Russell C

Thanks! Among all the others in my GSL running gag of entering yellow 3-wheelers in the "Group" category (borrowing "LordModelBuilder's photo of those others), the '32 is still my favorite since it looked like the one that could most likely be a 1:1 custom car.

32 - 5 - 3. Wait, what? Long story short, the model kit for the "Group 93" category at the 1993 GSL contest was the AMT '32 Ford, where we all could build it any way we wanted, except with nothing that was available aftermarket-wise for kit building after 1963. Since I had Morgan 3-wheelers on my mind for the previous year contest when I built the "Group 92" Mercury Cougar as a 3-wheeled joke, I just kept the same idea for this one. Basically a 1963-era buildup street rod with just what came in that kit and its reissues, minus one rear wheel and adding panels to fill in the sides, along with paper handmade dice hanging from the rear view mirror, and a hand painted paper motorcycle license on the spare. I donated it to the Model Car Museum in the late '90s where it now sits on their glass shelves.

Aha, that's the rusty junkyard 1:1 pic I'd saved but later misplaced. Much duller looking than Randy's version.

That might be the one Steve Gilmore posted about here? It appears to be some long ago builder's copy of the Nordberg cabover. Probably other guys back in the day might have been inspired to build variants, too. I found other photos from 1964-era magazines showing the Nordberg contest winner which I showed in my post here on what a modern day tribute might look like.

The famous Revell-Pactra 1964 contest co-winner Bob Nordberg custom Ford pickup cabover? I was able to lend a hand in prompting the man's son to donate that one to the Model Car Museum in SLC - first few pics in my thread here. From my knowledge of that one, I'd saved a pic for several years of a really rusty junkyard 1:1 that looked like your Chevy version, but with a much flatter worse-looking front face. Can't find it on my computer so far, might have deleted it .....

Been thinking of doing this combo myself, but on a Toyota S2000 GT, and a bit more sectioned on the Chevy part and with the truck's taillights on the back ...

Welcome! No doubt you might be glad we're entering the time of year in this area where spray paint doesn't completely evaporate before hitting the model.

If I did more, I don't remember, but here's one I saved from the mid 1980s B.C. (before computers) that was a "cut 'n cinch together & tape" which I intended as a silly form of wall art.

It would be somewhat easy to create a giant dime. I'm lost on how he created really realistic giant 1 foot diameter fingers......

'62 half open wheel sorta split-ish Vette old glue bomb on ebay right now, if you are wondering what one variant of that idea might look like. https://www.ebay.com/itm/AMT-1962-Chevy-Corvette-and-Open-Wheel-Race-Car-Fusion-model-kit-adult-built/353239794569

The "used to pay" might be what's causing it. I and lots of others were only using the free version of Photobucket, and the basic extortion threat (for lack of a better description) was that our photos would either not be seen anymore or would be crippled by the corporate mark if we didn't pay for the service. I only used Photobucket at a different 1:1 vehicle forum, and since that other forum and MCM here allows direct photo uploads which work great, I had no need to keep using Photobucket, so I let it lapse.

Brad Leisure did a nice drawing of that. http://www.horse-powergraphics.com/Lil-Camino-Coffin-s/2023.htm

Thanks! The grocery store I go to that usually stocks that magazine arbitrarily decided to stop stocking it, and in these days of isolation, it's the only place I go out to.

When his employer mandated that he lose the mustache, right? I missed the first day or two of that if he came in on a Thursday, and wasn't paying attention all the way up to the time when I was already on the bus for the trip to the museum and heard this huge roar of laughter including Pryor's own trademark laugh. That's when he showed who he was to that little crowd in front of the hotel. I forget what year that was, though.

In my mind's eye, the front looks like a three way blend of a Lancia Montecarlo / Lancia Beta / Honda Accord.

Knowing Pryor's sense of humor reasonably well, don't be giving him any ideas about being a ghost. =)

That's fun! The staff entrance door label is a nice touch.

In looking into this further myself, you are probably right on that. Whoever the supplier was at the time I began borrowing this set from my dad in the late '70s, they've been unbreakable, apart from the one that met its end from a 4 foot drop to a concrete floor.

Good to know, if calamity wipes out my set.

In doing a Google search for just the words on the spindle, it appears to be an older version of the "Taig Micro Lathe II" kit with a lever-acting Taig drilling tailstock and a Black & Decker power adapter (identical to the box item shown here). Looks like he supplied one of his own motors (he had a ton of those). Yep, my dad was absolutely the pro at this kind of work. He did the rear wheels for my Lambo 300 which cured the hideous plastic sink area problem with that kit's rear wheels, and he did the outer rims for my Lambo Flambé.

I count my blessings every time I use it, my late father (a pro machinist since 1937) gave me one he put together, including the two-drawer little bench it's bolted to. Variable speed and with a huge variety of cutters he carved from scratch. The motor is bolted to a door hinge, so it can be tilted up to change the belt from one diameter setting to the other two options (I've never switched to those), but it's heavy enough to hold itself down while running. Nothing in this lathe's workings are a frustration, glad for that!

Drill bits break? Might be a matter of the kind of metal they are made out of and how well sharpened they were out of the gate. I kid you not, swear on a set of Bibles, I've been using the same set of #61-80 bits since I snagged 'em from my machinist father sometime in the late 1980s, in both my motor tool and in my pin vice. A few seem a little duller than the rest by now and the only broken one in the bunch is the #79 where I dropped whatever I was using to drill on the floor.

I forgot all about these. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1977-datsun-200sx/

Sawed the front half of the oil pan off a Revell glue bomb '69 Camaro engine today (filled in the block's open side a couple of days ago with a scrap section of a Datsun truck engine). I'll have to create a W.I.P. thread on this engine project when I get a bit more done …