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PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2020 4:40 pm    Post subject: Post your flat nose Monte Carlo reference shots here Reply with quote

Thought it would be neat to have a Flat nose Monte Carlo picture reference thread made.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2020 5:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd like to see a GOOD photo of the kit part......if not my kits will be here Thursday.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2020 6:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

DaveVan wrote:
I'd like to see a GOOD photo of the kit part......if not my kits will be here Thursday.


It's a tiny bit long but it fits well. The body line at the center of the wheel hub is weak but it's weak on the original body mold on the fender in front of the wheelwell, they modeled a superspeedway car and those were heavily massaged up there. IMHO it matches the body contour better than the original SS nose. Not sure if these will show you what you need but it's all I have. Molded-in fine mesh screen pattern in the grille and left headlight, I'll probably try to print up a faux factory grille decal to apply over the mesh. Not a bad effort, my only real complaint (and it wasn't their fault) is the fender tops are cambered downward to the hood opening in the original kit tooling while the flat nose fascia is straight across. I added Tamiya putty along the fender tops for about a half inch back and feathered it in to blend to the flat nose fascia.



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2020 8:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bumper looks a little proud in photos.....thx...I'll decide Thursday!
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2020 8:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A few minor issues I see -
1) The upper sides of the nose should be angled out from the bumper top to the upper edge of the headlight buckets; the headlight buckets too have this slight, yet noticeable forward angle from bottom to top.
2) The lower bumper ( below the rub strip ) is too thick; both the middle ( license plate area ) and the turn signal areas. Also no turn signal details or bezels.
3) The license plate area, between the bumperettes, should be flat across.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 12:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

DaveVan wrote:
Bumper looks a little proud in photos.....thx...I'll decide Thursday!



I agree the bumper extends too far out in front of the grille. Maybe it can be sectioned?
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 6:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 9:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tom M. wrote:
DaveVan wrote:
I'd like to see a GOOD photo of the kit part......if not my kits will be here Thursday.


It's a tiny bit long but it fits well. The body line at the center of the wheel hub is weak but it's weak on the original body mold on the fender in front of the wheelwell, they modeled a superspeedway car and those were heavily massaged up there. IMHO it matches the body contour better than the original SS nose. Not sure if these will show you what you need but it's all I have. Molded-in fine mesh screen pattern in the grille and left headlight, I'll probably try to print up a faux factory grille decal to apply over the mesh. Not a bad effort, my only real complaint (and it wasn't their fault) is the fender tops are cambered downward to the hood opening in the original kit tooling while the flat nose fascia is straight across. I added Tamiya putty along the fender tops for about a half inch back and feathered it in to blend to the flat nose fascia.





tom it looks like they didn't get the a post lined up with the a pillar in the one photo. hoe does the roll cage fit the body? 2+2 kit it sit low.

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 5:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It lines up as well as it always did. That's just the old SS notch body with a new nose, they even include the original SS nose. I swapped the chassis for one I pulled out of a Folgers kit because I wanted to save the molded in white chassis for a build that needed a lighter colored chassis but they're identical.
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PostPosted: Sat May 02, 2020 3:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some Rick Newsom flat nose MC



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PostPosted: Wed May 27, 2020 9:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

George Andrews wrote:
A few minor issues I see -
1) The upper sides of the nose should be angled out from the bumper top to the upper edge of the headlight buckets; the headlight buckets too have this slight, yet noticeable forward angle from bottom to top.
2) The lower bumper ( below the rub strip ) is too thick; both the middle ( license plate area ) and the turn signal areas. Also no turn signal details or bezels.
3) The license plate area, between the bumperettes, should be flat across.


hi george. thanks for your assessment. a couple other things i noticed when looking at the photos is that on the real car the top of the bumper slants downward from the where it meets the headlight bucket. you can see it best on the #44 and #28 cars. also looking at the #20 cars it looks as if the "flat" nose isn't 100% flat across. it seems to peak slightly at the hood centerline. you can see it easily on the yellow and red #20's , and of course, as dave pointed out the bumber seems to stick out a little too far.
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PostPosted: Thu May 28, 2020 10:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Now is everyone's chance to build the LW Wright fraud car! Laughing

I'll probably do the #16 Pearson car with mine.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 01, 2020 7:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice to see my Lindley photo above.
Here's one of my TLab ones from NWilkes in '82



And a BA one, same race.


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PostPosted: Mon Jun 01, 2020 8:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great photos Hondo! Why do I feel that you have more where that came from..
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 02, 2020 11:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Orangeastre wrote:
Great photos Hondo! Why do I feel that you have more where that came from..


You must be thinking about the hundreds I posted here before "the crash."
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 05, 2020 10:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A few more from 1981...... all by David Chobat.


Tommy Ellis - Atlanta


Sterling Marlin - Charlotte


Pearson - Darlington


Lindley - N Wilkesboro


Travis Tiller - Atlanta
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 2020 12:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hondo: Nice of you to credit photographer David Chobat. He was a good shooter and renowned for livening up the victory lane hat dance group shots with his cry of, "Once more! With enthuuu-siasm!"
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 2020 8:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

BB, David was was a good friend of mine back when I was working in the Cup series. And yes, he was a great photographer too. I have lots of pics taken by him of me and others in VL.
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