On the way to doing something I've wanted to for 50 yrs.

[LUKE'57]

Gator showed up with an early birthday present last night and, as usual, he hit it out of the park.

Well, maybe I haven't wanted a '57 sedan for that long because I was still building airplanes back in 1960 when "Thunder in Carolina" came out but I have wanted to do a car from the movie for a long time. If you count the time I've waited for my tool master '57 post I built for Racing Collectibles to come back from the Orient then it is a lot closer to fifty though. LOL

Now that I finally got me a '57 with a post, the first thing I'm gonna do is...........

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...............WHACK THAT SUCKER OUT'A THERE!!!!!

Anybody have any plans to do the decals for this car? If not then what color do you think the chrome trim area is painted? Gator said, "Just do the primer version". It is pretty evil looking.

YIPPEEE Mitch Cooper here I come!

[Crazy Ed]

That's what I like, a Man that thinks about what he's going to do and doesn't just Rush into things

Looks like your going to also need a set of 6 Lug Wheels. Generally I don't have much use for roundy round racers, but there's something interesting in this one.

Ed Erbeck Jr.

[lorider]

I think that kit comes with the six lug wheels. That's one of the the things the Black Widow is famous for. At least I think the kit comes with them. I have it, just haven't opened it up yet.

[LUKE'57]

Nope, because the kit comes with six lug wheels. My old buddy Neil Castles did a lot of the stunt driving on this movie, including putting the #8 through the fence at the end, TWICE! That old #8 was just a mockup movie car in some scenes and a tired ol' campaigner, no Black Widow, in the others. Even the "star" Oldsmobile was a street car with pipe fitting bends in the water pipe "roll cage".

Neil told the film makers that if he did what they wanted him to do in the final crash that the old front end heavy '57 would just bury its nose in the dirt. But they told him it was their picture and the "through the guardrail" crash would be done according to their wishes. So ol' Soap punched it through the fence and stuck it nose first in the Carolina sand, kinda like them Cadillacs out west.

He just went into town and bought another '57 of a used car lot, stripped and painted it and slid it sideways through the hole in the fence just like he told them it needed to go for the spectacular finish complete with rollover and everybody went home happy. Except for the producers who wound up paying him for the same gag twice. LOL