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  1. Colored plastics; reminds me of another very trivial thing about JoHan kits -- usually if you stripped the chrome parts, they were molded of a marbleized-like mix of various colored styrenes. Never noticed any other kit maker recycling plastic scraps that way -- and not a bad idea, either! When I toss a big handful of sprue, I often wish there was somewhere to recycle it in a practical way. Oh well... Wick
  2. I have a fair percentage of JoHan models (in a small collection) and all are MoPars, c. 1960-61. Revell did Plymouth-Dodge in '62, also. They were brittle, and the 'kustom' stuff was a bit behind the curve, but nice kits overall for sure. None of mine had engines, but all had the funny pseudo-torsion bars up front, and very thick metal axles. The most notalbe thing was that our local '88-cent store" carried only Johan kits, and at that price they were much cheaper than AMT-SMP 3 in 1 kits (usually marked on the box at 1.39, which helped my budget. MoPars of the Exner era! Wick
  3. I had the Revell Buick and '56 Ford; and still have a few bits and decals from 'em! But in concentrating on the question, it was probably the Revell 'Old Timers' Model T kit, one we ostensibly bought as a Father's Day present for my late Dad about 1955. We also bought him a R-R and a few others, which I graciously glued together for him, good helpful son that I was! I still remember trying to secure the wheels on the plastic axles by the kit-recommended method of heating a screw-driver blade with his Ronson, then pressing it against the excess axle stub -- and half the time getting it so hot it fused solid! Aaugh. Dad passed in 1958; coronary. The Buick and Ford were hard to build for a ten-year-old, but I LOVED the idea of customizing them, and began to wean myself away from aircraft, ships, and tanks. My first AMT 3-in-1 was the '60 Edsel ragtop, but I (again!) built a '59 Ford for my lil' brother. When open hoods with engines began to appear, that was the best!! I had all the Spotlite model books; wish I had some now! I had the Mono duece kit, and some others, plus some decals for 'em yet. A lot went by the wayside when I packed them away in 1969 upon being inducted into the Army; wa''nt sure I was coming back. The big carton got crushed, and half the cars broken pretty severely, tho all the good ones are repaired now. Still a few from 60 years ago unfinished, but... ! Wick
  4. Haven't heard from you in a while!  Hope things okay?

    Ever have any success with the GM Y-body (Tempest) coupe roof?  I sourced a similar roof from a generous forum follower, but it is full-size and will need to be sectioned both directions, then filled out to resemble the 'faux convertible top' look of the '61-63 BOP compact coupe roof.

    Oddly, though Tempest featured a ragtop beginning in '62, they never built a true hardtop (pillarless) on the Y-bodies, though Olds and Buick both did!  The others had the aluminum 215 but hardly raced them at all, but Pontiac raced all their engines, four-banger through the 336-in. iron block in '63.  And of course there were a lot of SD 421 V-8's put in 'rope-drive' Tempests, two of which won big-time: Mickey Thompson's '62 coupes at the NHRA Nationals in Super F/X, and the factory racer cars in '63, that wont top stock and also the USAC Daytona Challenge Cup speedway race with Goldsmith.

    Well, keep in touch.  I'm giving a workshop at the VCCA All-Cal meet in Sacramento in early May, and will be taking a few Impala models, as it's on the development of the early Imps, 1958, plus '59-60.  One of the organizers is bringing buit kits from those years to share in my dislaly.  I have 1961 and '62, '64 (my son's) and a '60 Kustom I'm half-through.

    Best, Wick

  5. Hey, N CA is the center of the universe! (Well, I'M here!) Ole' Wick
  6. Sweet! Only on MCM forums?! I was converting an OLD Aurora Avanti kit into a NV Hwy Patrol car -- to save it -- and thought it might be cool to have it 'sponsored' by STP/Stude! Oh, it has a BBC. like a Lark (Canadian) I saw drag race in '65 that claimed to be a true F/X car! Wick 3191 Coronado Rd., Chico, CA 95973
  7. Thanks, I bought the decals as the 2024 IPMS show in Yuba City CA. I built an RAF Brewster Buffalo kit, and another one as the air-racer that was planned for the thing, but never built (I just faked a Wright R-2600 from the SB3A dive-bomber that they built onto it, and lowered the canopy, etc. The XP-55"B" and Shinden are almost done, and I'm glad! Nice projects, as a diorama (photos soon!) but I'm going back to automobiles; aircraft are too fiddly for my old eyes/hands! Wick
  8. Les, still seems awkward, huh? Think I'll stick with my Flintstone method! I still prefer 1/1 auto finishes, and teensy spray guns, too! Wick
  9. "Two girls for every boy" at Chico State College, formerly Chico Normal School as they called teacher's colleges. The claim was made for that ratio, and since I was only looking for ONE, I found her in '67 -- together ever since. Ironic: she was from my little tiny home town, Alturas, and we'd never met because I was graduated before she was a freshman -- tho I'd seen her, as a HS cheerleader! OC, we used to go visit our MUHS pals at Sac State and Davis to party! CSC was also supposedly in the top ten party schools nationwide; could have been! The now defunct 'Pioneer Week' was pretty out of hand, or got that way in the '70s, and was banned. Prob good you missed that, John! Anyhow, our Cox slots were pretty hard to beat in the Alturas slot racing world; just putting on better tires put you among the top dogs, in a town of 3K -- and still is! A cheap plug: I've written six novels about growing up in a small, rural Western town on Kindle; the A Place On Mars series, and they're full of adventure, music, cars, and slang -- though could be only rated PG. Cheap. Just search by my name on Amazon. Also, the non-fiction book "How to Restore Your Datsun Z-Car', c. 1990 also on Amazon. Shameless self-promotion, huh? Wick Humble
  10. Always wondered how those booths worked when you need 360-deg coverage, or even 'in the round' coverage: for aircraft for instance? You still have to handle the model, etc.? Old Philistine that I am (in rural area) I still spray 'al fresco' and mount my car bodies on a thingie that holds the body from the underside so I can pick it up and spray from my best angle. Aircraft -- doing some for the first time in 65 years -- are trickier; some kind of clamp-mount like a pylon, and then clamp that in a vice or something to let it cure/dry. Looks neat. Wick
  11. All I can find is a Firebird hood, clear plastic, unused -- not much. Also have one late GP body only. No pickup parts. Sorry, Wick
  12. Bill, thanks I tried that source last year after my MCM plea, but no longer available even then. Guess we'll have to search ebay and forums. Wick PS: how do you post those quotes in blue that you and many others have? Forums baffle me; I'm 78, and think a good conrtol is a light switch.
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