...yea, that's what I meant by a period correct replica...not necessarily a replica of an actual car, but rather a car, any car real or not, that replicates what was actually being raced at any given time in racing history.
What always gets me is a kit modeler, not to be confused with an actual builder, who would take a '70 Chevelle kit and any non descript NASCAR kit, car manufactures brand name not with standing,as an example.....
On the forums he'll claim that he is building a Street Stock,exactly just like his 3rd cousin twice removed raced at some long forgotten bull ring in the deep South....doesn't really matter as no pictures exist since Hurricane David in '79 blew all of them up the Eastern Seaboard into New England as he claims.
To peak everyone's interest he says he's going to be kit bashing so to build this Chevelle into a dirt track stock car using "some" parts from the NASCAR kit...never mind that it is the Monogram Dale Earnhardt / Bud Moore #15 Wrangler Ford Thunderbird from 1983....heck , just shoot that small block Ford Chevy Orange and waala instant small block Chevy racing motor! No need to worry about trivial things like distributor location or what it says on the valve covers, no one will be able to get past the precise detail work of that cage and chassis. What he wont dare tell a soul is that the NASCAR stock car has already been built, but to give it the appearance that he can turn out a build in a just few days with the best of them, he'll just remove the ol' NASCAR T-Bird body and take the Chevelle body and plunk it on the already built NASCAR chassis and BINGO instant dirt track street stock race car...it's pretty easy to brush paint Chevy Orange on that already built Ford engine...hopefully not too much of that Ford Blue will show thru.
For what ever reason, there where 2 sets of decals in that Monogram Dale Earnhardt #15 Ford Thunderbird from 1983 .....so what its 30 plus years later, they will look perfect on that Street Stock.
The favorite color of choice is Red, so Red it is for this build....doesn't matter how the decals will clash with the body color.
Pictures of this build are posted and the modeler is so full of himself explaining to his jack wagon buddies, who eww and ahh, how diligently he worked on this build to make it a model of exactly what his 3rd cousin twice removed raced at some long forgotten bull ring in the deep South in 1974.
I have actually fallowed post/threads like this scenario elsewhere for my own personal entertainment.....I don't want to hear how this guy did the best he could, he didn't even attempt to try....and you cant tell him anything , he's the neighborhood master mechanic who helped Jr. Johnson build "Chivvys" in Richard Petty's shop.
I applaud and will continue to applaud those builders who put forth the extra effort to keep it real.