMT body to the resin body .

January 23

This is a combination of basically three kits along with some parts box items.
AMT MACH WON : body , long block with heads

AMT 1971 Mustang : intake manifold and carbs , fire extinguisher, console cover , front tires , hood scoop

Revell Boss 302 : chassis, interior, glass , engine bay, wheel backs , rear tail light panel / valance, back bumper , distributor , fan belt +altenator

AMT Old Pro Nova : slicks , ladder bars

AMT 1963 Impala : rear wheels

MPC MALCO GASSER MUSTANG: front engine cover , valve covers , oil pan , coil

random parts box items include : front wheels, drive shaft

scratch built items: headers made from solder and aluminum tubing, side windows from clear sheet styrene , rear spring shackles from styrene square stock

paint: tamyia ts-26 white three coats it sprays real thin, ts-19 metallic blue, black on the chassis and interior is krylon satin

decals : the black c strips ford drag team , Ed terry script, small ford logo on door , sohc 427 hood decals are old Fred cady that I’d been saving for some 35 years, however you can order new ones from Jim heller he sells on eBay. Deck lid ford logo Jim heller , left over from my Torino build, small sponsor decals on the quarter panels are slixx from the Hubert Platt set . Other small decals side marker lights etc. are from the Mach won and revell boss 302

this magazine issue is kinda tough to find for some reason. This was a really fun build as there is a perfect storm of model kits , and the decals out right now to make it happen. I’m going to get started on the Platt match race 69 and 70 pro stock mustangs next . Until next time thanks for looking , and stay tuned I’ve got some really cool stuff coming up ,Mike

January 23

Yet another fantastic dragster from your awesome collection. Good old Big Daddy ruined the sexy looks of the front engine rail jobs with that rear engine contraption

January 22

The work you did lowering the stance worked wonders really nice

January 21

Those Darts look great in black and gold Really nice work

January 21

3 hours ago, Ferbz said:

Initial pass at doing the primer/putty/sand process on the body has begun 🙂 Although I've always enjoyed doing custom body mods, I've never liked doing the paint prep part of applying and sanding putty. There's no way around tho if I want the paint job to come out any kind of decent so we'll muscle thru! I use the big tube of 3M Glazing Putty for this process and aside from sanding sticks, I'll cut block erasers into thin pads to use as 'sanding blocks'. One more round after this ought to do it.....

Thanks for the eraser tip I’ll have try that. Looking really good so far

January 20

Sweet nice color choices and nice job getting that body to fit that chassis

January 20

Ready for decals

January 20

1 hour ago, Mopar2 said:

Great pair of"Old School"Mopars.Detail is perfect.

Thanks i really just try to capture the look and try not to get caught up in all the little details as I have so much to build I’ll have to live to be 126 years old

January 20

Those are some fantastic builds that MPC Cougars are really good kits especially for their time. You did a great job on detailing them out . I think Dyno’s cougar was the best looking funny car ever. Thanks for joining in the fun. I’m looking forward to seeing more of your builds

January 19

The cammer is a really tight fit in there

January 19

I got some of the Torinos decaled

January 18

15 hours ago, Bills72sj said:

Solder works great for headers. I bends easily, stays where you put it and is even the right color. It was my only option for my 427 SOHC motor in my 67 Mustang drag racer. Are you going to mini tub it too?

I do my headers a little differently. I like to glue the solder into the heads first and then bend them around the chassis once the engine is glued in . No matter how you do it they always come out great

January 18

Pro stock cammer ready for some header fabrication

January 18

They both look fantastic nice work. What color blue is on the missile ?

January 18

7 hours ago, papajohn97 said:

Sharp builds Mike! Particularly like that AWB sedan (both front & rear wheel re-positioning matches old photo’s of Landy’s wheelbase mods). I have the new Moebius AWB ‘65 Dodge hardtop in my queue to do Landy’s A/FX, just waiting for warm enough weather to spray lacquer again (been building acrylic painted military models all winter).

Love all your drag cars - keep ‘em coming!

Thanks John , I have the opposite problem here I’m a painting maniac all winter when the humidity’s low . I have a small heated air compressor shed so it’s like a model car spray booth

January 18

This is my hands down favorite Bob Glidden car . We were a mostly ford family in 1987 I had just got my first car a 64 Galaxie my dad drove a 56 f-100 and my mom had a 78 T-Bird. We kept motorcraft F-1A oil filters in stock. Always a Glidden fan

January 17

Finished the interior

January 17

I always liked silver and black landy cars between 63 & 66 . Definitely the best looking , and lettering in my opinion . I built these two with a mix of two of the really nice lindburg kit with a rescued Johan wheels , hard top body , and headers . I still need to go back and finish up sedan chassis and the hardtop’s headers. For now I’m calling them done.
Paint color: Testors diamond dust lacquer on the sedan

testors diamond dust silver with a old testors can of light silver automotive color on the hardtop’s roof and hood scoop . It's hard to see the color contrast in the photos
Decals : slixx

the a f/x car : parts box leaf springs, aluminum tubing axle

until next time thanks for looking, Mike