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spotter23

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Jody Ridley #90 Mercury & Hauler
« on: January 19, 2018, 01:16:44 PM »
Jody Ridley ran his first cup race in 1973 at Atlanta (finished 5th) driving for Junie Donlavey. I recently met Jody at the Snowball Derby & hope to build a couple more cars he drove soon. I made the exhaust pipes on the car & lowered it a bit, but other than that it's pretty much box stock. The hauler is the gate bed C-600 kit with a Terry Barton resin hauler kit I found from a fellow in PA. The hauler portion needed some TLC since it was 18-20 years old, but it came to life with some messaging. Paint job on the car was tough & I probably won't do a 4 color scheme anytime soon. Also my first kit to use Tamiya paint on the whole build. Thanks for looking.
IMG_0402 by Mark Gregory, on Flickr
IMG_0401 by Mark Gregory, on Flickr
IMG_0400 by Mark Gregory, on Flickr
IMG_0403 by Mark Gregory, on Flickr
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Charlie.D

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Re: Jody Ridley #90 Mercury & Hauler
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2018, 04:30:57 PM »
Very nice looking build of the hauler and car
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Re: Jody Ridley #90 Mercury & Hauler
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2018, 06:20:13 AM »
My gosh , Mark. this is one of the best Race car/ hauler combos I have seen done. Paint is beautiful and that three color mask had to be quite a challenge, but you nailed it. As usual your overall build cleanliness and getting the build correct is admirable.
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Re: Jody Ridley #90 Mercury & Hauler
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2018, 08:32:09 AM »
Oh my....

That is quite a hauler and car!!
Great job!!
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Re: Jody Ridley #90 Mercury & Hauler
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2018, 04:33:25 PM »
That came out terrific. Really nice looking rig!!

Rett
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Re: Jody Ridley #90 Mercury & Hauler
« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2018, 11:17:43 AM »
Wow!   Very impressive builds. Outstanding work!  8) 8)
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Re: Jody Ridley #90 Mercury & Hauler
« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2018, 05:17:53 AM »
That is an absolutely GORGEOUS build. Don't know which looks better, the racecar or the hauler. At any rate, it's the best looking car/hauler build I've seen yet! You knocked a paint job that I wouldn't even try right out of the park!
Awesome.

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Re: Jody Ridley #90 Mercury & Hauler
« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2018, 04:17:55 PM »
Both the hauler and race car are fantastic. They could easily be mistaken for the real thing.

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Re: Jody Ridley #90 Mercury & Hauler
« Reply #8 on: January 27, 2018, 09:25:16 AM »
Beautiful build you have done there
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Re: Jody Ridley #90 Mercury & Hauler
« Reply #9 on: January 27, 2018, 01:19:06 PM »
Great job on both !!
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Re: Jody Ridley #90 Mercury & Hauler
« Reply #10 on: January 27, 2018, 01:34:49 PM »
I remember the car well.  If that paint job didn't drive you to the nut house YOU BE DA MAN!!!!   I don't even want to think about trying something like that.  This whole set up looks just super sweet!  Great work here, Well Done!!!!!   You got my vote.
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Re: Jody Ridley #90 Mercury & Hauler
« Reply #11 on: January 27, 2018, 04:25:26 PM »
That's a winner there, Mark.
Really nice work all the way around.

I remember it well. And Ol' Junie was a super nice fellow too.

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Re: Jody Ridley #90 Mercury & Hauler
« Reply #12 on: January 31, 2018, 03:38:54 PM »
Man Mark....what a great job on a cool subject. GREAT paint and so very clean ( build technique).
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Re: Jody Ridley #90 Mercury & Hauler
« Reply #13 on: February 08, 2018, 09:52:34 PM »
Outstanding!!! Beautiful build. Very clean and well executed.
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