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1974 Bobby Unser IROC Camaro
MarkJ:
Finally got this one finished. It took 333 hours to complete or 8 months, whichever way you want to look at it. It is my first totally brush painted model. I used Vallejo acrylic paint throughout the build. The 1974/75 IROC season was the first that the Camaro was used as the make for the series of 4 races. Two were at Riverside and one each at Michigan and the finale at Daytona during the 1975 Speedweeks. Unser just beat Foyt by a nose to win the race and the series championship. The Camaro was basically a stock car with unibody construction. They did not use a Banjo chassis till 1977. It had a Traco Chevy 336 cubic inch engine pumping out 440 horsepower. The engines were built within 5 horsepower up or down between them and tuned for longevity not raw power. Revs were kept at 7200. Roger Penske and Les Richter came up with the IROC series and decided after the first year using Porsches they would switch to the Camaro. 15 identical cars were built for the series with 12 actually competing and 3 kept as backups. Unser had to use a backup after crashing his car at the start of the first Riverside race. He was lucky to have escaped without any injuries. The right side of the car was caved in right to the transmission tunnel. Dave Marcis, Jim Sauter and Dick Trickle set the cars up for competition. The 1974 Camaro body was used for the 1974 through the 1980 seasons. Unser won 50,000 dollars for his championship. I learned a lot about IROC from doing this build.
Tom Birky:
Cool build Mark! I can see where those fender flares would be a ton of work. Nicely done!
Tom
Bob P.:
Very nice build. I can tell you put a lot of hours in this build.
Bob
MarkJ:
--- Quote from: Tom Birky on February 01, 2022, 11:41:31 AM ---Cool build Mark! I can see where those fender flares would be a ton of work. Nicely done!
Tom
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Tom, here are the wips if you want to see how the model evolved. Look at the first one first
http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/162792-1974-camaro/
http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/163477-1974-camaro-continued/
MarkJ:
--- Quote from: Bob P. on February 01, 2022, 12:42:32 PM ---Very nice build. I can tell you put a lot of hours in this build.
Bob
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Thanks, Bob. Yes, 333 hours was the most I ever put into one build. I almost quit a couple of times.
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