INDY 500 SERVICE CARS IN 1/43

1974 Oldsmobile : I'm still waiting to find this car in 1/43 scale 🙁

1975 Buick

- Century pace car : made by Milestone for TFC

- Le Sabre parade car :

Neo Models with csutom made decals

First I made it like this :

And then, with the help of somebody that has a 3D printer :

- GMC Suburban official truck

I used a Kim's Classics Dutch police model (made by Western Models)

- 1975 fleet (before the Le Sabre get the Hust shifter and girls on its rear)

1976 GMC Vandura official truck

Altaya model made by Ixo with custom made decals

1977 Oldsmobile Delta 88 : don't exist in 1/43 scale 🙁

1978

- Chevrolet Corvette pace car prototype

Made on a Roadchamps Silver Anniversary model 

I still have to reproduce the front and rear spoilers

- Chevrolet Corvette pace car (Roadchamps)

- Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 official car 

Custom made on an ESDO kit

- Silverado official truck

Custom made on a Salvat modelcar (made by Ixo for South America market)

- 1978 fleet

Recently I get for free this beautiful Cult Cars model (made by Ugo Fadini in limited edition)

I have to restore it : big glue traces on the driver door because of a previous owner who tried to reglue the side mirror on it 🙁

The glue destroyed the door decal too.

And the removable litlle translucide T-tops parts and the side mirrors are missing.

I already have removed all the glue and the decal

I ordered new decals and a buddy of mine send me yesterday a resin part to replace the missing roof parts

And I ordered the decals for the bottom of the doors too : JIM RATHMANN on the driver side and J.R. CLOUTIER on the passenger side

So I should reproduce the rear flags too.

1979 Ford Mustang

- pace car by Tin Wizard for TFC

- official car

Made from a Norev modelcar with Tin Wizard wheels and decals

1979 Ford F-100 official truck

Made from a Greenlight model with custom made decals

The wheels come from an Anson Ford Explorer

1979 fleet

1980 Pontiac Trans Am Turbo

I used a Yatming modelcar and added JBOT decals

1981 :

I used two Autoworld Buick Regal modelcars to reproduce a pace car and an official car

Custom made decals

1982 Chevrolet Camaro : Western Models with custom made decals

1983 GMC Vandura : same modelcar used as the 1976 official truck

1984 Pontiac Fiero (ESDO kit) : one of my first pace car kits (with the 1949 Olds)

M.A. Scale Models made this pace car too :

No 1985 Oldsmobile Calais in 1/43 scale 🙁

AMR/Century made a 1986 Corvette pace car and Western Models too

The Century has no rear flashing bar and the Western windshield is too inclined.

Here is a Western models Corvette (not mine)

So I have used a Western flashing bar (found on the web) on my Century :

I used another Century model to reproduce this USAC official car 

And here is my custom made official truck (Salvat model)

Here those 3 models together :

1987 

- Chrysler Le Baron pace car (Alezan kit)

- custom made official car (Alezan kit)

- Custom made Dodge Ram pick up official truck  (Premium X)

- Dodge Ram van official truck (Greenlight)

- 1987 fleet :

 - And this one isn't in 1/43 scale : Tootsietoys