ChrisBcritter

Speaking of which: (Hagerty and J.C. Taylor are going to be very busy now...)

Or banger racers - I bet some folks from England will buy up the remains and ship 'em over. As I've posted on the H.A.M.B., that's a '65 Imperial convertible behind the '46 Chevy coupe...

AMT '58 Ford vert for a buck and it's never had louvers glued on the hood, or or a spotlight hole in the A-pillar, or antennas glued on the deck?? I'd tell you to go buy a Powerball ticket if you hadn't used a year's worth of good luck... Some guys replace the chassis with one from the AMT '59 Ford or Edsel; if you plan to go that route I have a spare if you need it.

Hold on, I'll fix it. ... OK, got both to print out on photo paper. They came out sharp! Sending PM for your address.

FTFY.

Got a 404 error after writing a long post. So anyway, last night I went down to work on my '58 (already added the cowl vent from the '57 - after separating the '57's wipers and putting them aside for later) and did the front fender surgery. Then I started work on the windshield opening, and it looks like there's no problem with the glass fit - probably since I'm using a convertible windshield. Just might be able to fudge this enough to look OK. You guys are rubbing off on me... Fun fact: The window opening on the passenger side slopes down towards the windshield, making that vent window slightly shorter.

Oh, you're raising the bar for me... Now are you using the kit glass or a vacuform replacement? I've been looking at mine to do the same thing, but all I have is the kit glass and I'm worried about it not fitting (I already checked the Trophy Series '57 windshield and it doesn't fit either).

That figures - knew I should have saved it and edited it to that one shot. Next best thing - you can hear some of of it behind the el cheapo studio-musicians-imitating-the-Beach-Boys-imitating-Chuck-Berry production music:

Plus you can offset the cost by selling some of the leftover parts on eBay. Don't laugh - have you priced a Continental hood ornament lately?

OK, but there's no music like four injected nailhead Buicks (FF to 38:58 if it doesn't start there). FF to 38:58 if it doesn't start there.

^^^ Thanks Mike!

Just got this from a seller in Australia: Hoped it would be a good match for the '58 Ford grille mesh. Maybe a hair small but I'll see if it looks better than what I have now - if not, I now have a LOT of custom grilles... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

AMT didn't do much to this engine over the years; the '66 T-bird engine will probably do in a pinch as well. O/T, but are you going to use those wire wheels? Member Brandriet16 was looking for a set a while back:

Just got back from the NNL show/swap in Crystal Lake. Picked up an unbuilt '69 Falcon modified stocker with a badly bent body for a ten-spot; so now that I have the correct shock towers, I guess I have to buy a '65 Comet to put them in . Even better, for three bucks I picked up a salvageable gluebomb Aurora '34 Ford coupe. Last fall I got an unbuilt one at Model Empire's annual sale that was missing some parts; this one has almost all I need to finish the other (just need the fuel pump or a good photo to scratchbuild from), with plenty enough left over to start on a nice hot rod . One regret: I could have picked up the remains of an Aurora 1/32 "Beatnik Box" roadster pickup hot rod cheap; it had a nicely molded 348/409 Chevy engine with a dual-pot Paxton supercharger setup, but I couldn't think of a use for it. Now, of course, I can think of using it in one of my Pyro car kits - or just using the supercharger setup on the Revell '56 Eldorado. Live and learn...

Good to see the El Camino back again; wish they had done some gauge face and upholstery decals, but hopefully the '60 Mercury grille will be there along with the tonneau cover (good source for tuck and roll interior panels).

Happy bidding: http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMT-1960-FORD-F-100-TRUCK-ORIGINAL-HOOD-CIRCA-1960-/332326768930?hash=item4d60381122:g:l9MAAOSwbopZf4wL

Even so, thanks for posting the link, Mike - that "Packardski" is a beaut, albeit too rich for my blood.

Preston, you've done this one proud! How about a shot of the chassis, and did you have any issues with loose fit on the front spindles either on the brake drums or on the axle?

Good luck with that, Bill - I had a very tough time with the whole thing. Making the Olfa cutter go through the material and having the beginning and end of the circle meet worked maybe one out of four tries, even when I resorted to using a sheet of brass with a tiny hole drilled in the center to steady the center pin. The vinyl tape bit in my earlier post didn't work out after all; I think the tape stretched when I peeled it from the roll, so the wide whites I made eventually shriveled . I wish you could get a hole punch or a die made to stamp these things.

It might be easier to go over them with a Molotow chrome pen (before you cut them from the sheet, unless they need to be bent to shape first) than to polish them.

And if you want to see the car in action: They used a double for the last scene; too bad it was a real '56 Nomad as well! (Might make an interesting diorama if you could find a '73 Chevy longbed pickup kit...)

AMT Craftsman/Jr. series kits. Expensive comfort nowadays, but I love 'em.

This is turning out like I predicted two years ago:

^^^ Sweeeet... I'd expect Revell to try this rather than Moebius - I don't think Moebius ever made a custom version of anything, and lowriders are Revell's bread and butter nowadays.

That would be something else if all the custom parts could be put back in - although the one-piece glass unit for the chopped top conversion would be a REAL surprise to see... Model Empire's sale last year had a bunch of the front and rear ends and I've been kicking myself for not grabbing a few.