THarrison351

Oh, I get it now! Thanks!

I posted this a couple months ago and became aware I had limited my engines to Ford and Chrysler. So I decided to find what I felt were the best representatives of the 1/6 scale engines and cheap. The two I chose are the 1963 Chevrolet 327 Ramjet Fuel Injection 375 HP and 1969 427 L89 Tri-power 435 HP. Both of these engines were exclusive to the Corvettes of those years. They make other Chevy engines, but these were the two I picked. This is the first I've acquired so far. All of these engines I do believe have their origins from Liberty Classics. Revell and Hawk made disassembled versions of the built engines sold by Liberty Classics. I have built some and purchase some already built. None of these are in production by any company as far as I know and they are all being resold. This particular model was kitted by Revell. It wasn't quite as well engineered as the others I have built, but I finished it and it's OK for me. First some history. The First Ramjet fuel-injected 283 small-block in 1957 was rated at 283 horsepower, or one horsepower for every cubic inch. It was an available option on Corvettes every year until 1962' The 327 debuted in 1962. It featured a 4.00-inch bore and a 3.25-inch stroke, increases of an eighth-inch and a quarter-inch, respectively, over the 283. Corvette got the 250- and 300-horsepower 327 variants in 1962, but also 340-horsepower four-barrel and a 360-horsepower fuel-injected options, both with higher compression ratio (11.0:1) and the solid lifter “Duntov” cam that had been used on 283s since 1957. For 1963, a new fuel injection intake manifold, arguably the best-looking ever installed on a Chevy small-block. A new solid-lifter cam replaced the long-running Duntov bumpstick for 1963. Known as the “30-30” cam because of its hot lash setting for the intake and exhaust—in thousands of an inch—the new cam didn’t mean new engine codes, but it did add power. The L76 was now rated at 365 horsepower. Meanwhile the L84, the king of 327 small-blocks, now produced 375 horsepower with its new cam. That was a gross horsepower rating, but it would be the highest output ever claimed by a Chevy small-block until the 5.7-liter LS6 debuted in the C6 Z06 in 2001. (Brandan Gillogly) The four biggest problems I had which turned out to be only one sort of. First It only came with six spark plugs. So a made two reasonable substitutes out of some plastruct tubing. Second, there's only six plug wires too! I can't make those! Well they appear to be hidden in the "metal" shielding so maybe it will be OK. And yes it does turn out those, along with the plugs are all covered. Problem solved. Thirdly, the fuel line that runs from the oil filler to the throttle body was a little wider than the space needed and when I attempted to flex it into position, it cracked where the production person had cut it from the sprue (poorly) and touched it up with silver paint. You can see the odd bend and their touch up paint. Finally, and you can see it in these pictures really well. The alternator is all crooked. Can't adjust or move anything to compensate for this. As I said it's not perfect, but I'm OK with it and it can represent GM and fill a hole in my collection. Thanks for looking!

All right, the line is so fine and straight. I guess I'm going to have to search for a demonstration or direct instructions. Thanks

That looks incredible! So as I understand it, you're making a groove in the plastic for the Sharpie? I'm not familiar with this method. Do you turn the wheel on a lathe?

Seems like about $100 on eBay without the round stand. Comes with a rectangular base. $110 with the round one.

It looks fantastic! That color appears spot-on and I may use it for my build. Two questions. Your pictures are small, so I can't see the detail of the wheels and there are none in the gallery. Do you have any close ups? It appears you have a colored pinstripe on the rim, but I can't make it out. What color did you use?

Just kidding. I'm now in the process of repairing these three, plus I have about eight more that need cleaning and repairing, Thanks for all the positive comments. I never would have thought it would have turned out this nice. I also never realized how much I really had until I started inventorying everything earlier this year. I still have a bunch of 1/64 cars I'd like to build a display for on the one empty wall by my desk. I saw a framed piece of 1/4" paneling and they had added pieces of vertical trim to allow the carded Hotwheels and Matchbox cars to slide down on each other. I thought I could build that.

That's Twisted All Right!

Ooooh...Sparkly! Me likes!

Thanks, I'm going to lock the door...

Nobody bid on this. It didn't appear to have anything wrong with it and it has a title. I got it for $27 plus shipping. It even has the removable rear seat but no tweezers or box. I've wanted one for some time, but they were always way too much or damaged beyond what I wanted to fix. In fact the one prior to this one was missing the front bumper and went for over $50. When it arrived today, it apparently had the front bumper off too. Someone put it back on with superglue, lot's of superglue. I went back and looked at the sellers pictures and what I thought was dirt on the front bumper was superglue. And that's not all. It had superglue fingerprints all over the front end! I could just make those out in the pictures too! Fortunately, I know acetone is good for removing superglue as long as you're careful. I did get it off of all the paint except behind the bumper, but you can hardly see it anyways, and there is still a bit on the bumper in the crevices. The bumpers are actually chrome plated, so they're safe too. I'll work on it some more later. I'm just happy there is none on the wood and nothing else is damaged! Also, there is not a spec of paint rash on this car! I don't think I have one diecast like that at all!

