Can-Con
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Ah yes, a simple kit that looks great when finished properly. They weren't all built in grey with red, just seems that way. , , , and yes Ian, black with tan is very do-able.
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Beautiful !!
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Did a bit more on this one. Was thinking I wanted to add some more color but decided against it and just foiled it and added the glass.
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I second this, but use the full polishing kit from 3200 grit on down. I almost always "tint" my glass with Tamiya clears and polish it out using this exact method. Never had any problem with putting the black band on after. Thing is, true "polish" does not add anything onto the surface. Think of it more like super fine sanding, which is exactly what it is. Wax is just that, wax and does nothing to get rid of the scratches, it just covers them. Same with Future, which most people call "polish" , which it definitely is not. It's just a thinned acrylic clearcoat. Dave's right about it filling small scratches and smoothing over them but if they're any size at all you should use a polishing kit and get rid of them properly.
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Yea, with a damaged box and no instructions, it's probably not worth that much. Those would have been the unique things that would have made it worth something. -
What I like best about this one is you did your homework and but the wiper motor where the wiper motor goes and the "Beep Beep" horn where it's supposed to go and not followed the incorrect instructions on the instruction sheet.
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I've never seen one of those before, I'd say that's one rare kit. You probably should have bought it if the box and associated paper was in good condition, No telling how much that would have gone for on e-bay. IIRC, at that time Revell wanted to distance itself from Roth because of his association with the Hells Angels so they renamed and reboxed all the Roth kits without his name or any references to him on them.
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Yea, I remember that one. There was a guy on another message board years ago who claimed it was his. [that he built it] He also claimed he owned an "Alternomad" and a blown pro-street Willys among other hi-buck street rod type stuff but always said " he sold it recently and didn't have any more pictures of it" and couldn't give any details when anyone asked about them. Anyway, he claimed he owned that unique build of the RR. I remembered seeing it on the showrod site [and the bit about it being sold on e-bay] because he posted the exact same pics directly off the site. I didn't directly call him out on the BS but I did ask how he did the uniforms, etc. ,,, no response. He stopped posting on that site shortly after.
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Thanks Erik. They sure look pretty close, missing the rivet detail around the rim and the centers are not recessed like the ones in my pics but again, pretty close. I'd LOVE to have a set of those. They'd be just the thing for a retro '80s pro-touring build.
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pic from the net,,
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GM and Chevy Quality
Can-Con replied to slusher's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
My boss loved his GMC Safari vans. Last one we had in the company was one he bought new before I started working for him on 2000. He passed it down to one of the workers 6 or 7 years ago. By the time we got rid of it, it had almost 500,000 KM on it. [right around 300,000 miles] It probably would have went another couple years but the guy that had it drove it into the ground. No maintenance except oil changes and whatever the bare minimum was to go through inspection for as long as he used it. I don't even remember him ever cleaning it. My '99 Saturn had over 350K on it before it died. But I don't believe there are any really "bad" car makers anymore but every one has built thier share of bad cars. If someone has a good car, you never hear about it but if the car won't start ,, just once ,, everyone on facebook knows about it and then every car that company makes is junk. -
Another shot.
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Ok. I checked e-bay too and found one with a bit bigger pic of the chrome tree. The wheels look like Jongbloed Series 214 from what I can see. Those are some serious racing wheels. One of the first aftermarket wheels available in + sizes for bigger tires and used on some of the more serious early pro-touring cars back in the early '80s before "pro-touring" was even a word.
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Casey, could you please post a closeup of those 6 spoke wheels? I think I know what they might be.
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Testors Hugger Orange looks pretty close to me. I'm doing a Datsun pickup in it right now.
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So ,, re-boxed Pegasus Sovereign.
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OK, I don't know much about Nascar , I take it this body style was ran for a few years then? It says in the press release above that it's a '78 and that they intend to also do Petty's '79 and Baker's '80 ,, the kit's a '76 though. Anyway, I'll leave mine you those of you who like that sort of thing. Now if it had of been a '76 or '77 street car I'd be in for a couple. But,,,
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You are quite right Matthew , in spite of me double and triple checking my post I still got it backwards. LOL Here's a link to one of the best second gen T/A sites I've found. http://tran-zam.com/index.html
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Casey, the diamond shaped mesh in the grille make the kit a '77. '78s had honeycomb shaped mesh in the grille. The 5 color bird was for the '78 solar gold Special Edition [check the side of your box] and was only available on that specific gold car until it became the standard bird design the next year.
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AMT '55 Chevy Nomad
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The gallon of Honda Dyno blue pearl I bought to paint my T/A last summer was almost twice that. , , Over twice when you count in a gallon of reducer.
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Testors has a darker red in thier bottle paints that seems pretty close to me. I think it's #1104. At least that's what the unfaded areas on the valve covers of my '68 Electra look like.
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It's the ONLY 430 out there. The valve covers are dead on but the rest?,, maybe not so much. The 455 in the Monogram '70 GSX is really good if you don't mind the scale difference. But you'd have to sand the ribs off the valve covers and add new ones. Here's a couple shots to start you off,, ,,,, and a gratuitous pic of my old Riv. Unfortunatly this old Kodak 110 pic is the only one I have left of it.
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Looks fantastic Randy. I plan to do mine very similar to yours. Gotta get some more decals from Keith soon. Is that Testors Hugger Orange?
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Just incredible !