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This is so awesome! I enjoy how you put your own AB touch on every model. Like others have said, the display brings back a lot of good (and old) memories. It took me back to my youth and every store that had the magazines that had that ad.

good bet there will be some great Blues guitar here - the Portland Waterfront Blues Festival. it's simul cast live on KBOO 90.7 FM Radio - or on the web here Listen Now | KBOO St Paul and the Broken Bones will be up in a few minutes, not really a guitar band, but without looking at the schedule for the next few days, I will say that there will be some.

All good stuff. I would go with something played live. There are lots of great, I mean great guitar sounds out there. Burt the best is live, not recorded in any way. Live adds so much to it.to add a place time, where, who you're with... there is more to that list. I'll go with JR Simms. He is the guy that took over when Stevie Ray Vaughn passed away. When - about 20 years ago, on a sunny Sunday in June. Where - at Timberline Lodge at 6,000 feet on Mt Hood following a hike to the cabin at 7,000 feet. There was an event with a concert playing at the front of the lodge. I came down the trail and could recognize JR Simms. A good hike turned into a great day. Great topic, I'm picking up some good things that I need to find.

Wow!,, I've been to the museum few times and always with plans to look closely at this car. I give it a look, but the other cars distract me... The Marmon will get more time on the next visit. Your work is incredible. It completely changed the look when the rear wheels went on.

That's a pretty cool truck. Although cameras for fuel economy in lieu of mirrors on trucks have been discussed for years, the safety regulations still require mirrors. Cameras can be used to supplement the mirrors but you gotta have mirrors. Nobody seems to be pushing hard to make a change. Tesla showed their prototypes with cameras and formally proposed changing the regulations. However, the pictures of the production trucks that I've seen have mirrors. Cameras may provide a minor improvement in aerodynamic drag. The mirror requirements are NHTSA's responsibility and they are concerned with safety. The data to support a change may be lacking. There may be something that the video didn't show, but it looks like just reaching the cameras to clean them would be tough to do.

picked it up at a local hobby shop yesterday, opened it up and 224 looks like another great issue

sorry, I can't wrap my head around calling them "transitional cars." "Come out Saturday night and see the Transitional Cars" just wouldn't work in the screamer drag race commercials on AM radio... This Chevelle probably raced before they were called funny cars late in the summer of 1965, but that is what it is. Things were changing fast in those days.

Alan, that thing has a look that means business, things are going to get rowdy once in a while. Well done and way cool!

Brings back a few time warp memories from when we had a track in town. Cool stuff, very nicely done. thank you for posting!

In the pictures that I've seen of the kit seat and the car on the show... The front and back seats have different patterns. The front seat is also smaller than the stock seat. It looks like the front upholstery wore out and it was replaced a seat from something else instead of replacing the upholstery on the original seat frame. Not a big deal for TV/Movie cars. I think somebody casts a correct stock seat.

Pro Comp was a class with supercharged alcohol (not nitro) funny cars, unblown nitro funny cars, blown alcohol dragsters and unblown nitro dragsters all competing for the same trophy. Most pf the blown alcohol funny cars looked almost like their blown nitro brothers but Veney's cars were a lot swoopier than almost anything on the drag strip. He pretty much dominated pro comp in the mid 1970's.

I'm hoping there will be a future for this kit - with a stock front seat. (doesn't somebody make one?) I'll be patient.

so now I'm looking at my fingerprints to work out a size reference of the shift linkage from your photos... and I discovered that I couldn't even see my fingerprints! This project continues to amaze. craftsmanship at its best. Thank you so much for posting your work.

