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I bought one of Gary McAllister's new Trans AM bodies.... Sa-Weet! I love the way it fits my TC3. Really nice. Being me, it had to be ORANGE of course. Everything is Faskolor. I cut the hood image with a fresh cup of coffee yesterday morning. That was a pain, but looks nice on the finished body. My driver looks like The STIG, so, maybe Top Gear will invite me on the show? OK, probably not.

.crispy

All that work and it is not VTA legal? (no number on the hood )

Is that what you're running at the Southern Nationals?

flyingm

I'm pretty partial to orange too...looks good...Novak will like it too. Great job on the hood graphics.

Our 69 Mustang and 70 Pontiac Trans Am are both VTA legal.

Tommy R

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Looks sharp, Scott!!

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Thanks. I'll get a matching hood number on there for official competion. Or, take a Sharpie and write it on there!

theproffesor

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My Pro4 VTA. This thing is great. Drives like its on rails. The hood is painted on the inside and was masked off and sand blasted at a low pressure from the outside to get it flat black.

IndyRC_Racer

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The rear wing on your PRO4/HPI Mustang is mounted illegally per USVTA rules. It is probably slowing you down if you are running a 25.5 motor.

Here is a snippet of the rules from the USVTA website (http://www.usvintagetransam.com/rules/index.html) Here is a properly mounted rear "wing" on the HPI '70 Mustang (http://www.hpiracing.com/assets/imag...pp_800_600.jpg)

SWTour

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I did some decals, and shipped a handfull of McAllister Firebird bodies to Canada - where those guys run their version of the US VTA - which is called CVTA (not sure what their rules are)

This is Rob Brandow's car

rescue119

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It's a combo class. Made for beginners. The vta part is almost the same except we use 21.5 motors (roar approved) and no fdr (new)


Www.wcics.ca

rescue119

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I am looking to do my next vta body completely flat black. I have read about scuffing/sanding. I wamm wondering what grit to use. I did a sample with 150 GRIT and it still seemed shiny after 3 coats.

Any suggestions.

Thanks

bertottius

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If you have access to an airbrush I would use straight paint thinner sprayed on the outside and black on the inside.

.crispy

One of our professional painters here just uses this clear matte finish stuff in a rattle can on the outside after painting it black on the inside looks perfect.

No airbrush needed.

Both of these were done that way:





Look at the #68 on the hood. You can see where he masked over the 68, which is paint on the inside, there is a thin line of the shiny black showing through.

dodgeboy

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I add baby powder to the black to get a flat black Finnish.
I just need to remember to label it. I always forget to.

rescue119

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I forgot to mention that I want to paint on the outside because I am going to put silver on the inside so when it gets scratched it will show silver .

Don't have a air brush.

I think the stuff you are talking about is tamiya ps-55 clear flat

NutDriver

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Correct me if I'm wrong (everyone), but if you paint the body on the outside then I think that Pactra Outlaw Black will be pretty flat without any mods. I know one person who has used Krylon for Plastics with good results.

Scott