Ancient history Kyle Petty Mello Yello Pontiac wagon

[Russell C]

Wait...... wagon?

Yet another blast from the past, finished in October 1992 just in time to take to the Dallas Southwest Challenge contest a month later. If I remember right, entrants to the contest the prior year received not one but two 1/32 scale Kyle Petty stock car kits, and since I was already working on my Porsche 911 woody wagon at the time, that wacko idea fell onto these kits as well. I just used a chunk of the roof out of one kit and added it to the other with some styrene scrap for the B and C pillars. A slave to temptation on messing with people's minds, I always have been.





One of the handy simple tricks I did to achieve the red-striped Bassett wheel rims was to lathe-turn a groove into the rim and then heat-stretch some red plastic sprue into a long thin hair, gluing it in place with just a couple of capillary action Tenax glue drops. I never could have painted such a consistent line like that.



Just cheap clear acetate material for the rear side windows and rear window (which have yellowed slightly with age). It's an entertaining silhouette, but I doubt if the rear spoiler would have anywhere near the same aerodynamic effect as on a coupe.





I did well at the SWC that year, this wagon placed 3rd in the Miscellaneous category, while my http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/uploads/post-12144-0-51293100-1373871875.jpg got 3rd in curbside and my Bonneville Checker cab got 2nd in 1/43 & smaller - Street. Plus, it was a hoot to get pictured in Scale Auto's April '93 magazine coverage of the contest.

[Old Buckaroo]

Russel, you never stop amazing me with your unusual builds. This is one of the coolest models I have ever seen !

Edited September 6, 2014 by Old Buckaroo

[slusher]

That is stone cold cool. Great looking model..

[1930fordpickup]

Awesome.

[bbowser]

Great concept, excellent execution. Now he's got room for the pit crew!

[Old Coyote]

Your builds never ceased to amaze me Russell ............. and this is no exception ............... moving from Albuquerque to Phoenix didn't slow down your modeling habits at all ............. I think I liked your 3-wheeler the best

Edited September 7, 2014 by Old Coyote

[Danno]

Wildly impressive, Russell.

[frozono]

looks nice.......

[Silver Foxx]

Looks great , something different , real neat .

[Dominik]

Russel, you never stop amazing me with your unusual builds. This is one of the coolest models I have ever seen !

x2

[disabled modeler]

Whats not to like its a wagon... I just picked up 2 Kyle Petty flags at a sale if anyone is interested send me a PM they have never been hung.

[whatisdeletrazdoing]

This is incredible! Creative, hilarious, and well-executed. Awesome build. I may just have to steal this idea.

[Russell C]

9 hours ago, whatisdeletrazdoing said:

... I may just have to steal this idea.

By all means, share and enjoy!

[ChrisR]

Cool!

[Jim N]

Very cool concept. 

[MarkJ]

Very neat concept. If they built a model of a Tahoe , I always wanted to make one into a cup car. Well I guess thats like doing a nascar truck without the bed, but with back  doors  and a 3rd seat covered area by an extended roof all the way to the back.

[bbowser]

I was thinking along the same lines using a Dodge Magnum.

[Truck parts]

love the build