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MarkJ

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1964 NHRA B stock Pontiac GTO
« on: January 07, 2021, 04:07:28 PM »
Just finished this one. It was driven by teenager Roy Gay back in 1964. He Raced it against his more well known  brother , also a teenager, named Don Gay . He drove a 62 A stock Catalina 2 door sedan. He actually won the 1963 NHRA national championship driving it. I built Don's car back in 2018.


















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Re: 1964 NHRA B stock Pontiac GTO
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2021, 04:31:12 PM »
Nice job Mark! Love these vintage drag cars!

Marty W

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Re: 1964 NHRA B stock Pontiac GTO
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2021, 06:20:21 PM »
That's a classic! Love old school racers like this. The gold wheels really set off the blue metallic paint as well.

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Re: 1964 NHRA B stock Pontiac GTO
« Reply #3 on: January 08, 2021, 07:02:24 AM »
WOW!!!

VERY NICELY done!!!
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Re: 1964 NHRA B stock Pontiac GTO
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2021, 03:40:20 PM »
Here is the model I did of Don's car back in 2018.




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Re: 1964 NHRA B stock Pontiac GTO
« Reply #5 on: January 08, 2021, 05:33:22 PM »
Both excellent builds Mark. very nice.

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Re: 1964 NHRA B stock Pontiac GTO
« Reply #6 on: January 08, 2021, 05:59:18 PM »
Excellent craftsmanship Mark. A couple of nervous Ponchos for sure!
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Re: 1964 NHRA B stock Pontiac GTO
« Reply #7 on: January 08, 2021, 07:02:13 PM »
Great work, Mark.
Two really sweet Pontiacs.

What blue color did you use ?

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Re: 1964 NHRA B stock Pontiac GTO
« Reply #8 on: January 08, 2021, 11:06:50 PM »
...A couple of great builds.  B.t.w whats do the numbers on the door (655,657) denote?   Seen numbers before on drag cars , but could never figure them out.
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Re: 1964 NHRA B stock Pontiac GTO
« Reply #9 on: January 09, 2021, 07:59:53 AM »
Both ARE GREAT looking builds!!
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Re: 1964 NHRA B stock Pontiac GTO
« Reply #10 on: January 09, 2021, 04:43:39 PM »
Great work, Mark.
Two really sweet Pontiacs.

What blue color did you use ?

Hondo, The GTO is duplicolor honda avignon blue metallic rattle can. It was the closest thing I could find to the real color which was  Yorktown Blue poly. Don's car is something I got from model car world. I figured out what color his car was and ordered it from them . it was acrylic enamel in a bottle  that I had to shoot with my airbrush. I cant remember the name of the factory color. Here is Yorktown Blue on a real car. I didnt feel like ordering paint from mcw and using my airbrush on the GTO build.


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Re: 1964 NHRA B stock Pontiac GTO
« Reply #11 on: January 09, 2021, 11:01:42 PM »
Both are beautiful builds Mark keep em coming.

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Re: 1964 NHRA B stock Pontiac GTO
« Reply #12 on: January 10, 2021, 08:43:29 AM »
Brian, I dont know anything about nhra numbering. I would guess that they issued the numbers to the team when they registered the cars for competition. But thats just a guess.  Maybe they wanted those numbers for some unknown reason? Thanks for the reply.

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Re: 1964 NHRA B stock Pontiac GTO
« Reply #13 on: January 10, 2021, 08:55:18 AM »
Dons car color was known as Ensign Blue Poly. It appears that the wagon was probably that color too.

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Re: 1964 NHRA B stock Pontiac GTO
« Reply #14 on: January 10, 2021, 10:13:36 AM »
A lot of good detail work in these. Very well done.

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