Pro Wrench

Probably the real reason all the good talent left was because Boyd Coddington was a total DICK to his employees. He hated Chip Foose so bad for leaving and starting his own company that if any of his guys even TALKED to Chip he would fire them. That really came to light when Charlie gave his notice and Boyd found out that it was because he was going to work for Chip. Then he fired Mike Curtis, who had been with Boyd from the start and was in the car wreck with Boyd's son when he was killed, for designing a set of wheels for Chip. Duane is lucky he never got a beating from one of those guys for the way he treated them. NOBODY should ever have to work under someone that treats employees that way. I know I wouldn't have put up with it. He finally got canned by Boyd's wife when she took over the shop after he died and now has his own shop in Anaheim.

"Isky Bumpstick" is refering to a camshaft made by Ed Iskenderian.

This reply cracks me up so much I keep coming back and reading it just to get a chuckle. LOL

I've had some success straightening warped frames and bodies by putting them in almost boiling hot water to make them pliable then twisting them straight and either holding until they cool or weighing them down some way if possible. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Can't hurt to give it a try. Just have to be careful not to break anything.

Kenn, when you order plastic from U.S. Plastics, do they always ship via UPS? I was looking at ordering some but the shipping was about twice the price of the plastic.

Glad to see I'm not the only one that has WIPs that were started in the 80's and 90's.

Looks like he either owned a LHS that went out of business or purchased the inventory of one that did.

In addition to being an auto tech, I am also an EMT and have been for about 15 years. Maxipads and OB tampons are two of the things that I have in my trauma bags that are in all my cars and I have used them both numerous times to control bleeding on trauma patients. OB's are actually what are used in a lot of emergency rooms for bloody noses that aren't bleeding bad enough to cotterize.

Spending $100k over the sticker price would be rediculous considering that same car could probably be built for half that or less.

With the scoop.

Most of my DUH moments usually involve me doing something that stupid that ends up causing me to bleed. One that didn't though was when I came home from work, sat down in my recliner, fell asleep, woke up a couple hours later thinking I had slept there the whole night. Got up, got ready for work and was walking out the door to the car when my wife FINALLY informed me that it was actually 7:00 PM not 7:00 AM. Seems she realized what I was doing and was too amused by it to tell me until I was walking out the door. Yes, my wife DOES have a sense of humor like that.

I make my living with my hands and as such have mangled them more than most would care to know about. BUT that's also why I am particularly careful when I am working on models and have never had any mishaps worse than gluing my fingers together with CA. Well, I did glue my tongue to my bottom lip trying to be a cheapass and blow the excess CA out of a clue tip.

I have one of those bodies that is unbuilt but has been painted a pretty nice dark metallic green that I would trade you if you are interested.

You have to be careful using ziploc bags to store things in. They are made with polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and that stuff can wreak havoc on things also if the conditions are right. I suspect that the problems people are seeing with the tires ruining stuff is the result of the kits being stored somewhere that's exposed to excessive heat causing a reaction that makes the tires "bleed" the chemical out of them. All of my kits are at least 20 years old and none of them have any of this reaction occuring but they have always been stored in areas that aren't exposed to excessive heat. Just to be sure though, I have started removing all my kits from their boxes, cutting the parts off the trees, and storing them in seperate containers that I store inside plastic "shoebox" containers with the rest of the model.

I wish I knew more about 3D printing. The amount of detail in this is unbelievable. This is a very cool build.

Very nice work. Like I said before, the subject matter may not be that appealing to some but one cannot deny the skill and quality of the work to recreate it. Very impressive.

LOL!

Man, I am MAJOR jealous! I wish I had enough room SOMEWHERE in my crackerbox of a house to have someplace like this to build. Not jealous of that chair, though. I couldn't sit on that thing for more than about 20 minutes without my back screaming at me.

This whold build is freakin' AWESOME! I gotta get me one of those Jeeps. I grew up in those banging around in the mountains in those hunting with my dad and grandpa. Brings back lots of great memories.

I'm in the same boat. So many broken bones (including my back. Twice.) I usually have too much pain to get comfortable enough to sleep until I reach the point of complete exhaustion. That means I usually only get 2 to 4 hours of sleep a night. Good thing is my wife understands and has no problem with me doing whatever I want while I'm awake although I do try to keep the noise level down.

There was a guy here locally that had an Opel GT with a 500+ inch big block that he raced in Pro Gas about 10 years ago. It was a beautiful full tube chassis car and was brutally fast. As soon as these kits become available around here I plan on picking up a few to build into various types of drag cars.

This is such an awesome piece of work but you should start photographing it with a coin or something we all can relate to next to it for a size comparison. Anyone that didn't know better would never believe that rack is only about the size of a toothpick.

The 427 in the auction car is actually a stroked small block (that's what the Windsor designation means) whereas the one in the model is representing a big block. HOWEVER, those 427 stroker motors can be violently powerful and if built right would put a stock big block 427 in a sock not to mention that they would be a LOT lighter. Still, I would love to own either car in 1:1.

Yes it would have. That single carb he used to feed that massive induction system not only couldn't provide NEAR enough fuel for it to survive under boost, there was also no way for it to provide NEAR enough air to feed it at much above an idle.

I saw this car in person at the Street Machine Nationals when it first debuted. At the time I thought it was the coolest thing I had ever seen. Rick Dobbertin was a super nice guy and went pretty much totally broke building it. He even hauled it to the Nats with a borrowed truck and trailer because he had sold his to finance the project. As over the top as it was, the car barely ran. It was built strictly as a fairgrounds trailer queen. I wonder what happened to it.