ChrisBcritter

Radiator running dry

Pierce Arrow - I know you said "minimal detailing" but I hope you could make it look a bit less toy-like. Good luck!

like donut holes

Long-running project; when I started it was a current-style street machine - now it's a nostalgic late-'70s street machine.

Well, I must be popular because ewetwo sent me some fan mail: An evening's work and now it looks a bit more like the one from the '70 Wildcat: Thanks David! Also scored a couple cans of Testor's Metalizer Aluminum and a can of Fabric Tan on $1.67 clearance from the Deerfield Hobby Lobby. Was hoping they'd have the GTO Super Stocker, but not yet.

Fingers crossed - Moebius did improve the C-pillar/quarter panel joint on the '61 Pontiac body when it was pointed out to them.

And Revell has Plenty O'Tooleing to do on this kit. I'll see myself out.

Yeah, I've seen it since the prototype, but didn't want to be "that guy". Looks to me like it's the same height as a hardtop.

Dug up my '77 GBS yearbook and found shots of the B210 and Monte Carlo; I had Mr. Baker: From '78, a better shot of the Datsun: And the '69 Olds, toward the end of its career. In its better days I had my first 100 MPH experience in it on an empty stretch of I-24 with my dad driving (thanks Dad!):

I see he has a factory sealed Stutz ($175) and Mercer ($250) as well; no bidders. I wonder who has the rights to these designs at the moment? The Exner cars would be great subjects for an outfit like BOS to create in resin in 1/18; they could really make them match the proportions of that beautiful box art, especially with photoetched or hand-laced wire wheels. The folks who collect BOS seem to have no qualms about the price. For that matter, too bad Franklin or Danbury never tackled them either.

Yep - it's the old Craftsman kit; I had one as a kid and still have a Blueprinter reissue I built in the late '80s.

The Niles, IL store has MM cans marked down to $1.67 and bottles down to 99¢. I only picked up three cans (Plum Crazy, AMC Silver, and Italian Red) so there's plenty more.

Use belt dressing!

On the '70 Wildcat, cleaned up and pinned the drive belts from the GSX engine to fit the '69 430 (now 455) engine and made a mold of the one valve cover to get a second one - and made molds of the '65 Chevelle SS wheel covers and '66 Corvair 13-inch steelies while I was at it.

Before Driver's Ed my dad let me guide our '69 Olds Delta 88 around the high school parking lot; it took several tries before I figured out how to stop smoothly. In high school we mostly had a few cars from the local Chevy dealer - brown '76 Chevelle sedan and an ivory '76 Monte Carlo with no vinyl roof. The one I'm still trying to forget was an ugly brown Datsun B210 four-door - the stick shift car; I've never been good at driving manuals and the instructor just happened to pick me to take it onto the Dan Ryan Expressway. I guess the driving gods were with me that day and we got home in one piece, but I'm glad that trip was a one-and-done. We didn't have simulators at Glenbrook South, other than a brake pedal reflex tester; too bad because I always wanted to try one out...

with MacPherson struts

The Road Tester

...happily ever after.

And he managed to hit the Top 40 himself (#32, but still) in the summer of '81 after Meat fried his vocal cords and couldn't perform this song:

Spotted this while researching Longview, WA: From the 1960 R. A. Long High School yearbook. Somebody put a lot of tasteful effort into this little Chevy; wonder if it got any magazine coverage? It'll definitely be an inspiration when I get to my AMT '51 fastback.

One helluva number

That '61 Plymouth - it works so well for the rest of that sleek body, but oh, that grille... if I had money to throw at one, I'd redo the front clip like a Ghia 6.4L but with quad headlights instead of the Cibie units, and french the taillights into the panel below the decklid.

Want, want, want, want. For me, the '59 DeSoto was the greatest of the Forward Look, however many doors or pillars:

Very interesting - looking forward to see more of this!

Des Plaines Hobbies has the whole rack of Revell paints now; I picked up a can and a bottle of Anthracite (looks like charcoal gray) to have an alternative to flat black for chassis, tires, belts and such - hope it works; I've looked for years for a replacement for Pactra's Scale Black.