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Daddyfink

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  1. For Drag Builder, these are the ones that I notice the most: Revell Miss Deal Funny Car - Wheels, Tires, Engine and Suspension Revell Tony Nancy Double Dragster Set - Front Axles, injectors and scoops, chassis Monogram 80' Pro Stocks - Engines, tires and wheels, rear suspensions, chassis MPC/AMT Willy Borsch Winged Express- Chassis under almost any altered out there, engine, wheels and tires, engine Revell 70's Funny Cars- Chassis Donors for Resin bodies Polar Lights Funny Cars- Chassis Donors AMT Piranha Funny Car- Wheels and tires, engine, chassis AMT Pro Street cars- Suspension and engines And those are just off the top of my head! Your mileage may vary!
  2. I have a few kit I know I will probably never build, due to subject matter, but I do enjoy owning them and will keep them in my stash. I am selling off the stuff that is common or that I have no interest in building them. And using the money to buy stuff I do want!
  3. Oil filter on the early Chrysler is basically total opposite of the 426. Passenger side at the rear of the block. Most just use a remote filter adapter to relocate the filter.
  4. What most modelers are trying to do, and what should be the goal, is too fool the eye into seeing something as being more real. Some of the aftermarket stuff is just brutally out of scale or looks way to stiff and fake. I have seen builders do more with just paint than someone with machined everything. I know, some of those builds can be quite awe inspiring,but, they are mostly built by modelers who are dedicated to that style of building and follow through. Some will just build something box stock, and then slap turned wheels on them that are out of scale and look fake, and think they should win. Never assume you will win anything and you will be better off in the end. I once knew and old judge, who I will only mention by his initials, Drew Hierwarter, who taught me the basics of judging and I still use them to this day! I used to love seeing him loose it when folks brought in race cars with super deep and shiny paint jobs! Especially dirt track cars!! LOL! Just my 2 cents!
  5. The rest of the Rail Rod
  6. A quick compare between the Garlits kit and the Fiat Rail Rod Slingshot offshoot. Lets remember that the tree was changed to make the fuel injected car. I do not yet have a YA kit to compare them to. Garlits Chrome Fiat Rail Chrome Instructions Hope this helps!
  7. I would call that a Street Freak before I call it a Gasser. Just my opinion.
  8. I am thinking of the AMT re-issue Wynn's Charger RED car! Sorry! I should know better since I have the MPC Garlits FED car!! Ok, now I need to get my hands on the Young American to compare the chrome trees. Tomorrow I will post a pic of the Garlits chrome and see if we can notice some differences with the chrome tree posted by 1320Wayne. Tim, are you talking about the piece that looks like a puke tank?
  9. Nice!
  10. Hey Drew, is that NHRA Black or NASCAR Black? LOL! That is looking very cool! That is one car I would like to replicate in 1/16th Jesse C.
  11. Nice! I love this car! My friend Pete Johnson built one using the Scale Motorsports kit and is currently building a second one! http://store.scalemotorsport.com/merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=sm&Product_Code=CB_JOHNSON01&Category_Code=
  12. Nice 521! I used to have one! Great little trucks! I really would like to find a nice one again. That must have come from the U.S. as the L Motor was not imported into Mexico. Most of them came with the push rod engines instead of the overhead cam ones. The 510, or 1600 in Mexico, even came without its trademark IRS rear end and came with live axle setups! Pretty rare to find those these days!
  13. The original '77 issue had a blue body. Hope that helps!
  14. The Wynn's Charger and the Young American do not share any parts at all. The Charger is a Rear Engine car vs. a Front Engine Neither car had a dry sump system. These where the times where most of these cars still ran factory style oil pumps and regular style oil filters. Dual filters came into vogue in the early 70's and the Garlits car just ran one in the stock location. And it was a LEE filter! LOL! Most car ran a remote filter adapter and ran two filters to try and keep the engines debris free. This was before the tear downs after every run and you had to make those engines survive.
