Joe Handley

Dad bought himself a new TV for the kitchen a couple weeks ago, set the new TV up on Saturday then I used the old one to update my work desk in the office. Not working from home any more, but still use it for models and R/C projects and this will give me more room for bigger projects like my Traxxas E-Revo that I need to finish dismantling and start refurbishing, plus has more room for my stretched HPI Wheely King and if I ever get going on my MPC 1/16 kits! Before, while still on WFH too. After After, but with said stretched Wheely King now on the desk! Think I need to bring that Tamiya Wild Willy 4x4 from the desk top as well as the portal equipped Tamiya MF-01x Chassis Suzuki Jimny I have for the Lock Screen up and take desk pictures with their images on the screen too!

If they actually had any….?

It is funny how many of them are zipping around almost like they’re in a hot hatch……actually, a hot hatch Prius could make an interesting build in any scale!

I wouldn’t be surprised if the dealerships or service centers and their techs just aren’t ready for open pack surgeries yet. They’ll probably need to get more guys trained for the EVs in general just to remove and replace entire packs and since these are under warranty under those circumstances, they may treat it like a blown engine and want them back to see what happened. Possibility they would take those to determine if the rest of the pack is ok then replace what is shot with matched good cells then put them in inventory as factory reman at a lower price. Having remans like that should reduce cost to replace a pack that went bad through use, age, collision, ect then those that just don’t have the life left for vehicular use can be put into service where a battery backup in conjunction with or in place of a generator for use during power outages.

It looks light years better than it’s predecessors, I just doubt I could get into it since I tend to get in rear first.

Wow, I’m impress that you were able to save the real car, that looks worse that a lot of the vehicles we’ve had to scrap due to rust…..combined!

Gotta a whole string of ‘58 Fury’s, 2 Chrysler Concords, and a ZJ Grand Cherokee on the table at the club meeting last night.

I would think that if you out in the window and there was no UV film on it, then it would.

Hmmmmm, I may have a use for them, thanks for posting this!

Haven’t been in the home office since going back to the office for work on Tuesday, so I went over what was needed on the glue kit Fury’s body and gave it ready for another layer or so of primer, wince the weather is good enough.

It's been too long since I looked at the roadster kit, but it should have a 3rd brake light since those were on all cars and starting to appear on light duty trucks by then. If I remember correctly, the rear window ons the roadsters were removable and separate from the top and door curtains that the early Viper RT/10 roadsters had.

I you're talking about the roadster, no, I don't remember that it did, though if it is the GTS Coupe, it should have the rear window with the brake light detail molded in, IIRC.

Laid down more primer, kinda crappy weather for it, but at least I know where I have to do more body work on these cars once the primer is dry.

Wow, all in the last 48 hours?!

Here’s a few pics of the glue kit Fury from after I brought it inside. It looks pretty good so far, but there were a few areas that I just couldn’t tell for sure that is usually more obvious when primer gets put down, or at least for me, even when primer grey styrene is used, much like AMT/ERTL used to do. The tops of the fins were an area of concern since I was using the Bondic resin as a filler along the edges of what should normally be Chrome trim caps to blend those into the fin tips. Those are areas where the primer over the surface or a foundation plastic color that is a better contrast against the clear resin does a better job of showing what I still needed to do vs white styrene as well as just sanding chrome trim off the sides.

Got portions of the glue kit in primer today if the weather holds out, I’ll be able to get the snapper Fury’s and Concords in primer too. No pics, but those are mounted up on posts and ready to spray.

Had to add some mini tubs since the tires are just that tall. got them mocked up for now, will try and finish them after dinner.

This has to be one of my favorite videos on YouTube in relation to this matter. I also used a the RSR story to help set up a 1/10 scale RWD and rear motor Traxxas Bandit that I built a couple years back to race against a buddy’s 1/8 scale, AWD and mid motorLosi 8ight E, but that’s more of a “run whatcha brung” than an actual racing class. Should be interesting to see how the two pair up once we actually get to run each other.

I already want to get an E-Tron, despite not being an Audi person, but am already looking forward to the C8 and DB5 kits!

Yeah, you just need to sand/file/cut down the posts on the wheel backs to make those fit in the fenders, that’s just an ancient kit at this point in it’s life.

Even if it’s only going to be a curbside like the AMT Slammerz series, that would look great if you were to finish it!

I know those wheels are kind of a favorite among the drifters, but they just look so right on a lot of US cars too!

I think I’m going to imbed a length of the brass rod I use for axles on the Pegasus wheels into the wheels with either plastic stock and/or Bondic then drill out the spindles and axle ends and CA the brass into them during final assembly.

It’s funny you say that, I was thinking the same for this one, only with brass instead of copper!

That is one of many Chargers built by Hollywood that inspired this build, though the below one more so in particular, which was done to chase thieves in Jeep CJ-5S that would go places that none of the 2wd cars on the show could go. As well as a ‘62 Plymouth Fury Dad had, which had been his first new car as well as been modified and raced on the street and tracks, but retired from that life when Dad went to work for the railroad. What Dad did was add air shocks to the back (which I think the above GL had as well, story line wise), cranked the torsion bars to lift the front, used Dodge Truck wheels and taller tires all around with wider rear tire, all to compliment the SureGrip equipped 8 3/4” rear axle. There were few places he’s said that Plymouth wouldn’t go along the railroad’s right or ways and outside of Jeeps, few trucks could follow!