dragcarz

Thank you.....very cool builds! I’m currently working on the California Flash and Grumpys Toy Vega. Great inspiration.

Very nice build!

How about some photos of you other other pro stock builds, I’m curious.....

Sold off about 50 Kits at the NNL Southern Nationals event last week, sold a couple hundred kits off two years ago. I still have more than I can build in a life time, but I’m gonna give it a good try! I have a spare bedroom that doubles as my office. The closet is full, I have a shelf in the office that I display a lot of older stuff, and I have the overflow in my clothes closet, and about 80 kits still boxed up from the sale last week. My wife is very understanding, God Bless her!

Very nice

Super nice!

I built this back in 1990, AMT 69 Chevelle with AMT 442 chassis under it. It’s no where accurate for a SS car, it’s not really even finished, but to me it looks like the Bracket racer I envisioned at the time. It makes me smile every time.

Sweet, I like your build, looks great!

I did mine in Vitamin C with Burnt Orange interior, replica of my high school buddy’s car. I like the addition of the lock support and fender brackets. Looks great so far.

Looks great I love the coke bottle shape theses cars had .

Quick update. I decided to keep as much of it the original MPC kit. I test fit both the AMT Duster and the Revell Dart chassis’. Both seemed more work than it was worth, at one point it seemed easier to swap the tail light panel from the California Flash kit to the AMT Duster, but that would totally defeat my purpose. I removed the rear wheel openings and chiseled the drive shaft off. I sanded the details off the front aprons. Some brushable primer surfacer, now a little drying time while I work on subframe connectors.

So Cool......

Could you show a more detailed pic of the front axle/suspension on the modified version?

Why not do it as a GTX?

Very nice!

Very well done

I cut the rear wheel wells out of the Sport chassis... still a snug fit for the slicks. Body cleaned up and the first coat of primer. Mocked up with the Sport chassis. I’m gonna look at the Duster chassis.

What tire and wheels did you use? It looks great.

I found the wheels in my parts bin, I don’t know where they came from, I just thought they worked much better than the kit wheels,

It’s all good

There’s something about an original kit. Had mine looked like yours, I don’t think I would touch it either. It looks so cool just like it is.

Thanks everyone!

I built this kit when it first came out, way back when. I built it out of the box back then. It was molded in red, and I painted candy red right over the red plastic, and I applied the decals. It came out great in my opinion. I lost track of my original kit a long time ago and always wanted to do it again. Several years ago I happened on a glue bomb California Flash build up, painted black. I stripped it and it’s sat a long time. The problem that’s kept me from tackling this project is, do I do it out of the box for nostalgia sake, or do I use a newer Duster kit and do a detailed build? I have tons of articles and reference material for this car. My reference showed things like no name plates, no marker lights an the cowl grille vents filled. The rear wheel openings are stretched.I decided to jump into this project and I removed the emblems marker lamps, hood pins and I filled the cowl grill after removing the windshield wipers. The old Dart Sport has all the new parts I need should I want to go the out of the box route. I’d be interested in your thoughts as I go back and forth to which chassis to use. I want to finish this project and not get bogged down re-engineering the kit.

You have to admit that the Monogram kits build up nice and quick. I shot it with Testors Silver Blue Metallic, close to GM Marina blue, White interior and parts box wheels. The kit wheels just didn’t look right, too big looking and when I measured them they scales out to nearly 18 scale inches.

Looks great to me