NASCAR 1992 Davey Allison Texaco Havoline Thunderbird

[Dan Belcher]

After a long time, and some bad weather for doing any outdoor painting or clear coating, I am finally done with building Davey Allison's car as it looked on "One Hot Night" when the green flag dropped for the 1992 running of The Winston. This was the first speedway event run under the lights, and it was quite the memorable affair as well with an incredible finish, with Dale Earnhardt spinning from the lead in turn 3, then Kyle Petty and Davey Allison banging fenders to the checkered flag. While Davey's car got destroyed in a crash right after the finish line, I opted to build his car as it looked earlier in the night, as it was in my opinion one of the best looking racecars ever to hit the track. Plus, Robert Yates wouldn't let them push the damage car into victory lane, so I guess it's only fitting to make the car nice and clean for this build!



I even used my Kyle Petty build to recreate a photo from the side-by-side run to the finish line!





Here are some other shots of the car. You can see I did all kinds of modification and scratch building on this one to make it like that particular car. Rebuilt a lot of the rollcage, added interior details including the sponsor logos for the onboard cameras (plus the cameras and wiring!), scratch built a new spoiler, etc.

[illeagle10]

Another great build Dan! Thanks for sharing!

Jim

[mcleagle]

Excellent work, especially your scratchbuilding and interior work!  Thanks so much for the close-up photos!
Thanks for the inspiration! 
Mike Kessen

[gks1964]

Looks great!!

Gerald

[bilbo63]

Once again, I am super impressed. Your photos are excellent too!