Oval track-non-NASCAR?

[Joel Naprstek]

Those are nice!

How much scratch building did they take?

Thanks James.  Varying degrees on the scratchbuilding, the #73 has a complete Evergreen plastic tube chassis but a Palmer '40 Ford sedan body narrowed, sectioned etc.  Hood came from a model airplane fuselage.  Most all have scratchbuilt bumpers and roll cages, but kit bodies with trimmed and cut down kit chassis.  Wheels & tires are widened kit tires from various sources.  Some body parts are sheet plastic.  All are hand lettered.  Attached is an unfinished model of Eddie Mann's late 1960's modified.  Kit body, cut down kit chassis, scratch bars, cage and bumpers.  Pyro 1/32 scale '40 Ford coupe and chassis.  The sedan, ... an unfinished replica of Frankie Schnieder's late 1960's sedan started out as a Palmer '40 Ford sedan.  Body modified to look like a GM sedan, narrowed etc.  Roll cage is plastic tubing.  

Joel

[echo]

It is so nice to see these short track cars.  I have some good memories of going to the various tracks in New England with my father & cousins.  Hope to build a model of one of the cars in the future.  Great work guys.

[James2]

Very cool Joel, You must have a stash of those kits? Here's a few more...

[Joel Naprstek]

It is so nice to see these short track cars.  I have some good memories of going to the various tracks in New England with my father & cousins.  Hope to build a model of one of the cars in the future.  Great work guys.

Sounds like a lot of us Ed.  Why not research and build one of your favorites from those early days at the track?  Here's one of my favorites from 1963 ... the #1 Harold Cope owned/built that Bob Malzahn drove here in the NY-NJ-PA region.  The super mod is a fictional car.  My apologies for the poor quality photo ... I was a young teenager with a cheap camera back then.  I made a passable version of a '37 Ford coupe using a '40 Ford roof, a '36 body and fenders with molded in '40 Ford headlights.  

Joel

Edited May 20, 2016 by Joel Naprstek

[Joel Naprstek]

Nice work as always James!  I really dig the Maynard Troyer '60 Ford LM.  Are the supers scratchbuilt?  I do have a few of the 1/32 scale kits stashed away ... lol!

Joel

[James2]

FRW resin bodies and wheels. Everything else is scratch. Unfortunately Fred hasn't been selling parts for years. But there are a few other guys out there doing short cars. 

[DrKerry]

Very nice stuff guys. Try to get some of mine up sometime.

[rmvw guy]

Here's mine again.  Most of them have been posted before individually.

Edited May 21, 2016 by rmvw guy

[rmvw guy]

The only one I have based on a real car I found in an old yellow page directory.  I delivered newspapers to this place of business when I was a kid, so I had to build it.  All the rest of my cars in the previous post are pure fiction.

[Badluck 13]

Very cool Joel, You must have a stash of those kits? Here's a few more...

Love these but MAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan I love the '60 Starliner!

[Michael F]

Hey James2,

your models are great. Especially the #4 Kodak Funsaver Camaro. This model blows me away since i saw it the first time in the workbench section. One of the coolest racecarmodels ever !! Thanks for sharing it with us.

Edited May 24, 2016 by Michael F

[James2]

Hey James2,

your models are great. Especially the #4 Kodak Funsaver Camaro. This model blows me away since i saw it the first time in the workbench section. One of the coolest racecarmodels ever !! Thanks for sharing it with us.

Thanks so much Michael, I really enjoyed building that one! I have a few pieces left to do one more of those early Camaro's...

[Michael F]

Looking forward to see it, James!

[Joel Naprstek]

I know this isn't the art thread but here's two art assignments that I did for an upcoming event that should be of interest to all here.  The oval image will be a give away poster to all attending the autograph session on the 4th.  There will also be a large 3ft banner of the poster given away to one lucky number found in the night's program.  The second piece is the event promo/advertising card that I did for the event.

Many vintage oval track cars on display and the track, many former drivers and crew in attendance also.  I hope to see some of you there!

Joel

www.JFNStudios.net 

[satterwhite78]

 

[dragcarz]

[DumpyDan]

[Joel Naprstek]

Some interesting and great models here, variety too.  Thanks to all for sharing.    Here's another shot of some of my 1/32 scale efforts.  The #24 is a never completed replica of the Stan Ploski-Ken Brenn coupe, made from a '36 Ford coupe kit.  The other is another angle on the Stan Wetmore #73.  Both were done back around '74-5.  

Joel

[Lizard Racing]

This is one I built some time ago.  A Kurtis-Offy midget driven by Johnny Tolan that won the 1947 Rocky Mountain Midget Racing Association championship.

[DrKerry]

Some of my junk....

Legends car

[DrKerry]

 

[rmvw guy]

I love this thread, nice job guys!

Here's another old jalopie.

[slider51]

[Joel Naprstek]

Here's another 1/32 scale model that I built back in the late 1980's.  At the time I didn't have enough reference to build a replica so I did a fictional car based on what information and pictures I did have.  The model started out as a Revell 1/32 scale snapkit.  There's no engine in it ... I actually just wanted to build it for a diorama that I built and to photgraph it.  A few years later I also used the model photos after I'd come across some better reference material to paint a picture of Curtis Turner and Joe Weatherly in their 1957 Ford NASCAR Convertible Division cars.

The model was hand lettered (the logo decals are Fred Cady); model railroad boltheads, screen, Evergreen tubing and sheet plastic used, wheels and tires are from a Palmer 1940 Ford kid.  Paint is airpbrush.  It was photographed using a homemade pinhole lens on a 35mm camera.  

Joel 

[James2]

Another good one.