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I've been tinkering with this one again, and the solution was probably too easy to figure out....! I just moved the whole "clunky" grille about half an inch back, and voila', it looks so much better! I'll take some pics when I can get the camera to load them into my 'puter..... I might cut away some material on the backside of the grille - to make it less clunky. Pics will come.....

Hello Ira, and welcome to this place! I remember your stuff from the old Car Model mags of the early 70's. If you're the same Ira..... Some were maybe a bit wacky, and some were cool. You always had different ideas, and it's the same thing with this one. I like it, the front end looks good! Keep up the good work.

They look real cool, both. I must say I really like how that blue turned out, and the whitewalls sets it off perfectly!!

Looks like you're on the right track. A friend of mine built a real one in the midsixties. It disappeared..... so he's recreating it. Work goes slow, but here's a pic of the roof/door area. I've helped him order some chassis parts. Chassis is finished now. Not telling any more....

Sure hope he makes it back to building models again. Just remembered a little detail about Bud's old truck, it was painted, and ThatOneEmoKid has it in his avatar! It looks just like Bud's, except a different angle from the pic I took. I'm rambling here, I was correct in my first post, that the truck was partly painted. Found my pics now.....

Looks great, as usual! Very clean, but yet trick. Your paint jobs are always an inspiration! I'm planning to build a '75 Caprice, or,.. it's already started.... and I want to do a a really tricked out paint job. Any ideas for inspiration, other than Lowrider magazine website?

Very cool and heartwarming story! Very nice tribute to an old racer!

Bud is an all out nice guy! I met him in Toledo, at the NNL in '92. He worked in a local hobby shop at the time. He took me on a little tour around town, showed me some cool speed shops and a friend of his who had a rod shop. I had planned to visit both Lindberg and Jo-Han. Bud told me how to get to both places. At the time he had a Chevy Fleetside truck, partly in primer. Not sure if he got it painted. I've seen that truck in someone's avatar! The pic looks almost like one I took....! I lost contact with him, but was happy to see him show up on this forum. I hope you will beat the cancer, Bud! I'll be thinking about you.

Many of us think the Batmobile is a cool car, right? Ever since the first TV series car appeared, people have liked it. Believe it or not, but there's a guy here in Stockholm, Sweden who's built a replica of the Batmobile from the 1989 Batman Returns movie. I stumbled upon it Friday night, as I was driving a customer to Hard Rock Café. Had to go back and snap some pics! Here's a link to some background about it. http://cars.99express.com/2009/10/swedish-batmobile.html The guy who built it was even trying out for Idol.... http://tv4play.se/noje_och_humor/idol?vide...artment=2.34558

If my memory isn't all wrong, I have a strong sense that it came out in 1976. In 1977 I helped a friend convert this kit to radio control. We found some 1/12 scale wheels and tires for the rear, so naturally it became really jacked up. I painted it Pactra candy red. We got it finished just in time for a Classic Chevy meeting, and it was quite popular. Not sure if my friend still has it. I found an old AMT catalog, from 1977, and it shows the convert and Nomad as new releases. So the Hardtop had to be from 1976.

Wow, that's some work you put into it!! The purple paint looks cool.

I just got me a body. I was at a model car show yesterday, and the guy selling stuff almost next to me, happended to have this body. So I had to have it......! Another project, but it's a cool car......

Ohhh cool! Looks really good in primer. I also like something different.

I forgot to show the lineup of racecars in this class. We raced April 25th.

Ok guys, I'm happy you liked our lineup.... The first group of cars are Mini-Z bodied, so they are 1/28. The other cars are 1/24-25. Erik - those turbine wheels are from an old AMT '65 Barracuda I believe, I happened to have some parts from. Never used them. Used photoetched BBS inserts instead. They came with the Schöler chassis kit from Jens Scale Racing in Germany.

Cool car! 55's are my favorite...... used to own a real one 30 years ago.

A couple of guys from my slot club came up with the idea of starting a step-in class for new slot racers. The idea was to use just about any Mini-Z body, and mount it on a slot chassis. I chose the Ferrari 575 race version, mounted on a Schöler chassis. Here it is: An early mockup..... Race ready, on the track for picture taking. I had more pics...., we had a big race April 25th. Here are the cars in the Slot-Z class, the first group: The other cars are running in a different class: Sport/GT prototypes.

Looks cool! You turned an uncool car into cool just by dropping it on the ground. Kind of makes me want to get one.... How about if you fixed that rear side window? Remove that slant..... I'm not too fond of that "styling" I think it would look much better.

You were right, not what I expected....... great job on that Ford! I really like it. Maybe because it's part candy red.... The teardrop scoop is perfect! A real cool car, to sum it up.

Nice '40 Ford! I like those tunneled taillights. That must be the Revell kit, right? With that detailed chassis.... but I think you installed the rear end upside down.....

Yes, you did a great job on that kit! But like someone else said, it has some funky - strange proportions: the front wheel openings are way too large, and maybe the rears as well, and the roof is too short. This kit was done in the dark ages, when Monogram didn't seem to care about getting the proportions correct. Another example is that terrible '69 Camaro..... I hope you haven't built it....

Bill, it looks really nice! Yeah, you got the roof to fit very good. I had the reissue, but never liked the separate roof.... Looks like another well built model from you!

Nice wagon! Very clean build. I can' t help myself, had to comment about the valve covers. It's my favorite issue...... You got the passenger side wrong. See, big blocks have an uneven number of bolts on the covers. So the side with four bolts should always go towards the exhaust manifolds. Next time, eh? Now you have two things to make better....

Turn the drivetrain around, and have the rear end of it facing forward, add some sheetmetal to the sides for streamlining, and you have a perfect Bonneville streamliner.... I mean, with that razor sharp end of the body....

I've seen those cars before, and they do look crazy. Almost cartoonish. Maybe that's the idea? Am about to google the name given, and see what turns up.....