Volzfan59

Hey @bobss396, You gonna do a WIP on the '56 Ford figure eight car?

This one is looking great! Love these old cars from the past, especially with a straight six. I let my buddy drive my old street stock in the figure eight class at Beech Bend Park in Bowling Green, KY one night. No way I would ever run in that class! He was running around 5th in the feature. Next thing I knew, my car was in mid air landing on my transmission sponsor's car knocking him (sponsor) out. Never again did I let my car be driven by someone else, nor in a figure eight race. Thankfully no one was injured and the car finished the season. Good times

@Dave Van, Is this closer to a 3/4 shot? Thank you for letting me know what the term means. Seems silly that I didn't know. @Sledsel, Thank you for the compliment. I guess the hesitation comes from skills lost, that hopefully are coming back. After seeing some of the beautiful work posted here, just hesitant to post. I must say, everyone, including you have been most kind and I appreciate it.

I had several pictures of Cougar's, including Dave Dion's, that I used as inspiration. When the model was finished, I deleted them. This is the only picture that I failed to delete for some reason. Even had a pic of it head on into the inside wall at some speedway! No idea who this is, or where they raced at. For some reason this one really spoke to me. I'll get a 3/4 shot when I get home. I'm at our new (to us) house measuring for a remodel. Yippee!

Not sure what a 3/4 shot is? Here's the front and rear end's Originally thought about cutting out the entire headlight area (if that makes sense) and replacing with a flat piece of styrene, decided to go this route.

Hesitant to post this as you guys have some amazing skills and I'm just getting back into kit building after a 30+ year hiatus. Anyway, my friend @Duane Garner encouraged me to post it, so here she is. It's an MPC '73 Cougar body (that Duane gifted me) on a slightly modified AMT Banjo Matthews chassis. The numbers came from a JNJ Roy Payne Hyde Tools sheet, the rest are from my decal sack. I'm an old school racing geek, love them all but partial to anything under the blue oval umbrella. I really need to publicly thank Duane for all of his help and encouragement since I've returned to the hobby. What started as a business relationship has turned into a friendship .

Beautiful, great work.

I started building models when I was around eight years old. Built until I was in my mid 30's. Always been into fishing, mainly largemouth and smallmouth bass and trout. I was also building and racing my own 1:1 stock cars, plus work and kids. Something had to give so I gave up models and eventually gave up racing. I retired at 53 in 2013 from my career, law enforcement and fished as much as I could. Two years ago, my mother in law bought a AMT Modified Stocker kit, '64 Fairlane because she remembered me building them while my wife and I were dating. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed it. Now split my time between model building and fishing. Retirement is a good thing!

This is a great looking rig! Like @TarheelRick asked, what paint did you use? That red jumps off the screen. Your camper is amazing, did you model it off of a real one?

Beautiful, excellent work!

Man, I love the color you put on this rig!

Those cars look great, well done. My favorite era in drag racing.

Like I've told you @bobss396, that Pinto looks great. Thank you for posting it, and for our conversation concerning the modifications. Steve

It's looking great @bobss396!

Great job! I've got a set of those decals, always liked that car.