dragcarz

Very nice

Those are looking great, at least one of these are on my build list !

They both look great

Wow small world! I went to Kennard, and yes I remember the Ford in Sinclair’s front window. Thanks for the compliment, I’m just a plastic hack, hobbling stuff together.

Small update as I’m still in the parts gathering mode. I searched through my stash of kits for a suitable donor kit. I tried the AMT 67 Mustang, too narrow. I tried AMTs 66 Fairlane, the Revell 64 T bolt kit, and the Revell Mustang Boss 302 kit, The mid size Fords rear over hang and fuel tanks needed too muck work. I looked at the Mobius Comet A/FX kit but the front suspension is too raised. I think I’m going to try The Revell 1/24 Shelby Mustang kit. The wheelbase is very close, it has a short rear overhang and the width is dead on. I took the Hornet hood and placed it on the Mustang and the fender aprons and firewall look like a good fit. I’ll be using Slixx decals, their Shahan’s Dodge Dart, and maybe some from the Wally Booth decal sheet.

Too funny, the older we get, the less inhibition we have, what was once embarrassing is somehow now a right of passage.

Thanks everyone

I guess this is how it works, the build is covered in “ Work in Progress “ here it is, finished for now.

I think they came on a Slixx quarter panel decal set, I’ll do some checking.

My brother in law worked for Southwestern Bell and would give me the scraps, That’s where this came from. I’ve even wondered about armature wire and painting it, but that’s a lot of trouble. I’ll do some shopping.

Oh wow, Im glad you guys are OK. Thanks, for the good word, it turned out well, I’m usually my own worst critic. It’s something different. I’m waiting on my daughter to edit the final pics for the under glass.

Very cool!

Very cool project, I’m following

I agree, IMHO probably the coolest AMC pro stock ever built!

When I was a little kid growing up in south St. Louis, the city block we lived on boarderd, South Kingshighway. There were several new car dealers on this street, one of which was Ben Lindenbusch American Motors. I used to hang out at at the service entrance after hours as they had two Red White and Blue Super Stock AMX’s that they would work on and race on the weekends. This created a fondness for the AMC cars I still have to this day. One of my build list project’s is the Shirley Shahan’s Hornet Pro Stock. I acquired a Johan Hornet Funny Car that had been started many years ago. The kit can only be built as a Funny Car, the hood is molded shut, no stock interior or chassis pan. The body was painted with lacquer and its crazed the plastic. So armed with the body and an article from the December 1971 edition of Hot Rod magazine I’m going to attempt to build Shirley’s 71 Hornet

Is this the wire your talking about?

Wow very accurate, very nice work!

Very cool!

Very nice work it looks great!

As with any build I took some liberties, according to my research Cross &Reher built their own drive shaft loop, and traction bars. These were painted black on the 1-1 car, but I liked a little color.

I need to come up with smaller plug wires and a successful way doing fuel lines. Sadly this one as well as my California Flash are missing them.

I’m calling this finished for now. I tried lettering the classification and numbers for the windows with little success, I’ll keep trying and maybe I will get something acceptable someday. It’s come a long way from where it started.

Thanks , Jason and Tim, I appreciate your comments.

Coming along, I’ll be following