A poor guy's homemade COT kit Old Spice 14

[Reeves Racing]

I had a 2006 Tony Stewert Cheapo Depo kit that got on the clearance at Hobby Lobby. Well Smoke is my favorite driver and now he has a new car and I want one for my Tony Stewert collection. I am spending all my extra dough on my real race car right now so I decided to try and make my own COT car. The decals are availible from Southern Motorsports Hobbies so I thought, why not.

Now you purists are going to notice right away that the 2006 body dosen't lend itself well to the COT silhouette and the nose is way too swoopy and not boxy enough but again this is a budget build.

Here is the preliminary paint job.

And the start of the decals

Edited October 14, 2009 by seveeRRacing

[James W]

If you're happy with it that is the important thing.

Nice work on the paint and decals.

Once you get it done, look for an old Monogram stock car from the late 80's.

They are plentiful at the swap meets for cheap prices and some bodystyles would lend themselves to creating a COT with some cutting and filling.

This Olds is one I found in my stores, but it seems there was a T-Bird,later 90's, that might work too.

See what you can find.

[Reeves Racing]

I think the kits from the 80s would take A LOT more work to look like a COT. I have built that Olds kit as the Hardee’s car and it has completely different roof line, glass shape and so on.

Probably the best candidate would be a kit from the 2000 season or even better from the ’89 or ‘90 seasons.

The only reason I am using the ’06 kit is because it what I had and I am too cheap and lazy to go all out on a COT build. Most of the people who look at my cars in my office wouldn't know the difference anyway and I am not going to point it out...

[RodneyBad]

It sure looks the part to me

The Mod and paint is looking good.

Nice looking Oldsmobile James.