Joe Handley

I’ve been running E85 in my 200 for 9 years now, from what I’ve seen over the years is an increase in stations, mostly Speedway and Thornton’s as in many cases there are contract clauses with big brands that franchises can not even consider selling more than 10% without losing the contract with the who ever has their name on the sign. Then there’s signs like this for both E85 and BioDiesel? I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if something like that would get posted on EV chargers if such companies are forced to put those in. Now I have heard of a gas station with repair facilities that was converted to a charging station when selling gas almost got to be an expense vs a profit item. They had a decent clientele of EV owners at the time, though they also had rather upset casual customers who were shocked to find out that they could no longer buy fuel there like they did “week before”, even though the station had been shut down for a while to convert let lone had not been selling gas for months at that point??

Well, this is irritating……… Went to lay down the color coat onto this Concord today and all 4 sides of the body shell and the front bumper are all COVERED in bubbles Any thoughts out there on if it’ll wet sand out or do I just need to pick up some Purple Power and a tub to dip it in?!

Got the Wild Willy 4x4 build closer to completion, just need to paint the Jerry Can and Willy (driver figure) himself and it will be done, initial build wise, there will be future mods for the chassis to come, but nothing bonkers.

Been experimenting with Bondic as a body filler last few nights. I’m liking it so far!

If it had the Superbird parts in it, I'd be all over a Road Runner reissue......or so!

Pegasus offers barrels with tires these might fit into, that’s something I’ve thought about.

Main complaint I have is that they’re too skinny ?‍♂️

Got this painted in the main color yesterday and in the matte clear today, here’s how it looked before the clear was put on, I still need to do some of the detail paint and bed lining on the bottom and inside of the tub, grill, and tail gate. Planning on pulling the rolling stock off and separating the wheels and tires then doing the matte clear over the chrome on the wheels before gluing the tires to them too. Not sure the best way to paint Willy’s face inside the helmet, so any tips would be appreciated! Quick edit, it’s even closer now ?

I ended up botching it bad enough that this kit is now for parts, I do however still have 2 Pepper Shaker kits on hand though and had a different thought along these lines!

I think they’ve bought those as a stop gap to replace the Gruman bodied S-Trucks that are aging out and/or burning down until the new, purpose built replacements are ready. I’ve read that they also replaced Mercedes badges with laser or water jet cut eagles head badges to try and disguise that these are Mercedes products from people that would automatically assume that the USPS was spending S-Class money on basic work vans when the saw the 3 pointed star emblem.........and not that a German manufacturer was building vehicles for the United States Post Office?

Thanks, while I'm not the biggest fan of older GM front drives, I really like this kit, for some odd reason and think it has potential for unusual customizing touches, I found a really nice green from Duplicolor that is a Chevy color and will be shared with this, the '63 Stingray, and '57 Chevy. Hopefully I'll get the time to shoot them and the body for my Wild Willy 4x4 R/C build this weekend!

Decided to try something weird with one of the decontented AMT ‘57 Chevy kits, started to customize it in the late 00’s and put it away. Pulled it out and started cutting after staring at it between calls towards the end of my workday.

Here’s that Impala police car model I posted elsewhere after trying yet another set of the ‘57 Chevy kit’s wheels on it. Got that in primer now too, body work is all but done too, just need paint for it!

Got a few of these, much like the ‘57 Chevy, here’s the latest one though just with the wheels from one of the 57’s before cleaning up the flash and priming it. Here it is, after the primer was laid down, found a nice Chevy color from Duplicolor’s that will get used on this and a couple other models. Hopefully I’ll have some decent time and weather this weekend to paint it once I get this primer wet sanded and seal primed.

Funny, with MT now having a channel on DirecTV, I was thinking about dropping the online subscription until I was that!

The Fury is in primer, have a little glazing work to do on the hood before it’s ready for color though.

Got the Street Machine ‘57 in primer, no clue what I’m going to paint it though.

Hit the body work on the Concorde done and it’s in just Duplicolor sandable primer. still needs a color then clear coats, custom exhaust tips, and better wheels, though.

Also tried the ‘57 kit wheels and tires on the Stingray that donated the Bubbletop’s wheels as well as the ‘05 Impala Cop Car. Think I’ll be using them on these builds instead, they’ll have their own threads though.

Got two of the 57’s together, the one with the Big and Littles and the Bubbletop, with the big inch 5 Spoke wheels of the ‘63 Stingray roadster kit, which seem to work on it.

Go with the vintage AMT kits, these use metal axles, they’re just a larger diameter on these.

Looks good, thanks!

My plan for the past 5 years is to break out a Dremel and try to sink the top into the body all the way around by the thickness of the hood and decklid, I just have yet to do so...................

It is amazing how right on those look for this kit, isn't it. I'm kinda wondering how the kit wheels from this would look on the '63 Stingray Roadster or the '05 Impala Cop Car kits now that I've bought a couple of those too as well as the from those two onto yet another one of these.....?

You got a point there