TarheelRick

An old standby is Future floor shine (or whatever it is called this week). Of course before using it on a completed model I would test it on a scrap decal.

Tetanus city, that is one dirty hulk. Good job on weathering.

Sweet Chevelle, my favorite year. Like the idea of the fuelie engine. I have one I am planning on building as probably an O/S class car. Thanks for the inspiration.

I don't claim snobbery in scratchbuilding, to each his own and to what he/she can afford. My beef is when I spend a multitude of hours trying to scratchbuild an item from styrene, cardboard, wood or whatever I have available, It may not be 100% accurate, but it does represent the item well enough to get the point across. I then take the finished model to a contest and I am placed into the same category as the cars that are built with computer controlled machines and their multitude of machined parts. I do not necessarily enter contests to win, but a bit of recognition of my work involved is appreciated.

It probably is his only tank, and I'll bet when it is full it makes the handling pretty awkward. However it is way too much for a racer and could be easily replaced with a traditional moon tank for looks and a regular tank in the original location for actual travel.

Yeah, but can you go back four or five years to bring up a copy that has an article you need to help you finish that award-winning model?

One of my favorites was Traditional Rod & Kulture Illustrated, it was a quarterly mag with plenty of nostalgia rods and customs. Another is Hot Rod Deluxe, similar format as TRKI. Also miss Model Cars Magazine. Oh well, I guess all good things must pass eventually.

This is one really fine looking old style hot-rod. A retired friend owns an old gas station where he runs an oil change, state inspection, minor repair shop. He has been a gear-head as long as I can remember. He dragged in a '41 Plymouth sedan to set in front of his shop, it is pretty rough, floors are all gone as is all the glass. Anyway, inside the engine bay was a dual carb flathead six with split manifolds. He has pulled the motor and hopes to someday get it running, right not it doesn't want to turn over and is pretty tightly stuck. I'll try to get some pictures next time I am down there.

Since I drive a school bus I knew I would be out of work at the end of May, Luckily my retirement and SS are sufficient to keep me living comfortably, not luxuriously, but comfortably. The local home improvement store was deemed essential and was allowed to stay open. So wearing my mask (I am so tired of breathing lint), I have done a bit of shopping. Since these pictures were taken I have got the wall studs in place and half the rafters up. I was building this project as a storage for my garden tractor and implements, unfortunately the tractor's hydrostatic drive unit expired, and since it is over 20 years old there are no parts to repair it. I know of one extensive junk yard that may have parts, but I have not had time to get down there yet to see what they have.

Definitely a street car. No drag racer worth his salt would hang a 20 gallon fuel tank under the grille.

Outstanding build. Really like the kit-bashing you did to get this finished ride. Also your color separation is excellent.

Excellent build, really like the color combination and the details you have added to the interior. I had a '72 Westphalia which I traded for a '78 Rabbit, boy was that a dumb move.

Beautiful build, nice clean work. Everything looks right. Nothing against your model, but looking at it I just realized how obtrusive those hood vents are to the overall design of the truck. Chevrolet design team at its best - not.

I have noticed HL has a couple different sizes of embossing powder. The smaller size jars are a bit expensive for the amount of powder. However the larger, coarser, version is a bit more reasonable. Has anyone used the coarser stuff with pleasing results? My hobby budget is pretty tight and I really do not need another jar of useless material sitting around my workbench. I have used flocking for many years with somewhat mixed results and I have a plastic shoebox full of colors, so switching to embossing powder is going to be quite a drastic change for me. Any comments? A couple pictures of a Mach 1 using flocking for carpet and headliner. I used paint as a fixative.

" I'm too old to be speeding and too old be getting tickets." That is what I thought too until I got a ticket last spring doing 73 in a 55 in my V-6 Ranger. BTW I will be 71 next month; that little excursion cost me $410. And that is a nice looking Vicky.

There are some real pretty colors in that line-up. But I have a drawer full now, waiting for me to use before they dry up.

Must agree with the other comments. The 40 Coupe is one of my all-time favorite and you have done an excellent rendition of this one.

Beautiful build, although it needs one headlight turned towards the ground. Invariably one, or both, headlights would work loose and turn toward the ground. I learned how to use a tractor on a later model Massey-Ferguson. My neighbor was a farmer and close family friend. When I was out of school in the summer he would let me work the tractor in his fields while he attended to other farming chores. Great stuff for a kid that wanted to drive. It didn't matter that I was driving around in a decreasing circle dragging a plow/cultivator/disc- I was driving.

Beautiful build. These "lower class" cars are too often overlooked, but they are truly the foundation of drag racing. This build reminds me of another Ford 6-cylinder car, could be the same one. Anyway the builder used three 351 heads on this engine. He cut the front two cylinders off one head, the center two from another and the last two from yet another. He used some form of pressure-brazing to join the pieces; supposedly it gave him much better horsepower. Just a tidbit of useless trivia. If my old brain remembers correctly, it was 1 or 1/2 second per class differential. Another factor, especially in the stock-type classes, was an automatic got a 1/2 second headstart over a manual in the same class.

Very nicely done Sedan Delivery. All the subtle touches you have added makes me look more for others changes. Really like it.

Wow, that is a real beauty and the pearl shows very well in the photos.

Really fine looking hot rod. Glad to see you left the cab roof stock height, too many chop it down too short. That color really makes it come alive. Very nice build.

Looks like a plan that will work well. Thanks for the idea.

Thanks for the info. I guess a couple of Craftsman 1/2 drive universals would not work. ?

This is an interesting suspension change. However I have one question. Doesn't the steering wheel shaft attach to the that small rod protruding from the rack and pinion system? It appears this will require a bunch of engineering to get around the engine block and exhaust system. Or am I missing something?