jbwelda

dodge challenger! thats where i have seen this car before! cant say i think much of it though, kinda generic for my tastes. but have fun...i know with your imagination you could do something wild with it. with the interior as poor as it is, how about blacking out the windows and making an "exhaust pipe" car?

you sound confused. let me take a crack at it: >We're the to company's linked some how? that would be "Were the two companies linked somehow?". in answer to that yeah i think satco made the left hand drive dashs for some aoshima kits. i have an mgb kit with a resin left hand drive dash, and i do not recall it saying satco on it but i wouldnt be surprised. they are left hand drive dashes by the way, not right hand drive... so there is the link: aoshima evidently contracted with satco to produce the resin dashboards. i thought this thread would be about their tires, and how they are no longer being produced, at least not by satco. which is a real shame. somebody please tell me i missed them starting back up on production of tires. yes i know about the guy who was copying them and in fact provided a couple for masters for him, but i mean the real american satco.

>@jbwelda I hope they aren't receiving photos on a cellphone if they have trouble making an email automatically send! i think you are totally missing the point but thats ok. im not sure what finer detail you want to show up in your photos...the two random ones i posted seem to have fine detail showing up pretty well. but i understand you want to present the best photos you can. good luck on the contest, hope you win something!

"hit' as in having a hundred people send you photos that size all at once...much like what is going on with this contest probably. here is a photo, original is < 250K, this is resized to 640 X 480 to post on msg boards. looks pretty good to me, and i aint even trying... certainly good enough to enter a photo contest with. here is another, roughly the same spec: good enough to see flaws i dont want to see! maybe we just have different ideas of "decent"?

i think that one is particularly kool: and i am not sure this is even really an exhaust system. all the pipes look like they are welded to some diamond plate or something:

lets see your little phone device get hit by a bunch of those 2M photos and see how you feel about it then. if you cannot get a decent photo down to 250k or less then there is something wrong. and you can only submit 5 photos, right? thats 1.25M there...well under the limit. i dont think your images are getting through if you dont see that acknowledgement screen. not sure about an email...does it say somewhere you will be emailed? good luck on the contest by the way, i hope to see some names from here in the winner circles.

what scale is that?

actually, for a license plate, i would be tempted to not apply it as a decal at all but instead cut it out and glue it backing and all to the bumper or wherever it is supposed to go. maybe run a black sharpie around its edges to hide the white paper. rereading your post i guess that horse has already left the barn but maybe for next time!

they look like they come to too small a Y for dual port to me but either way they are appropriate. i would think the webers would be underutilized by a single port head though. interesting they introduced the concept on a type 3 before the upright motor. totally off topic, i saw a super kool type 3 Ghia on a car transporter the other day. really really nice from what i could see. i was wishing i had my camera with me.

looked to me like someone (gregg maybe?) got pretty good results undercoating the flake body with silver. i would still want a regular kit though for all the other parts. that upgrade kit from norm looks great but he should have made a dual port intake manifold. small thing but especially where the motor is hanging out in the breeze like the manx its gonna be seen. i think the dual port head came out in 66? but i know the single port head went instantly obsolete from the DP introduction.

from the looks of it, i would lower it about 4" or so all around, leaving it with a slight nose-down attitude. but then it wouldnt look like it came outta 65.

like pretty much any of this stuff, if it were available i would probably want to buy one!

hold on, its a time machine. can you really be sure its a reissue, or maybe the time machine works! but i gotta say the most circular logic i have seen in a while is that model of an injection molding machine. two of them no less. thats gotta be the definition of infinity! ok now, back to building...

mini exotics used to make some nice ones and not sure but i believe reps and mins of maryland does too.

hey thanks folks and mark especially, im putting that roadster on my list right now

didnt i read somewhere that the get smart tiger was due for a reissue? not postive but i thought i had noted that somewhere. oh and thanks for the clues on the wheels back in feb 2010, i dont think i ever made it back here to check for an answer. meanwhile i discovered what was reported: blueprinter version on the shelf has the mags. well, HAD the mags...now there is a note in there to myself reminding me i pirated the wheels back in 2008!

that dates back to the "little deuce" time? how much of the original kit do you think is in one of those amigo pack versions? i have been looking for a "little deuce" for some time (at low bucks...) and it just so turns out that i have that amigo pack up on my shelf! thanks for the tips!

wait...an Allison powered BMW ISETTA? do you have any idea how small that car is? (there was a four passenger model too so maybe thats what this is?) incredible. sweet build here too! i am itching to use an Allison motor in something.

nice work and i like seeing parts from those midgets being used...i was looking at one the other night and thinking i wanted to try using some of the running gear along with the tiny V8 flattie.

dave reese builds some great models. congrats on that mopar!

well i am working on a couple of golden oldies from AMT: first the Tognottis King T from the double pack with the Wild Dream, and also the Triumph motorcycle with fairing that came with the 62 ford f100 pickup, as repopped by reps and mins of maryland... what you can see are the stock exhaust pipes for the Triumph, the Dunstall mufflers i made as replacements to the stock mufflers, upper and lower support arms and shocks and axles from the King T, disk brakes i am using on the king t instead of the non detailed ones that came with it (the kit and car were surprisingly sophisticated for the time what with the inboard disk brakes and suspension arms and stuff like that back there). to the right of that you can see some decals i have chosen for the eggshell like faring for the Triumph, and to the left of that you can see the fuel cap (kinda small and unimpressive but i hope to make it better) and the triumph frame with motor in place and finally the frame to the King T. looking kinda busy but really the kool stuff is on the other side: the candy purple with silver stripe parts for the Triumph and the newly yellow Surfite body!

thanks for bringing this one back to the top; i must have missed it the first time. man that thing is spectacular!

what the heck is that thing balanced on your air cleaner?

anyone know how to make a guitar player play softly? put some sheet music in front of him. guitars are best left to supplying the riddim if you ask me. and of course you did not.

>Did Roth ever build it with the truck bed? the tweedy pie was a car that ed roth bought and then mildly customized if anything. it wasnt really his creation though, just had some touches. at least i believe thats the story.