ChrisBcritter

Thanks for the link - that identified seven of the eight cars. First photo, L-R: 22 - Connaught 15 - Maserati 250F 6 - Simca-Gordini 4 - Mercedes W196 Second photo, L-R: 8 - Vanwall 7 - Maserati 4GLP 24 - Talbot-Lago 4 - ? (Edit: BRM P25) I guess $10 each wasn't too bad a price after all, since they're nicely built.

I picked up eight of these at an estate sale several years ago; not the type of cars I usually would collect but they were very nicely built (and cheap). Can you identify them? I mean besides the Mercedes and Vanwall and Talbot-Lago, of course...

OK, I'll confess - I worked on a couple art cars. Back in the mid '80s the L.A. County Museum of Art hosted a party where everybody could glue various items all over a '76 Cutlass sedan (they must have gotten donations from every junky import store in downtown L.A.). Meanwhile a couple other guys were attaching a forties International big truck grille/hood to the trunk. It looked about as bad as it sounds. The other time was when several friends and I glued over 22,000 1" square mirror tiles all over a '71 Pinto, because making a disco ball out of a Pinto at least makes sense, kind of.

Looks like it just crashed through the toy section of a Goodwill. Might have some future in the 24 Hours of LeMons...

I've built three of them a long time ago; an ETO G model, another G in '60s civilian freighter style, and an F backdated to an early E for an aborted Pearl Harbor movie project. It goes together remarkably well.

I have one of those too. Despite being described as a "custom", if you leave off all the extra parts it's 99% stock except for the grill insert (which is fixable).

Except they'e incorrect; E plates used a five or six digit number after the E in a diamond (for state owned CHP cars; local departments used an E in an octagon).

I learned it was OK for hacking smaller pieces out of larger pieces and flaring axle ends; also learned how to make dings and scrapes in my AMT Modified Stockers; how you shouldn't absentmindedly use your thumb to guide the end of it, and how long it takes a second degree burn to heal. Edit: After a couple years use, the heating and cooling cycles fatigued the blade mount and it snapped off. The end.

Just got back from the show in Wheaton. Finally got rid of some stuff and picked up the '50 Olds (now I can benefit from everyone else's experience!); also got a bag of leftover stuff from a '68 Chevy pickup (I have a '67 that was missing the outer wheels, and these were the same. Also have the rear bumper/taillight unit if anyone needs it). One thing I'm kicking myself for missing: a big bag of tires that had at least three good sets of '60s AMT Firestone whitewalls plus a ton more for $10. Should have grabbed them then, but I had to think about it... Looked all over for a cheap Revell stock '40 Ford Standard coupe for my '40 Merc convertible project but nobody had one, cheap or otherwise. Anyone else go there today?

Add the '64 Galaxie Craftsman kit.

The poster it came from (thanks to planethoustonamx.com):

The fabric you want to try is Ultrasuede - it has a velvety texture but not a high nap like velvet, and the weave is invisible from the top. Even better, it doesn't unravel when you cut it like velvet does; I used to work with the stuff a lot making Aztec costumes, which have different colors of material layered together and sewn, then the layers cut out to reveal multicolored patterns. You can cut it into intricate shapes with no fraying. Good luck!

Just like the title says. Nice simple little structure - probably 1920s? The garage is only 19 feet deep: http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog/mc00096-001-ff0221-000-001_0016

Plowing ahead through the NCSU archives, I searched the architectural drawings under "filling station" and found two that date from the mid-1920s (with photos!) and a drawing of a small Clark station dated 1945. Here you go: http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog?utf8=%E2%9C%93&id=mc00096-001-ff0205-000-001_0003&search_field=all_fields&q=filling+station Still got a ways to go, but I promise more goodies to come!

Oh, yeah, that... I'm looking through all the architectural drawings in the collection and I've found several more "separate but equal" facilities. On a happier note there are many other drawings I'm turning up from a collection of over 700 items including... well, I'll put that in a new topic!

While looking for old photos on the North Carolina State University Library site, I found some architectural drawings for a car dealership, Ocean Motor Sales Lincoln-Mercury, dated 1947. The files are very large so I'll post a link here: http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog?utf8=%E2%9C%93&id=mc00096-001-ff0261-000-001_0005&search_field=all_fields&q=ocean+motor+sales (I looked on Google Earth at North 2nd street in Wilmington, but I guess the building is long gone...) Happy building!

I should be there - looking forward to it.

Excellent job on a tiny model! (I would have guessed it was 1/25 from the photos.) Reminds me of the one from Don Stanford's novel The Red Car - just add a set of 1954 Colorado plates.

Sorry about the thread jack on the IMC VW - yes, I have one I was thinking about backdating (to an oval rather than a split) and I like the way you did this one; just figured if it were an early enough body it might work. I should have specified that. (I know I could get a new kit, but a bird in the hand...)

The wheelcovers are better too - properly convex-shaped, not flat like the Jo-Han originals (I love JH kits to death, but what is it wth those flat wheelcovers??).

I've never built one, but it's on my bucket list - what are the problems I need to watch out for? Factory or not, I love that shade of blue!

Do the molds still exist for the old IMC VW? And does anyone know what year VW it's supposed to represent?

These kit lots are coming up at the Los Angeles County Administrator estate auction tomorrow: Happy bidding!

Always wondered why that happened; since the separate roof doesn't fit all that well and neither do the B-pillars. I went ahead and built mine as a phantom convertible (the IMC '48 Ford top boot fits very nicely).

I can see starting with a '59 Buick, a '57 Buick Roadmaster promo or resin, headlight surrounds from the Chrysler Turbine, the ends of a '60 Cadillac rear bumper, '50/'51 Studebaker hood/bullet, '64 Galaxie interior for the seats... Any other ideas?