ChrisBcritter

Dazed and Confused.

Aaannnd sold! sold! sold! sold! for $661.25, or a hundred more than the one they sold last year with undamaged cars. Hey, wait a minute - this is the one they sold last year: Look at the scratches over the word "Superide" - they're identical. Looks like the bidder who bought it last year (or maybe their kid) played with it, messed up one of the cars and and said "It's broken, I don't want it any more"...

On the Revell '26 T sedan: Has anyone here kitbashed that body with the AMT '27 T Touring to build a stocker? If so how was the fit?

Thanks Ed. I think you got the artist and title, right? The Four Preps - More Money for You and Me

The Friends of Eddie Coyle. "It's got the 383 Hemi."

Went to HTU and got a couple sizes of half-round Evergreen for the interior pleats on the '60 Chrysler, and a Tamiya scriber. Works pretty well (practiced on a couple scrap bodies, then rescribed the weak trunk lines on the '61 Falcon without gouging anything else), but I'm wondering if I could make it do narrower lines if I filed down the thickness of the blade. Anyone tried this?

Chad & Jeremy - "Teenage Failure" Thought somebody would get that... Hmm. Something a bit different: We got the Kingston Trio some work on Cuba's shore They hung around Havana to do a few encores Castro said "I like 'em! Let's hang 'em up some more!" Now he has all three... hangin' permanently Hang down the Kingston Trio Hang 'em from a tall oak tree Eliminate the Kingston Trio...

The Hearse?

A. Parts car for everything but the body. B. Paint it mud and rust and make a diorama of a car that's been underwater for several decades, like the '52 Chevy and '69 Camaro that were found in Foss Lake in Oklahoma (along with the remains of the people in them) not long ago:

Now this ain't a very fine song Luckily for you it ain't too long (Sit still or I'll smash your face in) If I had an expensive guitar I'd write great songs, I'd go far (Maybe)...

Music Machine - "Talk Talk" Seals and Crofts - "Get Closer"

Loved this one! If you want to add sound effects, maybe have the radio playing... "Hanky Panky"? One of my earliest memories was of seeing Spencer's Mountain at the Sunset Drive-In in Skokie in our '53 Bel Air when I was three. Some local filmmakers shot a movie there around 1967 called A Night at the Sunset, an ensemble comedy/drama about the patrons and staff there. I saw it in my film study class back in '76 or '77, but it sems to be lost now...

What a massive job that must have been! Beautifully done. One question: Why does the rear bumper look blue? Was it done with Alclad over a blue base?

White paint and clearcoat came off, blue is coming off (second bath using fresh purple stuff), no lacquer damage. Best of all: The flat black on the chassis and interior all came off!

Got a '60 Falcon grille and taillights, probably salvaged from a promo - that's about all you can do with the promos anymore with the warpage. Thinking of backdating the '61 after it comes out of the purple pond - we'll see...

Put stalled projects in them.

Yep! Just rig the crank up with a little music box that plays "Pop Goes the Weasel" and a spring-loaded catch that makes the car with the bad shocks fly off the road at the end of the song... :lol:

Hmm. Speaking of NASCAR compacts: Maybe we should both build our scruffy little cars as Compact Class also-rans? (The Valiants mopped the floor with everybody else.)

I recall they had one of these last year: http://www.barrett-jackson.com/Events/Event/Details/1963-Delco-Shock-Absorbers-dealership-smooth-ride-display-182335 Too bad about the chewed-up A-pillar on the second car. Their usual semi-literate description refers to them as "chevelles" (sic); not as bad as the parking-lot neon sign decribed as "Unseal" :lol: :

It looked kind of sad so I brought it home (from eBay): It's a '61 (with - I think - '49 Ford wheels) but it's painted up like Joe Weatherly's '60. NASCAR compacts weren't exactly high points in anyone's career, including Joe's: http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/february-19-1961-joe-weatherly-ended-up-in-this-predicament-news-photo/162839718 There's blue paint under the white - hope it isn't lacquer. Nothing's glued, thank goodness - now to decide how to redo it...

Good luck to the dealer - they've been trying to flog this thing for $89,900 on eBay for months now. Nice thing is there have been a ton of detailed photos of the car online, and I was able to show them to my uncle who said the upholstery patterns matched his '57 Fairlane town sedan which I'm building. (His wasn't supercharged; he just stuffed a 406 4-speed in it and went street racing.) Here's a link to the last Ebay auction; grab the photos while you can: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hemmings-Motor-News-Feature-Car-/181588449072?vxp=mtr

"Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes" - Edison Lighthouse

I found one I liked, the Lorraine-Dietrich B3-6 pickup: Did a little cleanup and photoshop work, et voila: As the French surfers say, "Hang dix!"