jjsipes Posted March 24, 2019 Posted March 24, 2019 With all the talk about the Salvino Monte Carlo stock car kit, I thought I would see what I could do with it. I'm no expert but do enjoy building. My father is currently working on to replicate Cale Yarborough Busch Monte and complaining about how poor a kit it is. I started looking at the body after reading what others have done. I sanded the body lines on the quarters and front fenders, I worked on the trunk by added some plastic to reduce the quarter extensions. Opened up the quarter windows slightly. Want to prime it to see what I got now.
jjsipes Posted March 24, 2019 Author Posted March 24, 2019 I then turned my attention to the chassis after seeing on my fathers build how narrow the chassis is compared to the body. I have added .100" x .156" strips to the chassis sides to fill the gap. Have filled the gap between the 2 chassis halves after once again seeing what my father had for wheelbase, about 6/32" I believe it was. Next onto the wheel tubs and trunk floor but, that's another night.
james460 Posted March 25, 2019 Posted March 25, 2019 Just a word of Caution. I bought one this weekend and played around with fitment. If you are using the stacked headlight version the chrome front grille doesn't fit. The substitute rear suspension seems to be to small. The truck arms that is. An if you are a stickler for accuracy there are a ton of ejector pin marks on the chassis. Also only three side bars. I liked the way you added to the sides. Keep posting pictures.
jjsipes Posted March 25, 2019 Author Posted March 25, 2019 2 hours ago, james460 said: Just a word of Caution. I bought one this weekend and played around with fitment. If you are using the stacked headlight version the chrome front grille doesn't fit. The substitute rear suspension seems to be to small. The truck arms that is. An if you are a stickler for accuracy there are a ton of ejector pin marks on the chassis. Also only three side bars. I liked the way you added to the sides. Keep posting pictures. I seen that about the truck arms. Have not seen anything about fit of grille. Thanks for the heads up
jjsipes Posted March 26, 2019 Author Posted March 26, 2019 Got the body primed on Sunday. Have some work to do around the windshield trim yet. Overall not bad. On to more chassis work, between the chassis being narrow and short (in the rear) for body and all the injection pins needing filled 1
jjsipes Posted March 27, 2019 Author Posted March 27, 2019 Making progress on my chassis, slow but steady. Cut strips for along the rockers and extended the rear out to finish out the trunk floor. Added to the wheel house one one side need to do the other.
james460 Posted April 3, 2019 Posted April 3, 2019 Are you just planning on filling and sanding the ejector pin marks.
jjsipes Posted April 4, 2019 Author Posted April 4, 2019 14 hours ago, james460 said: Are you just planning on filling and sanding the ejector pin marks. Yes. Making progress. Still more work to be done 1
jjsipes Posted April 4, 2019 Author Posted April 4, 2019 Have done more work on chassis since that pic was taken but haven't gotten an updated pic yet. I have extended the rear frame rails back, added back in the fuel cell box and worked on tying in the rocker rails with the front frame rails. Need to tie in the rear rails with the rocker rails.
jjsipes Posted April 7, 2019 Author Posted April 7, 2019 Working on the chassis some more. Added frame rails to extend the frame back. Added frame to tie the front subframe to rocker rails to try and create a full frame. Toying around with the idea of using a salvaged truck arm from a AMT Stock Car. 1
Jonathan Posted May 27, 2021 Posted May 27, 2021 I know this was back in 2019 (which was last week, right?) But, it's great seeing the work you did on this chassis. Did you finish the build? Do you have more in-progress pictures?
jjsipes Posted March 24 Author Posted March 24 On 5/26/2021 at 9:39 PM, Jonathan said: I know this was back in 2019 (which was last week, right?) But, it's great seeing the work you did on this chassis. Did you finish the build? Do you have more in-progress pictures? No I haven't finished it yet. I plan to one day but just to many things running through my head that I want to build. 1
Jonathan Posted March 27 Posted March 27 On 3/24/2025 at 1:49 PM, jjsipes said: No I haven't finished it yet. I plan to one day but just to many things running through my head that I want to build. Looks great so far - looking forward to seeing more progress
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