Cover for the new Vintage Stock Car Model Calendar.

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Cover for the new Vintage Stock Car Model Calendar.

I may change some of the pictures before the actual months come out. This was just put together last night and I may either make new choices or shoot some new pics before the pages are posted.

I guess I'll have to own up to being a little prejudiced in favor of Ford products after checking the sheet and seeing ten of them, two GM products and no Mopars. :oops: I'll try to be a more "diverse", and not "perverse", person in the coming new year and decade. But I've been a "Blue Oval" guy for a very long time so I'm not makin' any promises. :laugh2:

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What scale are your model cars? When I was a teenager (back in the 60s) I built AMT model cars at 1/32nd scale. I used to build funny cars before AMT started to produce them themselves. Nice work btw.
 
Been building models since about 1958. Don't remember many 1/32 cars from AMT though. Mine are mostly 1/25 with almost all of them built from the old AMT tools, both original and re-releases.

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I used to build a lot the local dirt cars in the '70's and early '80's

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before I started doing mostly '50's and '60's Nascar racers around '85 or so.

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Is September's car a Cyclone,Torino or Fairlane?
I owned a '69 Fairlane 500,the back window was about 5' long,but the angle was such that you could only see about 2' through it.
Anyway,beautiful job on all the vehicles,keep 'em coming!!!!
 
Thanks for the nice comments ya'll. September is ol' Super Tex in a Torino Talladega.
 
mitchum said:
Been building models since about 1958. Don't remember many 1/32 cars from AMT though. Mine are mostly 1/25 with almost all of them built from the old AMT tools, both original and re-releases.
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I quit building model cars in 1971 when my mom won an antique clock, the clockmaker that delivered the clock saw my model cars and talked me into checking out a watchmaking school in Louisiana that I ended up attending. So for the next 29 years of my life I repaired watches while along the way I became a Certified Rolex Watchmaker and ran my own Rolex repair services for 10 years.

I miss building the models a lot. I like your work, good details. What do they look like under the hoods?
 
Under the glued down hoods (so they don't fall off and get lost when I do a show) are blocks, heads, water pumps and headers. Only what would show from the outside, gives me more time to build another car and no matter how many plug wires, fuel lines and such, I've never seen one crank up yet. LOL
 
mitchum said:
Under the glued down hoods (so they don't fall off and get lost when I do a show) are blocks, heads, water pumps and headers. Only what would show from the outside, gives me more time to build another car and no matter how many plug wires, fuel lines and such, I've never seen one crank up yet. LOL
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After becoming a watchmaker and having all the cool tools I wanted to build a running engine for under the hood of the model cars, but I never had the time to do it and now I don't have that much of a desire to do one, but it would be really cool if someone did.
 
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