ChrisBcritter

A friend of mine on the Warbird Information Exchange forum owns the remains of a couple HUPs, including these two in the foreground that were salvaged from the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in the late '70s. Note how a large portion of the rear fuselage was fabric-covered:

A fight to the finish, and you won!

I'd say what I think of it but I've worn out my thesaurus looking for variations on "superlative"!

At the LMMCC meeting last night, the raffle netted me a Page Resin chopped '69 Nova drag body: Not sure what to do with it yet.

Hi, Tomo - good to see you back and doing well. If you're going to amass a collection, maybe start looking into commercial real estate; find a warehouse property you can put the cars in and rent out the rest of the space to other collectors = win/win. Happy motoring!

Not sure; I found the photo on eBay years ago. I used it to get the size and shape of the license plate opening and the position of the seams:

Good find! That '60 kit has a couple problems from the factory; only the Windsor grille is flush with the surround, and the front bumper is missing the indent for the license plate: The Modelhaus made a corrected New Yorker grille, but good luck finding one now.

with Zsa Zsa

with Three Stooges

Every year of? Henry J, Willys Aero or Nash Metropolitan I guess. Same (with minor trim shuffles) from beginning to end, so if I like one, I like 'em all. Extra points to the Henry J for only having ONE body style.

The soda bottle/heat gun trick worked for me, after I made a resin casting of the back window I needed to replace. It took four tries but I finally got it.

The '60 Vette showed up today - original issue as described with the working suspension; windshield and hardtop rear window have deep tire marks so I'll be looking for replacements.

Interesting that the radiator and firewall aren't clones of the originals.

They're in the Revell 2-in-1 '64 Fairlane, the Trumpeter '65 Ranchero, and in the Moebius '65 Ford F-100 Service Truck.

As for me, I picked up three little long-tail Powerglides from Shapeways: The pans seem a bit deeper than stock (?) but I'm happy with them. Also have another '63 Pontiac rear bumper on the way; now if I could JUST get a couple driver's side taillights (that eBay seller sent me four passenger side units; I returned all four but they never refunded my money).

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Killer deal, Mike! Worth it just for the tires - plus, put the taillights and hood ornament on eBay and you'll probably get your money back x10.

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Weird - I got a 403 error the first time.

Mmmm, nice! The original issue '40 pickup has the '37 DeSoto bumpers for it.

shooting TVs again

Yep - When Tulio (Lovefordgalaxie) posted the AMT and Revell '40 coupes side by side, there was a definite difference - IIRC the Revell kit looked about 3/16" longer.

I asked Ed Sexton from Revell about putting the old parts back into the '40 Pickup - he said it was a no-go, unfortunately.

Which is a '61 Cadillac wheel cover minus the Caddy crest.