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This is what I started with. Jerry Toliver Toyota Celica body. Scott's car is a Solara. Same front end's! I used Aircraft Stripper to remove the paint.Then a coat of gray primer. Then I went and had DHL Yellow put in a rattle can. As far as the decals, I took them off the real car and shrunk them to the size I needed.The DHL on the side and the red strip down the middle of the car were drawn free hand then made into a decal. Four coats of acrylic clearcoat to finish it off. I really enjoyed building this tribute car to Scott!! Dave!!!

Scott's tribute car done. I think is was worth the wait!

Waiting to put on decals then clearcoat!!

My computer crashed over the weekend.Can you display or post B&D Model Builders site for me? Can't find it. Thanks, Dave!!!

The cheif starter at the dragstrip made John and his brother Louie who owned the car stop running it because pieces of the chain kept hitting the cheif starter everytime they ran it. Dave!!

That's the one! YOU BE DA MAN!! Thanks, Dave!!!!!!

Here are three clues for this race car back in the day: (1) This car had a dark reputation (2) It was off the chain insane. (3) This horse rode side saddle. HELP!! I'M STUCK!!! Send me anything you think of.

Looking for pictures of Don Prudhomme's 1971 Hot Wheels Funny Car!

Looking for the name of the paint that is on Scott Kallita's American International Airways Dragster 1996. His funny car in th 80's was the same color.

Here is the outside shot ! Dave!!!

Here is a shot of how the window's are held in on the body. You can see the plastic tab's glued in. I want to be able to put these back in after stripping and re-painting. Any idea's? Dave!!!!

Looking for DHL Yellow in a spray can, any HELP??

Have visited other sites and the most popular way to strip paint I saw was submerge whole car over night in brake fluid. This car has windows that are hard to get out. What do you think?

Glass beading, like sandblasting? Dave!!! Send me those pics! Thanks, Dave!!!

What do you suggest on how to remove the paint and decal's for this car? Any tricks?

They don' make a Solara funny car yet.Look at diecastdeals.com and they have a Celica Jerry Toliver 2004 funny car for $9.00. That's what I'm using. Shoot me your email and I will send you a couple of pics. of what I found. Mine dmqualls2007@comcast.net Dave!!!

I think I will sand and finish sound's good. Got a technique you want to share without damaging body??

Found this body to re-create Scott's Funny Car. Only keeping the headlights and grill. How do I get rid of the rest? Stripper, wet sand? What is a good brand of primer and paint to use? It's diecast not plastic!

This is my friend's dragster I built for him using water slide decals from BelDecal.Com Make sure you use the white backed decal paper.What I did is I took my digital camera and took picture's of the actual decal's on the car. Then I loaded them in my computer and printed them out. Then cut them out and used my wife's craft glue and pasted them on one page. then I scanned them to wallet size and they came out great. Then I got the decal paper and scanned and printed them to wallet size and sealed them with clear.Go to the web I gave you it will tell you.good luck. I have two sheet's of the white and two sheet's of the clear that you can have if you e-mail me your address. Mine is dmqualls2007@comcast.net

Dragster dio done! See all my pics. at flickr.com/photos/chevelless/ Dave!!

Here is another shot. Dave!!!

Here is my dio so far, almost done. Dave!!!