Jody Ridley #90 Mercury & Hauler

[spotter23]

Jody Ridley ran his first cup race in 1973 at Atlanta (finished 5th) driving for Junie Donlavey. I recently met Jody at the Snowball Derby & hope to build a couple more cars he drove soon. I made the exhaust pipes on the car & lowered it a bit, but other than that it's pretty much box stock. The hauler is the gate bed C-600 kit with a Terry Barton resin hauler kit I found from a fellow in PA. The hauler portion needed some TLC since it was 18-20 years old, but it came to life with some messaging. Paint job on the car was tough & I probably won't do a 4 color scheme anytime soon. Also my first kit to use Tamiya paint on the whole build. Thanks for looking.
IMG_0402 by Mark Gregory, on Flickr
IMG_0401 by Mark Gregory, on Flickr
IMG_0400 by Mark Gregory, on Flickr
IMG_0403 by Mark Gregory, on Flickr

[Charlie.D]

Very nice looking build of the hauler and car

[MarkJ]

My gosh , Mark. this is one of the best Race car/ hauler combos I have seen done. Paint is beautiful and that three color mask had to be quite a challenge, but you nailed it. As usual your overall build cleanliness and getting the build correct is admirable.

[sentsat71]

Oh my....

That is quite a hauler and car!!
Great job!!

[Dirtman]

That came out terrific. Really nice looking rig!!

Rett

[Bill in MA]

Wow!   Very impressive builds. Outstanding work! 

[john843]

That is an absolutely GORGEOUS build. Don't know which looks better, the racecar or the hauler. At any rate, it's the best looking car/hauler build I've seen yet! You knocked a paint job that I wouldn't even try right out of the park!
Awesome.

John

[Bob P.]

Both the hauler and race car are fantastic. They could easily be mistaken for the real thing.

Bob

[Charlie.D]

Beautiful build you have done there

[Michael F]

Great job on both !!

[Lefturns75]

I remember the car well.  If that paint job didn't drive you to the nut house YOU BE DA MAN!!!!   I don't even want to think about trying something like that.  This whole set up looks just super sweet!  Great work here, Well Done!!!!!   You got my vote.

[Hondo]

That's a winner there, Mark.
Really nice work all the way around.

I remember it well. And Ol' Junie was a super nice fellow too.

[Gary Davis]

Man Mark....what a great job on a cool subject. GREAT paint and so very clean ( build technique).

[Buzzie oo]

Outstanding!!! Beautiful build. Very clean and well executed.