Custom Crashed Nascar (bad day at the track) 1/64 scale

This Racing Champions 1/64 scale car arrived in a lot of cars I purchased off ebay. It wasn't crashed yet, like it is in these pictures. When I sat down at the bench with it my only thoughts were to steal the tires, and toss the rest in the boneyard box. So I did not take any before pictures. Now I am kicking myself for that. I purchased the whole lot of cars mainly to steal the tires for some of my other custom cars I am working on.

As I sat drilling the rivets out, a little voice whispered in my ear. "this would make a cool wrecked race car".  It was the diecast part of my brain taking over again. I call it the diecast monkey. When it takes over there is no controlling it, and my normal brain ceases to function right. Thus no before pictures of this custom. Everything else I was working on at the time went out the window, and I went straight to tearing into and wrecking the car. 

I stole the tires off of it for a different custom project, and replaced them with these. I figured it did not need the nicer tires since it will be a wrecked car sitting off to the side or in the back of a diorama. 

Having  never attempted a crashed race car before, you would think I would at least do a google search and find some pictures of some wrecked cars to go by before starting this project. Oh, and maybe take a few before pics.

However, as soon as my mind attempted the normal thought process, the diecast monkey slapped me hard upside the head and said "are you kidding, we got no time for that, just turn the dremel on and start cutting, boy".  So I did what every good custom diecaster would do. I did what the diecast monkey told me to do. 

I think it turned out great. ​Considering this was my first attempt at a wrecked NASCAR, and that my diecast monkey was in full control on this, leaving me without the use of my normal brain functions. 

Have a GREAT week guys,

Craig
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