Snake45

I used to make HO bodies on mine.

Go back and get it! Now! THIS MINUTE! We'll tell you all the cool things you can do with it when you get back. GO NOW! DON'T LOSE IT!

Only old car book I have is a little paperback called The Complete Book of Stock-Bodied Drag Racing. I don't remember when or where I got it but it seems to cover things up through about 1967. Pro Stock hadn't been invented yet but there's a lot of cool information on stockers, /MPs, and Gassers. Lately I've bought quite a few car books from Motorbooks (I think it is). The dedicated books on Bill Jenkins, Sox & Martin, Dick Landy, and Don Nicholson, plus books on COPO Chevies, two on musclecars, one or two on Motion Performance, Match Race Madness, and a cool "Then and Now" book on restored drag cars.

What would be required to turn the First-Gen Nova wagon back to stock? Biggest problem is that the door lines have been erased. I'm wondering if today it might be possible to restore those lines by laser-cutting grooves in the molds, and then inserting proud material into those grooves to form the lines in the molded body? (I hope I explained what I mean.) I'd definitely buy a restored Nova wagon.

Agree completely. Very different story and tone from BB, but still excellent. What's really amazing about it is that nearly all the actors in it are comedians or comic actors, not "heavy drama" actors, yet they all do an amazing job with the drama. Well worth anyone's time!

Huh. I saw the yellow Corvette and an orange M2 Challenger at Wally's this morning. Didn't take a close look at the Challenger, I just assumed it was yet another RT variant--it was prolly the same T/A as yours. But I already have the MotorMax Corvette in orange and a beautiful blue Welly T/A Challenger--in 1/25 no less!

I just found one of these today at Walmart and picked it up to try. Very favorably impressed so far. Not quite as bright and "chromy" as Molotow, but not far off. Definitely brighter than my beloved Silver Sharpie. Takes a while to dry, unlike Silver Sharpie, which dries in seconds. Decocolor was dry to the touch in about an hour, though--not too bad and quicker than Molotow. Seems to be more durable than Molotow, too. I just used it for the rocker panel chrome trim on a silver-painted diecast Porsche 356. The Silver Sharpie is completely unsatisfactory for this--not enough contrast with silver paint. The Decocolor looks pretty good here. Also, one of the hubcaps on the Porsche had a large spot of missing chrome, which I touched up with the Decocolor and it looks pretty good. Not perfect but you have to know the spot is there and go looking for it to see it. The Decocolor cost about $3, versus $12 for Molotow (if you even have that available in your town). Good deal! I think I'll pick up a couple more next week. As soon as you find something good, they stop making it (or Walmart stops carrying it).

I'm looking to do cars of Jenkins, Sox, Landy, and Nicholson in several different years--right now looking at 1965 (the last year all four ran A/FX), '68 and/or '69, and '70 (first year of Pro Stock).

Not everyone has Netflix. Here's your chance to see it if you have regular cable.

I see that tomorrow night (Feb 16) AMC will be showing El Camino, the Breaking Bad sequel movie. According to IMCDB, the title car is an '81 Elky, black with red SS-type stripes. Looking forward to it.

I can think of five or six right offhand, but it might be fun to compile a list. Meyers Manx TeeVee Dune Buggy Superbug Surf Woody Piranha (street)

Right on! And let's not forget that many of these "old crock" kits can provide much-needed parts for kits that have never been reissued and never will be. For example, I'm working on restoring a '69 El Camino and '71 and '72 Chevelles, and the oft-reissued '69 and '70 Chevelles are great parts mines for this work.

Looking forward to reading your review of this. I'm gonna need something of this kind to make a rear window for my resin '69 Barracuda Coupe body.

Great idea! It's gonna look better than the original! Drive on!

It's that time again, material-scroungers.

Motor City Resin now has the '67 Galaxie. No more excuses for you guys who want one. http://www.motorcityresincasters.com/67Galaxie.htm

Got in an order from Spotlight. Two AMT '67 Cyclone funny cars, MPC Dyno Don Cougar, Moebius ''65 Dyno Don Cyclone, Moebius '65 California Flash Plymouth. The plan is to build the Plymouth as Grumpy Jenkins' Black Arrow, and use one of the '67 Cyclone funny bodies on the Cougar funny chassis. I hope to set up that chassis so it will take both the Cougar and Cyclone bodies. Which is historically accurate--after his first '68 Cougar was wrecked, Dyno Don got another Cougar body and put it on the frame of the Eliminator II Cyclone, which he still had on hand. Strange but true.

"Standard" should be capitalized in that sentence. It's not an adjective; they're talking about the AGM-78 Standard missile.

Imagine how glad I am now I did a little research before I told you the same thing. Somewhere around here I have a whole book on Wild Weasel but I'm not sure I could lay hands on it on demand so I didn't check that one. For some reason I'm associating 67th Squadron with Tactical Recon, flying RF-84Fs and maybe RF-101s. ETA: More research: Apparently 67 FS and 67 TRS two different outfits.

Not exactly what we're looking for here....

PM doesn't work for me for some reason. Email me at SnakeACP45 at AOL dot com.

Preach It, Brother! Can I get a AY-men from the choir?

Steve, I'm surprised you didn't thin the steering wheel spokes on the backside, and then open up the slots. It's not that difficult, just careful and tedious--I've done it on a couple "special" Corvette projects but I admit I don't do it routinely, I just put black in there as you did. But then most of my builds these days aren't anywhere near as nice as this Olds of yours.

I'd keep that as a period piece. You'll probably find if you pry off those exhausts that the fender vents and/or rocker trim will be glue-roached. If it were mine, I'd see if that luggage rack could be pried off without glue marks; if so, I'd polish the white plastic. The other thing I'd do is remove those triple taillights from the outside and install them from inside the body as they should be. The body under them might be glue-roached, too. Easy enough fix but it will necessitate painting, not polishing, the body. (Does it have exhaust pipes at the rear in addition to the side pipes? Those would have to go as well.) That's a cool project car.

Made and installed a rear window for the survivor '69 El Camino I'm trying to rescue (the windshield will come from a common '69 Chevelle organ donor, as did the seats, dashboard, and steering wheel). Got the black painted on the grille. Got about half of the Silver Sharpie work done on the body. Pried the wheels off the chassis for detailing (and sanding the tire treads), which turned out to be surprisingly difficult for some reason. I'd hoped to get the hot mess nailed back together today, but not gonna happen. Maybe tomorrow.