WHEN YOU DEMAND HIGH QUALITY AND ACCURACY, GO WITH........ SPEED CITY !

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Some of my personal Builds

Model by: Scott Kapellusch

Built as a box stock replica (no wires).

Starting with an original AMT (cream color body) and a re-issue MPC (black plastic) 1966 Charger (used for patch panels).
A Polar Lights chassis was shortened to fit the AWB body.

Scratch built features:
New wheel locations, patch panels, separate front clip, hood hinge, roll bars, windows, door hinges,
firewall, dash, a 1966 Charger interior tub was heavily modified to fit.

Regretfully, this was never cast in resin as it could have been the only correct "STARDUST" Funny Car body ever !
This was the model that sparked the interest to start - "Speed City Resin Models"

Painted in pearl white, with candy blue panel fades.

Decals by: "BILLYGOOCHE"

Model by Scott Kapellusch

Built as a box stock replica.

The resin model chassis & interior tub were tossed out and replaced with
2-plastic Model King Tempest Funny Car chassis' to do new alterations.
The original Cowl was re-cut to pull the doors in (due to a poor fit problem).
The front Valance was scratch built as well as the taillight & grill.
The Interior Tub was replaced with a Model King Tempest Funny Car (altered to fit)
and new door panel's added).

Decals:
MCW supplied the white sponsor decals.
All black tiger stripes were hand painted to match 1:1 cars stripes.

Model by Scott Kapellusch

Built as a box stock replica.

Both front & rear wheel wells were altered.
Lindburg Dodge chassis was altered to fit, as well as the interior tub and door panels.
Fred Cady decals.

Model by Scott Kapellusch

Built as a box stock replica.

An amt '66 GTO and a '67 GTO were used for the wheel well alteration's.
Plans are to some day build a correct chassis for it and cut off the front clip..... or do an all new body for Speed City ?

The "FABULOUS FARMER" name comes from an article in: DRAG RACING MAGAZINE Jan 1967

Decals were made by David Curry.

Sites Brother's
SKOOTIN' CUDA
1966 Plymouth Barracuda AWB Funny Car

Using 2 - Model King Barracuda Funny Car kits, the front wheel wells were moved forward 9".
Rear wheel wells were hogged out and flared.
An original '66 interior tub was altered to fit (rear seat was removed).

MCW decals were used, but re-painted over all red area's (and drop shadow's).
Re-painted over all gold metallic letters.
Re-painted over green & gold SKOOTIN' & CUDA letters and Cuda on skateboard.
Re-shaped Revell Keystone mag wheels to resemble "REBEL wheels"

Scratch built features: Firewall, front frame clip, Hemi Hilborn Injection Manifold (now available),
rear of chassis and frame, rear valance panel, windows & roll bars.

Model by Scott Kapellusch

Built as a box stock replica.

Scratch built features:
All body alterations, headers (aluminum tube), Transmission pan,
straight tube axle, B&M stick shift & box, all roll bars, head rest, interior floor, trunk floor, hood hinge,
molding around hole in hood, headlight block outs, licence plate backing, firewall and gas tank frame rails.
"Chevy Hilborn Injection Manifold"
(This Hilborn Injection Manifold was created for "Speed City"and now being sold as #SC-6).
"Reversed Halibrand Rear Mag Wheels"
(These Halibrand rear wheels were created for "Speed City"and now being sold as #SC-3)

2- sets of Slixx decals were used, as the bottom stripes were not included and I wanted the colors to match.

Model by Scott Kapellusch

Speed City Parts added:
* Halibrand Reversed Rear Mag Wheels
*Halibrand 15" Front Mag Wheels

Started as a resin model, but the resin body required these alterations:
The 2 - Hood vents were filled in, B-pillars installed, inner bumper moldings, wiper holes, headlight extensions,
Bumpers were replaced with corrected '66 Ford Galaxie bumpers, chassis was scrapped and replaced
with Revell Thunderbolt chassis, along with the interior tub & door panels.... also heavily modified.

Scratch built features:
Reversed Halibrand Rear Mag Wheels (now available at Speed City Resin).
To make the Caliente grill: I used sheet plastic and made grill mesh from door screen.
Mercury grill emblem (cut from AMT '66 Ford Galaxie grill), fuel injection manifold, 4" injection stacks, dash board,
headlights (from '66 Ford Galaxy), taillight block outs, hood supports, firewall, drive shaft, magneto, gauge face plate,
parachute pull, parachute mount, front suspension, trunk divider & hood scoop, header extensions, head rest, roll bars,,
front tube axle, hand painted "SOUTHERN PRECISION GRIND INC." lettering.

