Joe Handley

I doubt it, but brake parts are close enough that they'll interchange pretty easily from what I hear.

Nice build, is that based off the low mileage resto car that came in something like 99.something% accurate at the carlise Mopar chow a few years back?

Yup, most likely, but I guess it didn't take much to swap the later 5 lug stuff over to the 4 lug equipped cars, and now it sounds like it doesn't take much more to swap the more recent 5 on 4.5" stuff Minivan stuff (much bigger, stronger, and increasingly more readily available than the stock stuff) on to the old K-Chassis cars from what I've read recently too Always like the way my old '85 Lebaron GTS turbo stopped stock, can't imagine how much better it could be if the 4 wheel disks from my folks '06 Town and Country found their way onto one of those cars

X2, maybe a scale inch or two, nothing drastic

Same here, should be real interesting I didn't think Chevy rings stayed in one piece that long?

Good looking build, never seen that kit before, I knew they made the standard Shelby Charger with teh 2.2/5sp combo in snap form but not this one. If you're talking about the kit, IIRC the '84 Daytona's had a 4x100mm bolt pattern and from '85 through '93 used a 5x100mm (or 5 on 4") bolt pattern.

New I was right on that! Now this is interesting, the presidient of the Batavia, IL based Terra Jeep Club found these when I posted the link to the pic Harry posted. http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2007/02...he-fc-jeep-van/

I'd black it out....with paint! Talked to a guy a few months back who did that on his V-6 car and got the vinyl sticker on fleebay and from what he told me it was a poor fit and he could see red paint around the fake filler cap where the sticker went around it. Depends on where you live out here I do like the ribbed idea, maybe if you spray the flat finish, do it in a mix of flat and satin to fake the ribbed panel look. Now that I look at it more, I'd even black out the parts orf the deck lid, bumper, and quarters that surround the tails, and I think the chrome tail light trim would help set that off. Just leave off that goofy looking third brake light trim, who ever thought that looks good needs a Jethro Gibbs headslap.

That right there makes me think it's a prototype scale model of some sort, the headlights and hubcaps just don't look right like they would on a 1/1 car, especially the lights on a normal FC.

Wow, that first Road Runner pic almost looked real with the slight fuzzieness to it!

I've all but stopped watching NA$CAR and never really had much intrest in F1, I kinda wish more road racing was on any channel other than Speed (don't get it here ) and did finally get a chance to watch a TORQ race (it replaced CORR and in now sponsored mainly by Traxxas RC and AMSOIL) for the first time and I have to admit I kinda dig that........................and no, it's not just because I'm a Traxxas nut

If I were doing a real truck like that, I'd go for the x-pipe hands down. If it were for a model, it would really depend on the style of build. Now if it were to my specs, see the first sentence.......otherwide I've go to a more prototypical style of what would look right for that kind of rig. If it's more, and please pardon the expression, "Redneckish" for your area or low buck, make it look like autoparts store flex pipe or a whole munch of tubing pieces running from the manifolds to the stacks or something along those lines.

X2, wold look interesting with a Track T nose leading the way too

That would look pretty cool in that Vega

To be honest, I love the Watanabe's too, did anybody ever make a version of the Quad 4 or teh EcoTec in styrene or resin?

This was posted on Jeep forum yesterday http://www.amgeneral.com/vehicles/hummer/ As well as this I'll be honest, that Hummer Scooter looks pretty sweet, but a Jeep Cherokee one would look cooler

To be honest, I kinda prefered Popular Hot Rodding's "G-Machine" builds over the "Pro-Touring" "look" that Hot Rod was pushing at one time. The G-Machines seemed to be more realisitic types of vehicles since they were the kind that could be driven to work, the grocery store, the race track, then go out and give the best the world has a run for it's money, then drive home. Where pro Touring were sometimes Pro-Streeters with huge rims, or as was previously eluded to, a wore out car with airbags and fancy paint.

Nope, hte military doesn't drive Hummers, they drive Humvees which are being made by AM General who is completely independant from GM.

I'm honestly not at all sure!

Seems some of them are just Pro Streeters with a stock type interior and huge low profiles tires and airbags to let them lay'em out on the lawn, other will have full on suspension and other related mods to let them corner and generally behave more like the racecar look they're going for. Personally if I were to build one, I'd go for the later, but I prefer cars that'll take a corner "at speed" than just look like they can.

Beautiful car, almost looked real outside!

Did the concept truck grill come with it too?

Never even noticed that on the kit, I didn't realise the real car had that rounded shape to the back window!

I normally prefer electric, no tuning hassles, better top speed and acceleration, plus they aren't as messy to wrench on. Then if you're crawling, you actually have torque when you need it, not when the powerplant gets around to it and the clutch opens up;)

Either that, or the door handles, looks like you can see daylight in the middle of the handle's shadow plus it's pretty thin in profile compared to the Revell kit's handles. So what's the answer Harry, it's technically Friday (12:49am as I type this;))