  15. Ok, here we go! Blue Chassis - Don Garlits Dragster - Also became the Young American and the Roaring Rail Dragster with Fiat Coupe body - The longest wheebase in the bunch -426 HEMI White Chassis - Tommy Ivo Dragster - Also became the Two Much Twin Engine Dragster and the Digger Cuda - 426 HEMI Black Chassis - Ramchargers Dragster - Also became the Carl Casper's Galloping Ghost, American Graffiti Milner's Dragster and the Jawbreaker Dragster w/Coupe body - 426 HEMI Blue Bodied Dragster - Don Garlits Wynn's Jammer Dragster - Also became the Hippy Hemi - 330 HEMI Not shown, and only because I do not want to open the bag in the box, is the Carl Casper's Cosmic Charger. That chassis is comparable to the Young American but it is a two piece chassis that joins at the firewall. This kit also has the 426 HEMI The almost finished car in the back is a Two Much Dragster with some slight tweaking. The blue bodied car is the Garlits Wynn's Jammer with a Fremont Resins body and decals by Skip Samples If I forgot any, please chime in
  16. Yes, this is cool! Star Wars Geeks will know what this is
  17. I just picked it up today and it is actually pretty nice. I stopped buying these type of non traditional type rod mags because they where just loaded with way too much junk and not enough car stuff. I don't care for the pin ups, wild party pics, someone pin striping something, rock a billy bands pics in a parking lot, etc. etc..... Lots of pics in a mag that feels solid in your hands and you will want to keep in the collection. I have noticed that many mags are moving to this style of printing. Recoil and Geek are two mags that are made in a similar manner.
  18. A home run! That is very nice!
  19. Well, most time it is tooling conditions, current trends and sell factors. Example One. Tooling. Tom West told me about how Revell kept getting request for the Tony Nancy Double Dragster but they could not do it since the molds where literally cut in half! The kit was used to make the Revellion Funny Car and so was the 1962 Dodge tooling. They did no want to pay to make new chrome trees for the kit so it was not re-released, until, Tom found the other part of the tooling laying on dusty bench. The tooling was repaired and now you have the Tony Nancy double kit back. The Dodge was not rescued and I think it was scrapped. Example Two. The General Lee! Tom told me about how MPC had the T.V. contract for Warner Bros. and decided to do a kit for the show. Tom thought the thing would not really go after seeing the pilot for the show and it was shelved. After the show came out and it took off, the scramble was on to get a kit out and thus, the Dodge Charger 500 Stock Car kit was used with some mods to the tool to make the kit. To date, it is the biggest selling kit of all time! So why bother restoring that tool? Example Three. Sometimes they do not sell too good and they get dumped. Take for example the Aurora Racing Scenes. Possibly the line that sank Aurora! Now, they are highly sought collector items! Back then, you could not give them away. Some of the tooling does still exist, but, would it be worth it to do a line of 1/16th scale stuff these days? I would love it! But, no, it would be a very niche market. So there you go! Take its for what its worth!
  20. Why do we buy so many? Why not! This is something I love and will try to build it all until I am no longer able! And then my stuff will go back into the world and someone else, hopefully, will carry on! We are just custodians of the ones we do not build. Yes, they can get valuable, but that is not why I bought them, I bought them to buld them! My friend Skip's collection is now being liquidated and he had well over a thousand kits! Now some lucky modelers get to enjoy the kits that he helped preserve! Your mileage may vary!
  21. This is an older pic that I have handy, will update later
  22. Well, the name came about when I was at the Drags and a friend of mine came up and accidentally combined Ed Big Daddy Roth with Rat Fink! I was wearing a Rat Fink shirt and he was trying to be a smart acre! So he blurted out "Hey, Daddy Fink!" Yeah, I gave him all kinds of grief over that!! The picture if of Legendary Mexican Singer Pedro Infante which was my late fathers favorite singer. And he is one cool looking cat!
  23. Daddyfink

    Cheetah

    Coming along nicely! This car needs to be kitted!
  24. NIce! That looks just right!!
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