ChrisBcritter

Yes, a '63 Special.

Cool! Why did it have those Eldo/Toronado wheels - did it have a GM FWD setup mounted in the rear?

The first car my parents got after they were married: '48 DeSoto. (My dad said it had about 400 pounds of chrome.) They had it about a year and then traded it in on a new '53 Bel Air two-door sedan with Powerglide (my mom didn't want to drive manual).

Look at the photo of the real one. It seems if you split the roof down the middle back to front, spread it apart in the rear the 7 or 8 scale inches, then added material on both sides of the door opening, and narrowed the rear fenders, you would be pretty close to accurate? ETA: Scott, where does the gas tank go on a delivery?

I was brought home from the hospital in this: '57 Buick Century, Dawn Gray over Carlsbad Black with factory A/C and blackwalls. My dad ordered it at Bonnie Buick in Evanston in November of '56; cost around four grand. They picked the colors from the dealer display, but when the car arrived Dawn Gray turned out to look sort of purple (he had it repainted all black after this was taken). Both my parents made it a "true Century" by running it 100 miles an hour on an empty highway in southern IL; Dad pegged it at 120. The Dynaflow lost reverse in 1962 so he traded it in on a used '59 DeSoto. This photo was taken when the car was two years old. Oddly, it's missing the grille bar - my dad swears it came from the factory that way.

Snow's all melted here too; the rain finished it off today. Just waiting for the piece of tree to be hauled off the lawn...

^^^ 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.