Speedfreak

Thanks Dennis, I didn't think it was savable, but, what do I know! I need a supervisor much of the time.

Beautiful vision you had for this car Bernard.

Really nice job Ira, your model are so fun to look at! I think my fav is RRRobot, but , I like them all!

Stance looks great Tim. The personality of the car is starting to show. It looks very purposeful.

Brad, How's it coming on this memorable piece of drag racing history? Can't wait to see it finished!

Thanks Tim, it's slow going but I'm getting there. Yes, I love my cats, although sometimes,....... Casey, Ya, great box art on this kit , and , I just noticed last night the vents on the other side of the rear window, making six total. TOo bad AMT didn't put those in the mold for the rear window, THAT , would have been really cool.

Thanks Carl, and , Niko. This car is a paint bomb! I just took the body and frame out of the SC and will start with the Q-tip/thinner thing in a while.

I was thinking that the paint was still wet when they put the rear-end in place, lol, wow.

Well here's the block and a couple of other things cleaned up. I think this model was put together with paint, and , a little glue. After three days in Super Clean, and , a couple of scrubbings with Comet, there is still this residue in places that would not come off. The solution? Mig Thinner and a Q-Tip, that's right. I tried sandpaper for a minute, but , then realized thinner was the way to go, works quite well, just very time consuming. That's the breaks huh? Here's the proof: The crime scene: You can see the residue on the rearend and the sub-frame, after 45yrs this stuff still wants to hang around: A little closer look at the sub-frame; You can also see where I'm going to have to drill out the locating pins and place new ones for the rear-end: The thick of it; Can someone please explain to me why you would put globs of paint ' inside ' the rear-end? " Did you run out of glue? It's a new day!!!!!!!!! Life after the crime! (Notice the HUGE extension of the front blower cover, it's just too large, and , if you trim it to fit like it should, you loose massive detail and it no longer is a front cover. I also had to trim massive amounts of plastic off the tops of the heads and the sides of the manifold to make things fit like they should, not sure what AMT had in mind when they designed this motor. Money!!!!!!!!!!!!! Another beauty shot: (Actually it's just the first mock-up, but,...it should look good painted, (Chrysler Engine Red, and , International Orange, 50/50) and, the chrome hasn't been altered at all, still like it was when I recieved the model) And to think I was ready to trash this motor, (It was actually in the trash at one point!) Shame on me! The culprits: The body should be ready in a day or so, (Most of the paint is off, but , I swear some of that paint is petrified!) I'll post pics when it's there. Enjoy!!!!!!!!!! And build!!!!!!!!!! Edit: I just noticed there are 'three' of what appear to be 'vents' in the back glass on the box art, am I the only one who's never noticed this?

That 'Green Onions' '55 is hot, somebody's gotta build that! The green on 'that' car is just beautiful.

Looks good Nate, modeling calms me down too, that's one of the things I've always loved about it. It's much safer than many of the alternatives.

Looks good man, you're coming into the home stretch on this model!

The Fiat lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ya, it's in a fresh bath right now. Weird, the black paint on everything, (and there was LOTS of it), BUT , the tires just comes off with no effort at all. Dennis, I think I can do it, the only hard part will be lining up the mounting plate/shield to the block because the tabs got cut off when I cut it off. It's gonna be hard not to use the new block from the Chezooom kit I just ordered I actually had the block in a baggie in the trash, I took it out, lol. I just looked at a link Casey provided in a thread about the Chezooom dragster that takes you to Model Car Builder, where they open up the kit and provide pics,.......... on the parts tree are the taillights for a '66 Barracuda! I kid you not. Plus it has the 'exact' wheels from the Hemi Hustler kit. I've got a call in to my LHS to see if they have one in stock. They do not, AND , their distributor has it on back order, so I ordered one off ebay!

Here's where things are with the Barracuda; I've decided to try and work with the block, it will be a challange, but , I think I can make it work if I just take my time, I'll give it my best shot, I just can't abandon the engine! Here's what it looks like, yikes!: Tires/wheels and interior pieces: The body, interior tub,chassis, and rear end: This one shows the front suspension: The under body: Everythings going back into a fresh bath of Super Clean. Hopefully using the Comet will give it some more traction into the remaining paint. It looks awful right now, but , that will change. Thanks for looking and offering suggestions!

Thanks for the info, I need to get a photo etch saw, and , a razor saw shaped like a #11 utility blade. They have a photo ecth blade at my LHS, but , it's like $14 or something.

Cool project Todd! The body almost looks like it's metal too.

Us drag freaks gotta stick together!!!!!!!!!!!!! United we stand!!!!!!!

Yes Carl, the paint is coming off, later today I'll pull everything out and scrub it with Comet, that should get most if not all of the paint off. The block came apart but not in a way that it could be salvaged . Everything else seems ok, at this point, but, there are still several things that need to be disassembled, (front-end, interior etc,..). So, I'm going to get a HUG kit for back-up. I think I'll take a picture of the block/engine mount today so people can see just how it ended up, it's not pretty, but , informative. Thanks for asking Carl.

Beautiful cars David.

That's cool as hell!

Right, but , whoever built this car sanded them down pretty far, so , without removing the paint I don't think (?) there's enough of the letters left to paint over again. No biggy, I just trashed the engine block there was just TOOOOOOOOOOOO much glue. You know that little bulb that comes off the back of the block that the scatter shield/engine mount fits over? I kept scraping, and , scraping, and , scraping, and , scraping,.............. thinking I was just cutting through the mount piece, well in fact I was cutting through the bulb, because there was just so much glue that it had become one piece. Same thing with one of the heads. That's ok, if I just loose the block/engine mount, (all the chrome came off with no damage), and the tires and wheels, (the wheels were really toast anyway, I just didn't want to see it), I'm ok with that. I have those same front tires from a Chevy II ' Rat Packer ' kit that I wasn't going to use, and , I have the Parts Pack Racemasters if I can'rt make the slicks work. The wheels might be a bit more difficult; the front wheels appear to be the same as those on the '33 Willy's Van, which I have, the rear's however look the same as those on the Willy's Van, but , have '5' slots to the Van's '4, I will have to find some with 5. that's about it, everything else is still soaking in the Super Clean.

Overall that looks very nice Tony, sharp looking model. Presents well, that color scheme just looks good! That's a lot of decal work for sure.

Looks pretty cool Joseph.