Sixgunner68

This should be good!! I'll be following this build for sure!

Welcome! I lived in Sterling Heights up until I was in my late 20's.Moved to Tennessee in 1995 (got tired of being cold ). I know what it's like to have only a few hours a week to build (If I'm lucky), but that doesn't stop me from adding to the stash!

Sweet! Looks like there's alot going on under the hood!

Very nice! Wouldn't have known it was a "snap".

Should be interesting. I work in Chattanooga, and I still see these around town every once in awhile. I see the usual ones around here - Hummers, Lincoln, Caddy's, Chevy's, even some F-150's. A Jeep is one I haven't seen before, so looking forward seeing where you're taking this one.

Thanks MIke! I haven't quite decided yet. I've had to put my projects on hold for awhile due to the fact that my wife is currently not working, so my project funding has dried up. I may not be able to get back to this until the end of the year (hopefully sooner).

I wondered that myself. Got a couple of ideas kicking around in my head!

Sweet!

Lookin' good so far!! Can't wait to see more!

Very cool!

Paulo, don't worry about your english, the pictures tell us everything we need to know! I see that stack of Tamiya boxes in the background! What else have you been up to?

Thanks for the link Bill! I stumbled across it once, but couldn't remember where it was! There is a lot of pics on there (I haven't gotten through the whole thing yet - 170+ pages! Wow!). It seems like they had as many different setups as they did races! Thanks for the input guys!

You should be proud of this one! incredible job! Love the wiring & plumbing!!!

Just a quick update: I did some digging around on the net looking for some more info. It seems more than likely this car was a four speed. When I searched around for some clarification on the color of this car, it shows that it was Poppy Red. The automotive paint websites I looked at said that the "Poppy Red" was the same color that Ford calls: Calypso Coral, Competition Orange, Medium Coral, and of course Poppy Red (color codes 1, 2A, 3, M1730A, and S). It sure looks alot more like orange, than it does red to me (from the box art, I thought that this car was supposed to be red). I've got the following items dechroming: Front bumper (the chrome plating was missing on about 25% of this piece, plus everything I read said this bumper was aluminum), valve covers (these were badly scratched), fan, intake manifold, carbs, air intake box, and two of the rims. I saw alot of pictures with painted steel wheels in the back, and plated rims up front (so I figured that I would try that look). I use Liquid Drano Max Gel to dechrome, it takes less than 30 seconds, but I usually let it set over night anyway. I thought it was funny that Ford tried to use a fiberglass bumper, but the NHRA said "no", so they went to the aluminum bumper which ended up weighing less than the fiberglass one. Sorry I don't have any pictures yet. I'm pretty busy during the week, so I usually only have time to try and get some modeling done on the weekend (so bear with me). The more I read, and watch about the Thunderbolts, the more I like 'em. I may have to pick up a spare kit (or two)!!! Here's a cool video about the Thunderbolts: http://youtu.be/p7506a6KipU

I say the Coronet.

I haven't seen this kit in person, but I remember when the 1:1 car came out, It was in just about every car magazine you could think of! It will be intresting to see what you do with it (build it any way you want but just don't trade it away, you may regret it later!)

I like it! Great job!

Love that color, Tulio. I had a friend in high school that had a galaxie that same color. I think his may have been a 63, nice car but no power steering (those low speed turns were rough!). That color looks right from what I remember.

Very cool! You did a great job on this one.

Thanks for the pic! it answers my other question - I see a manual transmission! That means an automatic for the spares box. P.S. I don't mind you watching, but please no pointing and laughing!

I thought that was pretty cool too. I haven't seen that before. I haven't been building for too long, so I don't have much in the way of spare parts, so I was glad to see that I could add a transmission to the "spares" box! Now I just have to figure out which one to use. Here's a pic of them (for those of you who haven't seen them before). Well, what do you know? Orange!. What do you guys think, automatic or manual? I just wish they had a seperate trans pan, instead of having it split down the middle (would have liked that for the oil pan too).

Thanks for the heads up guys! I was afraid that the orange plastic was going to be a problem. Makes me wonder why companies would mold a kit in color knowing that it will be a problem for the builders? I might understand if they molded it in the actual body color, but this kit is not even the right color! I read somewhere about putting a silver base coat on after the primer and then using a primer sealer over that, but I'll have to dig that article up and read it again. I didn't pay much attention to it before because all my car kits were molded in white.

Thanks for the advice Carl! I have used the Tamiya primer, but its been awhile and you're right, it is expensive and it's a small can so it doesn't go as far as I would like.

That is some awesome paint work!! I wish I could lay paint down that smooth!!

Just started on this kit today. If anybody has any experience on this one, please feel free to let me know of any pitfalls to watch out for! I have only built a couple of models before, but none of them were ever modeled in color, so that's throwing me a little bit. There is a whole lot of orange plastic in this kit!!! On my other build I had used "Dupli-Color Perfect Match Scratch Filler Primer". It seemed to work very well (and laid down nice), but I had pretty much run out and when I went to the auto parts store they didn't have any, so I picked up some "Dupli-Color Sandable Primer". I got both the "Gray Hot Rod Primer" and "White Primer". (I had tried using Krylon primer on a model a couple years ago and it was a disaster, so I switched to the Dupli-Color). I am wondering if the gray will stop any bleed through? Any advice you guys have would be helpful. Thanks in advance!