Reeves Racing

Why bother...? John is already the winner.

This is a resin transkit Biscayne, my first all resin bodied kit. I had trouble with the glass fit, I probably should have tried to trim the pillars a little. I used an AMT kit for a doner chassis, parts box engine, wheels and tires, and a scratch made cage. I used a picture of the real car to make the decals. Its not great but my dad is going to love it.

One other difference Terry is that the Mean and Nasty kit is moulded in black plastic instead of white. (The Iaconio kit may be moulded in yellow) Revell did a repop of most of their 80s pro stock kits as "pro street" with the only difference being kitchy decals and the tented clear tree and gold chrome tree. There is a Firebird, a Cutlass, and a Thunderbird. Some of them have "match racer" in the new title.

I guess some members don't realize that it is rude to post pictures of their builds in someone else's Under Glass thread.

I have this car in a BEN kit. Your build looks very good. I think I will try my hand at a race weathered car. Thanks for posting.

That is one to be proud of for sure. To me that IS the color a 70 SS Chevelle should be. It looks perfect.

Revell kit with MM paints with Alclad II on the wheels. Front ride height adjusted and rear wheel offset adjusted and vents opened up and craft ribbon seat belts. The rest is box stock.

The the more famous car driven by PJ was a color called Grabber Orange. The mods look good. Why the Daisy mags and not Minilites? Do you a ref pic with the car shod with the Daisy's?

Yeah, because he and Chevy did so great at Daytona this year... wait, maybe it WAS a Ford that won LOL

Great idea, very clean build. I like those wheels.

It has custom paint, custom engine, custom wheels and so on. sheesh this board is so rude.

Seems Jr's cars often look like that... Nice work.

LOL. That's more like it Phil... I think you just won me over That's funny. Life is school man, as soon as you stop learning you're sunk.

Taking a little weight out in other places of the car is easy so the "added weight" of the clear is bunk. NASCAR checks weight and templates the body so anything to make the car more slippery is the ticket.

Mike agree with what you are saying, I was just reading through the post for the first time and reading what Phil was typing and what others including Harry were saying about the wording and spelling of his posts. Phil has a handicap alright but it isn’t in the form of a real learning disability it’s a bad attitude and I think he is being rude and classless with his postings. I felt that garnering sympathy for him because he is “special†was just wrong. I have a niece with downs syndrome and an employee that is just this side of functionally illiterate and both of those wonderful people who listen to the advice of others and act on help others try to give them. Phil is just arrogant and a smart aleck and I don’t care for him hence the jab at his work which was kind of jerky on my part. So in closing even if he does have a disability it doesn’t give him the right to be a jerk. He still needs to try and follow the rules. Otherwise we have a free for all. What’s next people who can’t read don’t have to stop at intersections with a stop sign “cuz dey caint reed it�

I used decals and then did a wash with grey and tan paint thinned out with lacquer thinner. Its a trick I learned from looking at builds by the great John Teresi here on MCM.

Oh! So Phil is functionally illiterate. All you other members trying to help him to understand that being polite and showing some class typing with proper punctuation and grammar went right over his head, because he can't read or write. I think we're on to something here. Is MCM a EOP (Equal Opportunity Posting) Site? I don't think he is dyslexic just a pot stirrer trying to get more attention. I liked this build until I saw the ugly hood scoop. Since he admitted that he didn't build the cage but bought it and the engine is a kit we will see how good he really is as this build progresses. My advice would be to just post pictures and forget about typing. "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to type a bunch of stupid gibberish and remove all doubt."

Either way it's going to be a knock out. It looks just like the real car for stance and fit. Great job.

That is an OUTSTANDING build. The Challenger is a very tough looking car and with that paint and tires it looks like a monster. Great job. Thanks for posting.

Thanks for the nice comments. I just finished up Lee's 83 Camaro too.

Thanks guys, I was going for the "patina" I saw in my reference photos. Thats why the wheels and engine look flat grey.

That is very cool. Great job on the paint and decals. The injected cammer looks great to.

Nice one. The carb cans look great. I did this kit as Gas Rhonda's car a few weeks ago.

That looks perfect Brett, Super work. I am looking forward to seeing the completion pictures in better lighting.

Thanks Brett. I guess you could call my builds clean but not very detailed. When I try to do much more than plug wires they start looking like blobs of glue. I am not very good at attaching the small stuff so that it will stay on and end up putting too much CA on and ruining what looked better before I tried to add more detail. I really admire the super detailed builds. Your 62 Bel Air is one of my favorites. I don't have the skill (or the extra $ to buy all the extra detail bits) to detail one all out like a lot of you guys do. All of my builds end up on a shelf in my office at work and the crowd that sees them there think I am just this awesome modeler LOL. If they saw you guy's work they would be blown away.