Slip's Showroom (.....of DOOOOOM!)

[Slipster17]

Cars are being reviewed, corrections being made, crews being painted, stats being added.

Didn't initially intend to make this car part of my set - but seeing as I had already blown my projected number of included cars out of the water I decided "What the heck!"

Glad I did.

 

[18kylebuschfan]

Cars are being reviewed, corrections being made, crews being painted, stats being added.

Didn't initially intend to make this car part of my set - but seeing as I had already blown my projected number of included cars out of the water I decided "What the heck!"

Glad I did.

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Beautiful! Didn't he also run a Raybestos car or was that just a diecast?

 

[Lastlap]

Beautiful! Didn't he also run a Raybestos car or was that just a diecast?

Yes, in '98.

But that was an ARCA race, probably to get experience/approval to run a plate track for '98 Cup as the Truck series didn't run at Daytona then or the Cup races he entered in '97.

 

[Slipster17]

Plugging right along - making great progress! And trying my hardest not to go half-assed on the crew details when I can find pictures and footage of the uniforms. There are some really fun and unique graphics and designs that I've discovered - one of which is the track design going from left hip and up and over the right shoulder on the #44 crew!

 

[mtblillie]

That must have been a pain to make the logo on the back line up.

 

[Slipster17]

Oh geeze...... sooooo close!

 

[Slipster17]

1997 NASCAR Winston Cup Series carset

What a labor of pure love and insanity this has been! Sometime back in 2019 when I really got back into painting again I had a thought - a bunch of the schemes that I had been toying around with all conveniently came from the same year of...

www.stunodracing.net

 

[Slipster17]

It happened today

 

[nascarfreak88]

Your work on the cars is stellar on its own as always, but re-doing all the pit crews? Absolutely superb. This is gonna be fun, massive thanks to all involved for the hard work.

 

[Lastlap]

Thank you so much @Slipster17 for this.

It's been fun seeing the day by day # pics, helping out with logos/items & photos etc

 

[Slipster17]

Thank you for the assistance with those little things!

And I think I will be taking your suggestion on including the track with the Suzuka pack when that is complete.

 

[Lastlap]

Thank you for the assistance with those little things!

And I think I will be taking your suggestion on including the track with the Suzuka pack when that is complete.

I'll get to work on that for you Sir.

 

[MrDude68]

Wow!! I cannot wait to try this out, knowing the level of attention to detail that went into it. Thank you so much Slip for sharing the work you put in, and the progress shots along the way! Truly couldn't ask for more.

 

[Slipster17]

Fun find of the evening! It's pretty well known that Suzuka 1997 was the first ever 'race' test of Good Years rain tires for the Winston Cup cars - with some teams also throwing on home made windshield wipers and brake lights to make it safely through practice and qualifying. It never occurred to me that some teams didn't have the time or man power to remove some of these additions prior to the race.

I had noted that some cars I saw during the race broadcast seemed to be lacking the normal FORD, CHEVY and PONTIAC emblems on their rear bumpers but just chalked it up to not having manufacturers support for this exhibition race. BUT - as seen is this wonderfully clear race image I found on Twitter - those few cars that I saw as missing their rear emblem most likely still all had their makeshift brake lights installed!

Note the rear of Kenny Wallace's white #72 and Lance Hooper's #1.

How cool is that?!

 

[psugorilla]

WOW not only that but just the fact it's a rear shot with some of the race exclusive cars in it is amazing. Some of these older cars we have to guess what the rear graphics were.

 

[Slipster17]

WOW not only that but just the fact it's a rear shot with some of the race exclusive cars in it is amazing. Some of these older cars we have to guess what the rear graphics were.

Seeing the back of Kenny's car like that was one of the main peices I could never see in the horrible quality broadcast images. Right ahead of him is Randy LaJoie in the #74 Staff America. I took a guess at that one based on passing shots in the race broadcast and I can see by the 'www' that is visible I think I was right!

The 02, the 1 and the 21 I had some pictures of from this / other races.

 

[Slipster17]

WOW not only that but just the fact it's a rear shot with some of the race exclusive cars in it is amazing. Some of these older cars we have to guess what the rear graphics were.

Some other absolute gems from this Twitter thread;

 

[psugorilla]

Man these are definitely some of the best pictures I have ever seen.

 

[Lastlap]

@Slipster17 You got this one?

 

[nascarfreak88]

Those are all some great finds.

Y'know, the more that I think about it... why on earth was NASCAR in Japan? Especially a bunch of the West cars? Was there really that big of an interest?