Post by Bernard Kron on Dec 19, 2016 0:53:34 GMT -5
OK, based on Mark Moore's project currently in progress I thought I'd run this up the flag pole, a build I've started for the unabashedly circle track oriented Scale Racecar Lobby board: a middle-America stock car jalopy. It's based on a terrific web site about I found chronicling the JayCee Speedway in Larned, Kansas, a 1/4 mile track that was active in the 1950's. The motors and suspension appear to be restricted to stock or mild hop ups as far as I can tell. In this case a single carb flattie and an AMT undercarriage on a Hendrix Fordor resin body.
I was particularly inspired by this picture:
That is one sanitary jalopy. Beautifully constructed and ready on race day morning, Sunday, April 27th, 1958. Pictured are the driver, Gene Coffman, and the car's owner and sponsor, Mrs. Clarice Palmer.
So, the question is, are we so late into the 50's and so far from California that this car is simply un-TRaK-able? Historically, has the tide turned enough that we're beyond the great postwar hot rodding and kustomizing mind meld and on our way to the established division between straightliners and roundy-roundy racers? NHRA vs. NASCAR/USAC? These types of cars had run throughout the postwar period but by now change was in the wind. Does it disqualify this type of model?
Regardless, DPMCC beckons and you are all invited to have a look. In the meantime, inquiring minds want to know...
My build so far:
