Crazy Modified

[john2]

   Don't get too close to this thing. I don't want you to get lockjaw. 

At the Memphis show, last June, Charlie D won a Davey Allison 28 kit, handed it to me, and said "Here John, you take it.  I am not going to build it. "  When I got it home, not only was it molded in black, the body was severely warped.  I put it aside.

A couple of months ago, I decided I would give it 5 to 10 minutes a day to build the chassis, and worry about a body later.  Then decided I would try to   scratch  build a flat slab sided modified out of it.

It meets nobody's rules except my own, which I made up as I went along.  But here it is.

I was never a Rusty Wallace fan, but I did buy his book to read about the family's short track and ASA days.  I always really liked that red and yellow car in ASA just before he went NASCAR.

I  did not paint anything on it that I did not feel I had to.  The chassis is mostly that raw  black plastic.  I built a complete chassis with interior, engine, and wheels.  Then I drew up a body, cut it out, and glued the sides directly to the roll cage, and added a piece at a time to get a complete body.  With it still in white, I did a minimum of putty, and sanded it in the air, and finally painted it and added decal numbers and a hand lettered sponsor.

I got sloppy with the top on the right side, but I was getting tired of it by then, and I don't have the patience with all of this that I used to.  Also should have done a better crash bar, but I quit before I finished.

Not the best building techniques, but fun nevertheless.

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[pdaly28]

looks great to me john!!!we put ours into the wall on turn 3.....now scrap

[john2]

   Thanks for the thoughts.

I put it in the wrong topic.  Maybe Tom or Dan will move it to the modifieds/open wheel cars topic.

[Hondo]

WOW, John !! That is really cool.
I am impressed with your fab skills.
With those colors, it need's Advance Auto Parts for a sponsor 

[john2]

   Thanks.

Actually, it doesn't look any worse than the 1:1 cars they race today.  lol

[Dirtman]

Looks like a pretty neat rookie car. Better than my first car probably!

Rett

[Bill in MA]

That is so cool, John! Way to think outside the box. 

[James2]

Pretty good John2...

[john2]

   Thanks for all the comments from everyone. 

[Greg Birky]

That's actually a LOT better looking car than I've seen some guys start with.  Ya still got it John.  I applaud you for sticking it through to the finish!!!😎👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🏁

[supergluek5]

The Mississippi Flash strikes again.   

Supergluek5

[john2]

   I have deleted the ugly black boxes where the pictures were.  Sorry I had to do that, but I am tired of looking at them.  The black boxes, that is.