Show Yer Drag Racers!

[High octane]

I haven't visited this thread for awhile and I see that lotsa really nice builds have been added. Great job guys and keep them coming as the "staging lanes" are OPEN!

[Willys36]

Here are a few of my dragsters.

This one was built about 1964 when I was 14. It is built after the Yont's brothers method with lots of 00-90 brass nuts and bolts. Look close and you can see all the real bolts including rear wheel lug nuts.. Engine and rear wheels and tires from the great old Sizzler kit. Body was carved in wood, a plaster cast taken of that, and finally a fiberglass body shell from the mold. Frame is balsa. Lots of scratch built parts including brass headers, front suspension, corvair steering gear, blower scoop, etc. This was way before anyone made a '33 Willys body in styrene kit form.

This is an HO slot car built for an old Auto World mail-in contest. It was built about 1970. It was built about the same way as the one above of wood model, and fiberglass shell. Frame is scratch built from soldered toghether brass. Whole thing was then chromed. Has steering front wheels, wheels are 1/4" x 1/8" ball bearings w/ O-ring tires.

Edited December 12, 2011 by Willys36

[Willys36]

Here are some more;

This I guess you could call this a bracket racer. '39 Willys 4-dr sedan, It has a Chrysler hemi w/ dual carbs, Halibrand mags. Scratch built using Revell Willys kits as a starting point.

Finally, this isn't really a dragster but it is a close cousin. Built in late 70s for another Auto World mail in contest (they went out of business before the contest was finished) it is an HO land speed record car. Wood/fiberglass body, two Aurora motors merged, home-made 3/4" dia (allowed in rules) aluminum wheels w/ O-ring tires. Never run but it should scream w/ those big wheels and 2:1 gear ratio!

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[funhouse1]

Mr. Jones, that '33 is bleepin' unbelievable!!! Does the model still exist? If so it should definitely be in the model car museum in Salt Lake...What a great piece of modeling history. The H.O. is pretty cool too.

[Willys36]

Last couple;

This was a pretty much box stock build-up of an AMT Willys. Won the local Revell contest (1964?) and went on to the regional.

This car was built a few years ago using the AMT 57 Chevy and Revell dragster kits. Frame and body are greatly modified of course. Rear slicks are currently rotten and it is in need of restoration.

[Willys36]

Mr. Jones, that '33 is bleepin' unbelievable!!! Does the model still exist? If so it should definitely be in the model car museum in Salt Lake...What a great piece of modeling history. The H.O. is pretty cool too.

I still have it but many years ago my toddler niece got hold of it and crushed it! She is now 40 and mother of two and I still want to brain her when we are together!!!!!! It is on my to-do list to restore. Along with about 75 years-worth of other projects.

[Burnout]

Wow! A lot of new material since I last looked. What a great thread. Great models everybody!

Now I'm going to have to work the weekend for all the time I've lost looking at these models.

[Dr. Cranky]

This is an amazing gathering of racing vehicle. What a great collection! Keep 'em coming!

[maltsr]

Great variety of cars here, I too keep coming back.

A couple more for you, the altered was built about 10 years ago and is fully wired and plumbed (getting too old to do that now ). The funny car is out of the box and was built about the same time.

[crowe-t]

Here's a Monogram Reher-Morrison Camaro P/S I built back in the early 80's. I just dug this one out of storage today and was surprised the decals held up as well as they did. I used enamel paint out of a spray can to paint the body and the white paint has 'yellowed' a bit over the years. I guess I wasn't so good with the glue back then. I see glue on the windows.

Edited December 11, 2011 by crowe-t

[crowe-t]

Here's a couple more pictures.

[W-409]

Wow, these just keep coming! Really nice builds everyone, keep them coming.

[DavidChampagne]

[manley]

Hi guys just found this site and you guys do some awesome work. I just started to build my first model car since about 1990. at that time I had around 5500 kits and opened a hobby and card shop here im sayre PA sold all of the kits. will post my first kit build in a few days.

[gasser59]

This is such a great thread, I just had to go through it all again. Tons of superb builds and I think this is my all-time favorite thread. Just had to bump it again. Any new builds that can be added to this thread?

[SuperStockAndy]

Thanks for bumping this Brad; I completely forgot about it.

[brett]

[AZ Boy]

Completed this one about a month ago. No super detailling, just a nice simple slump-buster.

Aaron

[W-409]

I guess this Pontiac FC belongs here.

[AZ Boy]

Nice looking funnycar Niko. Is that the Nitro Bird kit?

[W-409]

Thanks Aaron. It's not the Nitro Bird, it's Burnout Bird by AirFix. Great kit, bought it with 5 euros, and only engine, wheels and tires were missing. Here's a picture of that kit when I bought it.

[Tye Brown]

Hey, here's the Juke Box Ford my buddy Bruce (Silver Foxx) built man

[Tye Brown]

Here's the Bug Zapper done a bit different man, again built by Bruce Scully

[59 Impala]

Here is a Studebaker that I just got finished tonight.

Here is an Opel GT that was a glue bomb that I also finished tonight.

Thanks fer lookin. Dan

[chris coller]

Here is my 66 Nova. I loved building this car. It was frustrating and rewarding all at the same time. Few things I wish I would have done differently but I learned alot with this build.