Saturday Night Special-'69 Falcon In color 4/27/07

[Casey429]

I happened to be at Wally World the other day and picked this up. It's going to be built as a mildly used car, with a few heats and practices on it, but no serious damage. It'll kinda resemble an asphalt car that's been promoted (yes, I prefer dirt racing). It will have a similar paint job to my '65 Fairlane, just yellow and white opposed to green and white. I'm gonna letter it pretty much the same too, I'm looking at having a mini-team.

Engine is kinda ho-hum. I eliminated the metal axle up front, to clean the engine bay up. I rusted the headers some, to reflect the raced condition. The box art says the engine is a 351. Can I call it that if it kinda-sorta-vaguely resembles a 351 Cleveland?

Initial mockup looks good. I used partsbox tires for the dirt tread.

When all is said and done, I'll mist it with a dirt color to get the final product. Thanks for looking!

[Casey429]

I got the chassis done tonight. Nothing special, I just added an extra piece of padding to the driver's door bar.

I also made custom decals for this. I'll get those on after I get it painted. It's primed right now, I just need to do the white and yellow.

[Tuffy's Garage]

Looking good keep it up

[Casey429]

I spent the last 2 or 3 days prepping and painting the body. Nothing fancy, just Krylon white and yellow. I experemented using scotch tape for masking, and I like the results. If you do attempt this, find the non transparent kind, and the cheaper the better. It sticks enough to prevent color bleeding, but no enough to pull the paint. And the lines aren't as thick as with, say, blue painters tape like I've been using.

I'm really pleased with the hood stripe. I was just messing around and free-masked it. No measuring, planning, or real direction, just an experement.

Just a simple braek following the window opening, it matches the Fairlane.

And the best part is NO BMF!!! I'm gonna Sharpie this one, since it'll be covered in dirt anyway. Plus, my body had the trim missing over the passenger side window.