Joe Handley

I am surprised they decided to stuff a Powerglide in behind the engine with a LX chassis diff in place of the transaxle, I'd have tried fitting a C5-C7 transaxle in the stock location to try and maintain some semblance of the stock front/rear balance if it were me. Then again, I'd also consider sticking a modded Pentastar 3.6l in there with a built up OEM transaxle in one. At +/- 3000lbs with around 300hp at the wheels would be very entertaining without being as life threatening as the Hellcrate swap

http://www.thedrive.com/news/23865/this-hellcat-swapped-1999-plymouth-prowler-rights-a-historic-wrong

I'll have to get the new kit next to my old build up, but I think the plastics are different colors too than the original kit too. I want to say some of the military greys might be close on the color of the bumper plastics. Can't remember on the interior greys for the original kit OOB, the show car, or my build up there...... To quote my Father, "This gettin' old "stuff" is for the birds."

Picked this up for the wheels to put on my original issue AMT/ERTL Snap-Fast kit of the Concept Prowler, thought I'd post pics of the buildup as it currently sits and a pic of the kit out of the box and bags. To start with, here's the box and contents, minus the instructions. 20181006_194338-1 by bjoehandley, on Flickr 20181006_205507 by bjoehandley, on Flickr Now here's the old build of the original from probably more than 20 years ago by now, 20181002_224341 by bjoehandley, on Flickr 20181002_224327 by bjoehandley, on Flickr 20181002_224354 by bjoehandley, on Flickr

I don't mind the interior, think that red interior and silver paint go well together, same for that interior color with black, white, or red paint.......now those purple wheels and gold calipers, those just look stupid and kinda "StanceBro"-ish.

Picked one one of these to replace the missing wheel and tire on my original issue AMT/ERTL Snapfast kit and treat it as a "resto", even though that build is still in fantastic shape otherwise. 20181006_194338-1 by bjoehandley, on Flickr Going to these big and little Hellas on the new kit, maybe get rid of the bumpers and front fenders while I'm at it. 20181002_224307 by bjoehandley, on Flickr Until I dug my 20+ year old build out the other night, I forgot that this kit was the promo model of the concept car, not the production car like the full detail glue kit was!

These showed up today These will let me go from the factory single piston calipers and 11.57" (or thereabouts) rotors to the 2 piston Charger Pursuit Package calipers and 13.39" (also or thereabouts) rotors on the front of the car.

Look around on YouTube, they are out there and running single digit times. Some may use aftermarket transmissions, just like the RWD racers do, others beefed up stock manuals, alot of the Shelby-Dodge and SRT4 Neon guys are running the Torqueflight based 3 speed transaxles Chrysler brought out in the 70's and 80's for L and K body cars.

Oh, I'm quite familiar with the kit.....well, with the exception of where the right front tire is

Kinda reminds me of the Geneva, IL Michael's when I was there last weekend, they also got rid of all Testors' spray paints too.

Picked this up from Okie Spaulding today.

Lol, that's cheap, and at least you get to finish the assembly yourself compared to this. https://jalopnik.com/today-in-model-cars-that-cost-more-than-a-year-of-colle-1829390270

You know what those taillights remind me of?

I was skeptical on the first couple, but there are enough victims to fill a classroom. That kinda takes it beyond witchhunt and more into "where there's smoke, there's a raging inferno" territory for me. Hate to say it, kinda thinking that with the current situation with the SCOTUS nominee too.

Looks like somebody left Ford for GM, or left Pontiac for Edsel, the went back to Pontiac after it was found to be a flaming mess of a division..........

I like it, the stocker has that gaudy, overdone styling because we can't have horsepower, 70's look to.

this thread, this whole thread....................................

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The snap/promo Prolwer kit it isn't bad, don't believe it's worth the $29.99 that HobbyLobby has on it though. Now if it was the glue kit, without a doubt, but not this kit. I may eventually buy one there with the 40% off coupon, but decided to go with the Lindberg '61 Impala kit when I was there on Friday.

Picked up one of the Lindberg '61 Chevy yesterday at Hobby Lobby and some Tamiya Mica Blue and Pure White paint from Lombard Hobbies to eventually use on it......yes, kinda want to build a Dan Gurney BTCC Impala inspired car using the tires, and maybe wheels, in the Polyglas Gasser kit. Also bought a new sleed body for my Traxxas Stampede and aluminum Motorplate and pinion gears for my 4-Tec 2.0 from Leasure Hours Hobbies yesterday.

I have a difficult enough time with YouTube anyway, especially now that I have a SmarTV, stuff like this, the Smoking Tire One Takes, 1320 Video, the Cleetus Mcfarland, and The History Guy all make it worse !

The American Iron and Mixed Origin cars that show up on that course just astound me, late 50's Squarebird, Mid 50's Caddy V8 powered sports car, Nash Metropoliton. Then you have the usual Suspects, Falcons, Vettes, Mustangs, the occasional Camaro, and I can't leave out the Cobras!

One of my favorite YouTube Channels, Goodwood TV https://www.youtube.com/user/GoodwoodTV/videos And yes, there is a Studebaker Lark, Plymouth Barracuda, AND a Ford Galaxy ()all out there cutting it up with the Alfas and Cortinas