Short Track Models
Short Track Forums => Cars with Fenders-production bodies/late models => Topic started by: David Bogard on February 28, 2019, 03:21:59 PM
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Decals were from Rod "Statsman" McLeod and came from the Polecat website. Very nice decals!
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Very cool, I love it. The striking paint job, and the local sponsors, really make it look right.
Olderndirt
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Ya can't get much closer than that!!!!!
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Rett
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WOW!!
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Cool replica my man!
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Awesome. Even the cut outs for the tires are the same as the 1:1. Another excellent build.
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Another fantastic replica, dead on as usual. You are the expert on these builds.
Bob
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Great job, David !! 8) 8)
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Great looking build! What brand of paint did you use? Rattle can or airbrush?
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Your diligence to making the car "right by your eye" paid off.....it looks great...a perfect replica of the 1:1 scale
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Another fine replica! Great job!
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11. That is an absolute beauty! It doesnt' hurt that it is a favorite Dodge model of mine, but it is also among my favorite builds of yours. Good choice for a build!
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Man David...you knocked this one out of the park for sure! Great job on the replica bud!! That is one of my favorite body styles also. They just look cool on the track and running hard. Great stuff.
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Fantastic David
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I like it!
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So tell us a little about the build David, please. Kit? Chassis? Paint colors? Wheels and tires? Bare chassis shots? Thanks! Love the build!
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Thanks David, that explains and helps me out a lot!
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I dragged this thread out of it's time capsule as I think that not only is this a great model but it's owner/driver is one of the best known racing personalities in this state.
This is a simply wonderful model and a tribute to a truly great car. But I think that not only is it important to know about the car, but it is also important to know what we can about the man behind the wheel of that car. Ralph Nason made more contributions to auto racing in the State of Maine than just about anyone else who ever lived. Always promoting racing as well as driving winners. He owned Unity Raceway for a long while and is known to everyone in Maine who has any interest in car racing. Ralph started racing when he was about 35 yrs old.
The first twin photo shows Ralph talking to some journalist type about the Dart, the first Chrysler Kit car on a Maine race track. They said: "The car went like hell, handled decently and looked MEAN". Just the ticket to be a big winner. The other half of that photo shows the dart holding tight on the inside of a turn.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51243134916_7cccfd26e1.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2m5bsJ9)rnason8 (https://flic.kr/p/2m5bsJ9) by Nathan Pitts (https://www.flickr.com/photos/193115025@N07/), on Flickr
This photo shows Ralph seated behind the wheel of the Dart.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51243338818_a06e8eb468.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2m5cvkG)ralphnasondart (https://flic.kr/p/2m5cvkG) by Nathan Pitts (https://www.flickr.com/photos/193115025@N07/), on Flickr
This photo shows the Nason/Dart combo celebrating another feature win.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51242427632_2efaebc34e.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2m57QtA)rnason3 (https://flic.kr/p/2m57QtA) by Nathan Pitts (https://www.flickr.com/photos/193115025@N07/), on Flickr
But the Dart was not his LAST Chrysler car by any means. This is the next one after the dart......
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51242429707_1fe78185b3.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2m57R6n)rnason1 (https://flic.kr/p/2m57R6n) by Nathan Pitts (https://www.flickr.com/photos/193115025@N07/), on Flickr
And this was his last one.
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This is a photo of Ralph much further along in age than the first ones, happens to all of us. This was taken with the grandstand at his well known Unity Raceway in the background. This is the very same grandstand I first sat in back about 1958 where I saw my first auto racing. Lot of things happened years since I first saw the place, before this past photo was taken. Lots of good memories there for sure.
I posted the other two cars in the hope someone might like to model one of them. I can probably scrounge up another picture of two if that would help anyone deciding to go that way. Lots of photos around you just have to know where to search for what you want.
Nathan