ChrisBcritter

I just got a look at your "new" Dodge - wow, that's the straightest one I've seen in ages. It must have never seen the light of day. An X-El repro '59 Dodge or Plymouth would give you the correct glass, if anyone ever had the nerve to cut one up. I wonder what could be done to keep it from warping now? Maybe epoxy in some braces/bulkheads underneath?

That's interesting - the box-art car does seem to have the grille a bit lower than the real car. Maybe I can fix what I have... Definitely watching this build. Thanks!

Dumb question, probably, but did real Modified Stockers ever run with tires like these? Or was AMT just using what they had available? I built almost all of these when I was a kid but I always wondered about the tires.

Found this from tumblr via the H.A.M.B.: Check out the odd promos: '63 Nova and Impala bodies mounted on sticks showing separate frames???

Sorry, I know it's an old thread, but it popped up when I was searching for something else. Any update on this one? Hemmings Classic Cars has an article in their August '13 issue about a builder who has made a clone of Black Bess; haven't read it but a photo I saw several years ago showed the body being built up out of '58 Chevy and Edsel bits. I took a stab once at making a '58 Packard Four Hundred coupe out of an otherwise unsavable '60 Lincoln, but it was melted too much to fix (was from a junkyard diorama I got from H. B. Halicki's estate sale, of all places). I would have used a '57-59 Dodge rear bumper and for the hood bulge/nose I'd have used a narrowed Duesenberg hood and grille shell.

Marcos, they can take that kit out of production now - nobody will ever do it better than you just did! One question: What made it necessary to go with Alclad on the bumpers? Were there mold seams on them?

And if you wanted to build one, it would be relatively easy since the body lines are mostly flat and everything underneath is stock 1941 Plymouth.

You mean all AMT '32 Fords are off by that much? Rats. I bet the phaeton would be the hardest one to fix. If you didn't have the Revell kit to provide the rest, how would you correct the hood and grille of an AMT kit to match? I have a Tudor, a Vicky, and a B-400 conversion all in the project pipeline...

You all did beautiful work on these! That said, Arii really made a mess of the shape of that roof - I wonder if a modified '58 Impala roof would look better.

Or you could really go insane and make it into a Cimmaron...

Save those stock rims - dechrome them, add some lug nuts and a hub cover, and they'll look like '30s Ford truck wheels.

OK, jumped the gun so I'm revising... Have you thought of using a 1/24 Mercedes 300 SL for the front half of the body?

Turn signal and taillight paint, plus a real deal - a photoetch sheet with hundreds of 0.8mm "screw heads" (they aren't slotted) for $1.97 - a lifetime supply of door and trunk locks and dash knobs. Thus ends the last day of Adventure Hobbies.

What a nice job! I've never had the Granada kit; it really captured the car's lines better than I expected. I built one of the Grand Am kits but it was an SPFX miniature for a friend's Godzilla movie, so it was short-lived...

When resin casting came into its own with the Modelhaus. Also back around '74 when Jo-Han issued its USA Oldies series.

Thanks for getting into this kit - I've always wondered if it was based on an actual boat; looks like it will need some big changes to represent the real thing (and I'll probably do the wood with paint on the deck and paint the hull white anyway). About the engine: Is that a Chrysler flathead 6, and if so could the 1941 Plymouth engine be used for more detail?

I'm one of the lucky 500 who bought the reissue of the dark aqua '66 Chevy pickup promo several years ago; does anyone know who has the molds and if it could be reissued again? It would be nice to see it done in styrene and unassembled; I'd leave off the bed and put the Open Road camper on it. I know there are new kits of that era truck, but they are shortbeds, and I like the looks of the old promo better. (I ruined the resale value on my promo by very neatly countersinking the taillights, the way they're supposed to look... )

I'm talking about the mid-to-late '70s cars, mostly deteriorated four-door sedans like this one that despite having only 5 miles on the odometer says "Weird survivor - derby?" in the description: https://www.proxibid.com/asp/LotDetail.asp?ahid=1530&aid=68561&lid=17400681&title=1978-Chevrolet-Impala-4dr-Sedan#

Bidding has started - but a lot of the vehicles are heartbreakers; single digit mileage and thoroughly wasted by the elements. A lot of the seventies vehicles are pretty much going straight from the dealer to a demo derby, if not the scrappers. Oh well. Bid early, bid often, but brace yourself: https://www.proxibid.com/asp/Catalog.asp?aid=68561

Part 3: When I first saw the miniature junkyard display, I decided to build my own. Once I finished it, I traded the whole thing to them for some unbuilt kits, so some of the junkyard cars in the previous photos came from here (the '57 Chevy modified stocker got repainted with "Brame Auto Body" on it; thanks guys!):

More: These were taken over a few different years, which is why you see the yellow Mustang II in different places. Next: Part 3, where some of the junkyard stuff came from. Edit: That school bus in the second photo was originally a Japanese tin litho toy called "Noble Bus" - I stripped out the chassis and the metal window fillers, gave it a few heavy coats of Polly S yellow, added some hand lettering and warning lights, and voila... ;thank goodness it was in rough shape when I bought it for a buck at a flea market because it's apparently very rare and valuable in good condition...

As promised, here are some photos from the 1970s of the Old Town Escorts and NeuChamps model displays at the World of Wheels car show at McCormick Place in Chicago. They're big files so this is part 1: Hope you like 'em.

Friends, are you sick and tired of building that same old AMT or Revell '58 Impala? Try building it this way: Yep, it's a '58 Impala hardtop hearse. From a Florida Craigslist ad that's already been flagged for removal, but a fellow H.A.M.B. member saved the shots. The car may actually be in Sweden. I'm seeing it in turquoise with a load of surfboards...

^^^No wonder the price of bread keeps going up. If you know your TV movies, you may remember the 1971 ABC Movie of the Week Love Hate Love. There's a black 275 GTB that gets pretty banged up by the end. I did the IMCDb entry for it; here's the car's page: http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_374263-Ferrari-275-GTB-1965.html Now it would be worth more than it cost to make the movie...

I've had both '59 and '60 El Camino kits, and the '59 seems a bit smaller than the '60 - or is it the '60 that's too big?