1967 Mario Andretti Daytona 500 winner

[MarkJ]

Finally getting around to doing this one. I will again glue the hood shut to streamline everything. Nascar engines back then were not that uncommon to look at so a lot of time can be saved leaving the hood shut. I will take time in the wip doing a basic look at how I make my own decals. As you will see, it's really not that hard to do or expensive except for the decal paper. below is the kit I'm using.

[RancheroSteve]

FYI, in case you didn't know - Slixx made a nice decal sheet for this car (#6711/1141). Not that I want to stop you from making your own.

[MarkJ]

1 hour ago, RancheroSteve said:

FYI, in case you didn't know - Slixx made a nice decal sheet for this car (#6711/1141). Not that I want to stop you from making your own.

Thanks, Steve.   I looked around for a sheet and never could find one at Mikes or just by a general search. Plus, it would be so old I wouldn't trust the quality of it, and it would probably be pretty pricey as well. I've already got started on it and it seems to be going okay so I will just go ahead and make my own.

[Bainford]

Cool subject, Mark! For the last few weeks I have been watching you-tube videos of the television coverage of old NASCAR races from the mid-50s to the mid-70s. They are usually just 26-33 minutes long, and I watch one in the evenings before going off to bed. Just a couple nights ago I watched the '67 Daytona with Mario's win. It was a well-deserved win. Quite a good looking car, too, and I thought I might like to build it, but it will be years before I get around to it, if ever. I'm looking forward to seeing yours come together.

[dwc43]

38 minutes ago, Bainford said:

Cool subject, Mark! For the last few weeks I have been watching you-tube videos of the television coverage of old NASCAR races from the mid-50s to the mid-70s. They are usually just 26-33 minutes long, and I watch one in the evenings before going off to bed. Just a couple nights ago I watched the '67 Daytona with Mario's win. It was a well-deserved win. Quite a good looking car, too, and I thought I might like to build it, but it will be years before I get around to it, if ever. I'm looking forward to seeing yours come together.

Try this place if you want to get dvds. Tey have it all NASCAR drag racing and a little bit of everything.  http://MuscleCarFilms.com/

 

 

Edited July 30 by dwc43

[Shark]

What chassis are you using? Polar lights Torino/Talladega/Cyclone works well, just shorten the front some.

[THarrison351]

Can't wait to see yours. I started on one twenty odd years ago and never finished

[MarkJ]

20 hours ago, Bainford said:

Cool subject, Mark! For the last few weeks I have been watching you-tube videos of the television coverage of old NASCAR races from the mid-50s to the mid-70s. They are usually just 26-33 minutes long, and I watch one in the evenings before going off to bed. Just a couple nights ago I watched the '67 Daytona with Mario's win. It was a well-deserved win. Quite a good looking car, too, and I thought I might like to build it, but it will be years before I get around to it, if ever. I'm looking forward to seeing yours come together.

10 hours ago, THarrison351 said:

Can't wait to see yours. I started on one twenty odd years ago and never finished

Thanks, Trevor, Tim and Todd. Yes, it seems like they tried to sabotage Mario first with an underpowered engine and ill handling car that was too loose, but they finally gave him a good engine before the race and Mario figured out how to drive the loose car from his dirt track experience. Then at the last pit stop of the day they held Mario in the pits till Freddy could get a good lead on him, but Mario was still able to battle back for the win. I went to downtown Houston back in 1967 with my friend Chuck Clark and we saw the race live on closed circuit pay for view tv on a big screen in some venue that I forget now what it was called. It was in black and white.

19 hours ago, Shark said:

What chassis are you using? Polar lights Torino/Talladega/Cyclone works well, just shorten the front some.

I'm not using a special chassis because I'm gluing the hood shut so no engine views and I won't be taking any photos of the chassis for the under-glass forum. I figure when you saw these cars at the race track you couldn't see the engine or the chassis so as long as you get the body correct for the tires and use the correct tires and wheels and get the stance right that's really all you need to do with these builds. I will try to get the cage, dash, and steering wheel and everything else in the interior close to correct. One good thing I noticed was that this car had the 66 Fairlane grille in it covered by a screen. It did have the 67 taillights though, but I can change the 66 taillights into 67 taillights with a little styrene work and chrome paint.

Edited July 31 by MarkJ

[Shark]

I heard they ran the '66 grills because you could narrow them up and not get noticed. 

[MarkJ]

1 hour ago, Shark said:

I heard they ran the '66 grills because you could narrow them up and not get noticed. 

Todd, that sounds very feasible. I'm just glad it worked out that way. I thought I was going to have to try to change the 66 grille into a 67. Now I won't have to.

