USAC Roadrunner

[yellowsportwagon]

Built this for the son of the driver/car owner. Haven’t done a stock car in a while. Johan body on an AMT chassis with Johan headers. Custom decals PPP tires. Tomorrow I have to bring it to his house.

[bobss396]

That is excellent, looks like a real stock car. Very obscure too.

Questions: What paint was used, what did you use for the tire stripes? Are those the decals that come with the PPP tires?

[TonyK]

Looks very sharp. Those decals around the wheel wells had to be fun. ?

[MarkJ]

Tim, another awesome build from your bench and I'm sure the recipient of it will be very happy to get it. Let me take a wild guess here, that car was an ex-Petty Plymouth!

[Nacho Z]

Wow, Tim, that is too cool!  Outstanding model!

[yellowsportwagon]

6 hours ago, MarkJ said:

Tim, another awesome build from your bench and I'm sure the recipient of it will be very happy to get it. Let me take a wild guess here, that car was an ex-Petty Plymouth!

No it was raced the same year as Pettys 68 Roadrunner. Was sold to Joe Frasson for the 69 season.

[yellowsportwagon]

9 hours ago, bobss396 said:

That is excellent, looks like a real stock car. Very obscure too.

Questions: What paint was used, what did you use for the tire stripes? Are those the decals that come with the PPP tires?

It’s Tamiya TS23 and the decals are from the tires.

[CaddyDaddy]

Hey Tim.......you can solve I problem I’ve been facing for a long time: where did you get those numbers? I’ve been trying to find outlined gold leaf or silver leaf numbers for eons!

[Chuckyg1]

Wow, nicely done. Beautiful work. The blue really pops.

[yellowsportwagon]

1 hour ago, CaddyDaddy said:

Hey Tim.......you can solve I problem I’ve been facing for a long time: where did you get those numbers? I’ve been trying to find outlined gold leaf or silver leaf numbers for eons!

I had these made by Dennis Satorius. They actually have an amazing ngine turned look to them

[yellowsportwagon]

[drodg]

Great job on this 68.   

[Rattlecan Dan]

Very nice job. Great-looking build.

[Volzfan59]

Beautiful, excellent work!

[PappyD340]

Very nice!

[slusher]

Beautifully done!

[Bruce Scully]

This is a really nice build, looks great.

[ChrisR]

Looks great.

[Street Rod]

Very well done Plymouth! I think your client will be very pleased!

[Bainford]

Great looking stock car. Nice work. 

[catpack68]

Awesome work Tim!?

[bobss396]

I started watching the USAC series in 1983 on TNT. They ran on dirt and pavement. At that time they were running 1979-ish Monte Carlos with 427 power under the hood. I still catch them on cable, channel 810 on Fios.

[sflam123]

I probably saw this car race!  I went to several USAC stock car shows, both dirt and pavement in the late 60's and early 70's.  You did a great job with capturing the "feel" of that era in USAC stock car racing.

[Ragtop Man]

That there is a race car. Got all the feels right on it. 

[gks1964]

That Johan body is so nice