I don't know if it has ever been officially attributed, it is probably a Kent Fuller chassis - Revell had connections with Tommy Ivo, Ivo had connections with Fuller... The Kent Fuller Story (motortrend.com) Folks Of Interest - RIP ... Kent Fuller | The H.A.M.B. (jalopyjournal.com) Fuel Dragsters - The Fuller Collection (wediditforlove.com)

This one, Duplicolor 1699 Primer Sealer is a good barrier over plastic, and under lacquer. It dries smooth and does not obliterate detail. Needs enough coats to cover and prevent the topcoat from getting through. Primer Sealer – Duplicolor

Looks like we started out with prices for new trucks... stumbled across a website last week for used trucks at U-Haul with very low prices on trucks less that are 2 years old and less than 15,000 miles. Very, very, very basic trucks with less than normal equipment and options but all that somebody would want/need on a truck for an afternoon to haul bark dust. Kind of puts a different perspective on pricing when it's thousands of trucks for a very specific purpose.

Long ago, I recoated some hard flexible molded trim panels and seat upholstery made of different plastics with a paint made for upholstery - very little plastic knowledge so I don't know what plastics they were. The upholstery paint that I used seemed to get it's adhesion by "melting" into the top surface of the plastic. It actually softened the plastic until it dried. Probably not only to stick to the part but to be more durable little by getting the color into the plastic so it would not wear off so easily. Strange stuff, it probably would have turned kit plastic into a putty consistency. Like I say, just an idea and the SEM rattle can appeared easy to use.

Just kicking out an idea here ... SEM makes an aerosol paint for upholstery vinyl and other flexible plastics. Not cheap, but not bad if it works. it's available at some auto detail supply or some auto paint supply shops. Probably should be confirmed by testing a sample for compatibility and to see if it will work. Color Coat™ Aerosols | SEM Products

I'm still having trouble getting the pictures of the model mixed up with the reference pictures of the real car... Excellent work Randy, It's good to have you back.

3M Plastic Emblem and Trim Adhesive. It's a tube glue, no mixing. I've seen it available at some auto parts stores, (maybe even Walmart?) but an auto body supply shop would definitely have it. It's like a high-performance contact cement. Buy the smallest size that you can get - It will stick the cap to the tube rendering the remaining glue in the tube hard to get. Reasonable price in the smaller tubes. It takes a couple of days to dry to full strength but seems to stick to anything. Strong enough for any abuse that I could give it.

Hey Alan, what's the deal? have you gone roque on us... Monogram 1932 Fords instead of AMT? Next thing we know, you'll be building with the steering wheel on the LH side. Ok, well OK, these are really great - taking things back to their origins with cool and appropriate changes. The straight front axle on Son of Ford is a good improvement and really makes it look like it should. I like them! Good to see you back, Steve

That's really cool, great color and your painted trim gives it a cool look, love it!

Are we talking about things like electronic ignition? GM went to HEI in 1973 (a good thing in my book) I'm not sure parts stores even stock ignition points anymore...

If they have good memories, hang 'em up in tne garage and keep them.

A few more bits of the history,,, The Revell kit represents the 1972 Duster which is one of the early dragster style funny car chassis - it was just after the Logghe style chassis in funny car history. The chassis in this car and the Revell kit is a bit wider (tires were smaller) and the chassis/wheelbase were shorter that what came later. The car was featured on the cover and four pages in the March 1972 Car Craft Magazine. I think Revell spent quite a bit of time with the real thing to develop the kit and in my mind it is very accurate for the 1972 car. Revell used that chassis for a long time on other funny cars - long after the real thing became obsolete (longer wheelbase and the chassis became narrower for larger rear slicks). The "English Leather" car is featured on three pages in the June 1975 Hot Rod Magazine. The chassis is longer with a 117" wheelbase, is narrower than the earlier car, and the engine location is farther out from the rear axle. The body was extensively modified by Northwest Racecars who also built the car. (NW Race Cars also did work for Twig Ziegler's Satellite - to my eyes, this car and Ziegler's Satellite are very similar.) There used to be a couple of resin bodies for this car. One had the correct wheelbase (which is too long to for the original Revell chassis) and the other was even longer to fit the later Monogram funny car chassis. Decals available that fit the body that came in the older Revell kit. You can get there, but it takes some work.