Tommy Ivo Dragster

Bored again waiting for glue to dry so found this in the cabinet. An oldie but a goldie & the last time I plumb a double row injector system. Kit is out of the box other than the engine detailing. I spent hours trying to get the headers to line up & threw away that chrome windscreen other than that it was a great kit to build

If anyone has the Show Boat could you chuck a photo on for me. I don't have one yet but would like to see a finished one

Been some great models on the site. Well done gentlemen

That is Awesome mate well done.
Cheers Marshie

Very well done me likes it.

itsa vera nicea nah mate seriously good job it looks great .

Looks sweet Mate.
One little niggle though, get some paint on them exhaust. Other than that awesome job with the detail and overall

cool old school rail dragster

Nice.

I'm always tempted by the Showboat (how can you go past 4 engines & all wheels spinning?).
But i'd be tempted to also get hold of the Wagon Master resin trans kit...

Very cool, great engine detail. Sweet job.

Nice job

Well done Mr. Nota - another champion build.

Love this Ivo car, You've done a great job on all the detailing paint and decals , very sweet looking model. I'm interested in what colour you painted it as referance photos seem to vary.
Here's some photos of the leftovers of an incomplete Showboat Kit.



cheers peter.

Great job, very neat.

Nice job man as always. I might just have to go and get myself one of these now damn YOU!!!!! lol

What a great build, what colour have you painted it ?

Apologies i meant to answer this one earlier
Paint is "Colors by Boyd" Orange Pearl enamel - Did it with the old airbrush & its got me beat that it turned out OK. Its hard trying to match colours. Even in the 70's colour photo reproduction was iffy & what you see on the net could be anything. I just try to put myself in Tommy's shoes & pick what i think is best. There was no sponsership demands back then, you could choose your own colour which makes it harder for us. Mind you I have seen some wide variation in Gulf blue
Headers don't come up that badly live. Frankly I was so pinged off just getting them roughly lined up that I just stuck them on & ran away. Later models are better!
Brian