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Post by sharp on Jan 1, 2022 12:51:27 GMT -5
Just finished this one up today. I'm not too sure if the paint job is Trakable. I do know that racing stripes have been around since the 50's put I've never seen them on dragsters.
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Post by Bernard Kron on Jan 1, 2022 13:30:36 GMT -5
Probably the most sanitary execution of the venerable Revell 4-point (rollcage) dragster frame I've ever seen. And that's saying something, given how fragile and delicate it is to assemble. Beatiful!
And the paint job is classic mid-60's. Perhaps some of the most well-known racing stripe dragster paint jobs were on the various Dragmasters, the factory team for the famous Dragmaster chassis designed, built and driven by Dode Martin and Jim Nelson:
And of course the red and white striped Ramchargers. But are there many, many more.
Looks like you use lots of the Tony Nancy double kit for parts, perhaps the greatest F.E.D. parts kit ever created. Is the top-mounted blower on the SBC adapted from the Plymouth?
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Post by chepp on Jan 1, 2022 14:29:29 GMT -5
Yes, stripes on rails are TRAKable. That's a beautifully built model.
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Post by sharp on Jan 1, 2022 15:27:14 GMT -5
Thanks guys!
What I meant to say was I never seen this style of racing stripes on the top and sides of an early dragster.
Yes, most of the parts did come from the Tony Nancy kit. The engine is a Revell parts pak Ford 427 with the blower the only parts that I changed on the engine where the headers and they came from the Tony Nancy kit too.
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Post by lo51merc on Jan 1, 2022 15:48:30 GMT -5
NICE WORK! Gary
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Post by chepp on Jan 1, 2022 17:11:45 GMT -5
Here are a couple of examples:
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Post by sharp on Jan 2, 2022 13:14:24 GMT -5
Thanks for the information and pictures guys.
So I guess its safe to say its TRAKable
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Post by skip on Jan 3, 2022 8:57:05 GMT -5
Mike, Love the color combination you've got going, that's just a start! This is just so typical of a high end early 60's dragster. I say high end because this is probably like an owner who has graduated up from carbs to injection to blower as so many did. Looks like they made improvements like better paint scheme, chrome until they arrived at the snapshot in time we see here.
Racing stripes, pin stripes just about anything but those fading stripes seen on 70's Muscle Cars is Way OK here. Striping to break up a monotone paint job is another way to get a two-tone paint scheme.
Racer or Racing Stripes in the US started on the board track racers and Indy cars as a way of incorporating both the team and the sponsor's colors into one paint scheme. In the 50's the sporty car set picked up on Racing Stripes, they went kind of mainstream to any race car. In Europe Racing Stripes follow a similar line of progression being applied to race cars then to sporty cars about the same time as they were in the US. Any body's guess as to which side of the Atlantic was the first on street/track sporty cars.
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