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Great work!

Looks great!

Nothing at my HL:(

Great subject! My oldest dates back to 1971 or 1972, original MPC Don Garlets kit. Built after it first came out. It fell apart over the years and a few moves, some time in the early 80s I scrounged a replacement set of decals, replaced the original peeling decals and cleared the body, and put it back together.

Great job on a very cool kit

Really cool!

Beautiful

Your on to something here..........

They look great, I’m glad someone’s getting something done.

Looks nice!

I’ve had great service from Hart’s parts. Your builds are amazing by the way!

Looking really nice so far. Don’t get discouraged, did you tint the wheels with smoke?

Looks great

Thanks for the comments everyone. I went back and forth on the class this thing would run in. Seemed like with stock suspension and just two four barrel carbs it would fall into a lower class. I wanted to do it as a D/G but I couldn’t find a D in my decal stash. The A and B Cars all seemed to have straight axles under the front end.

I’ve grown to dislike this kit.....I started this build back in 2013, failed paint job, threw into the purple pond and it attacked the plastic. Wrinkled the plastic, I did lots of body work removing the wrinkles and the chrome trim channels in the body. I added a parts box hood scoop. I finally got it painted custom mix of Testors small bottle yellow and white, and added the Johan decals. I removed the back seat and added a parts box roll bar. The front seats are from the Revell 65 Malibu kit, a parts box steering wheel, shifter, and tachometer. The engine is a Revell Parts Pack Ford 427 and 4 speed transmission. Parts box wheels, slicks and traction bars finished out the bottom. Maybe it was me, but nothing wanted to fit. The back glass is a short shot not fitting the c pillar. This thing has been thrown back into the box more times than I can count. Yes I know the hood emblem is crooked, nothing a piece of tape can’t fix. I guess it captures what I started to accomplish, an early 1964ish home built budget race car. As always comments questions and criticism welcome.

Thanks for the info, I can’t wait to see more!

One of the best builds I’ve seen of this kit. Great job!

Amazing as usual, Clay. It looks great. I noticed the Mission Models paint, can you comment on them, Ive seen this paint before just haven’t tried it .thanks.

Could you be more specific on which Shelby Mustang kit your using? Thanks.

Found one more pic, I different angle.

Keep us posted

Just amazing!!!

Sorry photos wouldn’t load, here you go.

Here’ what I’ve got so far. Original Blue Max, before Raymond Beadle, had a Logghe chassis. The Polar Lights kit reflects that car. If you look closely at the pics you’ll see evidence of the logghe chassis, especially the roll cage. The Harry Schmidt pages are from a March 1970 Super Stock and Drag Illustrated magazine. The Blue Max pages are from a Car Craft magazine and I don’t have a date for this one. I agree probably the best chassis to use would be the Johan mustang or Pinto Funny car kits. There is another option, AMT rereleased their Camaro Funny Car the Rattle Trap, not as good as chassis, but might be able to get it to work. I included my Blue Max build. I had to correct the front spoiler to make it look right. Hope this helps