TarheelRick

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Beautiful build, hard to tell it is 15 years old.

Very creative build. You really got the Winfield look with that fade paintjob. Also, like the custom touches to the grille. Great job.

Going to be an interesting build. I have an affinity for long roofs.

Couple of good-looking rails. Maybe it's just not visible, but I do not see a drag-chute on the Prudhomme car.

Looking mighty good for a 58-year-old build. Really like your color choices.

Like the direction you are going with this one. I seem to remember seeing an article on a short-track Vette in Stock Car Racing magazine many years ago. Giving me some ideas for a body I have laying around.

Well, that's one way to make a Vette worthwhile. IMHO '63-67 Stingrays were the only Vettes worth having. Well, maybe the late '50's into the Stingray era were alright also.

The way I understand it, I will be getting in-home therapy for awhile, then will switch to out-patient. Either way it is going to be a long painful process.

No, I should have run it through them but sometimes they can get complicated with their approvals.

Good-looking 150, love that body style. Nice choice of colors.

Didn't really know what it is, but I had it done. Nerve block is working pretty well right now. The nurse told me once that ran out, I would know it. What they do is remove the ball from the top of the arm bone, the cup from the shoulder and reverse them so the ball is on the shoulder and the cup is on the arm bone. Supposed to be in a sling 4-6 weeks, then 40 days of restricted duty. Puts a real crimp in rebuilding my hobby room and my fishing.

Beautiful FED, nice smooth looking paint work.

Extremely nice-looking Ford. That color does look good on that car. Very well built.

I am totally irked with hydrostatic drives. First issue was with a Craftsman mower, bought new in 2011, didn't start using it until late summer 2012. I had bumped a wall with the front tire, side bump not head-on, bent the steering rod. Ordered replacement, changed it and the mower would not back-up straight; the front tires would go in different directions. Fall of 2018 hooked up my leaf-vacuum, would not pull it, the hydro-static drive expired. It is a sealed unit so cannot be repaired, must be replaced. The cost was equivalent to 1/2 the mower. Parked it and bought a Simplicity. Second issue was a Simplicity lawn/garden tractor I acquired from my late uncle's estate. It was fairly old, the deck had rusted some, so my uncle had used it only as a garden tractor. Had some nice implements with it, which all worked off the hydrostatic drive. That drive also went out on me two years after I got it. Tried to find replacement, learned the manufacturer had been out of business for more than 20 years and there were no replacements available. Again, it being a sealed unit could not be repaired. Seems like a conspiracy of lawn/garden equipment manufacturers to sell more new units because it is so expensive to repair/replace those hydrostatic units. My replacement tractor, Massey-Ferguson compact is also hydrostatic drive - just waiting.

Not exactly on the road but we had a local Memorial Day Cruise-In. Actually, a local merchant sponsors one every 4th Sunday during the warm months, sometimes up into early November. The Charger is my all-time favorite Dodge or any Chrysler product. The Chevy coupe's license said "AllSteel" I have a few more pictures, but these are my favorite.

Not exactly model related, but since I will probably be doing any building on the dining table for the next few weeks following my surgery, I thought it would come in quite handy. I can put tools and supplies in the drawers and use the top area as a smaller work area when necessary. It is 12X6X6. Got it at Lowes for $19.98 - $17.98 with military discount.

Definitely going to watch this build. The '65 Chevelle is my grail car I owned two of them in the late 60's early 70's; the first was a regular 283/3-speed Malibu. The second was a 283/4-speed SS, loved that car until I took out six fenceposts and correlated barbed wire one night while under the influence of adult beverages on a rainy road. I had never really paid that much attention to the differences in the fronts, that is really going to bother me when I decide to build my El Camino and station wagon and my two Revell Z-16 kits. Keep those updates coming.

"Cool" build. Well thought out details, it is "udderly" beautiful. OK, enough of the cheap puns. Really nice build.

Some mighty fine looking '40s. The Tudor is a real beauty, the short tracker looks the part (I'll bet he is going looking for a red car with a mangled fender after the heat race), and that chop came out looking really nice. It still looks like a coupe; so many lay the back glass down way too much IMHO.

Very nice build, you really captured the look of the whole unit. Impressive weathering.

Really like where you are going with this one. '50 & '60 style customs are some of my favorite builds, mild to radical.

Cool, but is it streetable?🤔

The paints are water-based and pre-thinned/

I built my first model kit Christmas Day 1959 and it was an AMT Trophy Kit 1940 Ford Coupe. I was immediately hooked. Started saving my nickels, dimes, and the occasional quarter. When I had a dollar and a half and we went into town I bought a 1960 Mercury and the collection began. Every birthday, Christmas, and gift giving occasion I got a model. Began staying with my grandmother in the summertime, would mow her yard. Most often from my grandmother, uncles, and aunt that lived with her I could scratch together another $1.50. Every Saturday my aunt would go into town to shop and get her hair fixed. I would make my rounds to all the stores that sold models: Griffith's Gift Store, Roses $.05 and $.10, Ben Franklin's, Kennedy Auto, Cassteven's Hardware, and Royall Drugstore. Once I made my rounds I would decide on which kit I wanted, buy it, go back to the car, open it, fantasize on the finished build, and wait for my aunt to return. Every once in awhile I would have $2 and could afford to buy a Styline kit.