
LUKE'57
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Usually it's good OL' boys but in this case you were very close to the truth. Most of the front runners were in their late twenties to early thirties but Stacy was a creaky old man of forty when he waxed those "young'uns" hienies at Darlington that day.
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Still one of my very favorite hand lettered cars. Found a good side view in an old Atlanta race program and knew I had to have me an "Ol' Yeller" of my own. What do you think?
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What are your favorite car songs?
LUKE'57 replied to Darrell Gwinn's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
Beach Boys "409" with one of the guys father's 352 FORD engine recorded in their driveway doubling for the Chevy. Beach Boys "Fun, Fun, Fun" with the guitar opening riff stolen from Chuck Berry And Robert Mitchum's "The Ballad of Thunder Road" for obvious reasons including, but not limited to, one of the best rockabilly guitar backups in a movie. -
Me and my son got to hang out with him for a couple of hours across from LMS last year at a book signing and radio show at the camper sales place. We got there early and had a very good visit as we were the only ones there. Talked at great length with him and his charming daughter Marvette. He autographed my build of his '64 and both sets of his book. Had to buy one for me and one for my son, after all it's a long walk from the speedway back home and I was riding in his truck. LOL Gave Marvin a photo CD of all my pics and put another gold edged memory in the memory vault.
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After having been a major force in Nascar's early years in Hudson Hornets Marshall defected to USAC to get on the road to Indy for the 500. Here's his '56 ride built from that "unbuildable" Revell kit from the '60's with all the opening, working fiddley pieces. Nothing like welding everything up solid for a race car to solve the fit problem.
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It's the original issue Ertl '66 Fairlane kit. I did some work for Ertl back then and they sent me a case of them. I've done several Grand Nationals and a couple of dirt cars with'em. Builds up into a pretty neat little race car using the cage and front clip from the Monogram Nascar kit and some tricks I learned from Ralph Moody.
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You'd never guess it's red primer on styrofoam with a strip of corrugated cardboard for a steel guard rail, would you? Since you liked the Andretti Fairlane, just as soon as I get it dialed in you're up next for some hot laps. Better get your helmet.
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Thanks Nick. You'd better watch out making comments like that though. It could lead to more of those ol' redneck race cars being posted here.
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From 1949 till 1972--- http://www.randyayersmodeling.com/modeling...wforum.php?f=15 -----THe only link you'll ever need.
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Anybody make a big truck that we can convert to a water truck? Ol' Curtis says it gettin' mighty dusty out there.
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Never got to meet Wendell but did get to know his wife Martha and his daughter Sybil. Two finer people you could not find. You know I'd have to have at least a couple of his rides parked around the shop.
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Thanks, but if I wanted it to stay looking good I probably shouldn't have mixed it with Bobby Allison and red dirt. Not to mention Richard, Hutch and Pearson. LOL
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Rolled her out for a few shots in the sun today and thought you might like to see one.
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"PAGING GATOR, GATOR TO THE WHITE COURTESY PHONE, PLEASE" If you can't find it here then you probably won't. My brother does all his own bodies and can add that later model front clip to the older body if he's got a mold for it. http://users.virtual1.net/~gator/gallery/
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Thanks for the nice comments guys. And if Nascar was still the National Association for STOCK Car Auto Racing this Crown Vic would be the grandson of that big ol' Galaxie, all decked out in warpaint and ready for Daytona.
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Here's one I did before the decals came out. Would have made it a LOT easier to do but the hand painted lettering is more like the cars I remember from way back when.
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"Other" forum back in business!!!!
LUKE'57 replied to cruz's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
It won't let me re-register either..........oh wait.....that's right.....I got kicked off the old board so that may have a little something to do with it. Can't remember if it was because I was a bad boy and posted that rebel flag or whether it was because I showed up at one of their events in this tanker with a load of 'shine. Guess I just don't fit in with the "modern era" crowd, huh? -
anybody build the testors/imc 48 ford?
LUKE'57 replied to Dave McFly's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
Here's what happens to them around our house. My brother built this 1-1 using an original dirt track car from the very early sixties and the fenders and doors from a sedan to "iron out the wrinkles" on the body. Here's one I built for a Nascar racer friend of mine, Roy Tyner. It was the closest body I could get to his '37 "business coupe" bodied car that he ran at his home track of Red Springs NC. He ran it in all eleven races at the track before they shut it down just after he won his 11th consecutive race there. Yep, he won'em all and the fans stopped coming and they shut it down. Guess there is such a thing as too much of a good thing, huh? Can't remember if it was an original IMC or the first Testor's reissue in the black box but even with "welding" all the doors and other panels shut the fit was pretty bad, even then. I cut one of the only two pics of it I had, on a Johan Sho-case base, out and put it in front of my shop. -
Beer??? BEER!?!?!?? We can do better than that! Ya'll just hang tight and I'll be there in two shakes of a Galaxie's tail(lights). LOL
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I bought one in a bag back in the early sixties. I think it was one of the bagged kits from Hubley. I bought it because my uncle had a real one. He finally wound up with 14 of them. My brother got one and put a 455 Olds motor in it with a Ford Econoline rear end and 14" tires. The driveshaft was only about a foot or so long. That thing looked like a bull frog with rabies on steroids.
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Thanks. Seems that Moody got there a couple of days early so he could hacksaw off the roofs and shake'em down. You wouldn't believe what that turbulence does to the chassis setup. LOL
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Not as far as I'm concerned. And I'm not out there either as far as they are concerned so it works out pretty good in the long run. I'm really comfortable here though.
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Shot from the tower at the start finish line at Darlington, two of the baddest, in way more ways than one, stock car drivers ever known have parked their Holman Moody rides for a family portrait. As I sit here and watch it rain for the third Saturday out of the last four, this is as close to racing as I'm likely to get this weekend. Hope ya'll enjoy this shot of the "Styrofoam Speedway" and a couple of rumblin' ragtops.
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Now that's beginning to come together. With the exception of that blue beetle out front and the fancy Eye-talyun car inside., it reminds me of any of the busy fifties or early sixties speedshops I've seen. Take it out for a walk and get some sunshine pics and I think you'll be one proud pappa.