roadhawg

With the Annual 24 hour build coming up next week, I figured it was time to finish my build from last year....well, actually, I got stuck out of town last year and never started, but if I had, this was going to be my project. Monogram '64 GTO built Pro-Touring style. LS1 engine from a Corvette kit, Pegasus wheels/tires, Duplicolor Royal Blue paint. All scripts and badging are decals. Fairly simple build....but it DID take longer than 24 hours....WAY longer, lol. Thanks for looking.

Thanks everyone!

Hello, everyone. It's been awhile since I posted anything here...I've just been busy with work, kids, and life in general. I've also reached a point where I just can't do fine detail work anymore...my little friend Arthur Itis, I'm sure some of you also know him, lol. This is one I completed recently. Bill Hemby was a very successful short track driver from Georgia in the 50s, 60s, and into the 70s. He held the track record at the famous Peach Bowl Speedway in Atlanta, and won many races all over the south. He was one of the inaugural inductees into the Georgia Auto Racing Hall Of Fame. I happen to be good friends with Bill's son Les, and he was telling me about his dads favorite race car ever...this supermodified "skeeter" that he raced at Athens Speedway in 1968. He said the car was impossible to spin out, and it would go anywhere he pointed it. He said it handled so good, he didn't even have to turn the steering wheel, he just slid his butt one way or the other, like a go-kart, lol. He must've been right, because he was the top money winner that year, winning 5 races and finishing in the top 3 in all the others, except one...where he had a flat tire. I decided I needed to build a model of that car, so here it is...as simple as the real one. The frame is basically the old Don Edmunds supermod, with a reworked roll cage. The body is made from sheet styrene, and the wheels and tires are resin from Big Donkey. Paint is DupliColor and the decals are my own. I know it's not much, but neither was the real one...and it was a fun build! The real car was based off of a design ran by Kentucky's Wayne McGuire...which on on my list of cars to build. I guess I'll shut up now! Thanks for looking.

Hello, all. Yes, I do have those sheets available, but I don't think I'm supposed to be selling stuff on here. I apologize for the website, I'm not finished with it yet, but there SHOULD be a way to contact me on there. Or, you can send me a PM here. Thanks!

I do. PM me.

Johan did a promo style '75-76ish Cutlass. I would be more interested in a '73-74, as I think the front ends look better.

One on the right is a Chevy truck hubcap.

And BTW.....someone, R&MofMD maybe, made a brass stencil for McCreary tire lettering.

I love tire decals and often make my own...looks much better, especially on race car tires. Haven't made any McCrearys though. Exactly what kind of problems are you having?

Yeah, that's not bad at all. When will they be ready? I have a current project begging for one.

I'd go for at least a couple.

Yep, that's your best bet. Time Machine Resin has it too, but good luck with that. You'll also need to fab the parking lights.

That's the coolest thing I've seen in quite awhile. Well done, I salute you!

I don't see anything wrong with it...in fact, that's a lot better than I could've done! You gonna put a little light behind the gauges so they'll be lit up?

Hey, thanks guys! Vernon, I built that Big Donkey Batmobile, so I'll PM some tips I learned to you. The wheels are some I cast myself, but I believe Early Years Resin now has a set similar to that.

So if I understand correctly, it doesn't matter if it's accurate or acceptable or even remotely close to being right....as long as we "feel good" about it, that's all that matters? That's sorta what's wrong with kids today. Anyway...can't wait to see the paint.

I'm not sure Boyd Coddington is up there....

I've always used stretched sprue. I've tried piano wire, but if it ever gets bent its ruined.

You know, Whoopiekat Decals has a new engine-turned aluminum decal sheet. It might be a bit large for that, but if you contact him he might scale it down some.

That looks fantastic, Lee! Looking forward to more.

PPP is Performance Plastic Products, which are sold by Early Years Resin.

I would stick with the early stock car idea. I seem to remember Gary Balough driving something similar to that early in his career.

They need to build another one just like it and crush BOTH of them.

These are awesome! Really like the #9!

I'm at Cleveland (TN) Speedway as I type this....I would rather see ONE good dirt race than TEN NASCAR races.