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Have some ideas for using the boatload of aluminum tubing I just bought from Mega Hobby. What is the correct method for bending this tubing without kinking?

Just purchased a large amount of aluminum tubing in various diameters. Have a number of ideas on it's usage and some will require bending. What advice is there on forming bends without kinking the tubing? Thanks for the help!!

The only model I have an objection to in 1/24 is the Revell/Monogram 1970 Boss Mustang. The features appear "blunted" and the body itself just doesn't "cut it". I see a lot of Dyno Don and Bob Glidden '70 Mustang Pro Stock renditions based on this 1/24th body. It just doesn't portray the real car lines of the actual cars. I am in the process of using an AMT 1970 Mustang body(1/25) from their Funny Car kit as it has better lines with a "sharper" profile. It is part of the stuff I've accumulated to make a "Dyno Don" tribute car.

Norman, try E-Bay for any used and like new kits. I have found a cornucopia of old(er) and unavailable kits in BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH good, if not perfect condition. I picked up the Jo-Han Mustang Funny Car kit(M/T 71 Mustang) open but for less than the new model prices and it was 100%. Another was a Revell Kenny Berstein Tempo Funny (85%, nothing I can't fix) PLUS a Prudomme Firebird funny body with interior tin and glass. Had to quit after a few weeks as I was buying out of control. Give E-Bay a shot.

THIS JUST IN! I was mindlessly surfing Google when the Charger III funny car drifted into my thinking. Guess what I found??? A company called Speed City Resins has the BODY ONE PIECE AND WHEELBASE CORRECT! AND......they supply the lengthened chassis frame rails to match the body's wheelbase PLUS tin work, "laydown" roll bar, all body pieces and interior pan. Alas, no windshield, a real challenge to make one, but anything else needed can come from any of the Polar Lights 60's style funny car kits. It's $42.00 and well worth it. PLUS I ordered it last Friday and got it yesterday(Monday). Now THAT'S service! Check them out!

Gerald, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!! I have been looking for kits that I remembered had unique parts that I need for projects still to be started. Then I remembered your Charger III find on E-Bay so I thought I'd give it a shot. WOW! I found a JoHan M/T Mustang F/C model that has THE perfect chassis configuration for my Beach City Corvette F/C dream project PLUS a bunch of dirt cheap kits that I couldn't walk away from. My wife will shoot me when she sees all these come in the mail, but I'm simply a model junky and have been for 50+ years. Thanks again for the idea.

Bill, I am humbled. Knockout paint and graphics and underpinnings. Detail is awesome! I hope I can come an iota close with my twin turboed version of same kit but I doubt it

I picked up the MPC Pepsi Chevy Laguna NASCAR kit. Gonna turn it into a Street Outlaw beast. These bodies are just too rare and cool to let go by. Think I'll buy several more. Remember, styrene started all this craziness.

YEP!

Very, very well done! Love the carbon fiber look on the blower hat and valve covers, how? Got the same kit only called Match Racer and am in the process of turning it into a twin turboed BBC monster. Actually I bought 2 of them so I had a chassis to put in a 2010 Mustang Pro Stock(pre-scoopless).

Absolutely beautiful! Love the use of the CR round opening Pro Scoop.

I understand your situation totally Tim. I've got 7 model cars I have built to gift my best friends from work. I had intended to give them to them last December but got behind. The weather in Iowa has been way too humid to spray paint outside and i have till next Saturday(8/13) for the ideal window to present them to my buds. Each represents a street machine they own or one of the cars from "Street Outlaws" that fit their personalities. My way of a retirement present to them to say "Thank You" for all their years of friendship. When I finish them, I will post pix.

I've been looking at this kit as the raw material for my "ideal" Pro Stock/Mod car. With the NHRA"s silly new "scoopless" rules, I think I'll aim for the more attractive Pro Mod class. Thank you for giving me a look at the kit in made form.

Yuri, my friend, you have hit the proverbial modeler's home run! This 67 is beyond beautiful, it is exquisite. I remember them new as a kid in Iowa and how a car so cool looking could sound so evil. You have done them a great justice. Well done sir!

