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Short Track Forums => Cars with Fenders-production bodies/late models => Topic started by: BobD on January 07, 2021, 05:18:01 PM

Title: ONE Ongoing Project - FINALLY!
Post by: BobD on January 07, 2021, 05:18:01 PM

Its been done a while... finally getting around to posting. Thanks to Greg Holland for the decals!
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50812057687_1a7a96b557_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kq65u8)20201222_142517 (https://flic.kr/p/2kq65u8) by RD Dix (https://www.flickr.com/photos/97053629@N04/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50812057642_0bb53869c7_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kq65tm)20201222_142545 (https://flic.kr/p/2kq65tm) by RD Dix (https://www.flickr.com/photos/97053629@N04/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50812091967_07e4f8aa77_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kq6fFa)20201222_142233 (https://flic.kr/p/2kq6fFa) by RD Dix (https://www.flickr.com/photos/97053629@N04/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50811200118_40488eb781_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kq1Fys)20201222_142246 (https://flic.kr/p/2kq1Fys) by RD Dix (https://www.flickr.com/photos/97053629@N04/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50811201813_97ae8c8448_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kq1G4F)20201222_142317 (https://flic.kr/p/2kq1G4F) by RD Dix (https://www.flickr.com/photos/97053629@N04/), on Flickr

Title: Re: ONE Ongoing Project - FINALLY!
Post by: john2 on January 07, 2021, 05:47:55 PM

Now that is a serious looking race car.  Very nice.

Title: Re: ONE Ongoing Project - FINALLY!
Post by: Marty W on January 07, 2021, 06:14:34 PM

I agree with John. Nice job on the stocker.

Title: Re: ONE Ongoing Project - FINALLY!
Post by: Fordguy01 on January 07, 2021, 10:24:13 PM

Beautiful!!! By the way is that the 64 Ford stocker kit and did you channel the body?

Al

Title: Re: ONE Ongoing Project - FINALLY!
Post by: sentsat71 on January 08, 2021, 06:44:23 AM

WOW!!

That is one WILD/WICKED looking stocker!!!

Title: Re: ONE Ongoing Project - FINALLY!
Post by: Gary Davis on January 08, 2021, 12:35:34 PM

Great looking short track car!! The RED sure looks good on it...

Title: Re: ONE Ongoing Project - FINALLY!
Post by: BobD on January 08, 2021, 05:26:39 PM

Thanks John, Marty, Al, Ed & Gary!  And no Al, the body is a 'first release' '64 Ford from the 60s - (see my original post in "Fab shop-under construction pics").

Title: Re: ONE Ongoing Project - FINALLY!
Post by: Bob P. on January 08, 2021, 05:30:32 PM

Excellent build Bob, well done. Also another nice set of decals from Greg.

Bob

Title: Re: ONE Ongoing Project - FINALLY!
Post by: David Bogard on January 08, 2021, 05:58:36 PM

Real nice. It reminds me a lot of the red 64 Ford that Jim Gerber drove to the Season Championship at Peoria. Well done sir!

Title: Re: ONE Ongoing Project - FINALLY!
Post by: Hondo on January 08, 2021, 06:34:26 PM

Really nice redo on the replica, Bob.
Man, ain't nobody getting past that back "bumper" !

Title: Re: ONE Ongoing Project - FINALLY!
Post by: Dirtman on January 10, 2021, 10:11:42 AM

Love it, '64s are one of my favorite short trackers.
Rett

Title: Re: ONE Ongoing Project - FINALLY!
Post by: Michael F on January 10, 2021, 01:14:18 PM

Very cool !!
Those ´64 Galaxies are great (big, giant) racecars :D :D

Title: Re: ONE Ongoing Project - FINALLY!
Post by: ARCA Guy on January 12, 2021, 03:56:10 PM

Very nice work - I assume that is another replica from the area?

Title: Re: ONE Ongoing Project - FINALLY!
Post by: BobD on January 13, 2021, 11:39:36 AM

Thanks Bob P, David, Hondo, Rett, Michael and Arca Guy for the nice comments!  Its much more difficult to 'try' & restore an older model than start from scratch!  And yes Arca Guy it is another replica from the area (see my original post in "Fab shop-under construction pics").

Title: Re: ONE Ongoing Project - FINALLY!
Post by: David Bogard on January 13, 2021, 01:47:56 PM

Hondo, those bumpers were required armor in Iowa and Illinois during that time. Many of the cars were so equally competitive that what often made the difference was a nudge or a push; sometimes a shove or a bang; sometimes worse! They also served to make your car seem 12" wide at times when it was necessary.

On a side note, a little later guys started filling in that side triangle; partially for added rigidity but mostly to keep from getting "hooked". Nothing worse than having two guys battling it out and them hooking bumpers and spiraling around taking out a handful of other cars in the process! Kind of comical; trying to unhook themselves would look a lot like a dog shaking water off! It almost always ended badly.