ChrisBcritter

Been nail-biting on these for the last several days. Remember the cobbled-together '59 Plymouth Fury (with the '60 DeSoto interior) I got last week? Wellll... Correct '59 Plymouth dash, interior and steering wheel, and luckily I was the only bidder (there were several watchers). And yes, it all cost more than the car did... , but now this Fury becomes an official Project™. P.S. Anyone have use for a '60 DeSoto interior?

Spotlights, mirrors, antennae. Had to fill 'em on my '64 as well. Anyone here been brave enough to open the hood and put an engine in there? The Roth Road Agent has the early rear suspension.

Thanks Greg! Working on the car is easy compared to trying to post about it with the continuous 404s . To finish the last paragraph: Also added the chrome window divider posts to the rear doors that were left off the original; I used a piece of door trim from the Trumpeter '60 Bonneville for that. The layer of metal they're chromed with makes them very strong for their thickness, and didn't wear off from handling. Thanks for looking - should be finished soon.

Quick update with a few snaps before the batteries died. From the previous shots you can see that, due to shrinkage, the front fenders didn't align with the bumper/grille unit, plus there was a chunk broken off the driver's side fender, so I searched my junk pile for something the same off-white shade as the body. Came up with what was left of a convertible top boot that was a mess on the back (it had a couple of the PO's hairs embedded in the glue ). I cut a couple filler pieces out and glued them in with DAP CA gel, added braces underneath, and then ground/filed/sanded/polished until they blended in as best as they could: You could see the seams a bit if I were a better photographer. I reassembled the car after grinding 3/32 off the rear screws which were bottoming out, and started on the BMF: So far, so good... I may add material to the ends of the rear bumper to tighten the gap, as soon as I settle on a way to get both bumpers rechromed. Also added the chrome posts to the rear windows that were left off the original. (continued below)

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That Rolls...

And finally, the ones on the upper right are from the AMT '62 Mercury Meteor. You're missing the larger custom lenses that plug into the tail fins, but you have the stock lenses, plus four bullets that, oddly, aren't mentioned on the instruction sheet.

Here you go - get busy! https://www.ebay.com/itm/Danbury-Mint-1-24-1948-Buick-Roadmaster-Coupe-Nickel-Gray/264359617723?hash=item3d8d0fa4bb:g:wVkAAOSwgqRc11wW

Middle ones are both sets of the custom taillights from the AMT '63 Pontiac Bonneville.

Lower left are the stock and custom '62 Tempest taillight lenses:

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Another great idea well executed! I like how it looks as if it has a chopped top.

Very attractive build! One question: Did you glue the grille to the hood, and if so was it because if a fit issue?

Here you go - Jo-Han used the long rams for a few years in their Chrysler kits: https://www.ebay.com/itm/JO-HAN-1967-CHRYSLER-300-ORIGINAL-CROSS-RAM-ENGINE-NOS-KIT-C1467-CIRCA-1967/233258749858?hash=item364f4e0fa2:g:GeQAAOSwMT5dBXdA

Excellent choice, Mark! Let's take a closer look at some shots from the Teen Fair scene, which had some plugs for AMT: Double Dragster 1/12 scale '37 Cord display Rack of AMT lacquers, XR-6 kit, Munster Koach on the right, not sure what the bottom one is George Barris in the booth selling models, and hot rodding legend Norm Grabowski in front And this '61 Dodge Norm's beating on? It was the stunt double for the '64 Imperial (note the nameplate on the front fender) in the crash-and-burn scene in the 1964 Ann-Margret film Kitten with a Whip.

Another bit of trivia, with a personal connection: Back around 1984 or '85, Dr. Don Altfeld, the co-writer of "Little Old Lady..." came to my print shop (on Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena!) to get some copies. He told me he was reviving the Little Old Lady character as a proposal for an ad campaign... for Ford. I asked how the song would go, and he sang "Here in her garage where the kids all hang, is a brand new shiny red Ford Mustang!" Admittedly, Mopar wasn't producing any real performance cars then. His idea got some mention in the L.A. papers soon after, but nothing came of it...

Fun movie indeed! Wonder if Tommy wrote his own dialogue in the scene where he describes his roadster? Also note about 58 minutes in, Lois confesses to having left the party to take on Nita and her friends in a race, and says "I don't think they'll bother us any more." Maybe the script had a final race scene that wasn't filmed? Run time is only an hour and five minutes - maybe it went over the $19.95 budget? Also features my favorite final credit:

Very sleek job, Glen - wish I'd thought of it!

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Thanks for the heads-up re their enamels, Steve. I want to get some for a kit I have in the pipeline, but I'd better go with lacquer. Will Tamiya primer work OK with it?

Scored this a few hours ago at the LMMCC meeting: Cheep cheep cheeeeep. This one's a 10-footer; X-El body with (I think) an original kit chassis, a '60 DeSoto interior, ''58 AMT kit wheels/tires/axles with Revell '65 Impala SS wheelcovers . Definitely worth fixing. I can see an inscription inside: "Built by Ed Jentzak". So, has anyone tried putting AMT '58 Plymouth guts into one of these? Also the '60 El Camino arrived Friday, as nice as it looked in the eBay ad. Grille bar has damage from the custom piece but I have a spare. Decals are dated 11-60 so I guess it's from the second run.

Four of mine, taken 1976, 1982, 1987, and 2005: Also had a '92 Chrysler Sebring convertible but never did get a photo of it; that leaves only DeSoto on the Mopar bucket list.

I like the way you build and write, Geoff!