1962 S seres Valiant speedway sedan

[alan barton]

here is my finished Aussie speedway sedan built from an old gunmetal black street machine that I fell out of love with. It would have been racing on 1/4 mile to 1/2 mile dirt track speedways in Australia in the mid seventies, well before tube framed late models came along and changed Aussie sedan racing forever.

The body is a Jaymar fibreglass S series Valiant, most likely moulded from a promo or original Revell kit.  These bodies are very challenging  and take a lot of work to look half way decent.  The hood has not been opened due to the high likelihood that it would shatter like a Pringle! Chassis is a shortend version of the unit from an MPC Chrysler kit car with a Dodge Deora slant six under the hood.  Twin pipes are made of solder.

Cheers

Alan

[PappyD340]

Looks great!

[Tom Geiger]

Love it! I have one of those Jaymar fiberglass Valiants, as well as a Falcon 4 door sedan. The Pringle description is a good one! That’s exactly how they do that!

[alan barton]

Hey Tom, did you catch the sponsorship?  

[Karl LaFong]

I really like the subject matter and it looks like it's been in some battles.  Good job!

[Tom Geiger]

On 8/22/2020 at 8:43 PM, alan barton said:

Hey Tom, did you catch the sponsorship?  

Ha! Just caught the view of the hood! Guess we’ve gone International !

[ewetwo]

Nice Alan.

 

[Sam I Am]

Nice !

[Straightliner59]

Very cool! There's just something about down 'n' dirty race cars. Give me one of them, over a showboat, any day!