Short Track Models

Construction Topics => Fab shop-under construction pics => Topic started by: BobD on June 21, 2017, 05:32:17 PM

Title: '63 Chrysler
Post by: BobD on June 21, 2017, 05:32:17 PM

  I built this JoHan Chrysler in 1963 as a 'stock' model when I was 13 years old. About a year later I cut off the front fenders with the intention of building a "late model" short track stock car of this era.  Race cars did not require front fenders in our local area until mid-1967.
    Well, that build-up never got off the ground, as I used the body to 'improve' my hand-lettering techniques as a teenager.  (Sadly, I don't believe my skills have improved much).
    Recently I dusted-off the 'ol body and restarted my task of 50-some years ago - building a fictional race car of a local driver that raced an early-50s Chrysler with an early hemi at Tunis Speedway, the local dirt track. 

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4279/34463673554_706447a29e_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Uvrksb)100_3127a (https://flic.kr/p/Uvrksb) by RD Dix (https://www.flickr.com/photos/97053629@N04/), on Flickr

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4269/34922987260_3b173e8610_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Vd2rq1)100_3128 (https://flic.kr/p/Vd2rq1) by RD Dix (https://www.flickr.com/photos/97053629@N04/), on Flickr

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4269/35143423052_02853c62ec_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Vxvei7)100_3197 (https://flic.kr/p/Vxvei7) by RD Dix (https://www.flickr.com/photos/97053629@N04/), on Flickr

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4279/35310724745_5a6491ce30_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/VNhGg4)100_3200 (https://flic.kr/p/VNhGg4) by RD Dix (https://www.flickr.com/photos/97053629@N04/), on Flickr

Title: Re: '63 Chrysler
Post by: sentsat71 on June 21, 2017, 05:47:38 PM

Lookin' good!!

Title: Re: '63 Chrysler
Post by: john2 on June 21, 2017, 05:49:58 PM

 :)  Well, it is looking  better already.  Keep her going. 

Title: Re: '63 Chrysler
Post by: BobD on June 21, 2017, 10:44:39 PM

David - No, Ed did not drive a Chrysler...I was just practicing his name for another model - the same goes for the #171, a Cal Swanson Chevy I later built.

Title: Re: '63 Chrysler
Post by: BobD on June 21, 2017, 11:30:27 PM

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4231/34616957384_10e98ecb08_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/UJYXoQ)100_3272a (https://flic.kr/p/UJYXoQ) by RD Dix (https://www.flickr.com/photos/97053629@N04/), on Flickr

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4210/35071914090_e2c2c565fb_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/VrbJaY)100_3774a (https://flic.kr/p/VrbJaY) by RD Dix (https://www.flickr.com/photos/97053629@N04/), on Flickr