mrindy77

Tim, I have recently been restoring some of my older street rod builds as well, some of which you covered in SRM many, many years ago. I'm not changing the colors or details just repainting to freshen up some old paint and techniques. I'm surprised how may of them have survived nearly 30+ years and a few moves. Oh, and just for the record, your old Track T with V6 and flames is still inspiring to me this day. Cal

1950 Oldsmobile hot rod... factory fresh from the Brickyard Engineering Scale Model Hot Rod Shop. Kinsler fuel injected small block Chevy fully plumbed, shaved, decked and lowered. Machined aluminum baby moons and valve stems rolling on Goodyear big and littles. She's got a killer hot stance.

I've heard the kit body is incorrect but what are the differences?

This is the long tail car, it has a much longer windscreen, longer tail(natch), and you can see the sides are more 'slab-sided'. Any also did this version as well but I'm not sure it was ever sold to public. It may have been, I built a few of them that were sold as built ups only.

I built about 40 of Andy's birdcage when I was contracting my building services. 33 of the cars were the Gurney/Moss Nuburgring car and the others were various drivers, Penske, hall, Andrey, etc.

No lug wrench needed...just a big lead hammer....knockoffs...LOL

Nice rod. Your builds are always spot on. Clean, just the right stance.

Timeless.

Nice model of one Jim Hall most abysmal can am cars...partially caused by Surtees himself, as he did not want to drive the machine as originally designed...with Surtees sitting in the enclosed car only viewing through the perspex windows. They eventually abandoned the car for a McLaren during the season.

I used to charge $100 a mold regardless of size(up to a 1/24 scale body). I kept the mold. Parts produced from the mold were sold to customer at an agreed upon price, usually based on resin used. I factored my time into the part cost. Typical car body was about $20. A mold without intricate cut ins usually lasted about 40-50 castings before it startede to 'chunk' out. Find out if you get the mold and make sure the caster is ethical and won't sell your product underneath you.

Nice concept from start to finish. All of the design elements came together to produce a very unique model that hearkens back to the Art Deco era.

I love this little kit. Some race cars are timeless. I still have my Hot Rod Magazine with this car on the cover.

Ricardo Montalban approves.

Good Lord...I'd need bring a change of underoos to that show!

It was done many years ago with much nicer results...this car was done in the late 80's as I recall seeing it in a Street Rodder mag.

Quality hot rod.

I can appreciate all of them but none of them really have that 'gotcha' factor for me. Maybe Aftershock comes close but even it seems like a plagiarized Figoni et Falaschi bodied Talbot Lago or Bugatti. Don't get me wrong I'd put any one of them in my garage but none of them really bowl me over. Does anyone know if AMBR has to be an 'American made car'? Hmmmmm.

Same here Rob...

...and when they say some guy dropped the mold and it broke...well it was dropped from a forklift...the molds way a ton, literally.

...and the CAD drawings exist...in the US...

These guys know...

Das ist wunderbar!

All I can think of when seeing these big boats is Ricardo Montalban saying...'fine corinthian leather.'

Bill Jorgenson is no longer producing kits. You will occasionally see a 1/25 turbine on ebay. His castings have been going for large dollars lately. I'd expect to pay upwards of $100 dollars. His kits were delivered in various states of completeness...with a note attached he'd send you the parts when he got them...usually metal parts or windscreens. Sometimes you got a 'transkit'. He still owes me 3 kit that were bought and paid for off of ebay(and I'm not the only one in this situation). I doubt I'll ever see them. His ebay handle was toonces2jay. I'm pretty sure I have every casting he did...most I purchased at shows so I knew what I was getting. He sold off nearly all of his masters to other people, Lance Sellers has some as does Rick Faeth and myself. Turns out he sold Rick Faeth and myself the master for the Chaparral 2K. The kits do require some work but can be built into some fine Indy car replicas.

Cool...but it is not a truck until it has mudflap girls. LOL