TarheelRick

Really like the color and wheel choice and as mentioned above the interior is a piece of art all by itself. Beautiful Pro-Touring Toronado.

Maybe this build is trying to get you to try some rust weathering and turn this one into a barn/field find. Tough luck, especially with how much you had done. I have an original issue 64 Ford that the original paint has lightly etched the surface, just hoping primer/filler will solve the problem.

Going to be an interesting build, looking forward to updates. I am having a similar issue with the roof of my '53 Ford Crew Cab, I have added a layer of styrene, but it still seems to be sagging a bit. I have a leftover roof from the Alternomad kit, if I can find it I will use that. '56 Chevy and '65 Chevelle are the ultimate Chevrolets. The '57 is overrated and as mentioned above the '55 is a bit boxy, however it does make a beautiful short track racer or drag car. A nice set of wheels/tires, clean two-tone paint, just a bit of tail-high rake and the '56 Chevy is one beautiful street machine. My first car was a '56 150 black and white with 6 cylinder and three on the tree. I blew the 6 and tried to talk my father into buying a 'built' 265 to replace it, instead, got a Sears-Roebuck rebuilt 6. Owned two '65 Chevelles. The first was a plain Malibu 283 3-speed, backed it into a dirt bank on a wet road. Traded it for a 65 Super Sport 283 4-speed same color as the other. It met its demise on a wet road when I caught a hard 2nd gear while driving through water running across the road. Three fence posts and 100 miles of barbed wire did not coalesce very well with the body of my Chevelle.

If you notice in both the black & white photo and on the red car the drag chute lines go down the outside of the trunk to some attachment point underneath the car, most likely to the rear frame cross member. It is more difficult to tell on the SWC car, but I believe that black line under the rear fender is actually the drag chute lines going to either the rear axle or another frame crossmember. Please don't think I am busting your chops on this issue. It is just something I have noticed on several drag builds throughout the years. Really like this build, especially the "Olympic Circles" on the door.

Some screen wire and bondo will fix almost any hole. ? Some nice art work, what grade did you get for It?

Excellent build of a truly non-forgiving kit. Really like the overall cleanliness of the build. Just one comment about the location of the drag chute, I hope you have it tethered to something besides the trunk lid. Don't really think that piece of fiberglass would hold a 2400 lb car slowing from 150 mph. BTW: Fly High!.

Very nice rebuild, really like the color combination. However, being an old-school car nut, I liked the rake on the original build. Reminds me of my first car - a '56 150 Sedan with 6 cylinder and three on the tree. Mine was black and white, but I built a set of shackles and raised the rear a couple of inches, that was what we did in the late '60's.

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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