Snake45

I've always like the airplane-like panel of the '63-'67 Corvettes. I had two '69 Camaros for a total of about 15 years, and the view in front of me always made me smile, especially at night. The '70s Trans Ams with all that engine-turning were hella cool, too. Sorry, I don' have any pics of any of these.

Not only have I thought about it, I've done it! Back in the day, I modeled the hood lump on this '66 Skylark off one I saw on a '67 Chevelle in CarToons or Hot Rod Cartoons, just 'cause I thought it looked SO bitchin'. Of course there were no '67 or '66 kits in those days so I got as close as I could. Nowadays I could get the same effect by using the hood lump on the Revell '67 Pro Street kit. There's another car I saw in one of those CarToons mags that I WANT to model, sooner or later. Jacked up '57 Chev hardtop, straight front axle, no front bumper but did still have the grille in place, or maybe it was just the stock grill bar "floating." Oh yeah I'm gonna build that bad boy sooner or later!

I only have LP, cassette, and CD format music. Couple years ago The Lovely Mrs. Snake got me a USB turntable for Christmas so I can put any of my old LP albums in the computer and then burn them onto CDs or put them on an MP3 player (if I ever get one). I had a lot of fun with that thing!

I know it's Alice Cooper and I think it's from his first album. I can "hear" it but can't think of the title.

First, I wouldn't use 5-minutes epoxy for that. It cures a bit "rubbery" and tacky. I use the 12 or 24 hour cure stuff for things like this. But if it's working for you, drive on. If you can't get the epoxy dyed to suit you, just cast the parts clear and then paint them with Model Master Acryl Clear Red. I've found this stuff is GREAT for taillights. I see that others here have had good luck tinting clear plastic to red with a red Sharpie. Haven't tried that yet myself but I plan to. Might take several applications. Give that a try.

That's a fabulous idea! And I believe I have an old "Hillbilly Hot Rod" kit from the '60s around here somewhere gathering dust. I'll check and see if those parts are still in it. Thanks so much!

Where do you get tapes for it? I'm glad every time I go to Walmart and they still have a few blank VHS in stock. Wasn't all THAT long ago they had an entire aisle of blank VHS tapes of all sorts.

Cobraman, have you ever tried to model a bare aluminum, unpainted Cobra? I'd like to try that sometime. I have some ideas on how it could be done.

Yeah. And I think I remember someone marking a version of that, which was actually just a small transistor radio. Anyone remember transistor radios? My first one was bigger than a pack of cigarettes. AM only of course. Last week I bought a pocket radio about the size of a cigarette lighter (the disposable kind) with FM in it. And I think it cost less than my first transistor did, too, even after 50 years of inflation.

I have cable TV, but I'm still using a VCR with it. I don't have an MP3 player but I play them on my desktop computer.

Yeah--I can see that a razor saw and plenty of liquid cement and putty would be necessary to do it that way. But it might be better than sheet styrene--I'll have to see when I get into it. Just since you seem to know about early Fords, Art, I'm thinking of another project involving a home-made "jalopy" hot rod utilizing the leftover stock T parts from the Fruit Wagon kit. My question is, could I use the "hop up" engine parts (dual carbs) from the Revell '29 engine on the T engine? If not and I need to use the whole '29 engine, would that fit under the stock T hood?

That's nothing to be ashamed of at all--you did a fabulous job with that. Well done and model on!

I've googled one or two, but only if I knew that I knew the song and artist and couldn't think of the title, or knew the title and couldn't think of the artist. Haven't googled any that I didn't already know.

So, in other words, nothing REALLY important. I don't own a cell phone, have never owned one, and don't want one. If you want to talk to me, you have to catch me at home. And awake. And without the Bose noise-canceling headphones on. Good luck with that.

The AMT C-cab body sides taper inward to meet the cowl just down at the lower front corners. Otherwise, they're completely flat. I might be able to carve the shape I want out of the kit pieces, but if not, it shouldn't be too much trouble to scratch the whole body from the cowl back out of sheet styrene, and I have plenty of that around. I'm also looking at whether that Revell '29 roadster pickup body might be a good starting point. Will have a better idea what's necessary after I make my drawings. I forgot to thank you earlier for all the great information. Very helpful!

What silver paint did you use on those wheels? They look pretty good!

Nice models, nice pics, thanks for sharing them! Just last night I started laying putty on the frames of two Switchers, the 25 T and a '32, to fill the molded sinkholes and prep them for painting.

Could be, but it's the same as the three different rods I saw in the old '60s books I was looking at today. I know the basic T-buckets were being reproed in glass back then, but were C-cabs? I've never run across mention of such. In fact, back in those days, I don't think anyone was reproing '32 Fords yet, even in fiberglass, much less steel (as are available today). Well, at any rate, I now know what I have to do to build the model I want to build.

Today I tried the AMT Vicky body on the fenders from the old MPC Switchers/American Graffiti '32, last seen as the Boyd Coddington '32 with big goofy wheels, and it was almost a drop-on fit. Should only take a little filing/sanding in the rear wheel area to drop right on that. I think I'm gonna build me a "switcher" drag gasser with both 5-window and Vicky bodies.

Okay, I just google-imaged for T C-cabs and looked at a lot of pictures. Evidently there were several different C-cab shapes over the years, as I saw quite a few variations. Didn't see one that looked like the AMT body, though some were kinda close. But most if not all of those didn't have doors, just open sides. Most of these also seemed to be bigger (especially longer) than the AMT body. Here's the type of C-cab that I want to build, and that I thought I was getting when I bought the kit (the box art rod looks more like this in shape and proportion). I still want to build such a model, but it looks like I'll have to make my own body. If I can't carve this shape out of the AMT body, I'll just make it out of sheet styrene. Doesn't look that hard. Come to think of it, I might be able to adapt the basic (lower) body from the Revell '29 Model A truck kit. In fact, I think I'll make the thing a "convertible," with the top removable from the body when the mood strikes me. Hmmmmmmm..........

Isn't that how the Looney Tunes cartoons started?

I just saw the one the other night that had Lisa and Todd "dialing for toast in the push-button world of the future." NOW how much stuff can you control with your phone?

Great subject, great color, this could be a really nice project!

My mother, who was born in 1932, might participate in such a group build. So might The Lovely Mrs. Snake, born in 1956.

I've always wanted to do a C-cabbed "fad T" and so bought the reissued AMT '25 Fruit Wagon kit. Just spent some time looking at pics of real C-cabs in the old Street Rod Pictorial #1 and #2 and the AMT C-cab body doesn't look like what I'm seeing in the pictures. The kit's body also doesn't look like the rod on the box top, either. The box art painting looks more like the photos of the real ones I'm looking at, except the back half of the roof of the cab. Are there two different shapes of C-cab, and AMT kitted one and I'm looking at the other? I think I'm going to end up scratchbuiding my own C-cab body out of sheet styrene. Doesn't look that hard, once I have a good drawing, and one of the photos I'm looking at is almost a full-on profile, so it shouldn't be too hard to develop drawings from that.