LUKE'57

Shoot the light color first and give a large area of coverage. Angle the spray for the second color away from the color you are painting over. If you don't have an airbrush then try holding a piece of stiff paper along where you want the color seperation line and shoot towards the edge, again angling away from the light color.

Thanks Rick, glad you enjoy them, I'll keep'em coming.

Thanks, I always like to say, "It is real, it just ain't real big." I really enjoy the model photography. If you mess up you can just hit delete. Worlds better than having to take a swim in the "purple pond" for a modeling "uh oh".

Even stranger thing was that the dog was talking back. Heard Gator call the dog "Mr. Peabody", strange name for a dog. They were down at Gator's shop loading up his newest creation on the trailer. Said they were headed to Darlington for a "photo op". Wasn't really sure what they were talking about until I got this postcard in my e-mail this morning. Just another chapter in that long strange trip in the Gator and LUKE'57 travelin' road show that I hope ya'll enjoy at least half as much as we do. :popcorn: BTW this was my birthday present I got yesterday from Gator. Ain't I got the bestest and most talented brother in the whole world?

Totally made up cover with some "real" racers on it. Rusty has been running local dirt tracks for longer than a lot of ya'll have been breathing and still winning track championships. And I added that shot of my model of my friend Junior's Chevy (Ford on the "Southern" version) just so I could post it here and be "relevant". Here's the alternate cover for those rowdy Southern dirt trackers, Drew, I've got some pics of the old NDRA that I shot at one of their races at Gaffney back in the late seventies. If I can turn'em up I'll e-mail some to you, Got a program from that night too. Mike Duval is a friend of mine. You should have seen Larry Moore and the others faces when I pulled out the HO slot cars of their cars and then showed'em the pics of my scale 4/10 mile dirt (red primer) slot track.

I think I might subscribe again if they would start having some "real" stock cars in it like they used to. There should be a magazine for the stock car guys like "Air Classics" is for the vintage plane guys. It has Warbirds from the first World war to at least Korea, classics from the twenties and thirties along with coverage of the air races at Reno. If we had something like that for our kind of racing it might look something like this. Looks like good readin' to me.

I don't know which to comment on first, the photography or the model. They're both killer! Looking forward to seeing more of your work both plastic and digital.

Man, you young guys don't know nothin' about misleading box art! The old guys can explain it to you, I've got one word, PALMER!

Can it be any year or does it have to be a '62?

Glad ya'll are enjoying this. I'm planning on a new calendar for '11 with some surprises and maybe a new build or two.

You might be "just sayin" but you'd be wrong. Who do you think fielded all those Riverside 500 winners for Dan Gurney? He won five out of the first six and four out of those five were in Wood Brothers rides, including a '64 Galaxie for his second win.

Seeing a Wood Brothers car in your rear view mirror has always been an unsettling event. But when it looks big enough to have its own zip code you'd be hard pressed to find anything on Halloween scarier. Here's the large printable version for your workbench. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/mitchum/October/OCT.jpg

Thanks Ricky, would that tough lookin' little Chevelle in your avatar be a Friday Hassler late model? Looks good.

Guys, that plate reads "THX 1138" not 138. It's a reference to Lucas's first feature film, a futuristic story about a very antiseptic world where the main color seems to be white and there's no personal relationships allowed. Kinda the opposite of "AG", huh?

Hey, whadda ya mean "almost"? I got 250 gallons, clean and high proof, loaded and ready for Knoxville tonight. Wanna ride "shotgun"? LOL

That is just beautiful Ron. Let me know when you get it up and running. I've got a retailer in Asheville that can take a couple hundred gallons a week.

Mark, of course there will be "refreshments", ol' Junior took care of that. I just got home from my very first real "in the studio" recording session and it's too dark to shoot pics but sitting right here, in between a white Chrysler 300 and a '59 Chevy, is that black and red Sunliner with its mate in white and buckskin! You want the inside or outside lane?

You got it, what's the date?

Hey Johnny. those are some sharp rides. Really like the Waltrip Chevy.

Wow, a hundred views (and no comments), guess everybody BUT Mark has seen it.

Need your decision on whether to rent the course at Reno or the ocean front property at Daytona so that arrangements can be made for your birthday ride along. Oh, there is that matter of a very large security deposit to be placed in escrow beforehand. It would take a note from your wife that you had been a good boy all year and hadn't forgotten any important dates (like anniversary, her birthday..etc...) to qualify you for a ride in each.

Since all but a very few of mine were lost in that infamous divorce auction (and didn't measure up to Gator's work) it would have to be mostly Gator's work. And that would make for a stunning collection of both new and old rides. I'll get up with him and see if we can work up something for next year. I think it's a great idea.

Thanks guys, happy to know that you are enjoying them. I'm hoping to have some new stuff for next year's calenday. Like maybe a Hudson or two and a Chrysler 300 along with some new photography.

If it's September, then it must be Super Tex! Just a new age "Model T" (Talladega, that is) and the world's most versatile race car driver to mark the ninth month of the year. Love him or hate him, you've got to admit that he's as close to a force of nature that ever strapped into a competition machine. The link to the larger printable page..................... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/mitchum/september/SEPT.jpg

Now THAT is really something. Love the graphics.