Keen to start drag modelling

[MILD]

I am about to wrap up my second build and am very, very keen to start drag modelling- more of the pro street style than anything.

Looking at the threads here it seems a large portion of this is made up in scratch building but I am curious as to where I should be looking to start. Is the Revell's latest 1955 Chevy Pro Sportsman kit a good place to start or is there a better launching point?

If anyone could offer any advice they think would benefit a new upstart I'd love to hear it.

Thanks gentlemen.

[DrewCfromSC]

Good morning, depends on what type of cars you like. How about a Holden since your in Australia? I think you could build a Pro Street car from any style body and use a drag racing pro stock kit or parts, scratchbuild the rest. Chassis etc. are very simular. If your looking for any certain car to build try the wanted section or feel free to drop me a PM. Id be happy to trade for some aussie kits,bodies etc.

Good luck.

Drew C from S.C.

[W-409]

That Pro Sportsman is not the easiest model kit, tube frame is very tricky to install and quite often you must warp them just a little. I should start from something easier maybe, that '66 Nova from AMT would be very good starting point. It's very good to drag racing, you only must change slicks to it. Or I don't know are there slicks in that round 2 release but just change tires and it's good drag car then. I mean these kits:

I didn't find a picture from that older release, but it's the same car but it has a square pro scoop and it's yellow in the boxart. But that's very good kit for start drag modeling, I built that older release sometime ago, it was very good kit, I think.

[kylexgore]

i believe this is the yellow one that niko is talking about. the frame to the nova can be modified to work with many 1/25 scale cars. the same with the 55 pro sportsman. both pics are same kit just different box.

[Terry Sumner]

Once again I will agree with Dave...the 67 Chevelle kit he spoke of is probably the best pro street type of kit to start out with.

I guess great minds think alike eh Dave? LOL

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Edited November 5, 2010 by Terry Sumner

[seanyb505]

I believe Dencon resins offers a back half of the chassis. This seems to me to be the best way to avoiding wasted kit parts when all you want is one piece.

[Brutalform]

  On 11/5/2010 at 7:29 PM, DoubleD said:

not sure how easy it is to find the pro street Chevelle by AMT but it too had some cool features. easily some of the nicest big-block Chevy headers ever in a kit and a pretty cool Chevrolet stamped piece for where the rear seat would have been. the only drawback to the kit was that it sat up higher than most people wanted and it's shallow rear wheeltubs don't make it easy to get this one low. the Revell kit is a bit nicer and has sharper details but interestingly some lame headers and that wacky taillight panel with the Corvette taillights.

i didn't mention the AMT Chevelle because it's been a long time since i've seen one the Revell kit was still in the catalog up until not long ago.

some of AMT's pro street kits came with some smooth sidewall "generic" tires that were the same size as their well known Goodyear Blue Streak slicks. the cool part about these generic tires were the tread pattern that looked very much like Mickey Thompson's of the day. later AMT did include matching Mickey Thompson pro street tires in some of thier kits with nice tread and sidewall detailing.

Yea, Dave, there is a reissue of the AMT ERTL 67 Pro Street Chevelle. I have one in my stash. Its a maroon car on the box, and its a real nice kit. Its called AMT Buyers Choice.

Besides the the tail lights and headers in the Revell kit, I personally do not care for the rear tires either. Very super soft tires, with these weird lips that go around the circumference of the rims, that mount inside the tire.

Another kit that would be worth mentioning, is the AMT 70 Coronet Super Bee Pro Street.

[kylexgore]

heres a link to the pro street stuff on ebay.

http://toys.shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=pro+street&_sacat=2580&_odkw=&_osacat=2580&_trksid=p3286.c0.m270.l1311