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Un.....frickin' believable!!!! Man.....this just keeps getting better and better Francis.

WOW!!! Very good work so far on this truck. Really like what I'm seeing.

Thanks Tim. Really appreciate you droppin' in and your comments.

Thanks Marcos and it's great to see you here bro. You'll REALLY like this site alot man. LOTS to learn here and LOTS of talent.

Thanks for the comments Daniel. At this point anything that's easier is welcome. I've really enjoyed this build so far but man......just a ton of stuff to either fabricate, modify or to just plain work around.

LOL!!! Jut have to put the correct tranny back there is all.

LOL!! No.....that's me throwing in the towel.....I give up. lol

It's taken me a while to get my method down John. I used to used stretched sprue for the rod but I've found that a natural metal look not only looks better but I don't have to paint it. The rest......man the rest is pure patience bro.

LOL! Thanks Francis! Throttle linkage is around 90% complete. Still gotta put the lever from the firewall, throttle quadrant and the lever up to the carb linkage.

Will be watching this one Les. Good ideas in motion already.

Really hate to hear that Tom. Especially after the hard work you've been putting into this. Hope to see recovery efforts soon.

Intake and carburetors test fitted onto engine. Now it's starting to take on a little shape. Throttle linkage to go........

Any more on this bad boy Francis?

Thanks Francis! Yeah....lotsa power for such a small ride. Been working on the fuel induction the whole week. I started out with the intake runners and plenum. Shot with the unpainted carburetors from Futureattraction: Then I shot a coat of Tamiya X-31 Titanium Gold on 'em, filled in the throttle bores with some flat black and assembled them Then came a dark brown acrylic wash, allowed to dry and followed up with a dry brushing of ground up black pastel to flatten it all out and add some "age" to them. I took a comparative pic of both carbs. One on the left is with the wash and pastel treatment and the one on the right is without it. And with both carburetors painted and "weathered". Now.....it's time to add the details.

Still watchin.......and still passing out from looking at all this great work!!

I just didn't like how the "magneto" on the engine looked and it wasn't "correct" for the build so I removed it and went with a regular coil. I also dirtied up the ignition wires as well. Before: After:

Kickin' a$$ and takin' names the whole way on this one!!

Thanks Francis. She went to her appointment today and was told that it was a vertical tear in her meniscus. She's going to be wearing a brace on her knee and going through therapy. So far no surgery.

Thanks Mike. It'll get better at some point so I'm not letting it get me down and trying to be a source of encouragement to her. She goes to the doctor today to get the results of her MRI and then we'll know the path forward from there.

It's all in the details Francis. Well done so far my friend. Well done.

Dan!!! Sheesh ol' buddy, sorry I haven't been in contact with you. I'll give you a ring this week. Thanks for droppin in.

Hey Mike! Thanks for the comments. I've been friggin' busy over the course of the last few weeks starting with my wife getting Covid then recovering from that to blowing her left knee out. She can't do a whole lot so I'm doing everything now. Cooking, cleaning , helping our son take care of his FFA pig, working...the whole sheebang. Just crazy busy and I feel lucky and blessed to have any modeling time at all right now.

Managed to get all the ignition wires formed and installed over the last couple of days. This is NOT what I was opting for because these wires should be red but the "spark plug wire" that I got sent was the scale size of a battery cable so I went for orange.

Thanks Scott! I had some red spark plug wire from Lex's Scale Modeling but that turned out to be the size of battery cables in scale so I'm going with a more correct diameter of wire in orange. Slight color difference will be offset by the correct size wire. Been forming all of the wires up and getting things like the distributor cap retainers and all that stuff put on the distributor this week. Hope to have an update soon.