junkyardjeff

Picked up a partial 60s Monogram 34 Ford and then got the 90s chopped top coupe for the chassis and other parts but since I have two frames going to make the coupe body fenderless after I get the parts to finish the other chassis.

There are a 41 Chevy p/u,37 Ford,56 Ford gasser,70 F100 and 51 Chevy projects being built. I need to have plenty to do while waiting on paint and glue to dry.

Only about a year and a half in the making,paint messed up two times and almost got thrown in the trash and was only soaking for about a year but its done. I used 40 bumpers and the Pontiac motor

The people who can not handle driving in the snow but are out making it worse for everyone else who can.

The regular Y block exhaust manifolds hit the firewall and since no one makes the big truck Y block rams horn manifolds I had to use them from a sbc.

Its starting to look like something now,actually the wheelbase is not too far off and those era of cars seemed to have the rears not centered. added some brush primer where I sanded through to the white.

I will make it work.

I did not do the weathering and hope to be able to match it.

Picked it up already started and only the body was done and will try to do the rest of it the same way but the rest of the parts might be different colors to make it look like a project,going to use the frame from a Revell 40 standard and a Y block

Should have looked it over more closely,it came with bigger rear wheel,opening since its a tubbed version and i was wanting a stock body. Looks like I will have to restore my body and build this one as it was made.

The one I built in 78 is a MPC and the one I am getting might be a slightly newer MPC version,I could not blow up the picture and hope the one I am getting has the stock bucket seats since mine had the race seats and who knows where the stock seats went. I was suprised that I still had the instructions.

Drug out a Mustang II that I built around 78,I must have started tubbing it in the 80s after the pro street craze hit and enlarged the rear wheel openings hoping to get some big slicks to fit. 30 years later I want to build it as a stock Mustang since I picked up a V6 motor and those rear wheel opening are just not right,well I find a unused body and some extra parts on Ebay and including shipping I will have spent almost 30 dollars to get a new body for this model that I doubt I payed 3 dollars for originally but now I might finish the tub job on the one body and build a race car out of it and have one that is close to stock too.

I am still not sure on what bumpers I want to put on it,I would like to put nerf bars on but do not like the ones in the kit and do not like the stock bumpers and 40s are too wide.

I have a extra 5 window top I probably will not use.

I thought I brush painted it but no brush marks so it must have been one of the first ones I used spray paint on.

Originally built it around the spring of 74 or possibly 73,put a new chassis under it along with a new motor plus stock rims. Motor is the 390 from the 34 p/u kit painted to look like a 1960 360 hp 352 and the exterior paint was decent so it was kept.

Its in color.

I now have a dehumidifier so I should see less problems,I can usually get some good results using automotive paint.

When I get it in my mind to work on one I want to work on it and do not want to wait so I go to the stores and find a color I like and get busy.

I would use more paint designed for models but sometimes I can not get to the hobby shop when they are open so I have to use what I can get.

I should run it but keep forgetting to plug it in when it gets damp but the enamel I am using does not seem to care if its a little damp.

I had issues with the cheap enamels years ago so I started using automotive paint but its just to finicky to use it in my basement,I found some Duplicolor acrylic enamel that was on sale at a local store that I really like but since it was on sale it looks like that store is probably not going to sell it any more. In my some times damp basement that paint went on without blushing like automotive paint does so I am going to see who else sells it and stock up on it if there is some decent colors.

Got a 90s kit on the way.

I would love to see all restored to their original version,I was too young to build them and not going to pay for what original kits go for.

I used that tow bar for a trailer for the doodle bug I built last year but I think it was the last one I had but will try to find one.