Brudda

Oh yes, very tight. They needed both cars in 3 weeks. Somehow we fixed them, put engines and electronics track tested them in that time. Not easy by any means. So my modeling time is nonexistent for right now.

Received this today from NART. Officially part of the race program.

I’m surprised that there is no follow-up after the build. My ship and tank models saw firecrackers and m-80’s boy I’m glad they did not see that. None of us would be alive.

Media blasted oil pan , intake, and timing cover, mocking up the engine.,drilled holes. Still need drill more. There are clearance problems for the hood( bonnet) to fit at the end of the build. So I’m modifying the carbs,stacks, turkey pan and motor mounts to give me around 3 mm of clearance. To try to go back and fix this after you have built it is just about impossible to do without redoing everything. The color is always different with each build out there. I’m trying to make it as real as possible. If you look at the actual picture of number 11 cobra, it has red plug wires, grey valve covers and a white turkey pan. This is right before the 1965 Daytona 24 hour race. The battery is not a autolite battery. I need my buddy Marks cobra Daytona book to get the full history.

Beautiful

Cool very cool!

To me, a restore is harder than building from a fresh start. Great job on the build and great job on the restoration.

Hello, here is the start of my repairs. Metal finishing aluminum. Was side swiped. Door next..

Revell should hire you to do some models like this for advertising. Before and after. Great job and great idea

The studio is at it again. Great job sir!

I am now the NART repair guy on the west coast. This was crashed in Las Vegas during the F1 event. Some how a guy who knows a guy came over and I repaired a part on a racing Ferrari. Somehow they looked me up on certifications. I have carbon fiber certs, smc certs, aluminum repair and welding certs. BMW, Mercedes, Ford GT certs. That was passed on to Bobby the head of Ferrari racing department and now I repair these. Well maybe not that simple but here I am. Not modeling so much as these guys wreck these thing like crazy.

My next project.

Ahhh yes I looked at the cowl area were the body to the firewall and it looks like glass. Boy this one you have to look at closely. Great eye ACE. I must be losing it working on these things lately. New race Ferraris.

Good catch. I did not see that. It’s glass. The real ones are tubes with an aluminum skin. Good catch ace

Looks real to me. But need to ask a lot of questions. The Shelby American Club by Rick Kopec will have the info if it’s real or not. The thing that throws me off is the csx number on the dash. Some of the totaled cars are being recreated. By serial number alone. I worked on these cars and it looks real from the pics. I remember high performance motors in LA. La Brea. CA. And Shelby himself had all of the parts needed to make your mustang into a GT 350. He advertised the store because he was partnered with another. It was hard to tell some mustangs from GT 350’s. The serial number was the only thing that was different on good copies. ERA had a good copy of the 427 cobra a while back. Now there are kirkhams and even Shelby American has aluminum bodied cars. But the patina and what looks like aluminum’s doors , dual low riser manifold, open lettered valve covers. Seems like an original from the pics.

Porsche is flipping out ! LOL

Hello Claude. Well the Porsche is on hold. Because of this……

Another beauty from the Studio

Very nice, Rodders Journal material

Very nice

You will like this Sam. Never used. And 69 cents.

I was never into big personal luxury cars. Ever. But I remember in my younger days looking at this Lincoln Mark 1 and thinking it was too big but I liked the style of it. I now am much older and understand ride and comfort. It’s weird , but I called someone in Florida on a 1995 eldorado. I worked on those things and did like the styling. So I called , 16,000 mile car, blue, and for around $18,000. Missed it by a day but would have never called on that car 30 years ago. Yes, I guess our tastes change over time.

Hello Greg , and thank you guys. The scale is 1/12. The old tamiya kit with some model factory hiro parts added.

Trunk monkey is the best