ChrisBcritter

Not only LeMans, but LeMons as well!

As others here have, I've considered this same method for improving wire wheels, and this proves it can really work! The rest of that chassis is amazing as well. Hope to see the finished car here soon. Now I don't feel so bad about the fistfight it took to put together one of their Model A kits when I was eleven...

Duly noted - thank you!

If I wanted a Chaparral, I wouldn't get nearly as much satisfaction from paying eight grand for it as I would if I found it in a yard sale for five bucks, even if I were rich. Where's the fun in saying "I spent lots and lots of money" as opposed to "I just got a screaming deal"?

Looks like you'll need a set of Chevy van taillights. Good luck!

Just happen to have an old (1970) shot of our family car right here to compare: (Our cat got hold of the slide and got me across the face - no great loss... )

Good score on the T-bird! That custom front end, if you had it, is supposed to be good for converting the AMT '53 Studebaker into a '58 Packard Hawk. I have three incomplete '57s that will someday be combined to build the one Nancy Sinatra had: (Anyone have a good kit source for those mags and the steering wheel?)

Another thing you can do - since most of them are easily available, you can get unbuilt reissues and build clones - copy the style and colors of your dad's models and use your own talents to make them even better than they looked brand new - like if your dad had access to modern tools, detail parts and paints (after all, most fathers want their sons to do better than they did).

Thanks to an under-descriptive ebay listing with only one photo, I scored these cheap: Never thought I'd find a '60 Chrysler! The listing just mentioned the Lincoln but the lot included both cars. Now to find a set of wire wheels and tires from the '56 300...

Anyone make a resin copy of the Jo-Han '64 Dodge Polara promo (bench seat) interior? Modelhaus makes it for the Plymouth but not the Dodge, so another project is hung up at the moment.

Just got back from the DuPage show and managed not to buy any new projects. That said, I did score some stuff to apply to my current projects. For my '62 Impala convertible I found a very battered original AMT '62 Chevy hardtop for $5; poor thing looked like it was sat on and glued back together - but it had a front seat that didn't have seat belts glued to it; plus one of the taillight units wasn't glued. (If anyone else has a gluebomb '62 I'll have a few leftover bits - rechromeable front and rear bumpers, a salvageable dash and windshield, rear quarters that haven't had skirts glued to them and the taillight panel.) Another vendor had a mint set of wheelcovers with tires and wheel backs for $5, so it looks like I have all I need to finish it. For my '61 Ford wagon project I scored a pair of '58 T-birds for $5 each, which will provide the engine, drivetrain, front suspension and a few other bits. And for the '57 Fairlane 500 project I got a $3 '57 parts pile kit that will help in converting it to a four-door, plus the dark brown paint for the two-tone roof and sides. Another vendor had a boxful of tires for 25¢ each - got a full set of MPC Goodyear G70-15s for the '67 Chevy pickup. Anyone else there today? I had a brief chat with Bob Dahl of Bob's Paints. Nice guy and I'll be doing business with him soon.

I'll be there - look for me in the leather jacket and black Tulsarama T-shirt. Might bring a couple kits to let go cheeep (if anyone cares about Hubley Model As anymore).

First-rate build and photography! One of the best ideas I've heard in a long time! High-end version of the MPC "Switchers".

Sweet job, Stan - other than the top, it looks like my old ride from 20-some years ago:

I had an early issue of the kit and the wheels/tires were definitely larger: ): Bigger sidewalls, too. Looks like what the kit needs most is a pie cut to make the boattail slope down at the rear, the grille shell slanted back a bit more, the fenders modified to tuck under at the bottom, and a set of decent wire wheels and tires (I'd take a look at the Monogram '32 Cadillac for those).

And the AMT windshield won't fit since the Hubley kit is 1/24. I have an unbuilt one I started a long time ago (molded in white). In a fit of masochism I opened the hood and started detailing the chassis with '59 Skyliner parts; that's where it sits now.

Absolutely love those Falcons - I had a 1969 version that if you looked real close, you could read the odometer (all zeroes!). Great job by AMT. Question is, why didn't the kit come with a stock version in '68 or '69? Was there a stock version in '66-'67?

Got a couple sets of old AMT tires and wheels from ebay, so I can put a set of stock(ish) chrome reverses and tall narrow whitewalls back on my '62 F-100. Looks like Firestone Supreme whitewalls are getting up in value now.

100%. If you remember details about side marker lights, it helps - plus I remembered the '69 grille from my Jo-Han Road Runner.

Is that a copy of the Badger 350, and will the parts interchange? Looks just like the old 350 I used to have.

Here's something you could do with gluebomb vans and pickups: http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/dodgevrolet-convertible-van-truck-1519850028/@matthardigree

Looks like a GM X-frame chassis - wonder what they based it on?

Found these on a Flickr page about the Chinese air force in the 1930s. Note that it's right-hand drive:

I liked tin toys because you could inflict realistic crash damage with a hammer! But $17,000.00? I'd buy a real '62 Imperial with that kind of disposable income, and have enough left over for a nice promo.

That second image got me - I really had to look again to be sure those were models!