Brett Barrow

I came for the newd and all I get is a picture of a truck!?!? I want my money back!!!

Very cool! Can't say I'm a fan of the wheels, but I like everything else. I have a couple JGTCC cars and a snap Camaro in my stash, I might just have another project to add to the bottomless pile! That part's from the Skyline kit. There's a blank fuel filler on one side (US driver's side) with the actual fuel filler on the other (Japan driver's side), I guess the pit wall is on different sides depending on the track. The other filler doesn't show up in Kerry's pics except one, the 3rd from the bottom.

If you don't answer the questions we can't help you find out. There was a plastic Tamiya kit and a diecast BBurago kit of this car, both 1/24th scale. I can't find any information on either one of these having any kind of limited edition certificate, but that does sound more like something a diecast company would do. There are some of each on Ebay either current listings or recently sold. I suggest you look there. I'd say it's at least worth you going and taking a look as to what the certificate says and who made it.

Here's that picture I mentioned before. I thought it was a little clearer that it was a single setup, but it's not so easy to tell. There are pictures of this car from same race showing red rear bumper, so this would have had a mismatched set with chrome on the front.

Oh, I'm sure they were easy to tell apart in their day, I was just having a little fun! The bigger point I was trying to make (and have been trying to make) is that the Chinese are at a similar period in their in industrialization and modernization as the US was then. We're basically able and set back and watch them go through their own industrial revolution with all its challenges in labor relations, intellectual property, patents, copyrights, etc...

An earlier one also featuring Matchbox and more great pantograph footage - http://youtu.be/d_Yjyy_Rp2A And the rough cut - http://youtu.be/EXsawOIGq5o

The cut at the end goes to one about sword making, the Matchbox part was over. More footage (rough cut, no sound) here: http://youtu.be/c5_xCiB2wG8 This might be the best footage I've seen of a pantograph in action. Our plastic model cars were (maybe still in some cases) done this way.

I think production of the Z/28 has been switched to white, but it's not one of the kits where you get a choice. I'll check some stock when I get a chance.

***Gasps, clutches pearls*** We Americans at no point in our storied history would have ever done anything so egregious as to copy the styling of another car!!! And folks say today's cars look alike...

Yeah, that's right, 71 was a magneto set up. Other teams ran dual distributors in 70, here's Don Grotheer at York Pa in May. I recall seeing a Sox and Martin picture from that same race that shows singles. I may have posted it already in this thread. If the photos for the Cars Magazine article were all taken at the same time it would be early because it still has the un-cut six pack scoop. Thanks for posting those, BTW. You Scandinavians really love your Pro/Super Stocks, don't you!

Looks like they tried dual early, took it off, brought it back later. For the restored car the Revell kit represents, single is the way to go. If you're striving for period accuracy, you'll need to source a reinforced racing bellhousing they were mandatory on manual transmissions. I haven't been able to find a good picture of what Sox ran. I got all excited when I saw the pic above then noticed the disclaimer below it

Yeah, I mentioned body-in-white and the engine compartment color in one post without thinking of the connotations. What I meant was to show that the car obviously wasn't built from a production line B5 Blue car (since it has white inner fenders and firewall) OR a production line white car (since the cowl wasn't blacked out). For illustration purposes here is a late model Camaro body-in-white. http://www.chevrolet.com/performance/camaro-body-in-white.html In manufacturing terms body-in-white is the skeleton of the car without any moving panels, but above is how a body-in-white is sold to racers.

It could be a car put together to run Super Stock in late season 1969 before the new Pro Stock class was created for 1970. It still has marker lights, which a Super Stock would have had, but were not required for Pro Stock. Super Stocks in 1970 were no longer allowed non-factory hood scoops, so it would have had a shaker hood if it were a 1970 Super Stock car. So that's my theory, show car or (probably more likely the more I think about it) late 69 Super Stock.

That looks spot on for the York car I posted.

I don't know if you meant to show that Moulin Rouge was not a late model year addition, but Feburary production would be considered late in the MY. Don't know the specifics for Plymouth in MY 70, but typically production for a given MY would have begun in July of the previous CY with vehicles going on sale in October (so they coincide with new fall TV season advertising. Nowadays the new MY can legally begin Jan 2 of the previous CY so they can coincide with Super Bowl ads!)

