ChrisBcritter

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The '62 Chrysler 300 landed in the mailbox today; as expected no rear bumper or headlights but a mint original issue interior (at last!). Came with a bunch of extra stuff like another dash and firewall, plus some unrelated bits like an original issue '62 Plymouth dash/steering wheel, and a Revell '62 Dart GT hood.

Ugh. Power unit failed on my PC; lasted four years while the previous one lasted 11. Using my dad's machine (which is newer, at least). Thank goodness I still have a local guy who'll service old machines.

Looked at that thread, and oooeee... Maybe I'll take those Powerglide transmissions I just got and use them as masters for resin casting before they start crystallizing.

Got an AMT '40 Willys chasis for my Show 'n' Go kit - thanks Vince!

Yep - not even the Christine kit. Been building and collecting over 50 years now (with occasional purges); only took a couple cars to an MPC show in the mid-'70s, and not again until Tom Piagari took me under his wing and encouraged me to bring something to the LMMCC meetings, and then the Milwaukee NNL. I greatly enjoy adding little improvements to the simpler old kits, and I find I'm getting better with practice, so there's satisfaction in that.

OK, I dug out a '66 Fairlane chassis and a '69 Falcon Modified Stocker body and chassis for comparison: Width is close - Fairlane is 1/32" wider in the middle but narrower by about 3/16" in the trunk. Wheelbase needs to be shortened 5 mm at the first red line, and a similar amount at the second, jogging the cut through the flat part of the gas tank and keeping the spring mount spacing the same. Fairlane chassis vs. Modified Stocker, front wheels aligned. Note how the Fairlane rises higher in the front: You'll have to cut about 1/8" from the bottom of the engine compartment all the way around. You may need to remove the front part of the transmission tunnel so the interior fits. All in all it'll take a fair amount of cutting, but it's doable. The Falcon and Fairlane were very similar underneath in 1966.

One more, I think from 1992 - closed and torn down for a Home Depot soon after:

One I caught about thirty years ago on Live Oak in Arcadia, CA, long gone now:

Current issue AMT '66 Fairlane chassis should fill the bill, once you shorten the wheelbase a scale five inches from 116" to 111", and shorten the rear to fit (I can get to that measurement later unless someone beats me to it).

in Rock Ridge

He was survived by his toupee.

Was this chassis fit always a problem with the MPC '72 GTO? Or could a defective run have slipped out (maybe with a Grand Prix chassis) and was remaindered instead of recalled (like Revell's wrong-body '57 Chevy)?

sun'll come out

Good! Glad it arrived OK.

Once again, caught them other cats napping: Nearly complete '62 Chrysler with some duplicate bits; looks like a mix of original and reissue, but most importantly: Original issue interior . Been after one for a long time! Can't believe there were no other bids at $19.99. Needs a rear bumper and maybe headlights but those are easier to get.

Another beauty, Jean-Philippe! So nice to see one of Pedro's resins so well finished. I imagine he used the roof from the AMT '62 Buick Electra. Will you be doing a '60 or '61 next?

Pretty much correct except that the serial is 44-83785, not 44-85591 - there was a paperwork snafu when the plane was sold in the early '60s.

So sorry to hear this. When my uncle and I visited the Collings planes on tour here in August, I got to crawl through Nine-O-Nine for what would be the last time. This was supposed to be the plane's last season before going in for some major maintenance; the Foundation had purchased another B-17 - this one with a CIA history, which also appeared in the Bond movie Thunderball - and were hoping to bring it online in the beginning of next year.

I liked "Ventura Highway" much better, especially when I was driving on a nice open stretch of it.

Well, somebody finally came out with a diecast of my first car, in the correct color: And, let's face it, in the only scale anybody else would buy it: HO. Thank goodness for model railroaders. (G-scale would be nice - just sayin' ) I like the '70s-era Coke machines, but the ones they show look like they have walnut-grain fake wood front panels - which aren't on the decal sheet... ETA: Couldn't find an exact match; this came close. That's a fake wood panel, all right:

Sent my '66 Fairlane promo bumpers out today with a check.

bah baba bah

Yes, like trafficking.

This is from a current eBay listing for a resin '59 Pontiac wagon; a bit crude but might offer some details to copy when you build yours: