ChrisBcritter

^^^ I checked the '64 Vette instructions and they don't seem to match; the closest I'm finding from the instruction sheets on Fotki may be the custom wheelcovers from the original AMT '62 Thunderbird hardtop - but I couldn't turn up a photo. Anyone have an original kit? Edit: Found a small image of an unbuilt '62 on eBay; maybe a match?

#2: Early '60s AMT custom units from one of the 3 in 1 kits (have to look this up). #3: '59-'60 Chevy dog dish hubcaps. #4: '58-'59 Lincoln wheelcovers (and/or Continental Mk II). #6: '56-'57 Lincoln wheelcovers (possibly based on the Lincoln Futura ones).

Either that or the left front wheel and axle were what hit the tree and the car bounced backward.

Well, shoot. First snow of the season did this: At least it mostly missed my car, and the limb on the roof didn't dent it.

I never had that issue - does anyone have a photo of the gasser suspension? Is it a straight axle parallel leaf setup? I have a project waiting for it if so.

Irwindale Raceway? If I'd known you'd be there I'd have told you to check out the Pick-A-Part wrecking yard nearby - the owner has a huge stash of vintage stuff (or at least he did a few years ago). Next time...

Buddy gonna delete your photo. Got another source?

I was thinking about these machines as well, but as a way to improve the performance of the purple stuff on stripping paint. Trouble is they seem to be too small to immerse a car body.

Sold for $10.50 a couple hours ago. Did anyone here get it?

I think Don got it worse.

(The above is an image - only way I can write that phrase and make it understandable here.)

Would the wheels/WWW tires in the Monogram '41 Continental work? They're 1/24 scale so they look even larger on a 1/25 model.

The '58 Ford I just cut up had some kind of putty (maybe Plastic Wood? What else could you use in '58?) filling in the taillight openings and fake hood scoop; the purple stuff ate into it enough to loosen it up and let me clean it out. Whatever the filler was, it didn't seem to have attacked the plastic.

As long as this thread's been bumped, does anyone have any parts that have been rechromed by this outfit, and were you satisfied?

Had already posted this on the '70 LTD thread, but in case you missed it, here's one I bought new in '70 and then rebuilt as a wreck about 35 years ago. This was intended to be the aftermath of a movie chase scene - battered on one side, bullet holes on the other:

Just curious, Bill or Tim: Is the Cyclone trim on the grille a separate part, from what you saw? Hope the chassis will be a good fit under the '64 Caliente (or any other AMT '60-65 Falcon/Comet/Ranchero bodies).

I think all that survives of those is the '65 convertible. Missing Link offered a sedan conversion for it but the gentleman from ML told me at the DuPage show that it didn't sell well.

I got one recently, and it's as good as I remember it from the late '60s. (I've already said my piece about the tires. ) One thing I'd forgotten was that nice set of brake drums - might want to cast up a few extra sets before building it. One difference of note - the original kit had depressions in the taillight bezels to accept the red lenses, but at some point lenses were engraved into the bezels, so those will have to be carved out carefully for the red ones to be inserted.

Update: Same deal with the '64 Plymouth Fury - promo was correct, but the kit always had a Sport Fury bucket-seat interior. The '62 Plymouth USA Oldies release has the '64 Fury promo bench-seat interior: It was either that or change the emblems (maybe hack 'em out of a Palmer kit ). Plus the Lindberg Belvedere wheelcovers are correct for the standard Fury.

Got a package of the AMT whitewalls so now I have a correct set of wide whites for the '53 Studebaker, since Round2 won't put correct tires in this issue (why not? The '53 Vette has them. ) Also got an NOS Jo-Han USA Oldies issue '62 Plymouth interior. Remember my posting about finding that the '62 Dodge reissue used the '64 Dodge promo interior? Took a look at it and sure enough, it's the same for the Plymouth: '64 promo part, slightly modified but fixable - and now I can finish a correct '64 Fury (as opposed to a Fury with a Sport Fury interior like the kit).

I recognize some of the custom parts. Up front they're the hood, headlights and fender extensions from the AMT '64 Grand Prix; it's missing the clear headlight covers and '54 Kaiser grille. Looks like two Double Dragster kit canopies on the back.

I wear one too - my sister-in-law's father got it for free when he bought a pair of pants; he didn't need it so it got passed along. It has three fake chronometer dials and a pushbutton that doesn't do anything, but it does seem to keep time.

You may be thinking of the 2+2 that was a modification of the Bonneville kit. The Grand Prix hasn't had any major modifications other than (IIRC) in the original kit the headlights had separate clear lenses and all the reissues had them molded in (did they use the promo part?).

Jo-Han Caddies were all four-door Fleetwoods from 1958 through 1962, then deVilles from 1963 through 1970, along with the Eldorado coupe from 1967 through 1976. Then Coupe deVilles from 1977 through 1979.

OK, I'll close this one. Jerome Brown, #99 of the Philadelphia Eagles - he said this in 1987 when he was in college at the University of Miami at a Fiesta Bowl dinner with Penn State (And just like the Japanese, Miami lost afterward ). Legendary L.A. radio sportscaster Jim Healy used to play the sound bite a lot until Jerome got killed in the 'Vette.