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I have a question for the kit historians out there. Did any company make a "29 Ford Coupe? I know they made a '29 model A roaster, roaster pick-up, closed cab pick-up and the woody wagon. Any coupes or sedans? I would guess the after market has made one but I don't know what company. Thanks for the answers. Patrick

Nice build!! Was this kit molded in a sort of metallic brown plastic? I have one in brown and want to paint it black. My hood is cracked a bit so I will need to repair that. I hope mine comes out half as good as your build. Patrick

Anyone watching the Speed channels coverage of the Barrett- Jackson auction and getting tons of ideas for builds? So many cool cars that could be built. Lots of '40s, '50s, '60s and '70s cars that have been in model kits through the years to get ideas for, and to possibly build for "way cheaper" then the ones there for sale. I like it when they show the underside of the car as it rolls slowly over the camera. I live near enough to the site at West World that I hear and see the private jets flying over head. Last word, there could be 400 of them landing there. That is 800 fly overs for me here. This is the real 1% wealthy, folks. They can buy the type of cars we dream about for pocket change, for them. They have pizza slices there that cost $75 a slice because they put real gold leaf on top. And they can't keep up with the orders. Guess you can't call your self wealthy unless you can eat and BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH real gold and bid on and buy cars that cost tens of thousands of dollars. The auction will be on TV tomorrow for another 10 hours or so. The big ticket cars will be on the block tomorrow. They will bring out the "real money". My favorite cars so far are the 2 LS7 '70 Chevelle convertibles going for over $175,000 each. The classic '50s Chevies sold there, both cars and trucks, are as good as it gets. They sold a miles deep black paint '40 Willys today with an injected big block and 15 by 15 rear wheels and huge by large rear tires. It had a 5 inch dump tube in front of the rear tires fed by a 4 inch exhaust straight from the headers. When they started it for the TV it roared and cackled like a drag motor. Be nice to buy that car and drive it to the local hang-out and set-off all the car alarms in the area. But for the price it went for I can dream of that a lot cheaper, plus for those bucks buy a house and furnish it. And build a model of the Willys' too. I am the "Wish full dreamer-TV watcher and low bucks "I can build a model of that car" Patrick .hearing those jets fly over day and night. Wonder if any of them built models as kids?

Ditto to everything said above. Glad you are back among the builders Steve. I wondered where and how you were doing and I can't wait to see what you build next. A BIG fan Patrick

I have thought about making a "woody" pick-up out of this kit and I have one set aside to do this. Your's looks fine. Now I need to start again on mine. Excellent garage dio. Patrick

From a former Buckeye to another, fine little coupe. I wish I could get paint that nice. Nice channel job too. Patrick

Looks real to me. Great colors and like someone said that motor is perfect. Patrick

For the opening in the door gap, put some black thread around the opening and it will look like the stuff on those cars around the doors. We called them "fuzzies". Maybe dark grey thread. Super nice build. Patrick

What barn did you drag this cool '32 out of? Excellent work. Perfect weathering.

Don't know what it is but it is beautiful.

Looks real. Excellent work.

Flag stand. All boats have to have one with a flag. My buddy up in Ollcot NY on the shore of lake Ontario is a captain of a local fishing boat and once flew an AZ flag I sent him. He was stopped by the coast guard and they wanted to know why he was flying a Japanese flag on his boat. He told them it was an AZ state flag and they told him to remove it and fly a flag of NY. It is also a stern light, the round white thing. So even these small boats have to fly a local or state flag. I would love to have kits of that Chevy Suburban and that boat, pointy thing and all. Patrick

Nice room and drums. I have a sort of "Man Cave" where I keep my stuff and build and display my models. My drums are in another room now so I don't have that distraction from building. I have the problem of volume too. I have learned to play without most of the noise but drums are just naturally loud. I have cats too and one of them likes to sleep under the floor tom. Better than on my bench like she did before, messing up the projects and knocking parts on the floor. Now she sleeps next to the computer and likes to get on my or my girl friends lap when we go on-line. But the cats and the girlfriend all leave when I start to play the drums. I too like Pearl hardware and DW drums. But my old road kit is-was a cheap 25 year old CB700 set that I worked on to sound great in most rooms. My lady friend recently found a set of nice basic drums at a church yard sale for $100 and they have become my gig set after I worked on them. Speaking of drums and musical equipment, back in '63 I build some 1/25th scale drums, guitars and amps for a kick. I put them in the second Johan plastic case I ever bought and displayed them at one of the local model shows recently. I really don't think I would have the patience to build them now. It is hard enough to build all the projects I have now, find time to work and practice the drums and spend time with my girlfriend and the "Honey Do List". But the neat thing is that these are the same things I have been interested in since I started building models, playing drums and chasing girls. Didn't have or even had heard of, a man cave then, but we got along with what we had. I like the idea of foam to muffle the drums for practice. It never hurts to protect the ears. I know after 40 plus years next to Marshall, Fender and Peavey amps on 11. But I used ear protection so now I can hear my friends and grand kids talk to me. Now back to the bench, it is too late for the drums and my girlfriend is watching TV in the other room and the cats are asleep-- perfect time to build on that '37 Rat truck with a BBC with a tunnel ram I am working on. Bye. Patrick