I've made two prior posts about my storage/hobby room. So after living here for almost seven years and never really accomplishing what I had planned, I'm mostly finished. During the pandemic. I was furloughed for four and then laid off for one month. In that time, I pulled everything out of the storage room, cleaned, repaired and inventoried most all my cars and stuff, and sold what I could on eBay. I had planned to strip the walls and completely sheet rock the room until I was laid off and my future was uncertain. When I was called back to work, My wife said to forget about the walls because no one would see them and purchase storage shelves as I saw fit. So, I started looking for the shelves like we'd used for storage in the past (Gorilla), but they were no longer available by that name and the style we had. I ended up with some close-out shelves from Walmart called Muscle shelves. They're OK, but I wouldn't put a lot of weight like they advertise (800 lbs total). Anyways, the people before us used this room as a playroom for their kids and they left the floor padding. My wife thought I was going to pull it up, but I thought it might save a dropped model at least better than concrete. Oh yeah, I put some new LED shop lights up in the room. Not easy to photograph the room with my phone.

Hood looks warped, I'd say it's resin. Plain windows too.

Yeah, that's bad! A lot like the Mercedes. When I was researching this in the past, I looked up zinc pest as Dave Van mentioned in his post. The pictures of these $$$ trains literally exploded in their boxes were amazing. I've seen some pretty nasty corrosion in aircraft aluminum, but this Zamak is crazy the way it expands!

I've seen the train disasters. Those are wallet busters. Here are some more more photos of the Brett Bodine Quaker State Thunderbird. You can see some bubbles in the Q. Cracked and glued fenders. Bubbles and cracks in trunk lid. The car is covered in them. I have two other cars with some bubbling, but no failure as of yet. Both are older Danbury Mint. A 1958 Impala Convertible's trunk lid and 1934 Packard V12 LeBaron Speedster's main body. They were cheap to buy, so I'm not upset.

I know we have seen some paint rash and and even blisters. A few may have experienced some cracks or even total metal failure. I saw this last night on eBay and it's about the worst for a car mostly intact. https://www.ebay.com/itm/392922095032?ssPageName=STRK:MESINDXX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1436.l2649 I have one ancient Revell stock car that the front end cracked off and the car is ate up with blisters. It cracked right at the center between the hood and wheel well openings. Fortunately, I could super glue the cracks and the forward part is held to the chassis plate by screws. You can't tell by this picture, but in person it's covered in blisters. I'll try and get it out tonight and take more pictures.

Great looking Mustang!

One of many I have pulled from storage and hope to post soon. When I was a kid I had this kit, but it came with the stock car decals and not the drag decals. So, I built it (poorly) anyway. It was all white, flat black interior, and chassis, and I'm sure it had the chrome steelies and I used the stock car decals. I also remember it had the fenderwell headers and it was a bear carving the thick plastic fenderwells for them. This car was around in pieces for many years in my junk boxes and I think I still have the engine and headers. Well, back in the early nineties I found a reissue and decided to do it as correct as I could. This one did come with the kit depicted decals. I substituted the chrome steelies for some vintage mags and painted steelies. A little wiring and a tach on the dash. I don't remember why I chose stock exhaust over the fenderwell headers. This one was displayed for a number of years out in the open, so it has some sticky dust on the windows and I'm afraid to press too hard for fear of knocking them out. One other thing I'm noticing is all the clear epoxy I used on cars years ago has turned yellow or orange.

The Thunder Bug is the first model I have memory of completing. There's a picture somewhere in my my mother's photo albums of me showing my completed model to my sleeping father, circa 1970.

Good looking Vette!

Very Sharp!

Excellent build! This was a great model. Wow, that's crazy! Other than the interior, it almost looks like the one I built almost 30 years ago! I hope you mind my picture. I'll delete it if you do

I know they had several others as well released by Revell back in eighties. A 1959 Cadillac Eldorado, 1959 Chevrolet Impala, and a 1959 Ford Skyliner. They were a pleasure to build, unfortunately all I have are pictures and memories. The box they were in along with many others was crushed.

As I said when I posted the truck and Daytona, more diecast would be posted. Here they are. It's my birthday week and my wife indulged me. The latest Daytona from University of Racing Legends. Buddy Bakery never won with Bob Drake sponsorship, but he did finish second at the 1970 Firecracker 400. The one race he won that year was at Darlington with Addy Dodge. The car that Cotton Owen's grandson claims was the winning car and sold as such was proven to be a show car during the time of the race and later displayed a the Darlington Museum. This is my current favorite driver. He's young, so hopefully he won't retire out of frustration like my last driver. I wanted this especially because I worked part time for Advance Auto Parts for almost 20 years. Grant Enfinger, I'm trying to get all the Thorsport trucks from 2019. They are Fords in name only. I'm hoping to get Matt Crafton's Championship truck soon. All the Gander Outdoor trucks are powered by Chevy LS crate motors. Just like the ARCA cars and the K and N cars. I keep hearing rumors they might move them into the Xfinity cars. NASCAR is truly trying to kill stock car racing. Johnny Sauter's Thorsport truck. Danbury Mint's 1946 Dodge Power Wagon. This one needs some work. I got it cheap on a buy it now. It will have it's own topic once I do some more clean up. It's missing the spare tire. I hope to find a wrecked truck for a replacement. It come with everything else. I think the triangular piece is a hitch. The small part is a working pintle hook hitch and the other part is a PTO with a flat belt pulley.

Here's a review off the Tube