2002p51 Posted December 5, 2010 Posted December 5, 2010 Well, this one will never grave a contest table, but I'm calling it done. The fit of the body panels isn't the greatest, but that's kind of a trademark of the Grant King kit. I modified the rear and side nerf bars and scratch built the roll bar using Evergreen styrene rod. The windscreen and cowling gave me fits and it was repainted three times! Wheels and tires are from the parts box, rear tires are hand grooved drag slicks. Here's the link to the "On The Workbench" thread: Offy powered Sprint car under construction As usual, comments and criticism are welcome, PC comments are discouraged!
Hondo Posted December 5, 2010 Posted December 5, 2010 Nothing wrong with this one, Drew. Looks really good. Those GK cars weren't the "best fitting" bodies either. Nice color combo.
davyou5 Posted December 5, 2010 Posted December 5, 2010 Well don't feel too bad, Since I started up again about three months ago, I thought I could build a few that would be up to show Quality, and they never turned up that way, But I still think that it is a great build you have there . Just don't be too hard on your self, enjoy building, and you will come up with one that will be to your liking.
2002p51 Posted December 5, 2010 Author Posted December 5, 2010 Well don't feel too bad, Since I started up again about three months ago, I thought I could build a few that would be up to show Quality, and they never turned up that way, But I still think that it is a great build you have there . Just don't be too hard on your self, enjoy building, and you will come up with one that will be to your liking. Oh I like this one just fine, I'm happy with it. It's just that it isn't what anybody would call "contest ready", if you know what I mean!
parki Posted December 5, 2010 Posted December 5, 2010 Nice build Drew Looks great. I'd like to get my builds up to show Quality too one day. Not that theres any model shows or clubs round my neck of the woods
Rob Hall Posted December 5, 2010 Posted December 5, 2010 Very cool... now I'm not familiar really w/ this genre of race car, but how does a Grant King car compare to Revell's Kurtis midgets? Is this a similar type of car, later, larger?
2002p51 Posted December 5, 2010 Author Posted December 5, 2010 Very cool... now I'm not familiar really w/ this genre of race car, but how does a Grant King car compare to Revell's Kurtis midgets? Is this a similar type of car, later, larger? It's a similar car in design and layout but larger and more powerful. "Back in the day", as they always say, a driver would start his career in track roadsters and jalopies. If he was good he would usually get a ride in a midget. The midgets raced on smaller tracks. Then, the next step in progressions would be the sprint cars,like this model. Sprint cars were larger, raced mostly on half-mile tracks, and usually for no more than 50 laps. The really good sprint car drivers would get a ride in the "big cars" or "champ cars". These cars were bigger yet and raced almost exclusively on 1 mile dirt tracks in races of 100 miles. The champ car season also included the Indy 500, and races on pavement like Milwaukee and Trenton. This was the big time in open wheel racing. But even after making it to the big time, many of the drivers continued to run sprints and midgets because they could make a living doing it and they loved to race. And I'm sorry, that was a way longer answer than you probably wanted!
Rob Hall Posted December 5, 2010 Posted December 5, 2010 (edited) Ok, makes sense. And the Outlaws of today w/ the huge roof wings are an outgrowth of sprint cars, I think? (my open wheel racing knowledge is pretty much limited to Indy/CART/IRL and F1..) Edited December 5, 2010 by Rob Hall
2002p51 Posted December 5, 2010 Author Posted December 5, 2010 Ok, makes sense. And the Outlaws of today w/ the huge roof wings are an outgrowth of sprint cars, I think? That's correct. They ARE sprint cars. If you look closely at them, you can still see the same basic shape of the tail. That's about all that's left!
Art Laski Posted December 7, 2010 Posted December 7, 2010 I like it a lot! I built a bunch of those as a kid and have some queued up now that I know what I'm doing a little better. I really like the offy and the cageless adaptation. -Art
2lapsdown Posted December 7, 2010 Posted December 7, 2010 I love the older sprint cars and yours is really cool. Where did you get the rear tires?
Chuck Most Posted December 7, 2010 Posted December 7, 2010 Contest quality or no, I do like it! Great model, Drew. Sure did light a fire under my hiney to get started on mine!
davyou5 Posted December 7, 2010 Posted December 7, 2010 (edited) Oh I like this one just fine, I'm happy with it. It's just that it isn't what anybody would call "contest ready", if you know what I mean! Here's the thing, from what I can see of your pictures, All around Clean build and an Excellent looking paint job, I think that you would be surprised if you did take it to a contest. I have inquired about Contest builds before on this forum, and from what I am told, people who build junk have been winners. So Honestly I think you could win with this build, it's all a matter of Confidence in yourself and your builds . Other than that yes I do know what you mean . Edited December 7, 2010 by davyou5
Gary Davis Posted December 8, 2010 Posted December 8, 2010 That's a good looking build Drew! Cutting the back tires is a huge accomplishment in itself. lol They look spot on. I like the way you painted this build too. Is the offy motor taken from the Kurtis Kraft car?
RatRod Posted December 9, 2010 Posted December 9, 2010 It looks great Drew!!! I never would have thought about doing that with the old Grant King kit. Hmmmm, I have several of them.....
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