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Post by mitchum on Nov 10, 2004 18:17:25 GMT -5
After winning a few Grand National races and finishing second in the first Southern 500 in 1950, Fireball Roberts ran mostly in the modified division until the mid fifties. He was one of Ford's first factory drivers and ran this '56 Ford in the first year of the new convertible division.  |
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Post by JTRACING on Nov 10, 2004 20:22:33 GMT -5
Stunning build!!!, how did you make the grandstands ??
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Post by mitchum on Nov 10, 2004 21:25:45 GMT -5
Bought a 4X8 sheet of styrofoam insulation. Cut a piece 4X3 and used the rest to make strips that I stacked to make the grandstands. This is a view of the back side while it was under construction, The retaining wall is the styrofoam packing end caps that were on a VCR I had bought and saved because they looked like the concrete wall at Darlington. The rest just sort of grew around the idea those two pieces put in my mind when I saw them. (That happens to me a lot. You should see the whiskey still I've go planned, built from a plug I found in the paper tube that some plastic wrap was on at work. LOL) They were the right height for the wall on the front side and the back was made in a way that looked like the walkway between the seats and the wall on the real track. Only took about three days to do, not counting the paint and gravel for the track surface. I'll post a better pic of it tomorrow.  |
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Post by ONEBADMK8 on Nov 10, 2004 22:53:22 GMT -5
Man that is a HUGE amount of work! AMAZING! More pics please.
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Post by Elliot on Nov 11, 2004 21:43:45 GMT -5
Wow I thought that was real at first  |
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