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Here's a build that has been kicking around forever! I joined the NASCAR modeling forum in July 04, and this decal sheet was purchased from one of the members there. This was probably one of the first 5 sets of decals I bought after I joined...and I did the body up not long after. And then the poor thing has just taken a beating! There are more scrapes and dings on this paint job then any other model I have finished! It's a good thing the kit was molded in white because I took it down to bare plastic in several places to get the bigger marks off. I also had to practically redraw the numbers with Sharpie because a lot of them had gotten knocked off!

This was first experience with inkjet decals, too.

This was a one-race deal, in promotion of Speed Racer joining the Speed Network programming. By time I actually got Speed in 2006 it was off the air again. I have not been able to find a reference photo of the real car, all I had was the drawing on Jayski. I like to use real photos but I didn't have that leeway, I hope it is right.

In retrospect I should not have done the air dam with Sharpie. It worked great with the 1/64 version I did of the basic unsponsored car, not so great on a larger scale. I don't even know if it WAS blue, but I know the basic unsponsored car had that, so I used some artistic license.

Also, I lost the baggie with the axles, so this is the first model where I glued the front wheels to the spindles to get the stance I wanted. I like that, and I may do it more in the future. I had a rear axle in my parts box that I used. I had glued the wheels to the axle casing (the plastic part) but I thought they were too far into the body so I pulled them off.

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It would be kind of cool to build the Mach 5 and the Bobby Labonte CoT and have a Speed Racer trifecta, hmm....this is definitly one that looks better from a distance, that is for sure!

Edited by Billy Kingsley
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