Newgarden 2017 Fitzgerald Glider Kits

[jaw12287]

Since I've already made Newgarden's PPG and DeVilbiss cars from 2017, the only one left to add to finish off the 2017 schemes was the Fitzgerald Glider Kits car he drove to his first win for Penske at Barber and later at Pocono. This was a Montoya 2017 Fitzgerald car that I was able to lift the numbers and driver name off of using a couple quick swipes Goof off on a rag. Fair warning, that stuff works but is super abrasive. I ended up taking the paint on the shock cover down to the metal and had to use a little filler to cover the hole up before laying the decals over top. All in all, a simple quickie conversion. One of the few times it paid off that all the Penske paint schemes are essentially the same 

Thanks to Gary at GWS for the quick set of numbers!


8553D82B-EBC4-4CE2-930B-B4CAB1E6688B 


CE86442A-FABE-48C6-83F1-194852082031 


B6BCA0F0-8808-4493-ACCC-BE600C63CA65 


AF9EC58C-C55A-4D55-BD79-404AA9744D86 

BE4F7B29-E51E-4BEC-8E72-F13F666865A6 

979E5ADC-C543-4021-B62A-0D50FF95B85B

43A34DC4-1D40-43FA-90EE-5F805E3690AB 

[Calvin]

Awesome! Thats neat looking

[indy]

Sharp looking conversion. Is the Team Penske decal on the gearbox stock or did you add it? Hard to tell it was a JPM car. So do you show the JNeu winners together? Must be a sharp trio. Would love to see him pull out the improbable this weekend but if not, still glad he’s on the team for the future.

Jordan

[jaw12287]

Thanks! The Penske detail was actually stock, I think the Captain likes to spend a little more for reproductions of his team's cars because they seem to have a number of details that other teams don't usually get (Chrome suspension, extra decals, etc.). For the time being, I keep them in the boxes that come from Greenlight but I've thought about getting them all out to take some pictures of the full series, as I also have the standard Verizon car for that year as well. Since they didn't really start producing Newgarden Diecasts until late in his time with Carpenter, I've been building replicas of his other cars for the past few years and buying the newer ones as they are produced. I've got a nice collection of about 12-14 cars of his now. Hopefully one day I'll have a house with a dedicated man cave to display the 150+ cars I've collected over the years of various drivers.

As far as this weekend, It'll be a longshot for him to pull it off but I think I'll be happy however it turns out. The racing has been great this year and surprisingly balanced between the big 3 teams. Sunday will be fun to watch!