Van/Trailer/Sprintcar

I scored this van and trailer real cheap off evil bay awhile ago. It's been sitting there waiting for me to decide what to do with it. Have decided to go with a sprintcar transporter that may have been fairly comon in the 80's.






The wheels & tyres, mirrors & front nudge bar came from my Desert Rat, & the trailer wheels were from the parts box.

love this build mate, i am a huge sprintcar fan, top efffort

Thanks mate
This isn't the sprintcar that will be with this set up though, the one that'll I'll be building up for it is an old Sammy Swindell Blue Max sprintcar

should look good mate, i spend my time trying to build more upto date sprinters, have posted a few pics of WIP that i have started, great to see some one else who likes the sprinters, not much interest in them here, have seen very few posts with sprintcars in them, look forward to seeing this build come to life

Should be a cool setup when it's all finished.

should be a grouse looking combo once its done keep us updated

Harley fan, once I can get an affordable one (shouldnt be too hard with the reissue coming out soon) I'll do one to go with my scratched modified and super saloon (and one day in the not too distant future, scratch built stockcar)

This is gonna be a very nice set when done mate.

harley fan wrote:should look good mate, i spend my time trying to build more upto date sprinters, have posted a few pics of WIP that i have started, great to see some one else who likes the sprinters, not much interest in them here, have seen very few posts with sprintcars in them, look forward to seeing this build come to life

Thanks mate The green one is the 3rd one I built up on here, the others are Brad Doty Coors, & Steve Butler which was modernised..........Check them out in The Showroom

Thanks for the comments guys
DSF, I picked mine up off evil bay, when I got them, they where only about $20 ea + postage

Just finished making some side steps up for the van............

...great looking combo so far,

What are the lines on the side for, graphics maybe?

doorslammerfan wrote:should be a grouse looking combo once its done keep us updated

Harley fan, once I can get an affordable one (shouldnt be too hard with the reissue coming out soon) I'll do one to go with my scratched modified and super saloon (and one day in the not too distant future, scratch built stockcar)

sounds cool Door slammer fan, they are hard to come by now,and at reasonable prices as well, the re release will be a welcome one for me, i read on another forum I am a member of that they will not be re released in Australia, so time will tell, I do look forward to seeing what you come up with though

Kane wrote:What are the lines on the side for, graphics maybe?

At one stage I was thinking about turning it into a ute

Deadly wrote:

Kane wrote:What are the lines on the side for, graphics maybe?

At one stage I was thinking about turning it into a ute

Are you alright Checkmate?

Cool project mate, have to get me one of these some day. Good to hear they are going to be re-released; even if they aren't going to be readily available here, I reckon a few kits will find their way down here some way

Lucky for Checkmate I didn't cut it up then, reckon it would've looked cooooool as a "pickup"
Hopefully they'll release some new one's as well as re releasing some old ones

Deadly wrote:Lucky for Checkmate I didn't cut it up then, reckon it would've looked cooooool as a "pickup"
Hopefully they'll release some new one's as well as re releasing some old ones

the only sprintcar rerelease will be Steve Kinser's Bass Pro sponsoured car #11, no new tooling so kit will be same old thing that has been round for ages with new decals, not a great delite to a modern sprintcar nut but good to be able to get some more kits at a reasonable price to use as the base platform to modify into some of todays drivers with a load of scratch building and aftermarket parts that are available from various sources these days

Will have to keep an eye out for that one !!!!!!

Got some colour on the van ......................... but had some issues with the paint on the trailer, bonnet & tail tank for the sprintcar , and now the weather is , so can't repaint at the moment




.....also, got the sprintcar chassis made and painted.

Y'know, I've yet to build one of the many sprintcar kits in my stash, but I have done more than a few 1/1 scale cars.



Johnboy chassis, Rodek 360block, Dart heads, kinsler injection......... shot a few photers of 'em too.

Nice rig you're building, I guess the race car will be black and red like the truck? We did our first Cool Chassis 410 car in those colours.

nice colours mate, hint of Brook Tatnell to it, that sure is an old style chassis you got there, i have a few of those in my stash, one day i must have a go at a few old school sprinters ( very new to the sprintcar scene myself ) will have to seek out some pics of older Aussie cars to have a go at, the cages on them are just not compatible to convert into more recent looking chassis that i have been attempting to replicate, bit like this WIP, original barwork is grey plastic new bars made from 1.6 mm styrene rod

Carps wrote:Y'know, I've yet to build one of the many sprintcar kits in my stash, but I have done more than a few 1/1 scale cars.



Johnboy chassis, Rodek 360block, Dart heads, kinsler injection......... shot a few photers of 'em too.

Nice rig you're building, I guess the race car will be black and red like the truck? We did our first Cool Chassis 410 car in those colours.

Carps.....I offically hate you Lucky bugga !! I used to race Formula 500's.........





........the only things I didn,t build on this car was the fibreglass tail, the seat (was from the car before this). Everything else (including the rear axle & hubs) I made.

The sprintcar is mainly red panels with the black chassis. Decided to go with the black on the van as I thought it had too much red.

P.S.....If you ever want to offload some of your sprintcar stash, let me know

harley fan wrote:nice colours mate, hint of Brook Tatnell to it, that sure is an old style chassis you got there, i have a few of those in my stash, one day i must have a go at a few old school sprinters ( very new to the sprintcar scene myself ) will have to seek out some pics of older Aussie cars to have a go at, the cages on them are just not compatible to convert into more recent looking chassis that i have been attempting to replicate, bit like this WIP, original barwork is grey plastic new bars made from 1.6 mm styrene rod

Definately not Brooke Tatnell Nice chassis and panel work there mate Wanting to one day build 1 of the old Winfeild sponsered sprintcars (eg Garry Rush, George Tatnell)
This one is the Sammy Swindell Blue Max Nance sprintcar

Finally got a chance to do some more on this this afternoon. It's basically all painted now, just needs to be assembled.
The van & trailer are almost finished.

now that looks the goods, nice work so far, will be a beauty when finished mate

Cheers mate