Candies & Hughes

[Old Coyote]

I'm finally removing this from my stalled list ................ after nearly ten years ............... four trips to the "purple pond" and five total paint jobs ............... I'm calling this one as complete as I can

I will say that I'm disappointed in this body ................. it's from Competition Resins and while the casting is clean, the proportions don't match any chassis that I can find ........... Roger is usually very good at notifying us that the chassis we need to use needs to be modified to accept the body, however that was not the case with this body ............... the dimensions are too short to accept the specified late model Revell chassis .............. had I known ahead of time I might have tried to correct the situation .............. as it was, I didn't realize the fit was off until I attempted to attach the completed body to the completed chassis ..................... enough of that, I have used CR bodies many times in the past and will continue to do so in the future

It's a Comp Resins Firebird body and a Revell chassis ............ Comp Resins also provided the wheels and the Crower injector and scoop ................ the rear fins and spoiler were scratch built ......... Testors Enamels and old, old Slixx decals which kept breaking despite the use of bonder

Enough blabber........... here's the car

 

Edited November 24, 2016 by Old Coyote

[W-409]

Nice work! Even with all the trouble you had, it turned out great! You sure know how to build these old Funny Cars correctly. Good looking paint job and decal work together with sharp detailing really finish it off. Nice job.

[bondo bill]

very nice

[Truck parts]

That is a great  looking build

[Mister Twister]

Nice as usual John!

[10thumbs]

Great perserverence John.

10 years, wow!  I wouldn't want to know how many headaches the time and extra work has cost.

Good though, its done.  That alone is satisfying, hence my compliments.  The car looks very well built, I like it.

[Force]

The body looks to be repop of the old Monogram Don "Snake" Prudhomme Pepsi-Wendys / Dale Pulde Miller Warrior Trans Am body from 1985-ish.