Bill J

The next race I am going to watch is the 12 Hours of Sebring. Way more interesting and cars are recognizable even with the aero enhancements. IMSA is the best racing we are getting nowadays. I would like to see someone put on a race with stock Fords, Chevys and whatevers that only have a roll cage and shoulder harnesses installed. Put that at one of the "superspeedways". I wonder if any could last 500 miles flat out. Won't see it happen. Unfortunately racing has become a billboard for various products.

NASCAR has tweaked their sport into mediocrity. The drivers, cars and races all have gotten less interesting. I watched about a half hour of the 500 and I am officially done for the season. I used to love NASCAR, now it is my least favorite form of racing.

Is that your 1:! Javelin Dave? Very nice, rare car.

Very nice Raoul, always enjoy your builds.

I love old photos of cool things. Seeing the old pictures of scenes the way it was is probably the closest we'll ever get to a time machine.

One thing that most all the detail up kits for the GT40's lack is the duct work that goes into the rear body panel. All those scoops need some proper ducting. The only place I have seen the ducting is in the detail up kit for the 1:12 scale kit and the LeMans Miniatures full 1:24 kit has a nice representation of the ducting. The engine in that KA Models kit looks nothing like either a Ford Windsor, a Ford with Weslake heads or a Ford FE big block. There is some nice looking photo etch in the kit.

The GT40 MkI has a small block Ford engine, the later Gulf cars have a small block Ford with Gurney-Weslake heads. The engine represented in the kit is pretty far from accurate in shape and features. The small blocks did run 4 Weber carbs. The Ford GT40 MKII ran a Ford big block (FE) 427 engine with a single Holley 4 barrel. The MKII's ran in 1967 used the 427 with 2-4 barrel carbs. They refer to these as MKIIB models. So, while many of the parts would work on a MKII Fujimi kit, some of the main components would be all wrong for a MKII GT 40. Nice looking detail set but for that sort of money it should be more accurate in it's depiction of components.

Nice model. Interesting that today would have been James Dean's 87th birthday.

While you sort out the correct carburetor setups, you're all sorting it beautifully. BTW. I do believe that the dual 4 barrel setup was a tunnel port 427 and not an earlier mid rider or high riser. I could be wrong, hard to tell on the 1:1 pictures with all the plumbing in place.

Consider this, years ago a Mustang or even a Corvette was a car most car buyers could buy. A Corvette by being a 2 seater is not all that practical, so not as many 1:1 Corvettes got sold. Mustangs, with seating for 4 and cheaper to buy, sold lots of cars back in the early days. Mustangs were everywhere. Same for Camaros, Firebirds, GTO's and so on, lots were sold, to average car buyers. Everywhere you went you'd see these cars and others like them. Today, I seldom see a 2017 or 2018 Mustang or Camaro, I think I have seen two C7 Corvettes since they hit the showrooms and I live in the 6th largest city in the country. It is no wonder that fewer people are car aficionados today, the cars are only affordable to the more well to do. Before I retired I could have afforded a new Mustang GT or even a Corvette, I still had no desire to spend that much money for a car. Especially one with 2 seats and a pushrod V8. Most cars on the road today truly look alike, practical, 4-door cars that have little engines, get decent mileage and ride comfortably. Boring, yes, practical, absolutely. When it comes to models, I think some of the same mentality plays a part. While we modelers always liked to build cool unaffordable car styles, it was always a small percentage. Most young car buyers consider a Corvette the same as an exotic foreign car, unobtainable mostly. They have less interest in something so unobtainable, even in scale. There will always be buyers but enough buyers to justify the tooling, hard to say. I read somewhere that a few car companies are dropping more of the cars and producing more SUV's and light trucks. Mustang was mentioned as sales have decreased significantly in the past few years. Times are changing.

Awesome, really nicely done

Ford GT LeMans is a must have and maybe the Citreon 2CV thingy/

Thank you for the pics of the beautiful Boss and it's engine. The 69 and 70 Boss 302 is my all time favorite Ford. Those were really great cars in their time and great valuable cars today. I had the pleasure of driving a 69 Boss 302 in the summer of 1969. I went to Tasca Ford in Providence, Rhode Island specifically to test drive a Boss 429. I was in the US Army at Ft. Devens, Mass at the time and was about to get my discharge and I was really wanting a new Boss 429. The salesman let me drive the Boss 429 but kept telling me that I needed to try out the Boss 302. I was reluctant, what could be better than 429 cubic inches of huge engine? I did take a nice white Boss 302 out for a drive and admitted the salesman was correct. A well balanced, fun and fast car to drive. The 429 was cool but you could feel the weight in the frontend and not much was done to make it a handling machine. The 302 handled like a race car, very fun car. When I got home that fall I ended up with a Cuda 440 six-pack. Wives get their say....

