Reeves Racing

This a combo of a MPC 78 Monza coupe kit, a resin 72 Vega trans kit and the interior tub, chassis and wheels from a Mustang II Fire Fighter kit. The wheelie bars are scratch build with the kit supplied ones as a starting point. Red is DP Victory Red. White is DP Linen White. Decals are from Slixx. This represents a true icon in Prostock drag racing.

Dude... If you're gonna' play with dolls, don't take pictures of it and show everybody... Dude...

Box stock with some plug wires. The oil lines came with the kit. This is an awesome kit. The only thing I didn't like was the two piece hard vinyl tires.

Those carbies look like they fit on there to me. I just wonder why the positive bat cable is going into the firewall and not down to the starter? Great job on all of the under hood detail. The upper rad hose looks real. Great color and application of the exterior paint. Super all the way around.

This is a build I did last summer. It represents my very first car which my Dad and I started building when I was 13 years old and in the seventh grade. We took a 1973 Vega GT station wagon and cut the top off right behind the B pillars to make it into a mini El Camino. The rear glass and frame from the hatch was leaned against the roof and welded in then we used 18 gauge sheet metal to build up the sides of the bed and make the distinctive El Camino roof line. The rear part of the roof had ribs in it and so we used it as the floor of the bed. The color was a Dodge truck color black metal flake. We bought the side emblem stickers from GM to make it a Royal Knight. Being a family of modest means we could not afford the hood decal from GM so we masked of the knights helmet and dragons and painted it on then used trim line pin stripe tape to add accents and to do the side stripes. I mowed yards all summer before my freshman year in high school and was able to afford a set of Western custom wheels and some new radial tires. The engine was the 140 four cylinder but it had a Crower racing cam, an Offenhauser dual plane four barrel intake manifold with a carter four barrel with the smallest jets available. I also had a Clifford exhaust header and a glass pack muffler. It wasnt much faster but it was fun to talk about. It was a great experience and I wish to this day I still had that little car. I wish I had some pictures of the actual car but all I have are some WIP Polaroids that are very dark. The model was modified much the same way the real car was starting with a resin station wagon and a 78 Monzega donor kit. The sides are built up with sheet styrene and the wheels from a Revell GTO kit are cut down to fit the smaller tires and look just like the old Westerns I had on the real car. I fabbed up a header and if you look close under the chrome air cleaner you can see a four barrel carb. Thanks for looking.

Nice detailing. One thing to keep in mind is that the plug wires ran down the back of the block and came up from the bottom when the "rams horn" exhaust manifolds were in production.

Here is some with paint on the body and a few decals. I also had to modify the front cross member to allow for the rear sump SBC engine.

I thought I would throw my hat into the ring here with Grumpy's '72 Vega Prostock. I am starting with an MPC Monzega kit and a resin trans kit to convert it into an actual Vega. I am also using a Model King Fire Fighter Mustang II kit for the chassis and stuff. Slixx decals round it off. I had to cut the Turbo 350 auto off and glue the FF kit trany to the Chevy SB.

Wow a lot of work to get a copy of Jimmy's car. You are a fan! I think I would have still went with a body color side moulding. I am not sure what "Pontiac spec's of vinyl's from '78" chart you were using but it doesn't look like the right color at all. It looks more like a Ford vinyl color. I saw a post at another site and thought it was yours but after a closer look I see it is not. BTW he used that funky brown on his interior too... Go figure.

I had this kit laying around. The box was pretty beat up and the decals had disentigrated. I found some okay decals on eBay and used PPP wheels and tires (the kit wheels are slotted) Box stock other than the wheels and decals (and the right front brake rotor/caliper assy. Mitch

Ditto... Very clean build. The white vinyl seats look "right". I never like it when builders use a pure white on the interior. The real cars never were pure bright white. Very nice build.

Is it very loud when you start it up? That is super fantastic. One the top models I've ever seen.

Neat story about meeting Bobby. Yes it is the newer Model King re-issue of the AMT kit. It pretty simple and not the most accurate on the chassis and interior but it is still a fun build. Yeah the tires are PPP. They are bit taller and I thought fit the car's wheel openings better. I really had to rig the front wheel mountings to get the right stance. I think that Yesterday's decals are the best on the market. Crisp bold colors, pre-cut close to the printing and they come off the paper quickly too.

Nice job on the paint and the super snake stripe. The jury is still out for me on the wheels, but I think I like them... I love this kit.

I just finished this one up this weekend. Box stock with Yesterday's decals, aftermarket tires and plug wires. I narrowed the wheels a tad too so that it had less of dirt racer look.

I had first built this has the HUB Plymouth car but couldn't stand how goofy the colors were. White car, blue hood and trunk lid, yellow wheels and red pin stripes... yuck. I re-did it this week as Gurney's Riverside car.

I love this build. The paint, the wheels, chassis everything. BTW Technically it’s not blown since there is no supercharger but it has plenty of squeeze. Great build.

I'm lovin' the Gulf car and the Cam 2 car. Great paint jobs

I think the kits from the 80s would take A LOT more work to look like a COT. I have built that Olds kit as the Hardee’s car and it has completely different roof line, glass shape and so on. Probably the best candidate would be a kit from the 2000 season or even better from the ’89 or ‘90 seasons. The only reason I am using the ’06 kit is because it what I had and I am too cheap and lazy to go all out on a COT build. Most of the people who look at my cars in my office wouldn't know the difference anyway and I am not going to point it out...

That is gorgeous.

I had a 2006 Tony Stewert Cheapo Depo kit that got on the clearance at Hobby Lobby. Well Smoke is my favorite driver and now he has a new car and I want one for my Tony Stewert collection. I am spending all my extra dough on my real race car right now so I decided to try and make my own COT car. The decals are availible from Southern Motorsports Hobbies so I thought, why not. Now you purists are going to notice right away that the 2006 body dosen't lend itself well to the COT silhouette and the nose is way too swoopy and not boxy enough but again this is a budget build. Here is the preliminary paint job. And the start of the decals

I am with Ed, you did a beautiful job. I would be afraid to race it.

It was kind of cool to compare the slot version posted and this one.

Thanks guys. Here is some info on the real car and why I thought it was such a great subject for a build even with a lame Gunze kit. "In 1976, Charlie Kemp built a Mustang II racing car for the IMSA All American GT (AAGT) class. He looked at the rules carefully and decided that he could get away with taking the body panels for a Mustang II and draping them over a tube-frame racing chassis. The common method of building a racer in this class had previously been to take a production vehicle and add the tube frame reinforcement to it. Kemp's method did away with the design compromises inherent in the more common practice. Unfortunately, the IMSA inspectors did not share his liberal interpretation of the rules and placed him in the Le Mans GTX (GT Experimental) class. Eventually he was able to modify his Cobra II racer to satisfy the IMSA inspectors. Kemp also intended to sell production Mustang II's wearing his fiberglass body panels in cooperation with his sponsor, Dobbs Ford in Memphis Tennessee. The cars were to have performance upgrades limited to suspension improvements (a sign of the very restrictive emission regulations of the period). I have been unable to determine if any of these production cars were built, or if the body panels were available as a kit." On my build I used a scrap piece of P/E for the lower grill, I drilled out all of the air holes in the back of the car, cut the spoiler out on the trunk with a very thin saw, and of course used all of my Alclad colors as much as possible. I would like to point out that the kit come with no chrome at all so the chrome you see is Alclad or BMF. Mitch

I got kick out of this kit.... a small block Chevy in a "Ford" race car. I can hear the marketing guys at Monogram now "Oh it's okay... nobody will notice."