The Bullfighter's first win update

[yellowsportwagon]

AMC first NASCAR win.Mark Donohue 1973 Winston Western 500 at Riverside.Not finished yet but thought I would show some progress pictures of another stalled project finally coming together. I got this resin body a year or two ago. It was pretty rough to say the least. When it was cast they  must have pushed the inside mold to far up . The roof and hood added paper thin. Couldn't even touch them without cracking the body.I smeared some fiberglass body filler inside to stiffen up the body.Filled plenty of pinholes and general rough surfaces. Spliced two AMT Thunderbird chassis together and paddled it on Monogram NASCAR tires with PPP rims.Thanks to Dave Van for the decals.Hopefully I'll have this done in the next week or so.

Edited December 31, 2016 by yellowsportwagon

[satterwhite78]

A definite want to do for my collection.  I do see however a project in the background that I'm gonna be starting soon.  Better get started on the "chin ups" since you have "raise the bar" ! Excellent Vintage AMC Nascar Thunder !

 

p.s.:      You can send it back when you've finish it!   LOL

[yellowsportwagon]

The one in the back

is my 16 year old sons I think you'll have to fight him for that. He loves Javelins and other vintage Trans Am cars.

[afx]

Another nice build Tim. Love old school NASCAR. 

[bbowser]

That looks great!  Nice paint and foiling.

[MarkJ]

You got it going on, Tim. Another great build. What did you use for the grille?

[yellowsportwagon]

You got it going on, Tim. Another great build. What did you use for the grille?

Mark the grille is 125 micron stainless filter I got on eBay.

[yellowsportwagon]

Added some more details to the Matador

 

[dragcarz]

Look awesome, very cool model. Very well done it captures the look and feel these cars had!

[yellowsportwagon]

Time to call this one done.

[Jim N]

Extremely nice!  I really liked a lot of the old AMC's.

[Truck parts]

That is a outstanding build

[DrKerry]

Love it!!!!!!! Love AMC's!!!!!!!

[Bob B 73]

Awesome build Tim!

I'm looking for a resin body to build this same car.

Any idea where I might be able to find one?

Thanks !

Bob B

[yellowsportwagon]

17 hours ago, Bob B 73 said:

Awesome build Tim!

I'm looking for a resin body to build this same car.

Any idea where I might be able to find one?

Thanks !

Bob B

Go on Facebook look up Too Many Projects. He does a street version. Not to difficult to convert the body and slap it on a stretched amt TBird nascar chassis.

[Racing1970]

Very cool build there! The Matador is on my "hope to do one day" build list also - was curious, on the rear panel above the bumper, are those brake lights? Or just reflectors? Just surprised but I do see those shapes on the black and white pics of the car at Riverside....

[yellowsportwagon]

On 8/17/2021 at 10:51 AM, Racing1970 said:

Very cool build there! The Matador is on my "hope to do one day" build list also - was curious, on the rear panel above the bumper, are those brake lights? Or just reflectors? Just surprised but I do see those shapes on the black and white pics of the car at Riverside....

I would say they were brake lights.

[Merkur XR4Ti]

MCW used to offer this body for a NASCAR build but it appears to be no longer available.

[yellowsportwagon]

5 hours ago, Merkur XR4Ti said:

MCW used to offer this body for a NASCAR build but it appears to be no longer available.

That’s what this body was. Suffice it to say the molds were pretty tired when I did this one. Lots of bodywork to make it presentable.