1972 Bobby Allison Southern 500 winning Coke Chevy

[MarkJ]

The kit and some photos of a test bed body of a mercury I found in my stash that could not be resurrected. I bought a new airbrush and wanted to learn on an actual model body. I don't find practicing on a piece of paper transfers well to letting you know how it will look on an actual model body. I'm also using a different kind of paint so I'm thinking the use of this body which I will paint just like the subject body including doing a two-tone paint job to see how well my paint separation line turns out. The choice of the subject was easy because of his ten wins in 1972 this one was the most iconic because his battle all day with David Pearson made it an epic race to watch for the fans. He finally made his last pass for the win 4 laps from the end. 

[MarkJ]

I just figured out something when I was looking at the box art I had just posted and remembering the ref photos I had saved from the actual race from you tube. The car he drove in the 72 southern 500 was a 1971 Monte Carlo, not a 1972 that I have purchased. The difference is in the front park lights. The 71 had them in the bumper and the 72 had them on each side of the grille. The mesh of the grille doesn't matter because this model kit has the right looking grille for a race prepared 71. I just need to fix the park light difference on the model which I think I can do with a little bit of sheet styrene here and there. This car might be the ex-Glotzbach Monte Carlo from 1971.

[bbowser]

Looking forward to this.  I had a '71 Monte, think they look great as a race car.

[FUSIONBOY]

Looking Forward to this build!  My Cousin went through 3  71-72 Montes running Enduros in MN. Things ran fantastically!!!!

[MarkJ]

2 hours ago, FUSIONBOY said:

Looking Forward to this build!  My Cousin went through 3  71-72 Montes running Enduros in MN. Things ran fantastically!!!!

Thanks Rick. I bought the paint today to do the test bed body and will choose between two different golds before I go on to the real build body.