TarheelRick

Really enjoying watching this build come together. Have never built a big rig but have a couple in my stash waiting for me to get to them. Hope to pick up some ideas from someone who evidently has been in the seat of a few. I quoted that statement to suggest using some real logs. If you have any maple trees in your yard you are aware of how readily they shed limbs. You could possibly cut some segments to represent real logs and use them. Just my $.02.

Stock, Super Stock, Modified Production drag slicks from the 60's era. Some Cheater slicks and regular pie-crust slicks ranging from 7.50 to 9.00 x 15. Must have sidewall detail: M&H, Firestone, and others - Goodyear maybe (?). Also, some of the earlier Indy-roadster wheels and tires, similar to the ones in the Monogram Indy Roadster kit only a bit wider.

Really love the Karmann Ghia in 1:1 and also your build. Have often looked for one (1:1) but they can be quite expensive. That is an excellent choice of colors and the interior is really nice looking. Overall great build.

Two empty adult beverage cans ?, at least they could have left one of them full. School starts this week so I should be getting my share of candy wrappers and other garbage from the buses that traverse by my house.

I can understand why this is one of your favorite builds. It is very well done and looks exceptionally realistic. That first photo could easily be a promo shot for an upcoming drag race. Really like that aluminum look on the wheels and your paint is right on. Nice job.

For me, scratchbuilding many times is more fulfilling than actual kit building. Really like the way you have reworked this kit and your overall concept. Hook that baby up, head to Sturgis or Daytona and make some money while having fun. Looking forward to more updates.

Just eyeballing the two together the red ones are 2 frog hairs longer and maybe one frog hair wider than the AMT. So, I guess they are the Monogram ZZ-Top bodies. Thanks for the answers.

I was rummaging through some boxes trying to find some parts. When I opened my AMT 34 Ford kit I found three bodies. One is the stock 5 window coupe. The other two are factory chopped 3-window coupes, molded in red with opening trunk lids. What kit are the two red ones from?

Mother Nature reclaims what she gave up.

Unfortunately, this had to be done to slow down kit pilfering. Several years ago (last century) I found four opened kits at a Roses store. I approached the manager and she discounted the kits by 60%. I made out fairly well one was complete, but the others were missing valuable pieces: Eddie Hill's dragster rear tires and wheels, etc. A few months later I was in the same store and they only had two kits on the shelf, both were hard to sell kits, can't remember exactly what they were. Happened to see the manager and asked her about the lack of kits, "We were losing too much money on shoplifting (pilfering) so we are no longer carrying them". Have also bought pilfered kits from Michael's, WalMart (when they sold kits), and a couple of other stores. I was in Hobby Lobby one day and found a Revell 'T' Roadster kit. When I picked it up I noticed the bottom of the box had been slit open leaving the shrinkwrap around the outside intact. They sold it to me for 40%. When I got it home the only thing missing was the roadster body, big score on parts. I've noticed lately Hobby Lobby will have kits with the shrinkwrap removed and the box will be taped. Makes me wonder if someone bought it and once looking inside decided they did not want it or was it a kit someone opened to pilfer. If the latter case did the clerk that inventoried the kit know what they were looking at before they taped it shut. Sorry about the rant, but my first kit had only a piece of decorative tape over each end (AMT 1960 Mercury hardtop annual).

Interesting piece of photography work. I have seen this and similar forms of photography before but have never tried it. Some of the pieces I have seen were very overdone IMHO but these are right on the mark. Thanks for sharing. Where did you acquire the light pens?

Beautiful rally car build. Still needs lots of mud and a few fender dents. Happened to watch a YouTube video yesterday of some rally crashes. Those cars fly and get extremely dirty. Just kidding about the mud and dents, like it just the way it is.

Excellent build, especially like the fade paint and with rattlecans no less. Overall, beautiful build and attention to details.

Used to be a thing to do on a no-date Saturday afternoon - "sit around watching the grass grow and listening to the car rust."

Some very interesting photos. That 50 Chevy out in the woods had been used as some form of race car or "cool" street car, the rear fenders have been radiused. The pickup on the sap line could possibly be saved - with a lot of work as could the Chevy depending upon how much floor pan is left. One thing I noticed is the absence of bullet holes in the cars. Around here any car abandoned in the woods was a prime target to practice your Bonnie & Clyde ambush moves.

The way I read the article the Vert-a-pac worked as designed. The Vega was a seriously failed experiment, says the Ford Pinto owner.

Ace, I saw an ad just the other day showing a Tesla with a built-in rumble generator (for a better term). This system plays ICE sounds that exit through a speaker system in the phony exhaust pipes, and the sound varies with the acceleration of the car. If they are going to that much trouble to sound like an ICE, then go ahead and put an ICE in it.

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If the title says Gasser I am all in. I like the modifications you are doing to this kit. Although I think it will be closer to a Pro-Mod than a gasser when finished. But then a Pro-Mod is just a Gasser on steroids.

As the others have said, to me it depends on the finished product. Right now I have the AMT '61 Ford Styline kit (curbside) that I am building with the extreme custom parts in the kit. The nose will be much longer than stock, so it would require lengthening the hood if it were opened as well as finding inner fenders, etc. On the other hand, I am also working on a full custom '51 Ford convertible. That kit comes with an opening hood, I have extensively modified that area, but I have also made sure it is opened because I want to show the custom flathead engine. As I said it depends on what I want the end product to represent.

Extremely nice Funny Car build. Looks like you have tamed the 'old-mold beast' very well. Schumacher was one of my favorite funny car drivers. Way back in the days of match-racing at local dragstrips he and another came to our local strip. He was driving the Stardust 66-67 (?) Charger. On the second of their scheduled three runs he came out of the hole hard, went sideways and sent pieces of fiberglass flying. Wish I could have got hold of some of those pieces.

Really enjoying what you are doing with this build. This kit was my holy grail for many years, but they were well beyond my modeling budget. Imagine my joy when they were rereleased. I bought two of them immediately, one tin box and the other regular cardboard. I have opened the tin box one since it was the first one I bought, it is still virgin and the other is still sealed - so much for holy grail. Keep those updates coming.

Coming off the interstate yesterday afternoon saw a 55-57 Chevy pickup pulling a small camper trailer heading the other direction. It was a bit lower than stock, but not much, painted a dull red. Couldn't tell if it was faded paint or actually that color.

Mighty fine looking Mustang (but then all of them are). Love those super-stockers. Nice clean build.