unclescott58

Bummer. I've only been to a drag strip once in my life. And that was back in 1965-'66 to see the Little Wagon run. One of fondest childhood memories. Sorry to here about this.

Today via the mail I got the 2015 Corvette convertible promo model. A very nice model. But.... The driver and passenger seat look too small and are fairly forward. It doesn't look quite right. Other than that it's a very nice model. And I'm pleased to add it to my collect.

That was too easy.

Ditto! I would have never guessed they were being built brand new. I need to find out more about that.

Looks good. It would be nice to see more photos.

You'll be happy with this kit. The box indicates it does come with the Bird of Paradise decals. After doing a little web searching last night, it looks like Model Haus' 4-door Bird is a '67. Not a '71 as I hoped. I still may need to pick up a Bird of Paradise kit. Build it basically stock like I did my Model King version, with one small custom touch. Adding the hidden headlamp covers that come with kit. I like the '70 and '71 T-Birds in stock form with the exposed headlights. But, I also like the looks of them with covered headlights. Like on the Bird of Paradise box art. So if I but it, I'll then have two almost identical Birds. Just different colors. One completely stock. The other very slightly modified with hidden headlights. A stupid reason to buy another one? I don't know? I'm sure it would make Round 2 happy.

I know one of the other Revell kits had a decal for a Mexican blanket for the seats. I don't remember which one though. For I did not purchase one. What I'm wondering, does anybody make a scale Mexican blanket that's not a decal? But some kind of real cloth in something close to 1/25th scale. Something like that at maybe Hobby Depot, or some other place, designed maybe for doll houses or the like?

Revell is top notch. I already knew about the problem with the floor from reading reviews of the kit here. But, I did not know about the headers.

Came close to buying the new Bird of Paradise version yesterday at a local hobby store. Built one of the Model King versions a few years back. I'm having time convincing my self that I another. But, I love these Thunderbirds. Maybe I need to look at a 4-door conversion kit from Model Haus? Anybody have any photos of this kit? Both built and unbuilt?

I wish there was a reasonably priced 1/25th scale styrene kit of the the above Cobra coupes. I wonder why one is not be offered.

Very nice job on your first build of this kit, Dr. Cranky. I'm impressed.

Decided to go ahead and cut the rear wheel wells from the interior trim/door panels. I then glued the the wheel wells into the body. That takes care of the only thing I really disliked in the kit. The more I work on it, the more impressed I am.

For some reason I can not edit the lower paragraphs on my above posting. The story about the Mustang II, the way it's written sounds like the car was my personal car. It was not. It was my dad's. Now you know why breaking a cam shaft was a big deal. It was my dad's car, not mine. By the way it should also read that Ford had not drilled the oil galleries correctly.

Lots of good memories of cars. At the same time some of them didn't seem that good at the time. - We had 13 people in a '69 Cadillac Calais. 3 in the front seat. 10 in the back. And I was on a lower layer in the back. - Driving back into town on a date with a young lady. I had a very nice '79 Firebird with a 350. Two-lane highway requiring one to slow down through towns. I slowed down all right. I was doing 90 or so between towns. And about 60 in towns. Coming out of one town, I look over to my left, there is a cop car pacing me on a side street. He pulls out on to the highway were the speed limited goes up to 55. So I slowed down to 55 and set the cruise control. The cop followed me all the way the next county line, but didn't pull me. Why? I don't know? He had me, dead to rights. - Had a buddy with a very nice '67 Firebird convertible. 326 car, automatic. And no working fuel gauge. Somehow I got stuck pushing the car to the nearest gas station when ever we'd run out of gas. He'd sit behind the wheel steering. This happen several times! In retrospect, I should have steering while he pushed the car! - The same friend had a four-speed Pinto. He could pull the shift lever out the gearbox as he drove. Then when he wanted to shift, he just put the stick back in the box. - The same friend bought a Pontiac T-1000 back in the early 80's. We loved to tease him about him owning a "Chevette". He hated that even though he knew we were right. - in the late 1970's my parent went on a trip someplace, and while they were gone I drove around in my '77 Mutt II (Mustang II). One day the car starts running real rough, so I pull it into the local Ford dealer. They tell me right away I broke a cam shaft. A cam shaft? I was not beating car, and how was going to explain this when my folks got back? They then told me Ford had drill all the oil galleries correctly on there Mutt II 4-cylinders, so this would covered under warranty. It took them only one day to fix the problem. I could have not told my folks a thing and they would have never known about it. I did tell them has soon as they got home, though. - One last one. Driving to my folks cabin with their '75 Mercury Monach. Got hit by a drunk driver on the way up. Totaled the car and put me the hospital. Well, my folks knew what time I got off work and how it should take me to drive up there. When I didn't show up on time, my mother was mad. She told my dad, "that's the last time he ever drives that car!" Guess what? She was right! But not because she was still mad me when she found. She wasn't. But because the Monarch was so far gone, nobody ever drove it again. Sometime in the future, I'll have to tell the story about wrecking a brand new car on a test drive. When I was only 19.

See my latest posting above.

Sure we have the right to make any type of statement we like. But, what is the point?

The '65 and '66 Buick GS 400 engine was really a 401. But, GM had a rule at the time that no GM A-body car could have an engine larger than 400 cu.in. So Buick lied the other way.

Doing farther research on line, I was wrong and Dan was right. The 427 Ford is only a true 425 cu.in. The Z11 is a special Chevy W block engine of 427 cu. in. used for racing in 1963. This is not the same as the Chevy Mk II "mystery motor" that was also seen in limited use in racing that year, and led to the Chevy Mk IV 427 in 1966.

The first production 427 from Chevrolet was in 1966. I still don't understand why Ford would call 425 cu.in. engine a 427? Why lie over 2 cu.in.? And wouldn't the press at the time point out Ford's lie? Is there anybody else out there than can confirm this information, or not?

The fishbowl rear window was only offered on the '77 through '79 Caprices and Impalas. '80 had the flat rear window.

This needs to be explained. I though the Chevy Z-11 427 came out several years after the Ford FE 427. So could this be Dan?

Sorry. Didn't mean to bring up any bad old memories.

Wasn't the 430 also offered as a option in the '59 and '60 Thunderbirds too? Somehow I think may have even been offered in Thunderbird in late half of '58.

A great question. I've always been confused by the difference between those two engine. Are they not related? I it interesting, within about a 10 year period, ford offered a 427, 428, 429, and a 430. I know the 429 and 430 are from different Ford engine families than the 427 and 428. But, why 4 different engines of the same basic displacement? i hope I'm not stealing your thread by asking these additional questions, Matt.