ChrisBcritter

$22,000 for the van - and I bet you'll have a lot more trouble finding a cherry '70s custom van with 500-odd miles on it than you would finding a Shelby.

Yep - friends of mine shot video of the burial spot. This time it's an above-ground vault.

What a magnificent job! Those colors really set it off. No, it didn't; I believe the Edsel, Buick and Pontiac were the ones with the generic wheelcovers that year, and the Ford and Chevy had correct ones. Luckily the promo wheels were correct on the Pontiac and Buick; only the Edsel missed out.

Got an AMT '59 Mercury bumper/grille/headlights from eBay; the headlights are coming off to be used on my Jo-Han '59 Rambler wagon (the hooded part is a much better match to the real thing) and the grille pattern will probably go into my '59 Ranchero as a close match for a '59 Meteor unit.

Oh be still my beating heart. (actually 3 '62s and 1 '63)

Best I can suggest is build some kind of support for the car that would line up with the frame, and set it on rollers so it can be safely moved around. I'm sure if the family got it to Barrett-Jackson, the hype machine would go into overdrive and a couple rich guys would fight over it enough to give them a tidy sum to take home. Then the car would disappear into some collector's garage and B-J would go on to the next big thing.

Sent in a request for a quote yesterday; will post when I hear back.

Beautiful job! How much repair work did it need?

Maybe some resin shop could do a conversion kit for the stock/custom parts for those kits, plus create stock door panels and seat for the '40 pickup. Seems like a slam dunk.

Just leave it there and call it art, since they took down the car needle in Berwyn...

I remember the Plymouth Fire Arrow - this one's on display at the Aadlen Bros. U-Pick junkyard in Sun Valley, CA: It ended up there after it, uh... caught on fire. (photo from clunkbucket.com)

I'm surprised AMT hasn't made a '46-'48 Plymouth yet, based on the tooling for the '41. Then the resin guys would use it to make conversion kits for the Dodge, Chrysler and DeSoto.

I'd lay odds it's one of those oversized "speedsters" we've been seeing lately, made by throwing a whole lot of money at a shortened vintage firetruck chassis.

Just wish they would fix the shape of the '46 grille already; it was one of the reasons I bought the kit - and my only disappointment with it. A correct one would look great on a '40 Ford.

Sorry if it's the wrong place to ask, but is Newt's Boneyard a good outfit to deal with? He has a few items I'm looking for and his prices look reasonable, especially when compared to the usual bidding wars on eBay. PMs are fine.

What resin do the the big outfits (like Modelhaus) use?

Me with my first Mustang, 1965:

Oh please. Even Lee had some standards. This would make him say "Remember when I said 'Too much of a good thing is wonderful'? Never mind."

OK, this may sound perverse, but I want to make this kind of a phantom - a '64 Malibu "glue kit that never was", screw posts and all. I figured I'd saw the end of the nose off a junk '65 and trim the front panel down until it fit like an original. I have the dual-carb V8, firewall, battery, washer reservoir and radiator, so this is the last piece I need.

So is it correct that acetone will be able to glue acetate together? I've wanted a '58 Chevy four-door hardtop for a long time, but they're always bent down at the tail. I think I could cut the body at the rear door line, do a pie-cut going up from the bottom and reattach it - if there was a way to cement the two parts together. Would acetone do the trick?

And here I thought the Fireball 500 was only good for its Radir wheels! Toss in a couple surfboards and you're set. (PM sent)

Thanks much!

Just won a whole lot of little items - unbuilt engine, underhood goodies, open wheels and wheelcovers from a '66 T-bird; the engine (with some mods) and underhood stuff will go into a '62 Continental sedan. Also: V8 engine and underhood stuff from a '64 Chevelle wagon, so my Craftsman '64 Malibu will get its hood cut open after all. Anyone have a junk '65 wagon or El Camino with a usable radiator wall that can be cut out?

I'll have to be honest - I'd be more willing to pay for prints of the box art than I would for the actual kits. Anyone know who did the illustrations?

Really, the more I look at it, the more I think that the treatment here could have actually looked good - on a '61 Chrysler four-door hardtop wagon. On a Magnum all the elements are just too crowded together.