Model by Scott Kapellusch

Built as a box stock replica.

Speed City Parts added:
*Hemi Hilborn Intake Manifold Scratch built (before Speed City Resin business).

Scratch built features:
A '64 Dodge 330 sedan roof was grafted onto a '64 Plymouth Belvedere body,
single head light grill (fabricated from a double headlight grill).
rear wheel alterations, firewall, front and rear smooth valances, lip around front mag wheel,
rear seat deck, roll bars, green tinted side glass & clear glass (front & rear).

Freemont Racing Specialties decals were used.

Model by Scott Kapellusch

Built as a box stock replica.

Scratch built features:
Started with 2- amt/ertl '66 Nova S/S kits.
The front wheel wells were moved forward and the front part of the rear wheel well lip was curled.
The hood was glued to body. The grill was re-fabricated to resemble a '67 Nova grill & head lights.
A Polar Lights F/C chassis was shortened 6" to fit new '67 Nova body. Rear Air Foils.

Slixx decals were used.

Cole Cutler's '49 Ford Coupe

This is the centerfold from Hot Rod Oct 1989 that made me want to build this model.
The car went on to win:"Baddest Engine of the year award" in 1989" and
Best of Hot Rod Magazine"1989" and "TOP TEN" of the decade honors for the 80's.

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Model by Scott Kapellusch

This model was built in 1989 -'90

Scratch built features are:
Back drop with splatter paint & Hot Rod logo, Radiused & Flared rear wheel wells,
Dashboard, 2-piece tinted windshield, roll bars, front suspension, fuel cell, header extensions, parachute mount,
fire extinguisher pull pin, Intake block, Mallory Super Ignition, dry sump system, distributor cap,
valve stems & coil over shocks.

Painted in Guards Red..... (same color as the real car) !

Built box stock to match box art.

Scanned and re-designed the original decals to better match the color from the box art.
New shadowing on the "CHARGER" letters, new color for the blue triangle and new color for the plum panels.
Sent file for BILLYGOOCHE to print them.

Model by Scott Kapellusch

Built box stock to match box art.
Scanned and re-designed the original decals to better match the color & look of the box art.
You can see in the last photo what the original decals look like.
Sent file for BILLYGOOCHE to print them. "Special Appearance Decals" now has them for sale.

Model by Scott Kapellusch

Built box stock.
All red panels on top of car were taped off and sprayed with Guards Red.
Hand striped all top panels with yellow pin striping. Kit side panel mpc. decals were used.

Model by Scott Kapellusch

Built box stock.
Slixx decals were used in place of the incorrect original decals.
Although the Slixx decals are made for a 1/24 scale GTO body, I managed to make these fit.
Yellow tinted glass was used.

Model by Scott Kapellusch

Built box stock to match box art.

Model by Scott Kapellusch

This model was built in 1995 (before the re-issue MPC model or the die-cast) !

Starting with the body from the mpc. "More American Graffiti" Coupe, the separate roof was molded to the body.
The doors were cut out and hinged, new rear fenders were cut from an amt. '32 Ford.

Scratch built features are: Too many to list at this time !

Model by Scott Kapellusch

Built box stock with pearl yellow & candy blue canopy.

Pin striped by hand and silver flocking was added to the interior walls & floors.

Model by Scott Kapellusch

Box Art was made in Photoshop and designed to resemble other Ed Roth model boxes.

This started as an R&R Resin model, but the entire body was completely re-sculpted !
The inside of body was thinned to the thickness of a standard plastic model body and took 3 days of hard labor,
grinding with a Dremel Tool, Files & Misc. sand papers. The rear deck was also stretched 10 scale inches.
Hood's and canopy were all hinged (using the "Speed City" FLIP NOSE FRONT END method found on the "MODEL NEWS" page).

Scratch built features:
Frame, interior tub, floor & sides (modified from an amt Silhouette interior tub), engine surround and
firewall, bubble top ring, custom seat, gauge cluster, push buttons on deck, tape deck door, tail light & tail pipes.
Other misc. parts were used from several Revell "Ed Roth" kits to keep the integrity of a ROTH kit. A few parts box items too!

This model took "BEST IN SHOW" at the Modelrama model contest in Culver City, Ca. on May 8 2011

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