Hotrod 97

Got some supplies for the Workbench. Sandpaper, hobby blades, Dremel cut-off wheels, a jewelers saw with extra blades, and some New and Improved Bare-Metal Foil. I also got some more Mustangs to build.

I’m going to say illustration.

Your son has good taste in cars LOL. I started with an interest in Legos, which evolved into diecasts, which then became an interest in models. So, there may be a hope for the model building hobby to carry on

Nice job on the body work. I ran into the same fitment issues with the ‘67 GT-350 that I’m currently working on.

Thank you! Some of those builds have been stalled from about 25 years ago. I thought it would be nice to finally finish them.

Thank you for the tip, Rex. I’ll be sure to do that.

Started disassembly on the interior. All I have yet to disassemble is the column and steering wheel.

I’m glad the issue is being looked at, because I had the exact same thing happen a few hours ago. I resized the photos (for example, a 2.5MB picture downsized to about 300KB) and that seemed to work.

Thank all of you for the replies. Excellent information from all of you. Some rubbing alcohol and a cotton swab took the paint right off.

Nice build, Geno! Looks great!

Is there a way to get paint off of tires without ruining them? Here is an example from the '64 Indy Pace Car that I'm rescuing.

Yep, sure do. I was rescuing a half-built Mustang Mach III. It wasn’t in the best condition, but all the parts were there. the build was going good... until I went to glue the windshield in. It needed trimmed down a bit to fit in the frame. I guess I held it a little too tight while trimming, because next thing I know the windshield split clean in half. the next hurdle was when I knocked the hood (which had the hinges applied and drying) onto the floor. I still have yet to find the hinges... and the last thing that happened before I put it away for a while was the rear broke while I was test fitting the chassis. I still have it sitting on “the shelf”. I’ll give it another go one day.

Time for me to get back to this build. After a few hours in the Purple Pond, the paint came right off the body and radiator. It appears that the radiator is assembled sideways, which is a simple fix. The inner rims are soaking in IPA, and I'm slowly but surely getting the interior disassembled.

Looks good! Nice job on the interior!

I’d say real.