One thing besides the rear bumper that is incorrect is the side of the car should have a crease running from front to rear fender well just above the centerline of the wheel. The pics of the street car sort of lose that due to the striping for the 442 markings that overwhelm the side of the car. You can see it on the Junior Johnson owned Cutlass, it is present on the stock car and all the race cars in 1:1.Hard to see in most pics due to the paint schemes or the factory striping. https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=JrpGUihD&id=1FD85C80D97BF6FC23546A5E294D74CF799BF3E4&thid=OIP.JrpGUihDvEuMmJ_iEGH1SQHaE7&mediaurl=http%3a%2f%2fstatic.sgv2.com%2fimg%2f193163%2faspect%2f700x500%2fcontent%2f1%2f1301032051405328-77_olds.jpg&exph=466&expw=700&q=77+olds+nascar&simid=608001585431646114&selectedIndex=3&ajaxhist=0 Also, the early issues of the Bandit Resin body did have the 75 style, incorrect bumper as shown on the "sample" car.

Dave and Mark, I will miss both of you guys on Randy's board. It is still a little in the beta stages but I was able to finally re-register and get in. It was worth it to me for all I have learned on that board. It will be awhile before the knowledge base is anywhere close to what it once was but we all have to do a part of making that happen.

I would definitely buy both a small block or 2 and a 427 or two, Super 3D skills Mike!

Coolest engine ever! Excellent work on the 3D engine, I want a few also

Thanks for the link, much appreciated. One important thing to note on this real example of a Baja Bronco, the front fenders to not have the fiberglass flares, only flares are on the rear. That is the way they came from Stroppe. The new Revell model has the fender flares molded on the body on both front and rear, while many 1:1 examples may have added the front fender flares, they were not built that way. I owned a 70 Bronco with the rear flares, the rear wheel wells were cut larger to allow clearance for articulating axle and tires larger than the street tires Ford put on the factory Broncos. The front did not need extra clearance and the front flares were purely a cosmetic item some owners added for looks. Fireball models makes excellent parts to make a Baja Bronco from the standard Revell Bronco kit and you'll end up with a more accurate model. The new Revell Baja does include the dual shocks, a nice touch.

A favorite of mine, well done.

Very nice pair of Galaxies.

Thank you Gary66 for the update, good to see a familiar face (Dave V.and Mark J as well). I do know what you mean about rude posts, it is easy to offend unintentionally when talking about teams you like and teams you don't like and to be honest, my way of thinking is a board about model making should not be a discussion board about races, teams or who's the better driver. I think we were mostly civil over there once the race discussions were banned. There is a bunch of historic knowledge on the board and a lot of great information on builds, some by a lot of builders that have passed away. It would be hard to replace that information. I agree there is more emphasis on older NASCAR subjects, keeping in mind that some of the historic builds were never in a racing kit form, they had to be scratched together. Harder work and more pride perhaps spoke louder. Hope we see the board again, it was always a source of inspiration to me.

I live about 10 miles from where they have the Barrett-Jackson auction and I have never been to it in person. I do watch. I think they favor certain sellers and definitely put the best cars up on Saturday. More money spent and bid on Saturdays. I actually prefer cars I can drive and maybe come close to affording, which is why I prefer the Mecum actions, more realistic.

Sure beats this recycled line up, it is a new subject even if it is a race car version. Revell 1/25 1967 GTX 1/25 2003 Cadillac Escalade 1/24 Baja Bandito 1/24 snap lightning McQueen, AMT 1/25 AMT 1957 Chrysler 300 1/25 AMT 1965 El Camino gear hustler 1/20 AMT (Lindberg) 1992 Toyota Pickup 4x4

:Looks great Clay.

No Greg, the Polar Lights Dodge kits were 1/25 scale. Actually very poorly shaped and proportioned bodies and oversize roll bar tubing.