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I have one of those in my stash to build one day. If I could get the decals, I'd do a Hughes 500 to match TC's bird. That one is no longer with us. The original owner of the 500 was doing a job for the power company. I think it had a generator hung from a cable underneath, it had a failure banked sharply and he let the cable go and it went down. The pilot and one of the ground crew were both vets from Nam. The 500 crashed into a creek and was deep enough that the pinned pilot was drowning. This huge Nam vet grabbed the frame around the nose of the 500 and picked up up out of the water. They found out the pilots arm was trapped under that frame anyways. They got him and he survived, but the 500 did not. You can find a news story on you tube about it if you want.

Nice build. I have some bodies that I'm going to scratch build a chassis for them. I'm going to save a couple to make a drag car out of with a custom chassis too. Did that hood go one something else? Asking cause it has that notch in it. Turn your air filter around, the shield goes in front. IT does two things, it keeps the dirt or something heavy from hitting the filter. It also helps air flow. IT's proven that air through a filter stuck in the air like that actually reduces hp cause it disrupts air flow into the carb. Sorry, the real racer jumped out this morning. I need to go turn some laps. lol

Hey now. I took pride in my paint jobs on my real circle track cars ..... lol !!! They never stayed that way, it is a contact sport after all. lol

Yours looks great. I'm working on one too. Kind of a street strip car with no spoilers. Sorry for the bad pic. Best I could do with that phone.

Make a great demo derby car. Big heavy gas guzzling tank.

More than welcome.

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Thanks guys.

More than welcome. Looks great.

Nice work. Different body for a drag car. I did notice one little thing though, your valve covers are upside down. The logo and the vent are upside down on both sides.

The headers on that Johan Superbird are very correct for those engines as well. I tried to fin a pic of it on the net, but no luck so far.

The Johan Petty Superbird is the only kit that has the single carb intake that they used on the early Hemi engines. But even that's not accurate for the late 60's early 70's engine. You could take and cross ram intake and make it look something close the rat roaster single carb intakes. Other than that, most any Hemi will work. After all they were just slightly modified street engines back then. They also used a single 1050 Dominator, but not like the ones you see today. They actually had 4 small stacks on top of each bore. Those last 5 pics of that intake is one that I actually own. Nothing will fit on it but a Dominator carb.

Thanks. Yeah, the pics look funny especially at the bottom of the frame for some reason. Thanks, I'll try it your way next time and see how it turns out. Always open for suggestions.

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Thanks. That makes sense, that it's based off of a diecast. It's curbside, no engine. Has a nice undercarriage though. Forgot to get a pic of that. Actually comes with real coil springs to install, but hard to see with a black suspension and springs. They needed to be bigger in diameter, but I used them cause this was a quick build. I still need to paint the blue lights on the front skid plate and install some after market ones on the windshield frame. But, it's pretty much done.

I still need to put the two off road lights on the windshield frame. Forgot about those.

I have not built up a model in a long time. So I saw a friends Jeep and decided to do Crofts Jeep Rubicon from the "Cradle of Life". Nice fitting kit and really easy to build. Hope you like the pics.

Welcome.

I had to buy two different sets sold on e bay to build mine with. Both sets just did not have all the sponsor decals on them or had ones that I could not use for the build. I think these are the two sets I bought jsut by doing a quick search. https://www.ebay.com/itm/3-Holly-Farms-DECAL-1-24-scale-fits-AFX-Tyco-Lifelike-Autoworld/264734954087?hash=item3da36ed267:g:gdoAAOSwoLpai2AX https://www.ebay.com/itm/Winscals-3-Holly-Farms-Poultry-1963-Junior-Johnson-Nascar-decal/202758170239?hash=item2f3554267f:g:uKIAAOSwFTddVshs

Plastruct. It has a capillary effect. Touch it in the corners and it runs around the glass and it wont hurt the glass. And if you want to remove the glass at some point for a rebuild or change color just thump it real hard with a finger and it will pop right out without any damage to it. http://www.hobbylinc.com/plastruct-plastiweld-1-plastic-model-cement-00002?source=froogle&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI19T5kc2V6gIVjYnICh2enQfnEAQYBCABEgKbT_D_BwE