Did you sneak in some photos of a real car frame? Looks like it to me. Stunning little sleeper build Jon. Perfect detailing. Colors and finishes are real looking. Patrick

This build is nearly perfect. Just as good as the '29 Ford Rat Rod you posted. Excellent weathering and I too love the wheels and great frame. You nailed these 2 builds. Patrick

I've loved "woodies" since I heard the lyric in the Jan and Dean song "We have a '34 wagon and we call it a Woody, Surf City here we come." Great woodies Tim, you always have nice builds of most of my favorite vehicles. Good colors and details. I used to make balsa wood surf boards and balsa wood "Tikis" to display with my model woodies. Fun times in the first months of my model car building hobby. Thanks for the memories. Surfs up in Phx. AZ Patrick

The new trend in rockabilly music has involved the rat rod guys and the old cool cars from the '50s. Phx has weekend events with music, cars and the ladies. I can't remember a music life style so involved with cars since the beach movies and the early SO Cal hot rod movement. I started building models after I saw the beach movies and heard the car songs of the day. I think it is cool that the younger car people are involved this "deep" into the lifestyle and the cars. It broke the fads away from the check book hot rods and the billet big wheels dumb look. Real hot rods and the kind of music that started the car event thing on a local level not seen since the cruising days the local authorities stopped years ago in the late '60s early '70s. Then it was the so called top 40 songs that we listened to while cruising the main drags of small and large town America.

Through this video I found more videos of cars--the Las Vegas rockabilly roll out. Lots of cool cars leaving the parking lot heading out into traffic with sound. More videos about the Las Vegas event.too.

If you are into Rockabilly music with cars and good looking lady singers, check out the band "Devils Daughters" Rockabilly AZ.. The song is "Pass The Bottle" and it has some fast shots of some cool cars. I saw some good ideas for builds in that video. Guess this band plays at some car events and both singers are models for certain car lifestyle magazines. Good song to build by too. Patrick

If you are not talking cars in the intro or movie then the best intro to me has to be the opening to that first Star Wars movie with the space ships flying over the heads of the people in the audience. The kids in front of me at the theatre actually ducked down in their seats.

My personal favorite opening is from the movie "The California Kid" with the Pete, from Pete and Jakes, "California Kid" '34 Ford full fendered chopped coupe coming over the small hill into camera range. That was cool. Liked all of the "Mad Max" movies too. I think the movie "Vanishing Point" had a neat intro. Good topic.

I do remember all of them now. I looked in my stash and found most of the American cars. I also remember the '63 Chevy had real thick steel axles. It was more like an un-assembled promo than the other AMT '63 Chevy kits. This series of kits were only released once I think in larger boxes then normal so the desk pen holder car display could fit in the box. Basic simple kits in some cases. But if they caused other people to notice the model car on a desk and a conservation about building models started and kits were bought, they did their job. I don't remember a pen being in the kits. Guess the builder had to supply his own. Patrick

I use a bent wire coat hanger as described in other posts attached with duct tape to a large plastic soda bottle filled with water. That "stand" can be rotated, held up, and most importantly set down after the body has been sprayed. That is what is missing from other stands, a way to set them down safely to protect the body so the paint can dry. I use pieces of clean card board with duct tape rolled into a flat piece that I stick small parts too for painting. I use tooth picks stuck in the sides of a card board box to hold engines and parts that have a hole in them to push the tooth pick in. I also use wood clothes pins to hold parts by the cut off sprues and tooth picks with parts on them. Paint stands was a major problem for me until I started using these methods. No more holding a freshly painted body by the bent coat hanger trying to figure a way to set it down and not ruin the paint job. I tried locking pliers and sticking the coat hangers in a card board box and even hanging the thing from a wire across my patio but they all were not successful methods. Hope this helps. Patrick

I know one was a '63 Chevy Impala 2 door coupe.I have 2 of them. I believe another one was the Avanti kit. Maybe the '62 Buick kit. All cars, no trucks if my memory is correct. Hope this helps a little. Patrick

I think this was the film that Mark "Luke Skywalker" Hamil made after Star Wars and he crashed his own Vette and got the facial scars that show up in the next film. That is an ugly Vette though, but typical Hollywood "over the top looks over function" type movie car. Patrick