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  1. Joe Handley
    Just got off the phone wit Cricut not that long ago, they are replacing the Maker Dad and I bought my Sister for Mother’s Day almost 2 years ago with a refurbished machine! They don’t want the old one back and are going to digitally “kill it” so it can’t be used any more, but at least it’s got a bunch of good, usable, physical parts that can be swapped over if need be.
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    I just started a thread in the Truck and Van WIP section.
  3. Joe Handley
    Well, I figured I better move this here from the kit review section……. Well, I grabbed one of the Revell ‘34 Ford snappers for the “drivetrain”, suspension, and frame crossmembers, my Dremel and went to town after work! Here’s what the chassis pieces look apart and stacked “under” the body. AAAAAAAnd here’s what happened after I went nuts with the Dremel………. It worked out pretty good in my opinion and while I have more work to do to tweak the fit before I start bonding the two together, I am happy with how it’s worked out. I do want to narrow the rear axle a bit and figure out how to adapt the 34’s kit axle and hairpins without the transverse leaf on it as well as narrow up the track a bit there too. Here’s a crop of just the Panel from top pic with the “as it sits” pics! Gotta admit, I’m happy with what an hour’s worth of crazed Dremeling resulted in!
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    Well, the separate chassis center area for that Revell '34 Ford Snapper appear to be adaptable to the Willys chassis! I'll get pics after work or tomorrow.
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    I grabbed one of the Revell '34 Ford snap kits I had laying around and even an AMT/ERTL '34 Ford glue kit with IFS to will try and use that for some of what I want to do. The Willys chassis appears to be serviceable, if I want to leave it a curb side, but I may need to rework the parts to see what will work.
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    I'll be honest, I dig the box art.........The kit itself however would have to be frustrating to just get to this point for a kid, took some sanding and reaming with an X-Acto to get some of the parts to go together.
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    I got this kit for Christmas, it’s not the greatest when compared to the more modern Revell snappers, but an interesting subject. I kinda want make it a shop truck, but not sure what might work best for a starting point.
  8. Joe Handley
    Just picked this up from my kid Sister today, Dad and I gave this to her for Mother’s Day 2020 and she started having issues with the roller on the right side and bought the next Gen on sale with the money she got for Christmas since they had a fantastic sale on it. I’m going to see what it might take to fix the roller problem and use it for my models and R/Cs! Sounds like a known issue and Cricut has been dealing with the problem, so J’ll probably contact them first.
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    Merry Christmas!
  10. Joe Handley
    I don't ever remember a Bigfoot truck of that era from AMT, just the '79 Bigfoot kit. Did they update the body of the kit and just never release the street version from that era?
  11. Joe Handley
    I've never bought that one, to be honest, it's been out for some time now, think it dates back to before the RC2 days, IIRC.
  12. Joe Handley
    Hope that 356 has a really good heater in it!
  13. Joe Handley
    Can't look right now, but there is a guy on YouTube doing this swap with a Corvair and he's already built a Beetle with a Subaru WRX engine and transaxle that is north of 500hp and sketchy looking under power.
  14. Joe Handley
    Sadly, no, it’s still in the shipping box from WalMart that I received it in. I’m just now sitting next to it since I’m working from home out of the room I had put it in.
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    Not to mention that the LS-A that was swapped in there is making more power off idle and ramps up as the revs increase where the Subi motor really wasn’t making power until 4K or higher. I did find it interesting that the CTS-V-2 engine and trans were only .5” longer than the flat 4 and STI 6 speed were.
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    But not as reliable, that’s where the problem was.
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    I kinda want to see what happens with the Lucid Air cars now that they’re rolling out to their customers. The guy who runs them was a Tesla engineer that got fed up with Musk, left, then started his own company. He’s getting similar numbers with smaller, more efficient drive units and what sounds like better batteries (higher C-Rating, which is a good thing). If their drive units are smaller and more efficient with comparable power and the batteries are a higher C-Rating, that could be better for smaller cars getting converted.
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    Funny, I ran across a video from a Brian Johnson (of AC/DC fame) with Nick Mason and this car. Mason even took Johnson for a ride in the car too!
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    Like Venom said, it's all gravity, though I think there might be some pinewood derby like weighting being done with most of the KOTM cars.
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    Got anybody curious, this appears to be a scene from the Amazon version with 2 other cast members. From what I could find, he was a closer physical match for the character, but I think he may have added some additional mass for the roll.
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    Yeah, From what I’ve seen, he was closer to the right build to start and he may have hit the gym to get even closer to the correct build.
  22. Joe Handley
    I’ve been watching this too, having watched the build with them and Andrew Comrie-Picard on Car Saviors, I want to see how this finishes. Not sure how many Hert will be in going forward though, his Mom is hospitalized on the east coast after a brain aneurysm hit her. She’s awake and capable of using a phone to take a pic of him with the Thanksgiving dinner he snuck in for her, too.
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    I think the Monogram Fiero does too, though unlike the FWD GP and GPX (the turbocharged one), it’s a 1/24 kit.
  24. Joe Handley
    That has the 4.3l in it from the original Syclone release, which had a turbocharged version of the 4.3l. There have been a few FWD kits that had various versions of the 2.8l and 3.1 pushrod engines. Short of late 60’s-early 70’s Jeeps and Buick GN kits, but I’m not sure if those have much in common with the FWD 3800s if that’s what you need.
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    They’re 4 videos in on that build, here’s the 1st, 2nd, and 4th. I even remember that original Rolls drift build from years ago on TV that is the jumping off point in the 1st video! I looked on YouTube, but there doesn’t appear to be any footage from that show on there.
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