When I was a kid Butch Hartman was my favorite driver when my Dad and I went to the USAC stock car races at the Milwaukee Mile in the early '70s. Richard Petty raced NASCAR in the South and Butch raced USAC in the Midwest -- both wheeled some sweet Dodge Chargers.

Here is Butch's car in one of the only pics I could find online:
http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/500/butch1.jpg

Here is my tribute to him (he passed away in 1994 I believe)
http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/500/ButchHartman.jpg

I'll be racing this car in our HP7 Nostalgia stock car division this winter.

Decals are from HO Express, body from a later model Mattel twin pack car (hence the crap QC on the front bumper fit). Car was already Hilltop yellow, just had to thinner off some stripes and add the black paint and decals. :thumbsup:

thats one sweet looking dodge charger !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :thumbsup:

MOPAR RULEZ!!!

Wes

Sweet ride, doba. I like the hitory you added.

You'll have fun racing that man. :)

Very nice tribute, Doba! I just love that.:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Doba,
Another fine job! :thumbsup::thumbsup: rr

Nice Dodge, Doba!!! Yellow, black, trimmed with red stickers, doesn't get any better!!! I hope it looks this good after the race season. "Butch" would have enjoyed seeing that, I'm sure!!! RM

very nicely done!

Way cool dude.

You did a great job on that !