1967 Mario Andretti Daytona 500 winner

[MarkJ]

The front fender contingencies decal groups are finally finished. I will make one decal for each fender with all the images in them. Should fit just fine. It would take forever to apply each of these decals one at a time. I would go nuts. On to the numbers and sponsors and I can't forget the cubic inch decals.

[MarkJ]

I finished all the fender contingencies, so I completed the door 11 decal. Then I made a pattern, using the real car photo, to cut out the 1/4 panel wheel openings. They are just a little bigger and will have a lip on them. Then I started on the quarter panel sponsor that will be good for both sides of the car. I used a photo of the real car for a pattern to make the letters with the font tool in the program.

[MarkJ]

Did some more work on the sponsor decal. This shows how when making the letters if you have a letter more than once in the word, you're doing you can just copy and paste the letter into the position instead of making a whole new letter. Saves a lot of time. I also just copy and pasted the big Bunnell word down to the small Bunnell word which saved enormous time. Won't be able to do that with the Florida word. Really don't like making decals. Very pain staking work. Also, you have to keep saving your work after just a few moves or the program just shuts down for some unknown reason and you lose all the work you did up to the last time you saved your work. That is truly a bummer when that happens.

[jokar124]

On 8/5/2025 at 10:06 AM, MarkJ said:

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.

 

On 8/5/2025 at 8:26 PM, 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.

Hold on there Mark! "Shark" is right! Didn't we discover during your build of the Bud Moore '66 Comet a few years ago that the "bottle-shaped" contingency sticker you were looking for at that time turned out to be for "Solder Seal  M-P Sealant and Conditioner" like the bottle shown below? As I recall it was J.C. Reckner (A/FX) on this or Randy Ayers' forum that found it. Not Coffee Mate!

 

Edited Saturday at 02:37 AM by jokar124

[MarkJ]

9 hours ago, jokar124 said:

 

Hold on there Mark! "Shark" is right! Didn't we discover during your build of the Bud Moore '66 Comet a few years ago that the "bottle-shaped" contingency sticker you were looking for at that time turned out to be for "Solder Seal  M-P Sealant and Conditioner" like the bottle shown below? As I recall it was J.C. Reckner (A/FX) on this or Randy Ayers' forum that found it. Not Coffee Mate!

 

Thanks, Jo. Let me do some more studying on that. It's not too late to change it. Makes more sense that it would be the m-p product.

[MarkJ]

Thanks Jo, and Todd for keeping me from making a big mistake. I found ref pictures of the m-p product I had saved, and photos of the model showing I made a decal for it and its right next to the autolite on the Comet. I sure am glad you guys spoke up instead of waiting till the model was completed. That would have been a bummer. Weird how close the coffee -mate product is to the sealant and conditioner product in the way they look. It should be an easy fix. I will use the white label jar you supplied, Jo. It must have changed colors in 1967 because my ref picture shows that it is a white label and lid on the Andretti car.

Edited Saturday at 12:58 PM by MarkJ

[MarkJ]

I'm going to take a rest on the wip . I'm using too much airtime sending photos with my phone. But you all get the jest of what's going on here. No bigee.

[MarkJ]

As soon as my airtime for the phone is not in jeopardy I will post some more wip pictures. Got the ford decal on the quarter panel finished and am now working on the 427 C.I. decal. Have to wait till the 22nd next week. apparently sending photos to my computer via my mail server takes up a lot of air  time. And I was posting way too many pictures.