City Chevrolet Lumina

[dencon]

I built this when the kit first came out back 1990. I was at the Phoenix race in 89 when they were shooting the movie and had this car in the race. I had no idea who it was at the time. But i thought the car was so cool looking. I got a few shots of it that day. Nothing real good. But right at that time. I wanted to build a model of it. Then the movie came out and I got what that car was. I wondered why it was going into the pits all of the time. (Camera reload)

So when Monogram announced that the first Laguna kit was going to be this one. I got it the day it came out. I found that the decal colors were off though. The Yellow in the decals was more like a mustard color. So in the time I was building it. Monogram sold enough of the first run to start a second run with corrected decal colors pretty quick. good thing I bought another kit that came from the second run before I got to the decaling of this car. So the look was even better.

I painted it with the yellow and green from the Testors Neon bottle sets. I use a Badger Model 150 to do the fade and I cleared it with Tamaya Clear. After 20 years. it is still one of my favorite models on the shelf.

Edited September 28, 2010 by dencon

[Hondo]

Nice work on the....... LUMINA.

Love the movie.

[dencon]

DOH!!!!!

Where the heck did I get "LAGUNA" from??????? I think because I was talking to a friend on the phone when I was posting.

[dencon]

Thanks Dave,

It is hard to believe that this movie came out 20.5 years ago. WOW! This is just about my favorite stock car. Something about it. From that time I saw it racing at the 89 Phoenix. Before I knew it was a movie car. I liked it. If I had allot of money, I would love to buy/restore a 90 Lumina NASCAR "Correctly" to circa 1990 and paint it like this car. It seems that the 90 sheet metal,noses & rear bumper are no where to be found. Even the restored one that Hendrick Motorsports restored is WAY OFF and incorrect for 1990.

restored

[Navy48]

too funny....I was expecting to see an old Chevy "Laguna" decked out with the City Chevrolet paint scheme.

still, nice car!

[dencon]

too funny....I was expecting to see an old Chevy "Laguna" decked out with the City Chevrolet paint scheme.

still, nice car!

Yea, sorry about that. i do not know why we cannot correct or edit the titles on our posts like you can on other message boards.

[Danno]

Yea, sorry about that. i do not know why we cannot correct or edit the titles on our posts like you can on other message boards.

You can. Go to your original post & select the edit option; it will display the text box and the topic box; make changes & then select the submit button. It will change your original topic header the same as it will change your post text.

BTW - It used to be more complicated, but I think the recent "upgrades" in board software included a simplification.

Edited September 28, 2010 by Danno

[dencon]

You can. Go to your original post & select the edit option; it will display the text box and the topic box; make changes & then select the submit button. It will change your original topic header the same as it will change your post text.

BTW - It used to be more complicated, but I think the recent "upgrades" in board software included a simplification.

Thanks

Edited September 28, 2010 by dencon

[MarkJ]

Awesome job.