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  1. i was on ebay the other day and saw a richard petty 64 belvedere nascar linberg model # 72164 and it got me wondering. i have a few of the "color me gone" and "maverick" 64 dodge models and i thought maybe i could use the nascar body and kit bash a s/s drag car out of it. i don't build nascar so i don't know if the thing is modified in such a way it could not be used as is to build it though. here is the model. does anybody know? thanks for any replies. gary atkinson
  2. thanks jairus. the amount of the reissues was just an arbitrary number though. i always wonder why it is so hard for any company to find what is selling when there is so much computer communication in the world. they could have someone check ebay for instance and see what sells and a good marketing dept could surely keep track of what sells at lhs or swapmeets and such. i mean this is there livelyhood. why be so incompetent at keeping up with the market. don't they want to stay in business or what?
  3. i don't really know where to put this but maybe you know. why is it that amt and revell don't just drag out all there molds and reissue them on a monthly bases like a production shop? i know if they want to keep the price at a certain level in the hobby they keep them in short supply. kind of like everything else in this country. supply and demand. i just get irritated by the price of old kits i would like to have but are just to expensive. i am not talking about worn or broken tooling. they must have quite a few molds they haven't reissued yet too. if they are worried about selling them, you know, like issue 23,000 kits of say, the little coffin every year. i know they do issue these kits every so often but why so long between issues. i know we modelers will buy 10 of the same thing when it is available to build or for parts to kit bash. so why are they so stingy about reissues?
  4. you know this topic applies to just about everything us baby boomers do today. i drag race home built altereds and i don't see to many young people into this either. model building is just another one of those things we got into when we were young but it is a new day now. it may have to do with cost and time and whatever. that is evolution. some things will stop being done on a large scale and be replaced by something else.
  5. what's curious to me is the fact that this is nothing but a dado blade setup for routing joints in wood. how come nobody ever thought about this before? the funny thing is, i do alot of wood working too! strange huh? great idea mike.
  6. you know it just amazes me the things you learn on this site. i have seen rust in cans all the time but i never thought about using it for this. great idea. thanks ray i am not sure how to use the steel. do you rub it on the part or get it soaked with water after it rust and then use a brush to apply the rusty water on the part? please help us talent challenged modelers.
  7. hi harry. if i read this right, you might be interested in don garlits first dragster. it was kind of a long wheelbase t thingie with a flathead in it. i believe it was on model "a" rails too. the frame was black and the body? was yellow. if i find a pict i'll post it. also the old #25 chrisman dragster was something like what your describing but not a t body. more like a dry lakes modified. i don't remember seeing any model of what your going to build. this frame might be something you could use.put a t body only on it and it would look cool. the bottom pict is kind of what i think you mean except for the two engines. i don't think this is what you are talking about.
  8. you know i did the same thing. i won the winged express kit on ebay where the seller gave me the fiat body and the decals to do the mike sullivan aa/fa. i hope i can get to it pretty soon. yours looks cool already. keep us posted. i just love altereds.
  9. see now that is what i was talking about. this is what the youth of today don't have. you don't learn the same thing with video games as building models. i have never understood the interest in video games myself. what is the satisfaction in winning? what do you win? at least with models you get to see your accomplishments. i know with video games you do get great hand and eye coordination but it sure doesn't give you patience or the same kind of satisfaction. at least i don't think so. thanks for replying.
  10. i have been reading post about the hobby, its future, what got you into modeling and such. i was wondering what you started building when you were a kid if it made you pick a career in the same type of field. myself i went all around it. started builing airplanes, got to teen years went to building model cars, got out of school went into aerospace, built 1-1 cars as hobby and built models off and on after. what about your direction?
  11. i would have to say, i would love to take that for a ride. as you can tell from my signature i am a nut about altereds. i have 1-1 and models of them. we have an event called chuy's fuel altered race at famosa raceway in sept. that is over the top with altereds. never miss it. you have some real skills there.
  12. hey what's wrong with you guys? you ever hear about emodelcars.com?
