1969 Chevelle Street Outlaw
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Bill NewcomerMy computer makes it look red-ish. The color is actually Testors Competition Orange. Which is about the same color as the fruit.
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This model was built specifically for the Lane Auto Modeler's Association 2009 Spring contest. The theme was 'Race Cars Past and Present'. I do not have any race cars to show so, I made this one. It has a resin "Outlaw" cowl induction hood on a basic AMT body. The "502" hood emblems are photoetch items. I didn't go all the way and put in a roll cage but I did install a fire extinguisher on the console and relocated the battery to the trunk. For efficiency for other projects, I built 5 big block Chevy engines at all the same time and selected the induction system based on it fitting under the hood. Normally the real race cars have a single 4bbl but, I wanted some flash thus the Webber setup. The chrome on all four wheels were messed up so I stripped them and painted them with rattle can chrome. The rear rims were Dremmeled from the rear to fully highlight the spokes. The slicks were fitted by slightly clearancing the frame rails. I did scratch build the distributor and wires. BMF was used to replicate the chro