Muncie

3 hoods! - makes it work for so many things

for really old food archives, check out a chest type freezer. Had to deal with a couple of those. Top layer was fairly recent, but the bottom layer was 25 to 30 years old... found some packages with my birth year on them. - or the jars of home canned fruit at the back of the shelf in the garage...

I'd say AMT got the mounts a little wrong. With the rear engine mount on the engine under the mount on the frame as you've got it, that appears to give the correct engine centerline angle. For this wheelbase, that's about 3 degrees and down at the rear.

not good... the problem may be in the decanting or spraying thru an airbrush. thinner? try spraying from the can and see if it does the same thing.

Nicely done Steve, well done and it adds a lot of realistic appearance. with a very sharp knife, I take very thin slices, baby steps. It's more of a shave than a cut - thin cuts to avoid putting too much force on the knife. Pushing too hard can cause the knifer to slip, gouging into the cowl vent or creating a big cut in my finger... so far, no blood.

just an observation, the local hobby shop moves much more Gundam than model cars. Basically, half of what used to be the model car kit area is now Gundam. The model car area stays pretty full with not much turnover. However, it's not unusual to see half the Gundam area sold out from one visit to the next. Yet I never see many people in that area. It is a different group, different buying habits, different hours and a younger group that isn't into model cars. I tease the owners about the Gundam, but I also now it helps keeps the doors open so I still have a local hobby shop to find model cars I like on the shelf.

Getting to the post office is part way there. The parcels still need to be sorted and set out for pickup at the post office or delivery to a street address. I believe "arrived at post office" and "available for delivery" are two different statuses on the tracking page. It depends on workload and how many available people are there to get things sorted and set out. Usually the same day/morning, but sometimes things happen. You did good by being respectful to the USPS workers. They can't control it either and they remember how well they are treated. Most of them are good humans like the rest of us.

Back in my hardware store days we sold paint, that was some time ago... Latex house paint with water clean-up was a fairly new thing. The rule was natural bristle for solvent base paints and nylon (synthetic) bristle if water would be used to clean the brush. Cleaning in water would damage a good natural bristle brush. Years later, all the brushes are much better so I wouldn't hesitate to use a good synthetic brush with oil base paint, but I still wouldn't clean a natural bristle brush with water.

The local hobby shop or model railroad store has Evergreen Plastic sheet with different siding and sidewalk patterns that can be cut to shape and painted

Awesome! There is just something oversized about a big block impala tuned for drag racing.

I've seen that done and the decals were much better on all colors - copy shops like Kinko's are also a possibility.

Thank you for posting more details and pictures. I'm still thinking out loud on that vinyl top on the Lincoln. The photographs show a dark stain at the bottom of the top between the rear door and back window. The more detailed pictures fail to show that area. It might be something else but I'm thinking rust. It's one of the places rust starts under a vinyl top. Rust starts and the vinyl has to be removed to replace the metal - big job, expensive... Replacement metal would probably have to come from a donor car and it's a big possibility that any potential donor car would have the same problem (Most Lincolns that I can remember had vinyl tops)

Reality will set in when you need repairs. The Lincoln is 36 years old, and the Nova is 55. They will need repairs, and there be challenges getting replacement parts. There were fewer of the Lincolns produced and probably not many still running - parts will be more difficult to find just because the demand is too low for anybody to make replacements. The downside is problems with hard-to-find parts always comes at the worst time. The Chevy will be much easier to repair because there are still a lot of them on the road being driven and most of the parts are the also used on other Chevrolet and GM products. Most parts to keep it running are easily available. it seems like any car from Florida will be a "beach car." The salty air can do a lot of rust damage on the underside and/or corrosion in the electrical parts. Some of it will be where it can't be seen or repaired easily. Salt will cause difficult to diagnose and repair problems. Just thinking out loud here, vinyl tops... if the vinyl has already failed or maybe if it hasn't... A vinyl top can lead to rust under the vinyl. The car companies didn't put much paint on the roof under a vinyl top, and the top rusts. Repairing the vinyl may require replacing the roof as in welding a new roof on it. It's fairly common on a lot of restorations of muscle cars that were built in the '60'swith vinyl tops. Generally, the owner or shop says "no more" and restores the car with a painted roof.

Like the blue one, Removing the trim looks soooo good. no, the brown one... no, I like the altered wheelbase.... Ah heck I like them all.

Very Cool!

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That is much cool! Looks good, beautiful craftsmanship. Ready to go. Aim that thing at Floating Mountain, push the pedal on the right side and go fast!

so Cool! great color, well done

Thank you for the post, Good tip, great tool - It is something that I will use on project that is getting closer to the workbench.

Thank you for posting - it's very helpful. and here is Westcott's 1932 chassis diagram for the modifications to install a Model A body J:\Wescott Catalog\Catalog Illustrations and Photos\Frame Diagrams\FrameDiagram1929Hiboy.vcd (wescottsauto.com)

Nicely done and I enjoy the presentation with the magazine. Also, one of my favorite cars although it was far away on the other coast. And I would also like to see this one available again.

Sits right! well done

Box art isn't for us... Hobby shops have a range of customers from the regular customer that knows the products better than the help to first time shoppers. Let's say someone is going into a hobby shop for the very first time looking to pick up something to do that may be interesting - anything - could be a train, could be a Gundam, could be paint, could be an RC could be a plane, could military, could be a ship... Might be for a birthday gift for a grandkid that asked for a model car. Model car box art is competing for customer's attention against all of that. Model car companies are probably putting all that they can into box art.

I guess I'm old enough to remember whitewall paint that was generally available in small cans at most auto parts stores - wasn't the greatest but it was a lo-buck alternative to real whitewalls. Tire black was also available but too shiny and looked cheap. Generally messy to use and make look good. Ranger Tire Paint - The premium sidewall tire paint. (rangerpaint.com) There are paints (testors gloss enamel is one) that will never dry on rubber or kit tires.

Looks Awesome. Great colors and very well built. 1971 is high school time for me and the family was a Mopar family. I thought a Duster or a Demon would be my first car. I was a bit delusional and ended up with an old Chevy, but years later, the Demon feelings are still there. Thank you for posting your build. I enjoyed following along. I need to build one of these and your build has a lot of information that I can use.