1987-1988 Busch Grand National Carset for Nascar Racing 2003/ Aerowar88-mod
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!!BIG!! Thanks to the Pits for the Aerowar88 mod!!!! Great job!


Aero88 mod for Nascar Racing 2003 available at http://www.theuspits.com/  
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Contents: 63 cars in all- some cars are used in both 1987 and 1988

          32 1987 Busch Grand National cars with pit crews rated for 1987.
          44 1988 Busch Grand National Cars with pit crews rated for 1988.
           2 fictional BGN cars
           1 1987 BGN carlist
           1 1988 BGN carlist

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Instructions: Unzip and place contents of folder into  C:\Papyrus\NASCAR Racing 2003 Season\series\aero88 --or the directory where you installed Nascar Racing 2003

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     Finding pictures and resources for the Busch series in the '80s is difficult at best. This carset started out as a small 25 carset, but it seemed everytime I thought I could not find anymore pics, another one would show up. The book "Second to None" by Rick Houston was a great resourse. I recommend it highly for anyone wishing to read more about some of NASCAR's unsung heroes. I did my best to be as accurate as possible, but I was limited by the quality of some of the pics I was working with. overall, I think the paintschemes are fairly accurate. 


   Busch Grand National drivers used many different models of cars in the Busch series in the 80s. I painted 8 different templates, mostly GM "x-body" cars. heres a list of new templates made
   Chevy Nova
   Pontiac Ventura (early 80s)
   Pontiac Ventura (late 80s)
   Olds Omega
   Buick Skylark
   Buick Lemans 
   Chevrolet Caprice
   Ford Fairmont Futura (no cars in this set using this one)
 
   Many teams ran 3 or more models of cars during a season. One was used as a speedway car, one- an intermediate, and another- a short track car. There were no set rules however- or even a consensus. At Daytona one could see Novas, Monte Carlo aerocoupes, Buick Skylarks, and Buick lemans all competing in the same race. Note, I used the existing Aero-war 88 car car models, so the cars are not completely accurate in shape, but slapping a Nova template over a buick body came out better than I thought it would. Hope everyone enjoys the carset!

    Thanks go out to Danny Dunaway for his help, also Don Bouquin and Dave Hoy again for thier help on the 87 Winston Cup carset. Thanks MrNascar40 for the BGN pics. Thanks to Alex Santantonio at Nascarnet and Jan Kohl at the Pits for posting the 1987 Winston cup carset and for the many years of giving everyone access to the many resources the sim community produces.
    
   Must thank Victor Vance for the awesome grills, JimC, VIOLENT J624, SUPERBEE and Christoph from nascar.li for the contingencies. Thanks to the Pits for the Monte Carlo and T-Bird templates, and Tundra_shumacher for letting me update his 2+2 Pontiac Grand Prix template.  Thanks also to Jan, Goy and Darrell at IWCCCARS for posting my cars there. 

  
  And finally, MANY, MANY thanks to everyone that downloaded my cars and the comments and suggestions, I appreciate  it!

 

Scott Hoarty

SH71