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Gatormobile Birthday Racer #2- "Here's Buck"

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    August 2009
Gatormobile Birthday Racer #2- "Here's Buck"
Posted by doolan on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 5:50 PM

 

Even in the twilight of a career that ranged from early dirt track modifieds to pioneer Grand Nationals on dirt to the intimidating speeds and high banks of Talladega, Buck Baker was a force to be reckoned with. Pity the upstart that thought he could teach that "old man in tha little Chevelle" a thing or two about racing, by that time there wasn't much that the GN champion and three time winner of the Southern 500 hadn't already seen.

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    March 2006
Posted by TD4438 on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 7:17 AM
Do you make your own decals for these?I would imagine you also have a ton of reference photos as well.Keep 'em comin'.

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    August 2009
Posted by doolan on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 6:37 PM

With the exception of the little front fender decals, all the lettering on both the Chevelle and the Monte Carlo ran out the ends of Gator's magic brushes. We've been hand lettering our stuff for a very long time now.

 

 

It's really not as hard to do as you might think. The trick is in prepparing the brushes and the paint. After that it's pretty much just good penmanship and a steady hand. If I ever get my DVD finished I plan to have a section on hand lettering on it.

 

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