kalbert

That is neat, haven't seen one for many years! The way I heard the story was it was a promotional thing and the box art was the best part. The "kit" inside was anything, possibly not even parts from the same kit or the correct/enough parts to build it into anything. I'd still like to get one though.

Those Q-Jets look sweet!

What are you thinking for criteria? I've got a couple drag car ideas, a group build might motivate me to do one.

You could probably cut the cab down to a two door pretty easily. Ext cab would be a little more work to get the windows right.

Have you got a class picture with the whole 59 class (so far anyway) together?

+1 Plasti-Kote is my primer flavor of choice. Thin, but covers well, sands easy, dries fast, a big can of it is $7-8, sprays out nice. It's become hard to find local to me, I've tried Dupli-Color and it's ok, but is pretty thin and doesn't cover as nice.

I have not used the 2x, but I have used other Rustoleum paints and I'm still waiting for some of those projects to dry. Does the 2x dry faster?

I always kinda dug the fastbacks too. I think because there somewhat unusual, you don't see parking lots filled with them. I really dig the Olds cruiser in the background! Any rumors about a downsize B body?

You were found not guilty of a criminal offense, not causing (or having some role in) the event. You're still mixing crime and responsibility together. They are handled as separate things.

Blech! Maybe that 56 Ford ain't such a bad kit...

Must not leave the Revell '56 F100 out of this list. What a turd. Just completely worn out tools or has it been this bad from inception? I did manage to make something out of it, but wow talk about ill fitting flashy pile. I threw in the towel on the doors and fixed them permanently open.

Nice work! The interior is fantastic, I really like the seat belts and the subtle variation in color for the fabric and plastic parts.

Kinda looked like the 55 just floated away from him. There's no aero on that shoe box to hold it down. When he got some speed it got light, and when he tried to (over)correct it got away. Camaro guy looks like he didnt hook and never gave it a chance to.

In reality, G bodies and A bodies shared quite a bit, but in models at most they'd share a chassis. Even to do different G bodies you'd need totally different body tools, interiors, motors, trim parts, wheels, etc. There's not as much in common on the kits as there is on the real deals. We're not talking Chevy/GMC pickups that are the same save for a different grille and tailgate emblem. The G's each had a style all their own.

Pretty car, lots of money in that one. Shame they spent so little on safety and followig the rules. Looks like a bench seat and a lap belt if that? The guy and his car were better suited to sitting in the show car area looking good.

If you have to ask, you're actually saying you don't have the wherewithal to buy or operate a magazine. A serious buyer makes a serious offer, through the right channels, which is not forum post. A serious buyer would do the research to work up a valuation based on a variety of criteria, which would not include input from message board trolls.

I'm with you there! The people who know, know. The rest of us, no matter how "inside" can only speculate.

I'd think it to be ok, assuming you're not a power user? The mini is a pretty good phone. It calls people and people can call you, and it's small size is nice in the pocket, but it's kinda mediocre as a computer. The camera is good enough, battery is good enough, etc for average use but it's not cutting edge stuff. It is an old model too so there probably won't be many, if any, software updates. Personally I'm a big fan of the Moto X. It has done everything I want it to do, nothing more, nothing less. Possibly the best phone out there. Sadly it's a year old now too so I imagine the updates will taper off soon. It's age probably puts it near the price of the Mini. It's a little larger, but is not a tank like the Droid Maxx or the Samsung stuff. It hasn't got alot of the bells and whistles of the premium phones, but nobody uses the features the X doesn't have. It's also assembled in Texas, so there's that. My second choice is probably a HTC One, as I find myself watching more and more videos while eating lunch or killing time. The front facing stereo speakers make it the hands down winner for that. No more cupping hands behind the phone to try and direct the sound back to my ears!

Well this is interesting news. I'd be down for a couple. I'm not going to model the entire 2014 roster, but I'd knock out a couple of my favorites for sure. I'd think current kits would be a nice shot in the arm for NASCAR, Round2, the various aftermarket decal makers, and of course the fans. Assuming NASCAR and the various sponsors get real about licensing it should be a slam dunk.

Bad ass! It's a shame nobody has kitted that body style. Your kitscratchbash is awesome though, you obviously didn't need no kit!

I'm a member here obviously, and on the SAE forum, though I don't participate there much. The format of the forum is a little odd. Likewise with the Trains forum, a member there, but it too is odd. I participate on Nscale.net quite frequently, as I'm also interested in model railroading. 67-72chevytrucks.com is another forum which I am am member of, but don't actively participate in. Mostly just browse and look at pictures. I recently also joined abody.net and the chevycitationsforever yahoo group as well, but mostly to peruse and look at pictures. What other online communities do you belong to, model car or otherwise?

I gave up, you don't have to belabor this point anymore, and Tom's post was in agreement with you. You couldn't sit there and allow another forum member to have the last word, even if it was in support of you. You must open your mouth and add your piece, just to be sure we all know that you know more about it than he does too. Well played sir, a classic know-it-all approach.

Ok, ok. You win Harry, I surrender. You're clearly an expert on whatever you think this topic is too. Obviously none of the technologies that were invested in and advanced during the war would have influenced automobile production after the war. War time advancements are just like NASCAR kits. They're only useful for their immediate intended purpose, and to suggest that they might have application in other areas is absurd.

For sure!

The "big 3" didn't have time to build new cars, and the low demand for new automobiles made them not as lucrative as military contract work. Why waste resources building cars that won't sell when you could be building war machines who's orders are so big they are hard to fill? Certainly did have engineers with their eyes open planning and soaking up ideas from their work on wartime projects that would be implemented as soon as automobile production resumed though. Factories at the beginning of the war that were converted from building automobiles to building war machines became specialized for making war machines very efficiently very quickly. Every ounce of manufacturing technology that was developed for building war machines that was already implemented in the factories at the end of the war, was converted after the war to produce more automobiles faster to keep up with the demand of soldiers returning home to a booming economy with money to spend. Advancements in metallurgy, casting, machining, and stamping, electronics, and fuels that were made during the war enabled the OHV engines, automatic transmissions, down to radios with longer range and clearer sound that emerged after the war. The same is true for industry throughout the world, though some areas needed much rebuilding in infrastructure before industry could resume, as it came online, they all built more better faster as a result of knowledge gained during the competition of war. Technology, as a whole, advances very quickly when there is extreme competition, as in war.