  13. hi everbody! i just wanted you all to know that if you bid and win on the other auction site, do like i do, leave a note for the seller to check out emodelcars.com. i 've bought about 4 models and 2 parts pac's and i am buying 5 more model kits from a seller that is holding them for me until 5-1-07 so i can bid on them when my financies are better, retired you know. tell everbody you meet that has any interest in model car kits about it. EMODELCARS.COM rocks.
  14. no don i don't but it came thru anyway. that is one killer model. excellent ref picts. did you hand build the frame or is it one of the early fuuny car model kits.? i think they were built by loggie stamping back then. wrong spelling though i think. i know mine won't be as good but i love the awb cars. it was a time when drag racing had alot of innovation in it. again, thanks for the email don, i know you must be a busy man.
  15. another thing about those boxes. they had a short shift handle that came out of the top and the clutch lever is that round horizontal shaft under where the shift handle would be.
  16. for what it is worth. there is a picture on page 100 of don montgomery's supercharged gas coupes book of this car that looks alot like the box art. i thought that this sat a little high in the back but from all my pictures it seems it went up and down over the years it raced. on that page it also looks like the front fenders and chin have been trimed off. i have just got back into buying models and i bought this one first. yours is excellent. i hope mine will turn out as nice. great car and great build.
  17. i just a couple of weeks ago bought 2 corvair models and decals to build hayden profits and the pisano brothers funny cars. great build.
  18. it looks like an early drag racing in and out box like dragsters and altereds used. also a transmission you could use would be a '39 ford truck box.
  19. olle f. you don't know the haif of it. the way everbody stares at you and wants to ask all the usual questions, you'd think you had your fly unzipped. surprisingly i have never been stopped by the law for anything. weird huh? i also have 47,000 miles since i built it. by the way, i am not putting anyone down about the car they drive. i did buy a pt cruzier to drive this year when i get tired of the notoriety and the gas prices.
  20. well, all i have to say is you all drive some boring rides! i drive it everday ran or shine now for 5 years.
  21. hi guys. i just bought and received the hugh tucker aa/sr body. let me tell you, ed is a way cool guy to deal with. he got back to me with email so fast i didn't have time to think what else i needed to tell him. the aa/sr is excellent. i don't know how he has time to deal with people with all the products he makes. he is a race car guy like me so i don't have any complaints. i will buy again as soon as my finances will allow. i thank the powers that be that there are people like him that make such cool things the factories won't. no i am not related in anyway with him or his business. i just had such an excellent experience with my first resin purchase i just needed to tell somebody.
  22. hey majel, my brother lives in kingman. anyway i was in a Big Lots store the other day and they had about 6 display cases in a bigger size than 1/24. since the early fed were not very long i think they would work. i have to go to town in the next two days and i will look at them again if you would like me to. i am coming to kingman for the river run at laghlin at the end of the month and if they will work we can work out something so you can get them.
  23. i say, i must agree with ron, where are the pic's? don't be a photo hog. i have recently started aquiring cars and decals to build alot of the drag racing legends and this is one i want to build too. just a great model. congratulations on an excellent build. hey everbody, this guy has got some skills.
  24. hey casey, you don't need a reason to build such a cool ride. i have just gotten back into collecting models again and this was the first one i bought. the awb cars were a milestone in drag racing history. i think it was the most inovative time in drag racing. people built all kinds of weird and cool cars. drag racing tends to be very generic. who is winning with what combo is the flavor of the month and everybody runs the same setup until the next big thing comes along. in the early days racers used cads, fords, chevys, studebackers, packards and what ever they could get. that is the spirit of the awb cars i think. anyway, yours is way too cool.
  25. i was at w/m the other day and found 2 of these too. i like the awb cars because that was when i was introduced to drag racing. looking at yours, one can really see how they pulled such big wheelstands back then,huh. i am going to build one of mine as chevy 2 much and i am not sure what to do with the other one. maybe use it for parts to build some other awb car. yours sure looks good i must say. like the color too.
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