hey y'all, today i finished this sprint car up. The ride is the iconic Beaver 12X and the driver is Stevie Smith. Stevie (one of my all time favorites... someone PLEASE make his #19 Ingersoll-Rand decals) ran this for the last part of the 1993 season after parting ways with Al Hamilton and the #77. This ride has been around for a long time, owned by Bob Vielhauer up until his death... currently owned by remaining family and partners (IIRC, i talked to one of the team owners 2 years ago at I-70). They were never really able to keep a driver for too long, not sure the reason, or have any real success. The team never seemed to run a touring series full time either. The list of drivers they had is (too) long (to list here), but the current driver is Landon Crawley, a young driver from Arkansas (some of you may remember his dad Tim, he was a local Arkansas legend in a sprint car) and they are supposed to run the entire POWRi 410 schedule. I do wish them luck.
Anyway, this is a basic Revellogram kit, painted with Tamiya pure white and the cage is Tamiya light metallic blue. The wheels and oil tank are from SWS, the tires from Modelhaus, beadlocks and dirt covers from Dwight (when he was on Shapeways, not sure if/where he is selling stuff now), rock screen is Dirt Modeler, seat is resin from Mike's, shocks and seat support are from Jaye. decals are mostly Fred Cady, with some contigencies from a Porch Time sheet and Slixx, and i messed up a tail tank number so those were ordered on Ebay from Jim Heller (not run by Heller anymore). The wing supports and nerfs were from my work area. Since they ran a Gambler chassis at the time, it was nice to not feel compelled to sand the Gambler logos off the torsion bars and pittman arm.
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You got those sprints down pat.
Quote from: jh63fan on March 24, 2026, 07:54:12 PMYou got those sprints down pat.
Thank you.
Also, i would hope so. I've built enough of them that i should know what works/what i can and can't do with them
A very good looking sprint car. Your added features sets it apart from the usual model.
Great job Dave. You put a ton of effort into your sprint cars and it shows. I really enjoy our discussions about sprint and racing in general.