MarkJ Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 This is the car that Dale Earnhardt drove in the 1978 World 600. It was one of Bud Moore's cars that Buddy Baker drove for him. Will Cronkite owned the car when Earnhardt drove it. This car helped Earnhardt get some exposure so he could get a ride for 1979, his rookie year in the Winston Cup series. This is also the car that was originally suppose to be driven by Willie T. Ribbs, an up and coming SCCA driver, but an unfortunate series of events allowed Earnhardt to get the ride instead. you can Google it if you haven't already heard the story. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkJ Posted May 17, 2019 Author Share Posted May 17, 2019 Here are some pictures of the real car. The top picture was the car at the Firecracker 400 the bottom one was at the World 600. If you'd like to see the wip click on the link below http://cs.scaleautomag.com/sca/modeling_subjects/f/31/t/130531.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vietnam Vet67 Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 Here is a trading/collector card for the car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afx Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 Nice project Mark. Share the build here with us next time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellowsportwagon Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 Real nice job Mark.Did you narrow the bumpers. Looks like it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkJ Posted May 18, 2019 Author Share Posted May 18, 2019 12 hours ago, yellowsportwagon said: Real nice job Mark.Did you narrow the bumpers. Looks like it Tim, yes I had to shorten the length of the bumpers. They were ridiculously long. I then had to allcladII them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbowser Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 Very cool Mark! I love these older era rides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellowsportwagon Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 37 minutes ago, MarkJ said: Tim, yes I had to shorten the length of the bumpers. They were ridiculously long. I then had to allcladII them. They look nice and tight to the sides of the body as they should on a race car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRIPTROIT 71 Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 I always enjoy your builds!! Another excellent build! Looks great!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill J Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 Another beauty Mark, you always impress me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Coyote Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 Beautiful build Mark, but then again all your builds are exceptional. All your work is stunning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shambles Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 Back when stock cars were still "stock". Now they're just identical, colored jelly beans. Nice build. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonhawk1066 Posted May 20, 2019 Share Posted May 20, 2019 Nice job! I love seeing these "old" NASCAR builds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratdoggy Posted May 20, 2019 Share Posted May 20, 2019 Very nice...Back when NASCAR rides looked like real cars and not blobs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominik Posted May 20, 2019 Share Posted May 20, 2019 nice built! good old Stock cars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim N Posted May 20, 2019 Share Posted May 20, 2019 Great job Mark. Top drawer work as usual! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkJ Posted May 20, 2019 Author Share Posted May 20, 2019 I had to make all the decals for this one, and luckily it is a white car. 2 of the decals I had never seen before and took me a while to figure them out .If you look at the World 600 car below the first one is the one closest to the window opening on the b pillar. It is so small in reference pictures that it was hard to figure out. Turned out it was the "World 600 underdog decal". I know nothing of the story behind it, but I guess it was given to the cars that had less of a chance of winning. I don't know if the best finisher in this group of cars was given a bonus but maybe that is why they were given out. Also if you look on the front fender at the front of the wheel opening at the top there is a decal there that is not very common. Tim tried to help me figure it out, but I finally had to go to twitter and ask Don Smyle of Smyle Media if he knew what it was. Don is a famous Nascar photographer who tweets his pictures all the time on twitter. Turns out, he owns an original picture of the car that was of a higher resolution (below is that picture ) and he tweeted me a picture of the decal that was clear. It was "Morse Cutting Tools" So I was able to make that decal as well. It always bugs me if I cant figure out all the decals on a build. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkJ Posted May 20, 2019 Author Share Posted May 20, 2019 (edited) Here is a color picture of the World 600 car. One decal I did forget is the jack placement decal below the door number Edited May 20, 2019 by MarkJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkJ Posted May 20, 2019 Author Share Posted May 20, 2019 Here is a bigger picture of the Firecracker 400 car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkJ Posted May 21, 2019 Author Share Posted May 21, 2019 My wife and I were watching GMA this morning to see what Junior was doing on the program. My wife said, why don't you tweet Junior some pictures of your latest build. I told her the tweet would probably never get to him so it would be a waste of time trying. She insisted, so I tweeted him two shots of the model with a little description of what it was. I couldn't believe it but he actually got the tweet and replied to me. That's was pretty cool. But that's Junior. He'll talk to anyone on twitter if he can. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Foxx Posted May 21, 2019 Share Posted May 21, 2019 This looks great , well done . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkJ Posted May 23, 2019 Author Share Posted May 23, 2019 Thanks guys, for all the nice comments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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