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jjsipes
Joined: 29 Jan 2018 Posts: 304
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2022 12:17 pm Post subject: Bobby Allison !972 Monte Carlo |
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Just lining up some projects in my mind and thinking about the Allison Monte Carlo Coke Machine. Which would be a better starting point, the old MPC Monte Carlo Stock Car Kit or the AMT 1970 Monte Carlo street car kit? I am sure that it should have a factory frame under it which I believe the MPC doesn't have, been a while since I looked at the kit in my stash.
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jh63fan
Joined: 10 Sep 2021 Posts: 365 Location: Tarheel State
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2022 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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I have seen some builders use the Allison kit and the front end clip off of the MPC stock cars. Didn't know how much trouble you wanted to go to. |
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Racer14
Joined: 13 Feb 2018 Posts: 282 Location: Rockford, IL
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2022 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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An article in the July 72 Stock Car Racing mag shows pics of Bobby building the Monte Carlo. It is basically a stock frame with heavy duty suspension. The frame is thinned at the rear wheel hump to allow for wider tires. This was also a short arm rear suspension, not the long truck arms.
Mark C. posted a copy of the article here on the forum in 2018. |
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Mark C.
Joined: 16 Feb 2018 Posts: 182
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2022 12:27 am Post subject: |
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Here it is:
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Rob Spires Board Moderator
Joined: 27 Jan 2018 Posts: 185
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Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2022 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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Someone correct me if I’m mistaken, but I believe the Allison kit pictured is the AMT version with the stockish frame and not the MPC “one size fits all” chassis. The roll cage in the AMT kit is basic and out of scale, but the chassis is fairly close with the short trailing arms. |
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Tom M. Board Moderator
Joined: 01 Feb 2018 Posts: 606
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2022 7:56 am Post subject: |
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Making this a sticky for the great scans of the SCR article with photos of the actual Allison Monte Carlos.
A little background: The '72 Junior Johnson-owned Coke cars were all Banjo Matthews built chassis and as such they are all Ford style front suspension and long trailing arms as was typical practice up into the mid-late '80s. As shown, the Allison cars were GM based and used the short trailing arms. The AMT kit out of the box builds a somewhat crude but passable Allison-style chassis but the huge out of scale roll bars ruin the look. Back when you could buy AMT NASCAR kits all day long for $5 or less I would cut up those cages and use them in lot of stuff because they're in scale. |
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TN Vols fan
Joined: 18 Jan 2022 Posts: 289 Location: Crossett, AR
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2022 10:39 am Post subject: |
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Thank you for doing this. _________________ "Many men fish all their lives without knowing it is not the fish they are after." Henry David Thoreau
"I am, Sir, a brother of the angle" quote from The Compleat Angler, lzzak Walton 1654 |
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