ChrisBcritter

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!

For the replica of my uncle's '57 Ford I need to duplicate the color Silver Mocha, a very dark brown (same color the Revell '57 Ford wagon was molded in). Testor's One Coat Root Beer Brown is as close as I've found but it's not dark enough. Now if I paint it black first and go over it with the Root Beer, is that color translucent enough to be darkened by the black? Thanks!

I had one as well, 20k mile '71 in Bright Aqua with white top and interior (rare color combo, Marti report said only 117 made): Unfortunately it had sat for nearly twenty years, plus it spent its life in Pacific Palisades so all the pot metal had to be replaced. Got it running and (sort of) driving, found most of the chrome on a car in the Sun Valley Pick-a-Part, then went broke again as usual and sold it to a friend who sank a lot more money into making a reliable driver out of it. As I've mentioned before, Dennis Doty once told me AMT was going to make a Mark III for its '69 kit lineup, but it didn't happen. Wonder how far they got with the tooling? One thing about the diecast: It should have very narrow whitewalls, like about 1/2" (my car had four of the five original tires).

And now Bobby has recorded what will most likely be his final album, because of the increasing effects of Alzheimer's. http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/242805101.html

My dad used to work for Pettibone; they made material handling equipment. Sometimes he'd bring home photos of the machines in use:

Got outbid for a bunch of small items on eBay and missed a nice built-up '32 Chevy sedan delivery that sold for only $21.50 , but got the Revell stock '40 Ford Standard coupe to part out for my ITC '40 Mercury. I can see the hood will take a bunch of work to fit... also picked up some dark blue Tamiya paint for the '64 Polara and some 3/32 aluminum tubing for the dual exhaust under my '67 Chevy pickup. I may be in serious danger of actually finishing something soon.

Failing that, you can try cutting around the seams with a photoetch saw. "Patience is a virtue" will never be more applicable...

Got a replacement hood for my '64 Coupe deVille today - some Testors paint remover cleaned it up perfectly. One of these days I'm going to repaint it gray with a black top and interior and add Illinois plates to match the car from Cooley High.

Best you can hope to do is heat it again to flatten it somewhat and make it look like crash damage, or chalk it up to experience and use it as the base for an aftermarket body conversion (luckily you have many choices nowadays). DO take note of where it was in the dehydrator - maybe you have a "hot spot" in there.

What a score! Wish I'd been watching. Always wanted to find one of these and make it into a gasser - as far as I know it's never been done.

Mean looking little Comet! Could we see a chassis photo?

Estate sale score this morning! '65 Impala promo; taillights missing and weak paint on the hood and trunk, otherwise decent, $8.00: Even better - Craftsman '64 Chevelle, missing one wheel and tire (and the remaining three had tire melt on the wheels) but otherwise complete and untouched by glue, $5.00 (this has been on my want list for ages but they're tough to find cheap and/or nice): And this was an impulse buy, a Mattel Power Shop for ten bucks: It does run nice and quiet; does anyone here have one of these and can tell me what may be missing (besides the directions)? Edit: Found info and instructions at samstoybox.com.

John, I just used a little trick: I ran 726 HYH through the CA DMV personalized plate generator, and it didn't reject the number. Doesn't look good...

Missing Link Models was supposed to be coming out with a hardtop body for the '65 Continental - anybody seen one yet?

Beautiful work as usual, Tulio! How about doing a comparison with the original '58 kit next? There are a few details on that one which are more accurate. I used to be half owner of this Ranger; one of four '58s known to have this color combo, Snow White body and roof with Ice Green cove:

And the Bonneville while you're at it, so I can kitbash my old 2+2 convertible.

PLEASE do a search for the '63 Falcon convertible and '64 Corvair Craftsman molds. And tell us if they're gone. Hey, you found the '64 Comet...

Rob, when you go back tomorrow, can you find out what the AMF/Wen-Mac Mustang, lot 5420, sold for? The B-J website has lost the info. Lot 5424, the Delco shock demonstrator with the two '63 Chevy promos, sold for $575.00.

Went to an estate sale in Park Ridge this morning hoping to score some Motorifics: Got there on time but there was a line out the door already and had to wait half an hour in 10° weather to get in. By that time the rest of the locusts had descended to the basement, and almost all the toys you see below were gone or spoken for, except... Got it! Only paid a buck for it and the model railroad building cutout building book (to scan for patterns): P.S. And it turns out all the Motorifics they had were Mini-Motorifics, which I don't collect anyway.

Just a few quick shots from the basement: The last shot shows my recently-acquired SMP '62 Chevy convertible. It took an evening's work with photoetch saws, a razor saw, regular and chisel X-acto blades, and a small screwdriver, but I got that windshield out intact without any new damage. Then I fixed the broken right windshield post, replaced the missing vent pillar with a piece of square rod (cut from a fan belt!) and ground down and polished out the windshield to remove the glue splotches. On the right is a '62 Continental convertible that may end up getting parted if I can't budge any more black paint off.

License revoked.

My low-tech solution for a '64 Galaxie: Left the roof in bare plastic and sprayed it with Krylon satin black lacquer. When the surface crazed it looked pretty close to a scale vinyl roof; you just have to make sure every other surface is masked off.

Don't forget to check the Automobilia section of the website: http://www.barrett-jackson.com/application/onlinesubmission/currentautomobilialist.aspx?aid=525&sd=01/12/2014&ed=01/21/2014 Some of the items really stretch the definition of automobilia (3-foot-tall statue of Bugs Bunny???) but there are many items that would look good copied in scale for dioramas. In past years they've had some collections of promo models (got my red '63 Ford convertible and dark aqua '66 Chrysler 300 hardtop there) but this year there are only two. Lot 5420 is an AMF Mustang with box: And lot 5424 is probably a Holy Grail to some of us here: Anyone know how this thing works? One amusing thing about the automobilia list is the B-J copywriter's constant tossing-in of random adjectives in front of the listings (Iconic, Neat, Stellar, Fabulous, etc., etc.). The Mustang's listing is the highpoint: Brian Griffin couldn't have written it better. :lol: