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Wait...... wagon? Yet another blast from the past, finished in October 1992 just in time to take to the Dallas Southwest Challenge contest a month later. If I remember right, entrants to the contest the prior year received not one but two 1/32 scale Kyle Petty stock car kits, and since I was already working on my Porsche 911 woody wagon at the time, that wacko idea fell onto these kits as well. I just used a chunk of the roof out of one kit and added it to the other with some styrene scrap for the B and C pillars. A slave to temptation on messing with people's minds, I always have been. One of the handy simple tricks I did to achieve the red-striped Bassett wheel rims was to lathe-turn a groove into the rim and then heat-stretch some red plastic sprue into a long thin hair, gluing it in place with just a couple of capillary action Tenax glue drops. I never could have painted such a consistent line like that. Just cheap clear acetate material for the rear side windows and rear window (which have yellowed slightly with age). It's an entertaining silhouette, but I doubt if the rear spoiler would have anywhere near the same aerodynamic effect as on a coupe. I did well at the SWC that year, this wagon placed 3rd in the Miscellaneous category, while my http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/uploads/post-12144-0-51293100-1373871875.jpg got 3rd in curbside and my Bonneville Checker cab got 2nd in 1/43 & smaller - Street. Plus, it was a hoot to get pictured in Scale Auto's April '93 magazine coverage of the contest.