[MarkJ]

First thing to do is take profile shots of the model body, left, right and top. These photos will be made into 7.625-inch-long pictures and place on an 8.5x11 inch file that is 400 pixels per inch in size. The decals are made on this file and will fit the model exactly as you see them as we go on.

[MarkJ]

Are any of you guys familiar with a decal from 1967 that has c4 in the middle of it. Its red and black and the 4 is inside the c right in the middle of a round decal. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Shark]

Mark, do you have a picture of it. I just looked at the Slixx Andretti sheet and didn't see nothing like that. Also checked some 60's contingency sheets and didn't see anything.

[MarkJ]

15 hours ago, Shark said:

Mark, do you have a picture of it. I just looked at the Slixx Andretti sheet and didn't see nothing like that. Also checked some 60's contingency sheets and didn't see anything.

Todd, I will try to take a very fuzzy picture of it and post it. I think it's going to be one of those very rare ones. There is also a bottle contingency on the right front fender that I will include if anyone can figure out what that one is too. Thanks for asking .

[MarkJ]

Todd and anyone else who chooses to give it a go, here are 2 pictures of each contingency that are mysteries to me.  The one next to the Wynns is more like a glass jar than a bottle like I had mentioned above. The colored images are not as clear as the black and white ones.  the one on the door is under the Permatex. Once I have these two, I will have all the contingencies the car had at the time it had the biggest number on the car

Edited August 2 by MarkJ

[MarkJ]

The images below are my rudimentary way of trying to show how I go about doing the decals. Basically, I take a photo of the car, make it 7.625 inches long and place it on an 8.5 x 11 inch base that is 400 pixels per inch. Anything created on this file will fit the model pretty much exactly the way it needs to. It will also give me a pattern for cutting out the wheel openings on the fenders and eventually the quarter panels. If you never worked with one of these programs it will leave you with a lot of questions.  Oh, the front fender of the real car was made the same way the picture of the model was. I found a profile shot of the real car and did the same to it that I did to the model image.

[MarkJ]

The monitor on my old computer makes everything look wider and longer than it is supposed to be but when I transfer the image I make here to my other computer by way of thumb drive it comes out right. So, the car seems too long, and the decals seem too long when viewed on this monitor. I felt I had to reveal this. Sometimes you just have to work with what you got.

[MarkJ]

Here are some more process views. Just need to find that c4 decal to have all I need for the left front fender. the jar decal is only on the right front fender. I decided to make a Kustom headers decal to put on this sheet to use on the Allison Monte Carlo. The ones I found on the oob sheet did not turn out well on the model.

[gks1964]

Following! I want to build this 66 Galaxie Marvin Panch

[MarkJ]

11 hours ago, gks1964 said:

Following! I want to build this 66 Galaxie Marvin Panch

Glad you are following, Gerald. That would be a great 66 to build. I have a 66 kit but I can't figure out who to build. I'm kind of leaning toward the Hutch 29 car.

[MarkJ]

Started working on the right-side front fender contingencies. Turned out that mystery decal on the right fender is Coffee-mate. Go figure. I just made a c4 decal out of the air. You can't read what's on the decal anyway when it's on the model because it's so small. That ad for Coffee-mate was published in 1967. You can barely make it out in that picture of the right front of the real car. 5th picture down.

[Volzfan59]

I never would have guessed that one!

[Shark]

I'm kind of scratching my head on that on too. Can remember which forum it was, maybe Randy Ayers old one, but someone was trying to figure out a decal that looked similar. May have been some type of oil additive, can't remember.

[Straightliner59]

On 7/30/2025 at 9:20 AM, MarkJ said:

Finally getting around to doing this one. I will again glue the hood shut to streamline everything. Nascar engines back then were not that uncommon to look at so a lot of time can be saved leaving the hood shut.

I've found that curbside projects can be a lot of fun to build, and still be interesting to look at! Carry on, sir!

[MarkJ]

14 hours ago, Volzfan59 said:

I never would have guessed that one!

Me either, Steve. My wife said if it looks like instant coffee maybe it was. I did a google search for instant coffee logos of 1967 and even though it's not coffee it showed up in an image search and I knew I had found it.

 

12 hours ago, Shark said:

I'm kind of scratching my head on that on too. Can remember which forum it was, maybe Randy Ayers old one, but someone was trying to figure out a decal that looked similar. May have been some type of oil additive, can't remember.

Todd, this one is definitely coffee-mate. I guess they wanted to get some of that Daytona 500 exposure.

5 hours ago, Straightliner59 said:

I've found that curbside projects can be a lot of fun to build, and still be interesting to look at! Carry on, sir!

Thanks, Daniel. There is nothing that special under the hood of this car, but it takes a lot of time to do the stuff under the hood and to do the chassis as well. Plus, a working hood is hard to get to shut flush which is a real pet peeve of mine when I see it on a model. Race cars have to have a flush hood.