Donnie, Cale, 1979

[Horrorshow]

In the early 70’s, Junior Johnson was approached by RJ Reynolds tobacco, they wanted to sponsor as many as four cars. Somehow they ended up sponsoring the whole series and the Winston Cup was born. If Junior had accepted their offer I would think it would have opened the door for all kinds of tobacco sponsorship entering the sport. I have already posted a couple of 1970 era tobacco themed cars. I thought of honouring NASCAR’s most famous last lap by building these two together. Started with two Buddy Baker Salvinos kits (they were on sale). Lots of different decals were used. I was pulling for Donnie that day. 

[Michael F]

Both are beautiful !!

The Winston car is my favorite.

Very nice??

[PappyD340]

Very nice pair!

[TransAmMike]

Two very nice builds ya got there Jack.  Great job!!

[bobss396]

Well done. I have to get me one of those.

I had an uncle that worked for RJ Reynolds on the NASCAR promotion team. He got free Winstons... too bad lung cancer took him out somehow..

[Jim N]

Interesting conceptualization.  Very nice looking models.

[Rattlecan Dan]

Really nice builds. Great work.

[Chinacar]

Great job Jack.

 

[ChrisR]

Nice!

[slusher]

Two beautiful stock cars!

[Mattilacken]

Beautiful builds there! Great job! 

[bobss396]

Those are great builds. Who made the decals? I finally found a kit from Mike's Decals, on sale.

[Horrorshow]

57 minutes ago, bobss396 said:

Those are great builds. Who made the decals? I finally found a kit from Mike's Decals, on sale.

A whole bunch of different decals from various sources. Numbers and contingencies were Powerslides, the Winston stuff was from a couple of Jimmy Spencer sheets and the Rothmans were from Spot Model and Indycal. Part of the fun for me is the planning and collecting. 

[bobss396]

22 hours ago, Horrorshow said:

A whole bunch of different decals from various sources. Numbers and contingencies were Powerslides, the Winston stuff was from a couple of Jimmy Spencer sheets and the Rothmans were from Spot Model and Indycal. Part of the fun for me is the planning and collecting. 

Thanks. I'll have to do some research and have no issue doing a phantom build. I had always liked the look of those cars.