Tom,
Those are nice. #71 looks like cars I saw on Maine race tracks some years ago. I only have this one to show at the moment. This is a 1/25 scale model of the actual 1:1 car my best friend and I built in the spring of our last year in high school in 1966.
DSCF0004 (3) by
Nathan Pitts, on Flickr
I worked on this one for too long. Hardest thing about trying to replicate a car that you actually built is not easy as you try to incorporate everything you remember from the real car. Now I am in the middle of the next one. John Beauchamp's 60 Chevy Impala. Just got body painted yesterday. Beauchamp and his mechanic/car builder Dale Swanson came out of Harlan, IA, a small place in western Iowa and together achieved a lot of national recognition. This was testimony to their skill and ability to put winners together. I love how 2 small town boys showed how it is done over such a large part of the country. I am going to build models of several of their cars as a tribute to those 2. The "Coggin Chevrolet" car will just be another of several I hope.
I am somewhat dismayed at the lack of interest in STM lately. I came here for a while and read the entries and thought WOW there is a lot of good stuff going on here. Thought I could learn a lot and have some back and forth with some guys with similar interests. I love the history of racing cars and like to toss that in when I can. Seems like a great place to belong to. It only takes 5 or 10 minutes to make a post and contribute to the dialog. Building these is way more worthwhile than watching TV. And adds to the body of knowledge. I know there are others here with way more model building skill than me, lets keep that going.
MB