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I like the original original best, before it was remastered and much of the sound effects and all the music was replaced, although the color in the restored one looked a lot better. A friend who saw it in the theater with me put it as only a car nut can: "Before I thought the color of the Cadillac with the tiger in it was Terra Cotta - now I know it was Cranberry Firemist!" Both versions are on YouTube last I looked; it's possible by using two tabs to watch the restored print on one tab with the sound from the original on the other. Back in 1982 or '83, several damaged cars were for sale in Auto Trader and when I called, they turned out to be left over from The Junkman. To my surprise I was speaking to the man himself - H.B. Halicki. I probably sounded like a total fanboy but he was nice about it; he even offered me the opportunity to see his collection for ten bucks (he didn't usually show it to the public). Like a dumbass I never did take him up on it... I did go to his estate auction at the Pasadena Center and bought a bunch of mostly junk models; last one I have is a brown '79 El Camino promo. I also bought a soundtrack 45 of "Gone in 60 Seconds"/"Lois Lane Blues" for two bucks; wish I'd bought a dozen. Of course, I suppose we'll never know the answer to that burning question: Why was Attlee reading Playgirl magazine?
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Too many projects going on.
ChrisBcritter replied to Ramfins59's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
About six or seven I'm really working on at the moment - chasing parts for them and generally getting them all finished to the point where I have to start painting them. -
Just so happens I have one handy (minus one bit of trim); should have said green and silver: Got it from an abandoned Villager wagon back in '73.
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Slick! Are you going to make a rotating garage floor display with the Black Beauty? (Dammit, Kato, I told you to fix that thing!)
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President Red and Snow White, and some of the smoothest foil work I've ever seen. Looking forward to more! (When you do the dash, the gauge faces should be light metallic green.) I built one in the late '70s - light blue with a white top and spear. Ron Merkel fell in love with it and I traded it to him for an unbuilt IMC '48 Ford convertible; he sent me a photo of it afterwards posed against a mountain/forest backdrop saying it was one of his favorites.
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Buried Belvedere
ChrisBcritter replied to Harry P.'s topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
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.
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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.
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More old cars
ChrisBcritter replied to Greg Myers's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
Oh be still my beating heart. (actually 3 '62s and 1 '63) -
Buried Belvedere
ChrisBcritter replied to Harry P.'s topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
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. -
Newt's Boneyard - good vendor?
ChrisBcritter replied to ChrisBcritter's topic in Links to Aftermarket Suppliers
Sent in a request for a quote yesterday; will post when I hear back. -
Beautiful job! How much repair work did it need?
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Old Monogram Parts Restored ?
ChrisBcritter replied to Pete L.'s topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
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...
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Love those late 70 "Theme" Cars?
ChrisBcritter replied to Erik Smith's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
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) -
Galaxie Limited's '48 Chevy Coupe
ChrisBcritter replied to lordairgtar's topic in Car Kit News & Reviews
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. -
One for Hollywood Jim
ChrisBcritter replied to Greg Myers's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
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. -
Galaxie Limited's '48 Chevy Coupe
ChrisBcritter replied to lordairgtar's topic in Car Kit News & Reviews
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.
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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.
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Old Jo-Han promo plastic question
ChrisBcritter replied to Craig Irwin's topic in Model Building Questions and Answers
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?