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I watched the wheeler dealers marathon friday for the whole day. One of the cars featured was a Fiat Dino coupe.

 

Was there ever a kit of this car produced?

 

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I have been trying to research "Street Freaks" from the 70s. I can not find that much info, but from what I can find they look pretty cool. I was born in '75 so I really do not remember seeing cars like that on the road. Actually in my area .. northern VA I never really saw a lot of modded cars.  When I was 5 or 6 I could identify any car on the road, and by the time I was old enough to buy my own Hot Rod magazines in the mid 80s it was the age of monochrome and pastel colored cars with a different look, and later on Pro-Street

My question is, does the front end have to be raised up to be considered a Street Freak?

The common denominator seems to be a 60s or 70s car with a wild forced induction system, Big rear tires, Cragars, Daisy wheels, or Centerlines, and Flames or Yellow/Orange Grpahics, or almost lowrider-esqe  panel graphics.  

What generally happens to a customized car once the trend is no longer fashionable? Do people generally try to turn it into something else? or are there garages full of Pro-street, pastel colored hot rods just waiting for it to be cool again? What will happen to all the pro touring cars people built? Where do all the out of style wheels end up?  What happened to all those Billet wheels from the 80s and  90s ?

Would the The good old Monogram Camaro z/28 be a street freak right out of the box? (yeah I know the kit has issues but it is just plain fun to build)

I have always wanted one of the 1/16th street chargers since seeing one at K-B toys back in the 80s. I never bought it then later it was gone. So  when they were re-issued I bought several.

I have a few 1/16th scale kits, and I have been surveying them to see what kind of parts are available for kit bashing.

The older issues of the 1957 Corvette have a nice set of Eagle GTs, as well as BBS wheels. (the 90s issue of the 57 vette only has skinny firestones)

The DOH charger has Vector wheels  and what appear to be 70s racing tires

Still not sure quite what to do with my Street Chargers, but I am getting the urge to build one.

Back in the 70s where there cars running around as depicted in the kit with a super charger and those wild rear tires sticking out several inches from the fender?

Were BBS three piece golden lace wheels commonly seen on cars like a Charger back in the 70s?

Anyone else planning to build one of these? Have any ideas?   Not a huge aftermarket for 1/16th but there dare a few wheels out there.

I will keep researching and see if anything strikes me.

I have been using an airbrush over 20 years now, and I have yet to come up with a good way to clean metal color cups. For glass bottles and plastic bottle tops, Purple Pond works great, but Purple Stuff ruins metal. I use mostly enamel, so I have resorted to putting them in a jar of lacquer thinner and using paper towels and q-tips to try and get them clean.  When I use Acrylics, I can get them clean with soap and water or at worst windex.

any ideas on keeping color cups clean?

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So.. I am working on a 79ish camaro which is going to be a low buck bracket racer. The look I am going for with the front is new replacement parts in the black epoxy coat of new fenders, the hood will be a totally different color with Z-28 decals, as though it was picked from a junk yard, and the rest of the body is to depict a base model (presumably hit in the front at some point) I painted the body Burgundy, which was a factory color. The paint job came out better than expected. What is a good way to make it look faded and tired, as though this car was a 25 year old survivor? Ideas? The roof had some paint boogers so I was thinking of some gray paint to look like a primered spot
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