Here's a special one for you Kyle Petty fans (or Felix Sabates owner of
the #42). This is the car painted up to look like a certain black chevrolet
the week following the Coca-Cola 600 after Kyle was penalized 7 laps ( 5
for "rough driving" and 2 for "rough talking") after an accident on a
restart at lap 156 involving Ted Musgrave and 11 others! Felix maintained
that if that certain black chevrolet had been involved there would have been
no penalty given! So there you have the story behind the car, behind this
model!
This is a 1997 Monogram Pontiac kit with a set of so-called bootleg
decals (because of the beer sponsorship of the car). As with all of these
new Pontiac kits and also the new Monte Carlo kits as well there is no need
for any modifications to the body at all and since it is a 1996 car there
is no Earnhardt bar!
Painting and Decals:
The chassis and body interior are standard light grey the body exterior
is painted all black. The decals were not the absolute best I've ever
seen there was some misalignment of the yellow triangles on the cat logos
and some of the contingency decals that had yellow in them also and the red
outline stripe on the lettering and numbers was just a hair off! But this
is still a good sheet!( and as far as I know there is no other sheet
available for this car!). Note: This sheet is available at BSR in the B
decals section of their on-line catalog) I painted the body and then
applied the decals, lower silver body bands first then the rest of the
decals and the contingency decals which overlap the silver bands! Once
again I needed setting and softening solution on the front and rear
portions of the silver bands to make them lay down and conform to the
corners of the body! Once the decals were all on and set(dry) I then
applied a coat of gloss enamel (testors high-gloss enamel spray). I then
waited until the gloss was throughly dry (at least 2-3 days) and installed
the windshield and clear parts ...which I had masked and painted in the
interim... and this is what I got! Another beautiful model!
Complete instructions for painting and assembly of chassis, clear
parts, and construction of slab sides can be found at the bottom of the main page!