Snake45

Excellent nomination! What went wrong there was, they shrank a '34 Ford to fit on a shorter T-length chassis. The whole body's slightly undersized (I've never measured to see exactly how much) but the worst part is they took too much of the length out of the hood, giving the whole thing a weird "snub-nosed" look. I'm thinking of doing something with it, maybe either a hoodless altered or a street rod on a longer chassis with no hood and a '32 radiator/grille.

I've heard a lot of complaints about the recording quality of that album. It was one of the very first, if not THE first, that was recorded in some kind of direct-to-digital format, and supposedly, no mixing, fixing, or correction of any kind was possible (at that time, anyway). What he put out was exactly what went on the CD. Maybe I have bad ears from too many years of shooting, but it sounds okay to me.

IMHO best song on that album is Down in the Mall...which is of course basically a rework of Springsteen's Cadillac Ranch.

Just sent you a nice live solo 12-string version of it

I've got paints that I still use older that that!

I wanna live on the upper east side And never go down in the street....

I have a feeling that one was just for me. Turbulence, Warren Zevon, off the Transverse City album.

I've got Warren Zevon covering that in concert, a very nice version. He covered Dark Eyes, too, also very cool.

So was Danger Man before or after Secret Agent? Or are those the Brit and US names for the same show?

When I put the Edelbrock intake manifold on my real '69 Camaro--the most complicated car thing I'd ever done to that point, and I had NO help with it at all--the distributor wouldn't go back in the right place. I'd bumped the oil pump--no one warned me about that nor how to fix it. After a dozen efforts trying to get it back in "right, " I finally gave up, put it in where it wanted to go, and just moved all the plug wires over one. To my shock, wonder, and enormous relief, the car fired up on the first crank and ran great. I was SO pleased with myself for figgering out how to fix the problem, but my distributor looked "wrong" from then on.

Interesting project. Please keep us posted.

Give it a rest. I'm not into the whole Pro Fairgrounds thing. If you want to build that, get your own, see?

That's a cool song. I don't hear it enough.

Secret Agent man! (They've given you a number and taken 'way your name.) Durwood Kirby.

I can't figure out why they're reissuing all those awful old Lindberg airplanes, unless they can sell them at half the prevailing prices of Monogram/Revell kits and go for what the Brits call the "pocket money trade."

Sorry, they won't be selling one to me. I can't even see any usable parts on that hot mess.

Good move. Spoiler wasn't standard on '67 SS, wasn't even standard on '67 or '68 Z/28, and I'm not sure it was even available in 1967 at all. It's not on any of the '67 Camaro option lists I have (it would be D80), though it MIGHT have been a dealer-installed thing late in the year, I dunno. The '67 Pace Cars didn't have 'em. Except for '69 Z/28s and Pace Cars, probably 95% of the spoilers you see today on First Gen Camaros are "day two" additions.

I kinda like that, except for the wing and the decals/graphics. Of course, without those, it wouldn't be what it is, would it?

Ah, don't worry about it. You wouldn't believe how many times I've posted similar thoughts on a model airplane board when somebody asks what are the correct seat belt buckles for an Iwo Jima-based P-51D in June of 1945, or some such complete trivia/arcana. It's not important at all--until it is, to somebody.

If I were judging a contest, I wouldn't pay any attention to firing order either. HOWEVER, if the builder had all the left-hand wires going to the left side of the distributor, and the same for the right, I'd probably count off for that. And if it was supposed to be a "factory stock" build and had yellow or blue plug wires, I'd count off for that, too.

I don't like whitewalls either, I was only using them here because they were in the AMT Pie Crust Slicks set and I figgered "why not." I'd have white on the front too but the only ones I could find had the white so close to the wheel rim that it all just looked like ass. The Halibrand isn't "shiny," its Testor Flat Steel, just because every Halibrand I've ever seen has been natural metal or some kind of steel gray color. The reason the rest of the chassis is black is that most of the joints are visible "welds" of Superglue to hold it together. And worse yet, after I had the chassis "finished," I dropped a bottle on it and broke the front suspension in three different places. I superglued it all back together and this time reinforced the broken joints with a coating of J-B Weld, too. The black hides all that hideous junk. The next one of these I build, from a virgin kit, will have all kinds of brightwork and eye candy on the chassis, I assure you!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That's the original thread "wiring" I did as a kid. I kept it as is for "flavah." The thread is brown, too, not black. Not sure if I did that deliberately to match the paint scheme, or that's just what I happened to grab out of Mom's sewing box at the time, or what.

Supposedly they did but you know how things go, there are always a couple oddballs slip through without this or that thing...or WITH this or that thing that it shouldn't have had....

Okay, I'll take a WAG on that clue. Betty White?

Very nice! I love restos and glue-bombs saves. Nice work!