#44 Piedmont Airlines Olds Delta

[Stroker Ace]

Kit: Monogram Oldsmobile Delta
Scale: 1/24
Decal: Monogram Piedmont Monte Carlo

1986 NASCAR Winston Cup,  Terry Labonte
Owner: Billy Hagan Racing / Crew Chief: Steve Hmiel 
Best finish: 1st "Goodwrench 500" North Carolina Speedway, Rockingham, NC 
Rankings: Win - 1 / Top10 - 10 / Pole - 1 / Led Laps 565 
Cup: 12th / started all 29 races / 3473 points

Edited November 3, 2016 by Stroker Ace

[Jmaracing]

Looks good!

[bbowser]

Now you're on Old Coyote's turf .  Great looking car.

[Stroker Ace]

i´m never reach Old Coyote´s levels - he´s models are premiums - mine built for fun only

 

thanx 4 your comments

[Old Coyote]

Hey Thomas ....... love your work ............... your tastes and mine run so closely together .................. you and I have built so many of the same cars .............. and I admire your work greatly

Your 1986 Piedmont Delta 88 is no exception ........... I think it's a fine build ............ the stance is right on and your detail painting is great.

However, I don't know where you are getting your information on the real car, but there seems to be a disconnect somewhere ............... first off, the Piedmont Olds Delta 88 was owned by Billy Hagen not Rick Hendrick (you can see Billy's Stratagraph well logging company's decal on the trunk), secondly the car won the Goodwrench 500 at Rockingham on March 2, 1986. It didn't win either of the Dover races that year. In fact, Terry won only that single race that year. He finished 12th in the Winston Cup standings with 3,473 points, 995 points behind Dale Earnhardt's winning 4,468 points. There were only 29 Winston Cup races in 1986, Terry had 1 win, 5 top 5's, 10 top 10's and won $ 522,234.73. If you want to check my info, it came from Greg Fielden's great race by race statistics book "Forty Years of Stock Car Racing Volume 4 The Modern Era 1972-1989"

I hope I haven't offended you, that was not my intention. Again, I love your work.

 

John

[Stroker Ace]

Hi John,

you re in right .... i ve changed the wrong data to corrections now taken from racing-reference.info ... may be this mistake was happen, because i ve copied the data sheet from an other file. I have all the Greg Fielden books inside my hobby room ... i´m ashamed

and yes ... we have built many of same cars (and many you ve built - are works in process on my desk)

 

your buddy   

 

 

I 

Edited November 3, 2016 by Stroker Ace

[Old Coyote]

Hi John,

you re in right .... i ve changed the wrong data to corrections now taken from racing-reference.info ... may be this mistake was happen, because i ve copied the data sheet from an other file. I have all the Greg Fielden books inside my hobby room ... i´m ashamed

and yes ... we have built many of same cars (and many you ve built - are works in process on my desk)

 

your buddy   

 

 

I 

No need to be ashamed sir, there's nothing to be ashamed about. I wish I had a dollar for every time I picked up the wrong file and attached it to one of my posts. With that money I wouldn't be working now.

I'm still amazed how closely your tastes (and builds) mirror my tastes and builds. You must be the "Long lost brother I never had"

Again, I really do like your work, please keep on building and posting pictures of your builds. I really look forward to seeing them. I'm trying to get back to building again ........... have Terry's '96 Championship car and his '98 Kellogg's car on the paint stand as we speak. Also am working on the Candies & Hughes NHRA Championship Firebird funny car and Butch Leal's '85 Firebird Pro Stocker ready for paint also.

 

Hope all is well with you, take care my friend

 

John

 

Edited November 4, 2016 by Old Coyote

[MarkJ]

Super nice build.

[Truck parts]

That  is a great looking build