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[dc-65x]

Yup, it's 3" wide at the wheels and 3 1/4" wide at the body. The chassis width and body width go hand in hand.

[Jairus]

Color looks right as rain to me Rick!
I am painting (hopefully if I can find the time) a Kirby M8B with a wing no less for some local retro racing.
Watching your detailing with interest.

 
 

[dc-65x]

Hi Jairus,

 

I've finally got all the detailing done I'm going to attempt. The decals are all coated with Testors gloss clear (thanks to your sage advice) and trimmed to size. I hope to get them applied today.............

[dc-65x]

Here's the finished car with a little dude in his Denny Hulme outfit:

 

 

Another angle of the interior, roll bar mirrors and big honk'n stacks:

 

 

The exhaust pipes on the real cars usually exited below body. Mine exit within the rear bodywork as they did in the 1968 race at Woolward Park, Rhode Island...... ......OK, I made that up. It was just much easier to do it this way.

 

 

The Patto's decals worked out well:

 

 

 

 

Bottoms up:

 

 

On my lightly glued track the open motor would light up the vintage orange rubber all the way down the straight.

 

 

Rather than add gobs of glue like they did in the day, I chose to run modern fish rubber tires but dress up the wheels a bit with wheel inserts mounted on a plastic tube spacer:

 

 

Here's the finished product narrowed to 1969 width of .688":

 

 

The car really scoots with its black rubber! 

 

 

IMHO, these vintage vac formed "handling bodies" really look good with a little bit of extra detailing bits. I think they can hold their own with hard body cars. What's more, they are proportioned to work with more performance oriented (3/4 front - 7/8 rear) wheels and tires.

 

Thanks for following along with this journey.

 

Onward to the next build..............

[Jairus]

WOW!  That's beautiful Rick.

I hope mine turns out as pretty.

[Cap Henry]

That is awesome!!!

[Bill from NH]

Yes Rick, that's another beauty!

[dc-65x]

Thanks guys. This is the latest generation type of almost........kinda..........sorta..........semi-scale car I've built and I like it too.

 

Next I need to get it down to Rodney for testing on Eddie's Blue King before its "Lightning Lap" trial.

[SlotStox#53]

Simply stunning Rick!!

The car came out perfect, really worked your magic with this build!!

Can just hear that crazy B can spinning the orange sponge down the straight! !

[Regis4446]

:good:beautiful

[Pablo]

  Six thumbs up !!  

(I would have put more but got this Blog message: "You have posted a message with more emoticons than this community allows. Please reduce the number of emoticons you've added to the message"

[Noose]

Just another work of art buddy.  Man that is sweet!

[dc-65x]

Thanks everyone for chiming in, it's much appreciated.

 

I should be building a GT sister car but...........I've got an idea

[SlotStox#53]

I should be building a GT sister car but...........I've got an idea

Normally when you get an idea Rick it leads to yet more beautiful builds

 

Are you taking the plunge with one of the F1 cars?