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Darlington had a rookie test like Indianapolis in those days. I think it had been more than 3 years since Lorenzen raced there so he had to pass the rookie test again and run as a rookie at that trac ...

For NASCAR sanctioned tracks a Late Model Sportsman had to be at least 3 model years old, so 1969 was the first year the '66 was eligible for LMS.

I don't know how I missed this!

I grew up in the Pascagoula/Moss Point area, my brother raced Supermodifieds at Mobile in that era and I saw Donnie race that car many times. He was extremely hard ...

I believe that was the car Hendrick had in his museum for a long time. If so it's an old Rick Newsom car that I think had been the Tommy Ellis #55. It was bought from Rick's widow for Days of Thunde ...

Mark at ACE has said that Labonte still wants Cup champion compensation for the licensing to do that sheet.

Taz is correct. I think this is it....

https://i.postimg.cc/GBJR79B8/wynns.jpg

I think that's a slightly earlier version than what's covered on the sheet, but it's definitely intended to be the ...

I'm not privy to the exact details of the various agreements but based on what I do know about private runs and the typical contracts with drivers and NASCAR there are a few factors at work.

First, ...

I think Terry Strange told me it was School Bus Yellow that they got for free. They were a much brighter yellow than the '66-'67 cars.

Billy Gregg's 602 Mod, since they killed the Street Stock class at Bowman Gray. It will be an interesting season there, with new pavement for the second consecutive season and the new division.

It always looked like factory B7 to me.

MCW was probably based on a JoHan promo, they were notorious for being box scale.

If I started my own company (heh) I would start with an accurate 115" Banjo chassis, engineered for two or three different cage locations so it would work with different bodies. I would use the ...

Watch for warpage in the ramp body parts, a lot of the early kits had that issue. Make sure you install the lower part with the ramps so that the little round locator ring for the hoist post is at th ...

I used the Pro Shop kit to build the Larry Frank team car from that race. I did end up hacking up a Revell Black Widow for the front fender gills that didn't have any trim engraved into them. The co ...

I got one in the Bobby Allison flat hood charger. It was on the tree with the new hood. Didn’t get one with the Baker flat hood one though.

They were supposed to be removed from the tree on all t ...

I found a few vague references to Fred Lorenzen driving a white 1970 Coronet #28 fielded by H.B. Ranier. It was run in the Volunteer 500 on July 19,1970. Would Mr Lorenzen have been using the red or b ...

One thing to watch for on the AMT NASCAR chassis, the rear wheel tubs aren't symmetrical left and right. One is ahead of the other by almost 1/16" and it makes it a bear to position the kit body ...

Color was an '86 Olds factory color, I think it was called Carmine. It was a 3 step process involving a base coat, a mid coat, and a tinted clearcoat with mica. Gorgeous color in person, it was extr ...

At least once you get it you'll find the quality mediocre.

A friend of mine who recently retired from a multi-car NASCAR team told me a while back before it became current news that a major reason NASCAR is frantically dumping superspeedways for short tracks ...

Yes, and some indoor lighting (fluorescent, I'm looking at YOU...) is very blue which will shift tints cooler (blue/green/violet).

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 buil ...

They were out most recently in 2019 or thereabouts so they haven't been gone from the lineup for very long. Since they lost both Petty and Bobby Allison licensing to Salvino's it might be a while. R ...

1. Very hot water with a drop of dish detergent to lubricate the water. I have a coffee cup warmer that I set on 135F to keep the decal water very hot.

2. A hair dryer to heat the decal while yo ...

Those never achieved the enduring popularity of the square firstgen S-10. A regular cab with those miles would probably bring in the vicinity of $5K-$7K on Ebay Motors, the extended cabs seem to brin ...

I hope they corrected their paint. I ordered some about 10-12 years ago, the magenta was too dark and the yellow wasn't fluorescent in what they sent me.

Thanks for posting those pictures. Seems like Allison was everywhere back then. I noticed in the first picture, it looks like the car has the vinyl top trim on it.

It probably still had the vinyl o ...

For interior photos search for photos of the Fireball Roberts '63 Galaxie that was in the Weatherly Museum for years and is now in Lee Holman's possession because it's the same car. When Ford needed ...

Treaded. Slicks were not until 1973.

Not true.

The first slick tire was used at Talladega in '70 I think. Maybe Michigan also. They were gradually incorporated across the board.

The last tr ...

Thanks for all the input. Got some Tamiya French Blue coming and have TS-23 already on hand. Project on hold now until we get back from our vacation to Hawaii.

Jeff

For what it's worth I made ...

Dr. Craft asked me to post these photos:

Gurney seated in the car:
https://media.fotki.com/2v2arwL8rxvk5f.jpg

One of the '67 cars being prepared in Bud Moore's shop:
https://media.fotki.com/2v ...

I don't know if Gurney's car was still a shock tower car or not at Riverside. Turner's car was definitely still a shock tower car. When I built the Cyclone Hoss Ellington bought from Bud Moore I use ...

He actually drove a 1967 Ford Fairlane. There are plenty of versions of the 1966 Fairlane, which is the same except the grill and tail lights available on ebay. The reissues of the Fairlanes are a gre ...

The roof is .040" too low in the center, when measured with calipers from the bottom of the rockers to the inside of the roof at the B post. This is when compared to the other original Monogram ...

Sadly, David passed away a year or so ago.

One thing I do (credit to Nic Henson for this idea) is to take a razor saw and cut all the way through both B posts and all the way through the side portion of the C post, just leaving the material th ...

And the paint color is 1967 Ford Burnt Amber per what I have been told. It was used on municipal vehicles in Asheville.

http://mustangattitude.com/mustang/1967/1967_00124_01.jpg

Thanks, I have been using Tamiya gray fine primer lately with good results. Not to get off track but I read a couple of articles on the internet saying the best kit to do a Cole Trickle Lumina is DW's ...

I use sprays with good, easy to control nozzles like Tamiya. An airbrush is even better, but most spray cans (even hobby sprays) are too wet.

Yeah I'm a member also.

I think Jim said something about waiting on Mike Herman to send over a Lumina kit for them to work with since they did not get the molds. They are going to redesign some issues with the kit from my un ...

Did the Lumina get converted to a MC??? Odd the Lumina is MIA

Chassis was used under the '95-'97 Monte Carlo, but that's odd because the Lumina has been reissued in the past 6-7 years and I don't t ...

I've never seen one molded in blue either. Is the entire kit molded in blue or just the body?

I'm not trying to be argumentative, but am I missing something? Kirk went into the NASCAR H.O.F. as a crew chief, not a driver. He, along with Dale, Sr and the team, won four NASCAR Cup Series champio ...

It's funny that you mention that, I've been paranoid about that silver frame part you mention because a misalignment there would throw off everything. I've been fitting and test-fitting before and aft ...

For what it's worth, Mike was planning to match the roof decal to Tamiya Purple when I talked to him about the Powerslide sheet. The teams wouldn't have matched the roof number to the body paint, it ...

I took a closer look at my kit last night and while I have nowhere near the flash that Joe's kit had, there's a little bit more than I thought, so my initial statement was not entirely correct. I don' ...

This car was actually built from a street car in about a week and a half. Interior would be basically stock (dash, door panels, the cut down bench seat) for a street '59 Biscayne. Biscayne colors we ...

Darrell and Junior were both big Banjo fans right up until Bobby Allison, Petty, and a couple of other teams started running up front with Laughlin chassis.

It's well documented that Monogram photo ...

The major flash on mine appears to be limited to the silver trees and based on my experience (designed and developed injection molded plastic parts for both domestic and offshore production, everythin ...