Thank you Ismail for this beautiful rendition of one of my top 5 favorite cars of all time! Sat in in one back in '72 at our local Lincoln-Mercury dealer. Just a wide eyed 16 year old fascinated with a 351C powered Italian torpedo( he actually let me sit in it for half an hour; really tight around the driver's feet due to the tucked in front tires.). What kit is this as I would love to HotRod this beast(Blown BOSS 429 for power)?

Thank you Henry, I was really getting Jonesy to build the Chevelle as I owned a street/strip '69 SS 396 from '77-79 and love the '69 Chevelle body.

I know I saw, at one time in the not to distant past, resin renditions of the 68/ 69 Chevelle body ala Pro Mod and a 74(?) Laguna front El Camino Pro Mod body. Am I slipping into senility or did they exist? And can they still be found? Thanks for any help.

Great job Norbert! You are the ONLY one on this site that did the engine placement/hood properly. All Mustang II's had a a hood that went full length to the base of the windshield. In Pro Stock the furthest front spark plug had to line up with the center of the front spindle. This meant in cars like the Mustang II and Pinto the Cleveland V-8 was shoved up against the firewall making the stock dimensioned hood a liability due to it ending at the cowl. They all had a one piece hood that eliminated the gap. I pieced my first Mustang II Pro Stock model hood together in 1975 and dropped a JoHan Cammer in for the motor, plus set back the front bumper into the body like Gapp & Roush did.

Man!! I REALLY like where your head's at! This beautifully conceived and looks to be an eye popper when complete. You have nailed the concept of soul inspiration to creation. Oh, and drag racing and Bonneville are 2 sides of the same coin. One birthed the other and inspires both. Well done sir!

Simply OUTSTANDING Gerald! You are right, the roll cage assembly was basically a "laydown" position, a low bow with 2 forward lateral supports(would NEVER make it past tech today). And yes, an all red Hemi. I still have the body from my Flying Dutchman Charger III model of decades past plus the original engine with the "Hemi 428" valve covers. Yes! It DOES say 428, believe it or not. They sit in my wooden model chest(top section, of course) waiting for me to get motivated to fab up the remainder parts needed.

Didn't Clayton Harris pioneer using a deeply offset rear wheel for dragsters that "tucked" the rear end into the wheel and the chassis "squeezed" down there to fit? I thought Garlits looked at the set up seriously.

Excellent idea Kyle! The Monte was very popular in IHRA Pro Stock and Top Sportsman classes. You might have to lengthen the space from the front edge of the door to the wheel well's edge to get a "true" look of the drag car. It's cool that you're doing this. Right now, I'm building a 1972 Gran Torino Pro Mod using a Torino body from a NASCAR based kit I bought 44 years ago. I wasn't much for the NASCAR racing then, but I LOVED the Gran Torino body. Using the BOSS engine and chassis from the Bob Glidden 79 Thunderbird Pro Stock kit with a 14-71 blower and tall injector hat from Ted's. It will emulate the car from Clint Eastwood's movie and, Sorry Walt, it will have a large wing hanging out the back.

OK gents let's settle this. The Polar Lights kit(I'm going from experience with the 2 Blue Max kits I bought for parts and projects) make a great 1970 Mustang funny car body to use. The '69 front end is BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH, so I grafted the lower '70 spoiler/pan to the '69 grill to make a presentable 1969 body. The CR M/T 69 Mach One body is PERFECT if you want to duplicate the original M/T car(which I am.). I am finishing up the PL 1970 Mustang body with an old JoHan M/T Pinto chassis I have had since it first came out. The PL tin is period but junky, so I am using the modified tin work from the Pinto to fit in the Mustang body. It also uses an aluminum BOSS 429 motor so it can be a REAL funny car, not a "Wacky Racer". Just have to decide on what color to paint body so it can be finished.

I know NOTHING, NOTHING(Schultz!!) about it other than I want it now and on my workbench! What a jaw dropping beast!

Kerry, this really looks to be a fantastic rendition. Too many people have overlooked the Monza as a great starting place as either a road racer or drag model. I have recently unearthed the same orange Monza in my collection of gone-by-days models that I put aside 18+ years ago. I was trying to build a street version with IMSA flavor to it. It's ready to be finished with a coat of gloss black paint(color of my 78 Olds Starfire Firenza). Will post it's pix when finished. Great luck with your project, can't wait to see it.