1986 Rick Wilson Cap'n Coty's Olds

[Billy Kingsley]

Just finished up tonight. Would have been done a lot sooner but took 4 hours out to go see the Simpsons movie at Midnight and then go out for dinner afterwords. All I had left to do was the driver name, wheel decals and hood pins.

This one was sure an adventure. A combination of decals from three diffrent manufacturers, the majority of which coming from JNJ...and you all know how I feel about them! They are 21 years old and some of them didn't want to work well, in particular the doors. The Kingsport Glass on the right side shattered as soon as it hit the water, too. Actually, I expected a lot worse, but they overall were not too bad. The majority of the contingencys came from the Wetworks 86-87 Dale Earnhardt sheet (I built the 1987 car in 2005) but some of them were from the JNJ sheet. Tire decals from Mike @ PowerSlide.

The strip on the nose is silver Sharpie. I thought about foiling it but the photo in the Yearbook showed that it was not very shiny...so it got Sharpied.

The headlights were the hardest part of the kit, and they are far from accurate, however, they are more accurate for the 1986 car then the headlights provided which didn't come into use until 1987. I made them by cutting down 1983-86 Ford headlights, and I actually went through 6 of them before I got it right. Luckily, I have almost 3 dozen extras because I have more then 30 89-93 Fords, which kept them on the chrome tree I got the right side headlight to look better then the left side one. I don't know why, but the driver's side one gave me some issues. In fact I ripped out the first one I had made and created a new one, which fit better.

Enjoy the pictures!

Here's some shots of it with the 1987 Rick Wilson car I completed some time ago.

A shot showing the diffrences in the noses.

Thanks for looking!

[lonewolf]

Looks good Billy. You've had quite a production run going there lately.