Reeves Racing

Looking good JC.

Great job. Very clean too

No, still looking. I have some sheet aluminum and could make one but I want to enter the build in a "BOX STOCK" class in a show in August.

Excellent work Curt. Great job

I am trying to finish up an old stalled build of Richard Petty's Grand Prix and I have lost the rear deck spoiler for it. IM me if you have one to sell or trade. Thanks

Nice work, always good to see a Chaparral

I have been the museum many times, in fact just 3 weeks before the cave in... Here are some pictures I took the last time I was there, the 62 was not there last time I was there.

It seems to be a great 1/25 scale kit to me. The real car is very small. It looks just right next other cars on the shelf. Thanks for all the nice comments guys.

This is the IMC Chaparral 2E, A really nice kit for its day. The engine detail was lacking so I used some spare parts and some odds and ends to spruce up the engine and make it look like a Chevy big block. The valve covers are from the Revell Yenko Nova, the heads, intake and Webers are from the AMT 63 Vette kit. The stacks are electrical terminal ferrules with one mm brass tube as venturies The headers are solder primaries with the kit parts for the collectors and secondaries with the ends drilled out. It has some of the plumbing and a wired distributor I used PE screen, Dezus fasteners, and seat belt/harness pieces. Decals from eBay for the out side, Slixx gauge decals for the instrument panel Kit wheels and tires with hand painted letters and stripes on the tires (i am out of gold Firestone tire decals) Front brake cooling ducts are wire wrapped around a paint brush handle and then covered with heat shrink tubing. The chassis is laminated with BMF sheets and in some places painted with bright chrome paint. Duplicolor primer and paint with Testers Wet Look clear Its a tiny model for 1/25 but this car was very compact. One of my favorite race cars of all time.

Awesome stuff. InfeXion is my favorite

I do have interior shots. The bumpers on the real car were very rusty so I sanded them and painted them silver.

Nice work. Great paint work.

Looks great Snake. You should order a Molotow Liquid Chrome pen. It will blow the silver Sharpie away.

Great work on the dash. I thought the original 32s had a little red filled thermometer for a temp gauge though?

You left out an "i"...

I agree JC. You seem to build a lot of race cars and when you see a race car in person it is not the shiniest. Mostly because it's a used car not a brand new car or a show car. I just attended the Carl Casper car show last Saturday. I like seeing the great looking cars but I know that said car never sees the road. It gets pushed out of the garage into the hauler and pushed to its spot at the car show. That's the only way to keep the paint on the engine and exhaust... no less, looking brand new. It all depends on what your goal is. The shiniest paint, or the most accurate representation of the car you are modeling. If that car is a show car then the shinier the better, if its a driver or a race car then over shiny doesn't look right.

Thanks guys, this one is special for me.

That's one of the many things that makes this an outstanding model. There are some specialty items but for the most part its been built with parts and pieces that most of us could get our hands on. Only a select few would have the skill and talent Chris has but none the less the techniques used to accomplish the different finishes are available for the most part to the average modeler as well.

Look great, I would like to see those missing pictures as well.

One of if not the best build of this kit I've ever seen. Great job. I just picked up this kit and will be using your pictures as reference.

Thanks. They look great on there.

That's sharp. Are those the kit wheels and tires?

Revell kit with home cast resin wheels and parts box tires and decals. I recently redid the tires and roundels on this one if it looks familiar, I like the very fat slicks much better and have less bleed through of the dark blue La Mans stripes in the roundels.

I was able to finish the Comet up this weekend. I took some pictures outside. It was sunny when I started but soon the clouds came in so I hope the pictures look okay. Lost of work on this by my standards. Way more detail than usual. Its not a perfectly clean build but then again neither was the real car. It was rough in places but it sure was fun. I enjoyed building the model almost as much.

Thanks Mark. I am expecting a replacement windshield to show up today, Then add a few trim parts and take some pictures out side. I just found my original attempt at this build on here... Too funny...