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Pat Redmond
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 29, 2019 6:31 pm    Post subject: john843's Valvoline Buick Regal Reply with quote








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PostPosted: Mon Jul 29, 2019 6:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice clean work....
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 29, 2019 6:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great work.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 29, 2019 9:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow! Really nice work there!
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 5:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very Very Nice.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 8:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

WOW!!!!
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 9:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This group should have a "Builders Hall of Fame" and you sir should be in it....along with 20-30 other regulars here this group has some of the best builders around surely the absolute best when it comes to NASCAR or any other Form of Stock Car Auto Racing.. its a pleasure to be a member of this site.....
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 3:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Beautiful build!!!!
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 8:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Absolutely beautiful! Thanks for posting and keep'em comin'!
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 8:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Awesome!
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 10:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very nice build!!
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 31, 2019 12:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Stellar work! Really looks outstanding.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 02, 2019 5:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks everyone for the kind words. Like I said in my OP, I often feel like I don't contribute here much, if at all. While spending huge amounts of time enjoying everyone else's builds, my technological shortcomings keep me a "text and link" sort of guy:) but at least now (Thanks again to Pat for posting) ya'll know I do build models!
Also, any questions, or especially critiques, are welcome. (I've got a tough hide)

Very Best,
John
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 01, 2019 9:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very late on this, but is that black or very dark blue on the rear of the car?
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 01, 2019 12:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

john843 wrote:
Thanks everyone for the kind words. Like I said in my OP, I often feel like I don't contribute here much, if at all. While spending huge amounts of time enjoying everyone else's builds, my technological shortcomings keep me a "text and link" sort of guy:) but at least now (Thanks again to Pat for posting) ya'll know I do build models!
Also, any questions, or especially critiques, are welcome. (I've got a tough hide)

Very Best,
John
That is a build to be proud of. No critique, one tip. a piece of bare metal foil during masking where the stripes cross the door gaps will curb that bleed of the darker color into the gap.

As I remember, some of these cars had black rears and some had blue, yes?
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 01, 2019 2:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nope, just black. There's a blue-reared restoration (replica) of this car that's been at Darlington and several other places I've seen but to anybody's knowledge, including M.C.'s daughter who was the team manager, thru the '81 and '82 season it was only black. One ex-crew guy said he thought it was scheduled to be blue for '83 but Mr. Anderson pulled out at the end of '82 and none were done in blue. In the last race at Atlanta for the team, It was definitely black.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 01, 2019 7:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If I'm not mistaken, the diecast of this car has blue on it and between that and the replica, it has a lot of people under the impression the rear was blue at some point. Except for the first race Cale ran this livery in '81 where the interior had some red in it, the appearance of the car did not change to speak of. The numeral outline color did change a little but nothing major

I can't get it to link, but if you'll check on page 2 here in the grayside section under "M.C. Anderson/Cale Shop pics", it has close up shots of the car that was the workhorse of the'81 season (according to pics) and but for small tweaks, looked that way throughout.

John
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 23, 2019 5:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

nice build john. what decal sheet is that? i have a cady sheet in my stash but never built it because i was not sure if it was black or very dark blue.



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PostPosted: Mon Dec 23, 2019 8:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

joe b wrote:
nice build john. what decal sheet is that? i have a cady sheet in my stash but never built it because i was not sure if it was black or very dark blue.



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Joe, that's a combination of a Powerslide '83 Buddy Baker T-Bird #21, a Fred Cady sheet and a Penngwen sheet.
The blue stripes are from the Baker Valvoline T-Bird sheet as it is a near match to the blue on Cale's car but is still a tad bright. It is closer to the correct blue stripes than the new Powerslide sheet however.
When I get to that point on the one I've recently started, I'm going to spray the blue and red stripes instead of using decals and use the new Powerslide sheet for the rest.
The rear of the car was BLACK for the entire two years that M.C ran that livery. There has been a lot of confusion about that because a tribute car is blue reared (like all Valvoline livery's after '82) and then the diecast was issued with blue (based on the tribute?) but the real car ran every race it ran in '81 and '82 with a black rear section.
There are some shots of Cale's main '81 car that I took at M.C.'s shop in '81 in this section (Grayside) under M.C. Anderson/ Cale shop pics on page two.

John
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 24, 2019 9:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some how I've missed seeing this Awesome build. Excellent job, John. Super clean and beautiful finish.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

John,

That a beauty!!
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2020 1:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great job!
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