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I have kind of finished this one. Still may solder some tubing to the lower rear edge of the frame to replicate the exhaust header on the real car. It ran an Olds V8 motor with standard 4 in 1 headers turned backwards and run out under the car. I need to take the chassis apart to do the soldering, but I am in no hurry to take it all apart again. This was Mickey Thompsons car in the '62 "500". It was driven by Gurney. It could use some suspension, but I am satisfied with it as is. The paint is better than the picture shows. It is so metallic that it doesn't look very slick. The decals are from Indycals and are on the new tougher paper he is using. That paper was tough and made it easy to lay down the one piece front decal without any tearing. Let them dry 2-3 days and covered them with Testors lacquer.
I got a curbside body from Calvin Sallee and used it to make s slush cast mold. Calvin is one of the Indy car modeling forum guys and an all arround good guy, who also is into hydoplanes and airplanes and takes outstanding pictures of both.
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