Dave Van

Super clean....my fav!!!

Neil Diamond 1975 in a large 9,000 seat venue. My now wife (girlfriend then) and I were the youngest folks in the whole place!!!! Two weeks later we went to Emerson Lake and Palmer.......talk about a different world!!! Same venue as Diamond but now we were not the youngest but by the end we were among the few that could walk out upright!!

Nice clean build of a good looking car!!!!

Are the headlight and grille a decal or did you paint them?? They look good.

Yep....most kits of the era do not have mirrors. Why I bought a bunch when R&D made nice ones.

I am 99.99% spray cans now. Have been 20 years now. I have 3 air brushes, 2 good compressors and nice booth. I use the booth but spray cans over air. The time to mix, set up, use and then clean can be 30-40 minutes over the 3 minutes I use a can. I get the results I want.....90% Tamiya cans.

I shoot it on bare plastic from about every manufacture......but test on sprue. If needed you can use Dupli-color #1699 sealer then the black. I do this when I have diferent colors under.....

Go to NAPA is you have one....get a can of Dupli-color LACQUER Semi Gloss Black. I've gone through more than I'd care to admit. It's online too....but even I have a NAPA and I live way back in the woods!!!

And now we know why Revell/Monogram never did it......

Cool to see this one built.......I have two....a unusual kit for sure.

Great stance and clean build.

I LIKE your spin!!!

COOL SPIN!!!! Boy that would get the PC crowd up in arms!

I like it!!! Warts and all!!!! I have a number of builds like this...I call them 50's and 60's high school cars!!!

For a 69 Torino there is one choice....the AMT old annual.(reissued a few times since 1990's) For the Torino Talledega there are 3....AMT, PL and 1/24 Monogram. Only the PL kit is full race. Here is my Petty AMT box stock build of the 69 Torino Talledega.

It's a 69 Torino. The Talledega was run on tracks over 1.5 mile....short tracks they ran the Torino. Petty was only in the Ford in 1969 and back to Plymouth in 70. (much later they had ford, Dodge etc) My 69 Torino Talledega build...AMT kit no the PL kit

Bingo! I should know to be more exact!!! Forum comes up well.....hit 'unread content' and I wait 30 - 60 seconds. Again thanks!!

Still very slow here. Either W10, Chrome or android. It is this site...all other forums I visit daily, email, ebay, fotki etc...all fast. Not a complaint as I was a DBA in the real world....just info for those working on it.

JJ's 1981 Buick was used for the Buck kit. FYI the Banjo Matthews built Thunderbird was used for the #9, 15 kits. It was the car in Stroker Ace movie....not a real Cup car and why errors got into production kit. GREAT dash Art!

So clean!!

Great spin!

There were no rules about chassis color in the 1980's. (today there is) Di Guard racing was not a huge team like many today. They bought cars and built a few. red, black and gray would all be correct. If you want to build a car as it was at a certain race....you will need to hunt photos from the race. Only a few teams had a single color for chassis in that era.

Let's see that nose part....yet to see anyone post a photo of it.

Looks good! The 72 was not the biggest winner....but a fav!

Thanks for your work...I spent tme as a DBA back in the day. FYI....forum still very slow to load.