ChrisBcritter

So long, Mary:

With an Auto Cutter, of course!

Love that Fool's Goldster for all the kustom touches using period factory bits - not to mention it's a Mopar - no chance it'll win (traditional roadsters are the thing now) but it's an honor for it to be nominated.

98% - got one year wrong. Not an obvious one, but... still embarrassing.

The Dodge Cheesy Bee! Somebody draw up the logo!

Good news - kinda - is that the rear glass for the chopped hardtop is still there on the tree; maybe some resin caster could tackle the missing tops, fins and skirts?

The '64 Galaxie survives to this day as a Craftsman kit - how much do they retail for?

Nice work! Until now the only source for these was the MPC Barris Bed Buggy.

To be fair, MPC wasn't kind to their full-size Dodge either: Or... "This is why we can't have nice things (like '66 Polaras)."

Very obscure but very good: Jerry and the Diamonds, outta South Gate, CA with "Sea-N-Shore". The address on the label is now the parking lot of a Mexican restaurant.

And Molotow makes a 4mm liquid masking pen for just such occasions. The Deerfield Hobby Lobby has a couple on the clearance rack for $4.10 each (originally $18.99 ).

From Past Time Hobbies' site:

He does have a following of several wealthy collectors who bid each other up. He just recently joined the forum; why not ask him? His '59 DeSoto wagon is a jewel, plus he scratchbuilt an excellent trailer for the Coronado boat kit that I'll be shamelessly copying studying very closely when I build one.

I used to read a lot of English vintage car restoration magazines like Practical Classics, and it amazes me what so many restorers over there accomplish in the land where the even the rust has rust. Almost makes up for the banger racers...

Teeny tiny fan belt for the '68 Ford SOHC engine. Thanks F-J! When I get this '58 Fairlane sort-of-street-freak-sort-of-gasser-complete-Frankenstein done I'm going to put up a thank-you list of forum members who helped with parts.

Are there many variations for car parts in Brazilian Portuguese as opposed to how they speak it in Portugal? Like in Spanish - I've noticed my friends from Mexico refer to station wagons as camionetas, but in Cuba they're called pisicorres.

I do remember there were some Beavis/Butthead types in SoCal back in the day who got sick from ingesting Mr. Zogs Sex Wax ("The best for your stick"). It's surfboard wax. And I believe they did add a warning label.

Great idea! Surprised I haven't seen that done before.

1mm is great for emblems - you do need a light touch. One note: The tip on mine dried up after three days (No, I didn't leave the lid off); trimming the end slightly with a fresh X-acto blade got it going again. Now I'll remember to store it vertically, tip down.

I also mentioned on the Modeling Quiz thread that AMT initially engraved the word "LeMans" upside down on the rear chrome panel of the '63 Tempest promo; it was corrected at some point. The AMT '61/'62 Buick Special wagon and the Jo-Han '61 Olds F-85 wagon have the same error: there should be two vertical moldings in the tailgate window to represent the center sliding glass (this was standard on the deluxe trim level the models depicted). MPC never offered correct wheelcovers in their '71-'73 Cougars; they used the '70 wheelcovers on all of them.

As an aside, has anyone ever seen one of those "special crayons" for "striping on 'chrome' trim detail"? A few old AMT boxes mention them. Was this an accessory AMT was going to produce but never did?

...Aaaaand - the end. '56 Plymouth interior, '63 Impala taillights, and a few '61 T-bird bits. My best to Don and Carol, and fingers crossed for some angel to swoop down and take over the business.

Barrett-Jackson is coming up too - I went through the automobilia listings, apparently written by the same dingaling as always. I think he uses a dartboard to pick the adjectives. ("NOSY" is a new one this year - does it mean NOS-ey, like almost NOS? ) No vintage promos this time, unless you count the orange WenMac/AMF '65 Mustang. Worth maybe $150 on a good day - let's see what it does. I notice among the real cars, they're flogging the maybe-it-was-maybe-it-wasn't-JFK's ambulance again, and a customized '56 Chevy that they say has some kind of tenuous Barris connection, although the H.A.M.B. thread on it doesn't seem to bear that out.

I believe this was when I was in fifth grade around 1970-71, when a classmate invited me to his birthday party. His father was a gearhead and I think had a hobby shop at some point; had a big 1/32 slot car track in the basement and a blue Chevy-powered '36 Ford 3-window in the garage. Afterwards, we boys all got party favors: AMT kits from the Flower Power and Baja series. He had a couple shelves full of them! Thus I got my first '62 Electra 225. One of the other kids later gave me his '59 Buick - no, I don't have either of them anymore... The family name was Petropolous (sp?), if that rings a bell with anyone from Northbrook or Prospect Heights.

Just got an email early this morning saying my "seconds-into-May-16th" order has been shipped.