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There is a thread on the HAMB on that picture. People with a lot more knowledge than me say it's a Dodge chassis with a T rear cross member and 2 speed rear axle. The body is a T also but it has been cut down behind the seat. Some speculation that it has a connection to Ed Iskanderian because of some of these features.

About 30 years ago, I noticed a 69 Shelby GT500 sitting behind a paint and body shop not far from my house. After it sat there for several months, I stopped one day and asked the shop owner about it. He said the guy who owned it had brought it in for a paint job (it had a new black lacquer job) but had gotten busted for drugs and didn't have the money to pay for it. I kept checking with him to see what was up and the car owner eventually went to prison for a bunch of years. The shop owner said he was afraid of the guy and did not want to risk filing a lien on the car and selling it. The car ended up sitting there for years until I moved out of the area. A couple of years later, I was in the neighborhood and swung past to see if it was still there. The shop had closed and the lot was cleared of all cars. I never found out what happened to the Shelby.

My senior year, I blew the engine in my 65 Mustang. My dad found a 55 Buick 4d Special that I could buy for $35 dollars. It had just been registered so it had a years worth of license plates ($32) on it. I drove that thing until it needed new plates and sold it for $35! The old Buick was a real beater but it was as reliable as any car could be. It had working AC (with rear vents!), dual heaters, and Buick's version of a Wonderbar AM radio. The Wonderbar was an early version of Seek where you could just hit the long bar-shaped button on the front of the radio and it would seek to the next strong station and lock in. This was very rare even in 73 when I bought the car. To make it even cooler, it had a switch on the floor next to the dimmer switch to activate the seek. The other unusual feature for the time was that the key did not have a start position. You turned the key to the Run position and floored the gas pedal to activate the starter. These two features are what brings me to the fun part of the story. My friend and I concocted a story about the car. We would tell people that the car was haunted by the previous owner and that she hated Rock and Roll music. Then after riding around a while with some unsuspecting passenger (usually female) I would tap the seek button of the floor. Since I live in Texas, it wasn't hard to make the radio change from RnR to country! Then my bud and I would laugh while our dates would get nervous and usually slide over real close for protection. This worked especially well when parked. That's when the "can't start the car with the key" feature would come in handy! Let them twist the key all they wanted but the old Buick would never even give a grunt. "I guess she is punishing us for listening to RnR!" Of course we always let them in on the joke and usually there were no problems until one particular night when I ended up getting one young lady home late. She got so scared she jumped out of the car and started running. By the time we caught her, got her calmed down, and talked back into the car we were close to an hour after her curfew. :-(

I have used a soft brush from the makeup department for dusting off models with good luck.

The body lines all look correct for a 34 Ford but it is missing the hood louvers.

The center headlight on the Tucker was linked to steer with the front wheels. That was in 1947.

Cobra with the Lemans hardtop. Very nice.

It is not unusual for movies to have multiple versions of the cars for different uses. The most detailed for close up filming is termed the "hero" car. Lots or cheaper, less detailed versions would be used for stunts and such.

The raw materials have to come from somewhere. Gasoline is a hydrocarbon so somewhere you need to get hydrogen and carbon as basic building blocks along with other trace elements. Unless you are an alchemist and can transmute one element into another. If so, I would be making gold instead of gas!

That pretty nice but it's not a true 427 FE. It's is some sort of hybrid because it doesn't have the extended block skirts which are used for the cross-bolted mains. Instead, it is using a more conventional 4 bolt main cap set up. It also does not have the side oiler provisions of the race 427 but instead is oiling through the center of the block similar to the hydraulic cammed version built for street and marine use. That said, Kirkham builds really nice stuff. Aluminum bodied Cobras with all billet suspension pieces and now a billet block option. "What's in your wallet?" ;-)

I'm always finding things I had lost, the most important was my wedding ring! A few years ago, my sister sent me a box of stuff I had given to her son when I was about 18 and he was maybe 6. That was more than 30 years ago. Inside the box was about a dozen models I had built, most of them busted up glue bombs. It was cool to see them after all those years.

Nice project! I always liked these Motorama show cars. There are many of them based off the early Corvette. Lots of them are shown on this link: http://www.corvettes.nl/gm_prototypes/index.html

As good as you are, I'll bet you could come up with a variation of the blackout headlights used on military vehicles: The lens strips should be clear

Like some others have mentioned the bible is always on top of my reading list. Joel Rosenberg is one of my favorite current authors. He is a former CIA analyst who specialized in the middle east. His novels are based on bible prophesy and his knowledge of that area. Several things he has written about in his novels have come to pass though he does not pretend to be a prophet. Start with "The Last Jihad" if you are interested. Very fast paced. "Lights Out" by David Crawford is an urban survival tale. A very good read. "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" and "Starship Troopers" by Robert Heinlein are two of my favorite all time scifi books. I plan to read "Killing Lincoln" soon. An older book on the assasination was "The Lincoln Conspiracy." It's amazing what they don't teach you in school about this sad part of our history.

Guys, I ran across this on another forum and felt like it should be cross posted here. This is a website with pictures of Mercury concept vehicles for the 40s through 2006. Winged Messenger Concept Cars I especially liked the 65 Comet with the Baracuda-like fastback rear. Enjoy!

Have you looked at RepRap? RepRap 2 Mendel

Great work, Harry! I like all of them.Your Mustang wagon looks better to me than the concept Ford supposedly built:

The basic design is the same in this engine family but there are lots of visual differences in the exteriors due to the different natures of their usage. The car versions had smaller air cleaner housings, different belt systems, etc, while the truck versions had governors, different exhaust manifolds, larger crankshaft snouts, etc. The car version would be a good start but would require a lot of fabrication to make it look like a true truck engine, if that is what you are asking.

I ran across this thread on HAMB the other day and though it might be a good resource for some weathering ideas. These pics are from a car collection in Texas and goes all the way from a light patina to rusted hulks. Many different cars mostly from the 40's through the 60's. Enjoy! Dave J

It doesn't sound like your boss is really open to suggestions but maybe you could offer him a compromise that he had not thought of. You could offer to take a cut to stay on as a welder in your current shift. I can't say how this might affect your UB in your state but offering a reasonable compromise and being turned down might help with benefits. But offering to stay on as a welder with a $2 cut might be enough to bump someone else and gain you time to find another job. That's one of the benefits on working the evening shift. You can apply for other jobs during the day while still working. Good luck and God bless, Dave J

I think this is the link you meant to post: H.A.M.B

Hey Everybody! Just install the intake backwards with the distributor in the front. Reshape the valve covers a little if you feel really energetic and you've turned that Chevy into a Ford! Most people would never know the difference anyway.

A Henry J isn't a Ford. It's named after Henry J Kaiser. Wikipedia Henry J Kaiser

Shelby sued F5 over the Cobra body shape and the use of the Cobra name. Now he is doing the same over the Daytona Coupe and is also sueing their independant user site ffcobra.com. He got very little off the first suit except for them dropping the Cobra name from their replica. He stole the body shape of the Cobra from several European sports cars.

I had the same problem at the Muscle Car museum in Pigeon Forge, TN. I think it was the glare from the indoor lighting reflecting off the cars. There were just too many bright spots for my little Canon. It seemed to do better when I turned off the flash.