ChrisBcritter

How does the Parts Pack engine compare with the one in the '59 Cadillac kits? I understand the '59 has a Hydramatic, but does the '59 need any external mods to represent an earlier engine? I have a couple of them on hand already.

True - best I could do was measure the length from the rocker panel seam to the door jamb and size both photos so that length matched. One more: Now, who has the Revell and Jo-Han '62 Chryslers and a set of calipers?

Food for thought: Camera angles may cause some variation, but this might help.

What did I get today? Pull up a chair... Did anyone else here go to Hobby Heaven today for the annual sale? I took a nice drive up there with fellow forum members Tom and Jon, and Hobby Heaven is an apt name. For the price of one current kit at HL (without the coupon), I got this (plus three big bags of assorted parts not shown): Tan coupe is a very clean stock build, duplicating the one I built when I was seven (except for the "clean" part). Green one is a mild custom with a Buick nailhead and Riviera wire wheels. Black one is a collection of parts (needs hood, interior and glass) from the big bags. Pickup is a mild custom, original issue. "I wanted a '60 Ford wagon in the worst way!" And that's just what I got. Roof cut off to make a sort-of-Ranchero (can fix); interior broken at the back seat (ditto) and the tailgate glass is missing (anyone parting a Deora?). The roofless '57 Country Squire may donate its innards to a Jimmy Flintstone body. Didn't realize this was the Aurora kit until I got it home. Looks complete or nearly so. And finally the '59 Shortenental. Windshield, wheelcovers and front bumper/grill are savable. Rear end treatment is a '59 Pontiac rear bumper mounted upside down with a lot of putty around it. Plus a lot of wheelcovers, a couple sets of AMT compact tires, a bunch of chrome (including the rear grille for my '61 Continental sedan) and a Revell gluebomb '55 Chevy stakebed that will yield the rest of the parts I need for my 1/48 school bus conversion. Good day all around.

I built the Bed Bug (van) version of this kit; I recall the multi-piece body was complex but it fit together very well. I'd take a shot at building that bus! That ITC Mercedes, however...

Just got an NOS-looking '62 Falcon Futura interior, with the buckets and console - nice factory upgrade for the '60 sedan I have in the works. (Maybe I should make a mold and cast an extra set of buckets for the Ranchero as well?)

That's generally been my philosophy when I lived in L.A. for things like the Rose Parade and the 1992 riots.

Flickr is really pretty easy. Quickie tutorial for inserting Flickr images: Now come back to the forum, click the "Image" icon on your message form, and paste the URL in. Click "OK" and there you go: Hope this helps.

Baby got back (lights): '66 Galaxie taillights for my recently acquired promo. Cut down the lenses to fit the bezels, glued the lenses with Bondic and popped the lights in with a little CA. Thanks to gardnerpag44!

It was worth it!

Found something useful at my local Goodwill: a couple 1/4" scale furniture/room design templates for 50¢ each. Lots of holes in various shapes that should be good for marking out small pieces on sheet plastic for cutting. There's even one hole in the shape of a grand piano, in case you have a 1/48 scale Austin Marina.

Trouble is, they usually use good cars for these customs to save time to meet show deadlines, right?

I'd drive the wheels off, too (with an impact wrench, and put them on Craigslist )... Looks more like a '55 Chevy from the front:

Hope you don't mind me fixing the links. Nice job!

A photo would help here, if you can post one. I fixed a windshield frame on a '59 Edsel that had the same issue by first drilling tiny vertical holes down through the frame into the A-pillars, then cutting the top halves of the frame off of the A-pillars with a photoetch saw, drilling holes in either side of the break to insert a pin, and VERY carefully gluing it back together on a flat surface. Once that was dry I inserted pins in the holes in the A-pillars and glued the repaired top section over the pins and onto the pillars. That was the only way I could think of to fix it and get rid of the sag in the middle. Good luck.

...did somebody say movie police car?

Mine was May 15th as well - looks like my '56 Plymouth will have its interior soon, and my '61 T-bird promo will be complete. Watching the mailbox...

It came today. A bit of Dremel work and a couple of plugs in the hole to move the rear axle down 3/32", and... No more taildragger. A thorough washing and some flash removal helped too. Got a lead on the taillights as well...

I've only seen one up close - and it was the ute version; it was in L.A. in the mid-80s. Red with a flat black hood, chrome aftermarket wheels and license plates from El Salvador. Nice looking little truck; might be a good thing to do to this kit:

I guess it would be better to wait a while before ordering until all this settles down? I do need a couple hard-to-match colors (Mocha Frost - the darker early version - and Doeskin Tan) for a '57 Ford; I can keep it on the back burner for a while.

Only if you backed it all the way into the room first to get a running start at the pool. Nice model nonetheless! What's the diameter of the wheel rims?

I'll add the '32 and '40 Fords to that list (2018 and 2019 release?). It'd be cool if they made early-'60s style box art for the '53 Ford (and even better if they tooled up a bunch of vintage custom parts!).

Here you go, Bill: Back in 1988, I spotted an ad in the L.A. Times for a '61 Bel Air bubbletop at the Caddy dealer in Beverly Hills. Turned out to be a 25,000-mile metallic beige car with a six and Powerglide. That thing was near mint and drove like it too; they were asking $4,888 for it. I scraped up every dime I could and offered them my nice '66 Coupe deVille in trade - but no deal. For some reason I kept the ad; it listed the car's license number, DIS 246. About a year later, I saw an ad for a red '61 Bel Air with a 409/4-speed - license DIS 246. Out of spite I called the consignment dealer selling it; he said it was presented to them as original. I told him the car was a fake and how I knew; the guy said he was going to have a little talk with the owner...

Went to the Hobby Lobby in Paducah, KY last Thursday (we were down there for a family wedding) and picked up the '69 Corvair on the final discount rack for $9.00; oddly they also had a '70 Pontiac convertible that was marked as a store return "missing taillights" for $17.99 - never saw that happen at a HL before (I passed on it). Sunday night on eBay I got very lucky and scored this '66 Galaxie promo for only one $14.99 bid: In the words of George Carlin, "caught them cats nappin'!" First thing I'll be doing to it is fixing that taildragger stance all these '66 promos have. Is anyone building a NASCAR or custom version of the '66 kit that won't be using the stock taillights? And is the kit rear bumper same as the promo bumper?