ChrisBcritter

Internet Archive to the rescue https://web.archive.org/web/20130301072855/http://www.copcar.com/mo0903.htm

I've had some luck using a photo etch saw blade and a lot of patience; on a '62 Chevy convertible I managed to remove the glass without destroying the frame or the cowl. Glass got a bit scratched but it needed polishing anyway; next time I'd put tape over it.

Would Micro Foil Cement work OK?

Got my order in for a '56 Plymouth interior, '61 T-bird steering wheel/column and taillights, and '63 Impala taillights for the AMT kit (drilled out the molded-in ones 25 years ago and parked it, so another 20 weeks won't matter now...). Wish I could get more stuff but this will have to do it.

Set of '59 Mercury open wheels and axles, which will get my '59 Edsel 'vert rolling again (same parts) but got outbid on a set of '58 Imperial wheels .

Got hit by a bosozoku stick.

From gardnerpag44, a '55 Nomad tailgate - so a parts car is now a builder - thanks! And from eBay, a Monogram NASCAR T-bird engine; the headers will be adapted to fit the SOHC for the '58 Ford.

Let alone Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino, and Jerry Lee Lewis. (Now if you'd said Pat Boone, I'd have said, "That I believe." )

Let me guess: "Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned"?

Black '60 New Yorker convertible - red interior and white top.

Are you going to try to build one of the Buicks up? I have a grille/front bumper - needs rechroming and the tab with the screw holes is cut off, but still savable. PM me if you need it.

IMC '48 Ford kustom I built in the late '70s, chopped and channeled:

Runs on methane?

Cover it with plain aluminum foil, burnish it down tight, lift off the foil and fill it with Bondic or resin, and you've got it - once it dries remove it from the foil, attach it to the model, foil it using adhesive or Bare-Metal.

Thanks Bill!

I'm currently looking for a set of headers for the SOHC engine I'm building; of course there's not much available so I'm thinking of just modifying flanges to make an existing set work. I've noticed these from the 1/24 Monogram NASCAR T-bird: Can someone tell me how wide these are where I marked on the photo? Thanks! (And if you have a better suggestion, let me know - the engine is going into an AMT '57 Ford chassis with a straight axle setup.)

They certainly were sold in the USA - here's mine back in 1979: Hope they do a wagon...

As I've mentioned before, the wheels/tires from the MPC Stutz Bearcat are a big step towards making it accurate.

Snake, do you have the stock tires left over in that kit? I need at least three of them for another project. Let me know if there are any other bits you need from the VW.

I have a couple of these (one black X-El promo, one kit) - If I decided to do a chassis and engine, what would be a better source for the old AMC V8 - the SC/Rambler, the Marlin, or something else? I'll probably do the Ambassador trim since the front end is the long style already. I'm going to fix the bug-eyed headlights with a hooded set from a '59 Mercury blended into the fenders.

So they'll license Hudson but not Rambler, eh? Hmpf. Re the video: Minor pet peeve - folks who use the term "Art Deco" for things that aren't.

Great kit indeed - I've got one that I keep wanting to build, but with a different body - Vicky, 5-window, bobtailed '34 coupe, or even a '33 Willys van modded to a ute, but keep the rest as is and save the sedan body for a full-fendered job. The new tires from the Surf Woody reissue would look good on it.

Rats. Any explanation why? Better buy up the last reissues now before they go through the roof.

Getting back to the topic of original tooling: Suppose Monogram had access to original stock and custom parts - not molds, but actual kit parts - for the '40 Ford pickup. Would it be easier today to use high-resolution scanning to copy them and make new molds, or is it more cost-effective to recreate them from scratch? I know about kits being back-dated to recreate old parts, but what's the preferred method?

We're decades overdue for an original Bronco; with about ten jillion possible variations, this would be a best-seller for Moebius and a logical follow-on to the Ford pickups. (Plus they used '66 Ford standard wheelcovers for many years, so if you wanted to downgrade an AMT kit from a 7-Litre to a regular Galaxie 500, there's another piece of the puzzle.)