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  1. Richard Bartrop
    I think you forgot me.
  2. Richard Bartrop
    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.
  3. Richard Bartrop
    Nice engine. Almost a shame to cover it up.
  4. Richard Bartrop
    When the attachment is that thick, I'd just as soon take a saw to it.
  5. Richard Bartrop
    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/
  6. Richard Bartrop
    With what kits are going for, I think I'l have to pass on that. I think there is a happy medium, though.
  7. Richard Bartrop
    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.
  8. Richard Bartrop
    They are a struggle, but you did a nice job on yours.
  9. Richard Bartrop
    PM sent.
  10. Richard Bartrop
    I took a closer look at the second one, and maybe it's a 1928 Chevrolet?
  11. Richard Bartrop
    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.
  12. Richard Bartrop
    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.
  13. Richard Bartrop
    Nice. I have one of those that's nearly done. Looking forward to seeing what you do with it
  14. Richard Bartrop
    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.
  15. Richard Bartrop
    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.
  16. Richard Bartrop
    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.
  17. Richard Bartrop
    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
  18. Richard Bartrop
    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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  19. Richard Bartrop
    A nicely detailed '49 Mercury engine to go with that would be nice, with options for stock, or period speed parts.
  20. Richard Bartrop
    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.
  21. Richard Bartrop
    I counted the grille slats, though "It's not what you think" was the biggest clue.
  22. Richard Bartrop
    I didn't even have to look this one up.
  23. Richard Bartrop
    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?
  24. Richard Bartrop
    And let's be honest, most wire wheels in that scale are pretty awful.
  25. Richard Bartrop
    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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