My theory is the black or dark blue/pink car is a show car*, probably put together by Plymouth, for auto shows and publicity events. That's clearly a publicity photo with Grotheer posing like that. The blue/red-orange car I posted from the Pro Stock Nationals in York PA 1970 is clearly a race car and is most defiantly built from a body-in-white, as you can see the engine compartment is white and the cowl lacks the factory blackout. *or an early season race car but they are clearly not the same car. And racers didn't have to use factory colors. It was probably encouraged, tough. I remember having a similar discussion about the Lawman 64 Plymouth being Turbine Bronze when the real Turbine car was still being built in Italy and Turbine Bronze wouldn't be a factory color for a couple years. I surmised it was simply a candy orange paint job that could have been done by any competent painter.

Once you see it you'll never look at that picture again without your eyes going right to it. At least mine do.

NEEDS WHITE HEADERS!!!!! For a vintage look, anyway. Those headers look awesome, BTW. Maybe I'll send you some evergreen and you can crank out a few sets for me? I think I understand how he did it. Niko said he used sprue for the inner core so I think it's actually rod. Maybe in Finnish it's the same word for rod and tube. Then wrapped in thin sheet and formed to the contour with a hot screwdriver. I've thought about doing collectors like that with embossing foil, but haven't got a "round tuit". I can't find any kit collectors that look quite right.

Bburago metal or Tamiya plastic?

Good modelling friend of mine (he builds military) used to buy 1 model at the time and build it and buy the next and build it. He never had a stash until he noticed that kits he wanted would go out of production before he had bought them so he started keeping a modest, single-digit stash. But he has 2 big glass countertop display cases like the ones you see in hobby shops full of his built ups. He's like the bizzaro-world me.

Love it! You don't see models built in this style very often, like an actual driver with some years on it. They're usually the extremes of showroom new or rusted out hulks. Love it and the van. I think maybe it could use some rust spots on other areas just to tie into the theme, with only the engine cover done it kinda draws your eye to it instead of blending into the rest of the car. But the level of gloss is perfect for that used look.

Yep, I remember that back in the early 90's. I was a hard-core NASCAR builder in my teens (growing up a couple miles from Martinsville Speedway didn't hurt) and my very first commission job was to build Rusty Wallace's #2 for the husband of one of my mom's co-workers who was a big Rusty fan. Had to start with this kit and find decals for the MGD. (Same scheme after switch to Ford) I don't know that it was the downfall, though, as I remember it NASCAR collectibles exploded right around that same time (possibly because they could now be sold directly to kids). They were everywhere we even had a couple year-round NASCAR stores and when the races came to town I used to walk up to vendor trailers and look for kits.

Wow, I got an A+ from Professor Boyd! To be honest, I learned most of that from reading your Young American build review in the other mag.

Those historically correct replicas of actual vehicles/planes/ships containing swatstikas were aimed at the same kids! They were all aimed at kids! And in the specific case of the Rommel's Rod, the swastika was not used on the box top illustration, and only shown on the side panels of the 1974 reissue and not at all on the 69 original or the 20?? retool lids. Has anyone (but me) ever noticed "Krazy Kommand Kar" on the Rommel's Rod lid? What about the Beer Wagon (Tom's first Monogram kit design), was it appropriate to use Beer in a product aimed at kids? If any Tom Daniel kit is offensive, it's gotta be the Tijuana Taxi! Here's the text from the box: I wasn't around back then, but I gotta think that where I grew up (the South) Tom's Devil Chopper and Satan's Cycle would not have gone over too well! I've always gotten the impression that a lot of the kits of this era, like Tom Daniel and Dave Deal stuff was meant to be stuff your parents didn't really approve of. Were they marketed that way back then? A little edgy? As I said before, I've been selling this stuff since 2001 in probably the most PC time in history and no one I've ever dealt with has ever been offended at the inclusion of swastikas in model kits, only at the exclusion of them.