JTalmage

I said the same thing as soon as I saw it!

Yep I fought the airride for a while, changed front bags/shocks to some low mileage ones off a '97, still acted up... So I said forget it and switched over to coil spring suspension, Bilstein shocks from a Cobra in the back, now it rides nice. Also swapping a thunderbird SC rear sway bar in so it doesnt feel soo floaty. Need to tighten the front up now.

I'd hope not! I paid the bill this month! lol I have to go over soon and get some parts out of it to sell, I'll have to snap a current picture

I would love to have this when it comes out. Might get 2 one to build out of the box stock, the other to make an offroad trail truck!

Fast and smooth indeed! Well, atleast if yours were taken care of. Mine was severely neglected, and had many issues. But I'm slowly correcting and fixing them all. I'm to the point now where the issues are pretty well taken care of, and now I am modifying it! Cobra exhaust manifolds, EGR delete, an oil pan that doesnt rust, 3500 stall converter, deep finned trans pan, standalone transmission cooler, 4.10 gears and trak loc diff, sequential taillights, cold air intake w/ box (made by me), underdrive pullies, doing a coil over plug conversion on it using the 2nd gen mark viii coil wiring, coils, and cam covers. true dual exhaust, mandrel bent from manifolds to muffler tips. Double X-pipes, and Magnaflow 3" mufflers. Should be a pretty healthy Mark Viii for what it is. hopefully completing it this spring, and going to get it tuned.

I dig it! very unusual and I like it! Now THAT is a hot rod lincoln!

Well, I'm not officially putting my hat in the ring yet, but I did pick up a neat concept car that I've not seen before. Wont reveal what it is til I can get some of my other projects and CBP cars done first and then join this one. It is a Ford though.

I love it! I love that movie! Does need some more weathering and dust I think though. but thats fantastic

Looks great! I picked up the orange sparkle version of that by chance a while back

Looking good! I built a '93 Cobra a few years back and had the correct teal mixed up at a paint shop and sprayed it with my paint guns.

Yep! Very much so!

Perfect color on the blue.... I feel it needs some white metallic or silver metallic on it as a 2 tone on top or something. To like accent the top fin piece and the topside of the car.

Bought some CA glue yesterday to try and hold my injector stacks to my resin lower intake.... they wouldn't hold at all. I got mad and took that intake off and will be putting my dual tunnel ram intake on.

Got my photo-etched grille, MSD box, and B&M rachet shifter in the mail today for the Roadkill Charger.

Well I found a bunch of parts from a few Chargers that I forgot I had, so some of my issues are solved. Also got in my metal grille, B&M rachet shifter, and MSD box for this build.

Scored this the other day. Pretty happy about it for $12.

I've built model cars for many years, but they were always out of the box, or at best kit-bashed, but I've never done any serious custom work... and I want to after seeing all of the wonderful creations on here it makes me want to push myself to go to the next level.

My first car, had it since I was 15, and I still own it (although it needs restored pretty badly now) 1977 Ford Mustang II (dont hate!) You can actually see the front header panel is primer (I hit a deer in it ) This next car is my snowball. I call it Frankenstein. Because it will be made of MANY different mustangs. It started out life as an '88 Mustang LX 4cyl 5spd. Will be a 302/5spd when done, with full drag suspension. Here's some of the parts for it... There's double the stuff in this storage unit now.. I have a problem. lol My '93 Lincoln Mark VIII Then this happened from a deer now it's back to this again after lots of work, and scouring junkyards. It's currently getting a lot of work right now (go fast parts!) My '94 Mustang GT, with like 243,000 miles About the time I first got it My daily driver is a black 2004 Ford Ranger FX4 Level II, extended cab... but I dont seem to have any pictures of it at the moment.

Looks like an LTD front grille on it

All in all it sounds like I need to pick up some tools soon. And I thought I was a good model builder before.. sheesh!

What is CA?

I've been thinking about doing some severe mods/customizations to some of the models I have yet to build, but I'd like to know what types of tools you all are using to accomplish such awesome work?? i was looking at the Kustom Carz CBP thread, and seeing all these perfect cuts, and body panel blending, and shaving of large parts off of these cars, and I really would like to try and find the tools that make doing these things easier. What do you use to perfectly cut parts? What do you use to shave details perfectly? What do you to hold all of this together and shape things? Secondly, I've just recently started using resin parts for some of my builds, but I notice that things dont stay glued to resin very well. I had 8 Hilborn injection tubes for my big block in my '55 Chevy gasser I'm building, and just last night the engine slipped out of my fingers and fell, knocking all of the injection tubes off the engine like they were never even attached! (Made me pretty darn mad!) Are resin parts special and need a completely different approach to paint and glue? Is crazy glue or something similar the best to use? I've used testors glue over and over again on them and they dont hold. Thanks and sorry if any of these questions are redundant.

Wow. I'm blown away by the customization in this thread!!! How in the world are you guys making such clean cuts, rescribing lines, and shaving the bodies on these cars sooooo neatly??? I'm jealous! I need whatever tools those are!

Elmers Glue. works great for headlights too. You can pile it on, and it dries clear!