1960 Marvin Panch Valiant stock car

[66340SEDAN]

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[66valiant273Sig]

You know Jim S. has a New Old Stock pair of those manifolds, also has the correct factory Hyper intake and carb,,,,,i'm sure he would let you take pics.......:glasses7:

Why yes I do know of these parts of which Mr. Jim S has, so great point. Might as well go and visually inspect them and take notes.

 

[Hyper_pak]

Here is the manifold picture when the engineers were figuring the correct length for the intake. Pete McNichol (Ramchargers) ended up with this intake on his c/gas willys. The second picture is one of Petty's Valiants.

 

[66valiant273Sig]

Here is the manifold picture when the engineers were figuring the correct length for the intake. Pete McNichol (Ramchargers) ended up with this intake on his c/gas willys. The second picture is one of Petty's Valiants.

Very cool pictures, specially the engine shot. That would be Lee Petty's valiant, looks like the 1960 season version. I believe that the Petty valiants in 1960 were not actually painted Petty blue and left the stock Valiant Med metallic blue. I can get decals to do both Lee and Richard Petty's Valiant but the Kits are too expensive to be buying up.

 

[Hyper_pak]

You could buy some resin kits and kit bash with a later duster to save the coin!

 

[66valiant273Sig]

You could buy some resin kits and kit bash with a later duster to save the coin!

I actually was about to bid on a built 60 valiant on Ebay, but I decided it looked too much like a glue bomb to deal with. I wanted it to actually do the #12 Moody valiant which slot car fever has put out once again.

 

[67 Power Wagon]

Thank you, yes the decals were probably the most challenging part of the build. The kit is actually an SMP release, a company that was bought by AMT. I was lucky to find one on Ebay from a guy in Canada. It had been painted once but stripped of well from the previous owner. Only thing missing was the dash and the steering wheel, which I got new in resin along with the front and rear bumper from Modelhaus.

WOW!!!! Love the Hyper-Pak slant 6 in it.... would LOVE to find a part to the model for the intake to mold this!!!!! (you don't see them in scale very often if at all anymore!!!!!!)

NIICE work tho!