Snake45

Saw the show last night. Thought it was pretty good. Fair amount of footage of '50s-'60s-'70s cars. Was cool seeing Danny Koker of Count's Kustoms as a commentator. Harry Bradley prominently featured, but oddly they didn't mention his polio or the fact he was wheelchair-bound--in fact, I think at one point they portrayed him standing up, which was a little offputting. But overall, a good show, worth watching. It will be rerun next Sunday (the 19th) at 8PM eastern. It can also be seen anytime at history.com.

Nice so far. What's it look like with the front end installed?

I don't buy the NYT of course. My local rag carries their puzzle a week behind. It's basically the only reason I buy their Sunday paper.

I did that earlier this year. Was in excruciating pain for two or three days, and couldn't get out of a chair without a cane for about a week. Good luck to you.

What everyone else said. This was an AMAZING amount of fun, I was really surprised!

I worked the NY Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle today in 40 minutes--a personal best! (I almost always beat an hour, but seldom have gotten down to 45 minutes.)

Emu...it's what's for dinner!

This was built as my entrant in this year's Cannonball group build. The theme was “full-race cars in disguise.” The rules were stretched a bit to allow as a base any kit that had featured a race car option of any kind on the box art. It started life as an eBay JoHan Superbird junkyard in a Sox & Martin issue box, which turned out to contain enough reasonably good parts to rebuild one fairly nice factory stock model, and just enough leftovers to get another model of some kind together. Stupidbird was built out of the leftovers, which included the NASCAR dashboard and roll cage. The junkyard was missing one engine, and one set of taillights, and the second Superbird wing. As it turned out, the second chassis was from some other JoHan Mopar kit, and the wheelbase was too long. I had to shorten the chassis about 1/8 inch. The glass was a bit of a mess. I was able to sand and polish it out except for one booger spot in the backlight. The body required a certain amount of repair work just to get it back to out-of-the-box usability. Gary (Gramps 46) generously donated a set of wide open wheels. The front tires are common AMT L60s, and the rears are the large tires from the reissued MPC '75 Corvette. I ended up having to make taillights with sheet styrene and a red Sharpie. (Improvise! Adapt! Overcome!) The NASCAR roll cage, instrument panel, and everything else came out of the eBay Superbird junkyard box. I started the project with much enthusiasm as soon as the “race” began, but, as so often happens, my workbench soon became infected with shinier squirrels and it got set aside until almost the literal last minute. Along the way I got semi-inspired by Scott8950's post “Worlds most affordable superbird” up in the General section. I decided the story of Stupidbird would be that a crew of hot-rod trash discovered the barn-find remains of a 1970 Road Runner that had been bracket raced, and decided to rebuild it as a restomod Superbird. About the time they got it safely (more or less) running and the body together (more or less), they thought it would be a hoot to run it in the Cannonball before finishing it out. An offbeat paint job was suggested, and then the Great Wide Shock name was of course a natural. Paint is airbrushed Model Master FS36118 Gunship Gray, and Touch N Tone flat white primer. Both were vigorously rubbed with a paper napkin to give them a pleasing sheen which will hopefully preclude hard-surface scratches to which pure flat finishes are vulnerable. So I give you Stupidbird. I know it's not a winner or even a contender, but it is what it uniquely is—The Great Wide Shock. Thank for looking, and as always, comments welcome.

PREACH IT! Brother Bud! Can I get a AY-men from the choir?

Same here. I have a couple glue bomb AMT '25 T roadsters and this would seem to be a good use for a harvested body.

Great color combo and overall nice build. Well done and model on!

Nice clean build. Hope you had fun with it. Well done and model on!

It's available (expensively) from a couple of specialty model paint suppliers. Rustoleum Cobalt Blue Metallic, @$7 Walmart, is in the ballpark, if "close enough" is good enough for you. It's not quite as "sparkly" in real life as it looks in this pic.

I've seen several in person and though I've never been able to measure one, my impression was that it is, as some of the Wellys are, on the small side--maybe 1/26. I've never bought one because the roof has never looked right to me but darned if it doesn't look good in Mike C's pictures, so the next one I see might end up following me home. Nice model, Mike!

Is that the ex-Monogram kit? I built one in the late '80s or early '90s and it came out very nice and I don't recall any problems with it at all. You'll enjoy it!

Looks like it. I'll grab at least one because I've never owned one of these before.

VERY clean OOB build. That Testor really looks the part of '63 Roman Red. Well done and model on!

Just saw that a couple weeks ago. Hilarious but definitely NOT family-friendly!

Good to see Ryan Martin finally get the Lizzy Musi curse off of him. I think Lizzy was in his head even worse than JJ Da Boss was at one time. Disco Dean seems to pretty much own Team Attack at the moment. It's odd he can't seem to get things together for the main events.

You just beat me to it.

I'm hoping to see Scrooged and Bad Santa this year. Haven't seen either one of them in years, I seem to remember both were pretty good. Might watch Nat Lamp Christmas Vacation, too. I love the Christmas scene in Full Metal Jacket, brief as it is.

Not only debuted it, but was a Camaro SS350 exclusive for a while--everything else was 327s. I forget when the 350 made it into the rest of the line--maybe '69, when the 307 became the "small small block," I think.

The SS350 was available from day one of Camaro production in the fall of 1966.

Agree completely! Do it!

I've got many, many model cars with polished plastic bodies in my collection now. But of course it has to be the right kind of plastic to work.