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Richard Bartrop

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  1. I got a copy of The Speed Seekers, by Thomas G. Foxworthy. It's a deep dive into air racing during the 1920s. So much reference material for the airplane modeler.
  2. Nice engine. Almost a shame to cover it up.
  3. When the attachment is that thick, I'd just as soon take a saw to it.
  4. The top one is a 1941 Horch 853 Sport Cabriolet rebodied as a fire truck after the war. https://bangshift.com/general-news/car-features/the-oh heaven's to Betsy!-files-the-horch-853-sport-cabriolet-fire-truck-conversion/
  5. With what kits are going for, I think I'l have to pass on that. I think there is a happy medium, though.
  6. A set of Lyon hubcaps for the vintage custom/hot rod crowd would be nice, sized to fit the Revell '40 and '48 Fords, or even the big & little tires Revell uses on their hot rod kits.
  7. They are a struggle, but you did a nice job on yours.
  8. I took a closer look at the second one, and maybe it's a 1928 Chevrolet?
  9. If you blow up the pic, Stutz is right on the radiator. That is a nice set of wheels. No idea what the second car is. The third one looks like a 1936 Chevrolet.
  10. Scalemates says 1965, which sounds about right. The ad on the instruction sheet shows the Duesenberg, Rolls and Mercedes 540K kits, but not the Bugatti.
  11. Nice. I have one of those that's nearly done. Looking forward to seeing what you do with it
  12. Funny thing, that's just the frame from the Revell kit. I changed the rear to a leaf spring setup, but everything is the same length.
  13. I got the gauges printed up on clear stock. I figured I might as well print a whole sheet full of them, so now I have a lifetime supply of '50s vintage Stewart Warner gauges. I also flipped the image so the shiny side faces outward. And here they are with the backs painted white, and installed in the dash.
  14. I lucked out and was reading about it on Mac's Motor City Garage that same day. It didn't look to much like contemporary Buicks, but it is defintiely a forecast of American design in the next decade.
  15. If there is one '60s GM product I'd like to see back on the shelves, it would be the 1963-64 Pontiac Grand Prix
  16. Motor Trend has added some more magazines to its online archive, and one of them is a complete run of Motor Trend up to the end of 2022. https://www.motortrend.com/plus/magazines/motor-trend/8469
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  17. A nicely detailed '49 Mercury engine to go with that would be nice, with options for stock, or period speed parts.
  18. Seeing that using exactly those parts for exactly that purpose was what I was talking about, maybe I'm not the one who missed the point.
  19. I counted the grille slats, though "It's not what you think" was the biggest clue.
  20. I didn't even have to look this one up.
  21. I picked up the Atlantis Mooneyes Dragster and another Yellow Fever coupe at the LHS. So many useful parts for vintage hot rods. It doesn't count as buying more kits if you're just buying them for the parts, right?
  22. And let's be honest, most wire wheels in that scale are pretty awful.
  23. I'd venture that should Atlantis ever decide to bring the Mooneyes dragster back, they'd sell more if they made people more aware of those extra parts, and what they were.
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