OneTrickPony

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.

Is it possible that Duplicolor has changed it's formula on one of the products you use? I know with changing EPA regulations that can happen. Maybe you just got a bad batch of something?

I'm from that era (born in'55) but I managed to get a head start from most of the guys my age when it comes to cars. My dad owned a wrecking yard and used car lot back then and I hung out there a bunch during the summers as far back as grade school. My first job was cleaning out the junkers as they came in. I would check all the ash trays and floor boards for change and got to keep whatever I found! Usually it wasn't much, less that a buck, but a few times I scored pretty good. Any soda bottles were mine, too, and I saved them up and returned them for the deposits. Most of this money ended up spent on (what else!) model cars. It's amazing how many cars had "racy" magazines hidden in the trunk or under the seats! Dad was into antique cars but not hotrods. He had a Model T roadster pickup that was restored, a Chrysler Airflow that was 100% original and a daily driver, and another car that I would bet few hear have ever heard of. In the back of the shop in about a million pieces was a 1919 Velie touring car. He would work on it occationally and the chassis and engine were complete and running and it could even be driven. That thing was HUGE! I got my first car when I was 15. It was a 1961 Thunderbird, pink with a black interior and black vinyl top. Dad told me if I could get it running I could have it. I worked on that thing for months and as my 16th birthday kept getting closer I figured out that if I wanted my own car I would have to do something else. One of his part time workers then was a college student who had two cars but wanted a bicycle. We worked out an even trade for my 3 speed English racer and his '56 Ford two door Ranch Wagon. I registered the car in my name (which was illegal but no body asked my age at the court house) and Dad was sure suprised when I drove it to work on my birthday. I was one of the last guys in my class to get my license so by then I was already cruising with friends regularly. In my home town (Beaumont, TX) the drag then was 11th street. We would cruise from the traffic circle at 11th and College to the Gaylynn shopping center and back. Every group had it's favorite hangout along the way. We usually hung out somewhere on the Gateway parking lot but it varied a bunch. Sometimes it was across from Burger Chef at the boat dealership or farther down near McDonald's. There were always lots of cops so if you wanted to street race you just headed on down 11th to where it merged onto Eastex freeway. The service road there was (and still is) a nice long straght concrete road from the end of 11th to Lucas. There weren't any businesses along there back then so an occational blast didn't draw a lot of attention. Saturday night during the summer and Sunday afternoons during the winter we were usually out at the Golden Triangle dragstrip. There were a bunch of us that had cars we raced occasionally but usually we just went to watch. Wednesday night was grudge races at the track so that was also a good night to go for street action. Grudge night was "run what you brung" so the tech inspections weren't very strict. You would see lots of kids out there running their parents cars down the track just for grins. Watching some kid's first run was always a real hoot to us "oldtimers." We always convieniently forgot how bad we screwed up our first times out. I eventually bought a '65 Mustang with a 289 and 3 speed. Lots of hop up parts later it would run in the low 12s which was pretty quick for a street car back then. Later after several engine swaps and putting a back half chassis under it I had it into the 10s but I had taken it off the street by then. After the car sat in my garage unraced a few years I finally converted it back toi a street car (just barely). It would still run in the low 11s but it wasn't much good for long trips with the 5:13 gears. I sold it in '93 after having it for 20 years. There were lots of other street cars in my garage over those twenty years. I've owned a 55 Buick, '71 and '75 Cameros, a '78 El Camino, a '66 Chevy step side pickup (that one was lots of fun with a 283, 4-speed, bucket seats, and sun roof), 2 different '69 Mustang fastbacks, an '84 Mustang GT and several others include a Pinto I swapped a 302 into. With a 150HP shot of NOS, that little car would boogie! I've kind of moved away from that scene as I have gotten a little older but I still go to as many drag races and car shows as I can. I keep threatening my wife that I have one more hotrod in me that's going to get built some day. I keep building models an collecting die casts to in part decide what that last hotrod is going to be.

2x4s, plummer's tape, and one mag wheel. That's awesome! And is that duct tape on the vent window? The only thing missing is the red rag for a gas cap. In my years of selling auto parts I ran across many 1 to 1s just like this. Thanks for making my day!

Thanks Ish. My family and I are in Rockwall, Texas, north of Dallas. We were going to ride out the storm in our home just north of Port Arthur but as the storm surge predictions got worse and worse we headed out and I'm glad we did. The electric grid is down in our area and the early estimates to get it back on is two weeks to a month! Hopefully we will get some help from FEMA for housing until they let us go back home. This hotel is going to get expensive!

I'm not sure if it's real or not but if it is I don't want to ride it! That ignition coil would be too close to my groin! ;-)

The tow bar is a really nice touch. It greatly adds to the period feel of the build. I like it.

Engine ID Game Anyone else played this? I managed 16 out of 18.

I love these dream cars from the 50's and 60's! I ran across a coffee table book with hundreds of pictures like this once and have kicked myself ever since for not buying it.

T/SA 13.52 95.48 10/30/06 Ed Fernandez - Old Bridge, NJ '77 AMC Atco, NJ That's the current T/SA record straight from here: NHRA Stock Eliminator Records so I would bet you're pretty close!

I like it! I have always liked the old Willys, I have a '33 in diecast that has some really nice detail.

Phill Bonner ran a series of Ford drag cars through the 60's called Daddy Warbucks. He has recently put up a new website with lots of photos arranged by year. It's kind of interesting to be able to see the changes as drag racing progressed through the 60's. His cars change from appearing like early NASCAR dirt track racers to tube chassied, fiberglass flip top funny cars over this period. Daddy Warbucks

Remarkable Corvettes Guys, I ran across this site today while doing some research and thought I would share it. This has to be one of the better collection of Corvette prototye and race version photos I can recall seeing. There are only a few pictures of each car but it's a great place to get some ideas. The years range from 1951 to 2003.

GM had rules in place when it came to developing technology. The division that spent the money got exclusive use of the technology for some period of time. Since Buick spend their development money on the turbo system, they didn't have to share it, at least for several years. By the time their exclusive use in GM had run out, they had fostered such a strong identification with its use that the other divisions shied away from it. Still, a turbo Monte Carlo would have been pretty cool.

Hello Everyone! I've been lurking around here for a couple of months without much to add to the conversations but I thought I would chime in here. Now Im not bragging on my age but my first model was a Wells Fargo stage coach complete with horses! I think I was either 6 or 7. It was in the early '60s. That got me interested and I've built mostly cars on and off ever since.