89AKurt

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Thanks for the additional information everyone! This is typical for me, I get a wild hair to get something, then a short time later a screaming deal. Found the 1996 edition at the Phoenix model swap, minus instructions and decals, for $12. Body of '64 vintage is dark red plastic, '96 re-pop is lighter red. The '96 has the slot car mounting points removed, so there are no sink marks, but trademark date is still '64. '96 does not have the slot wire wheel inserts, and no skull. Tires are different: '64 are Goodyear and look accurate, '96 are Goodyear but are wider (2944-2300 200/300). '96 box is bigger. I also got a Revell 360 Modena Spider. I've not been a fan of that design, so figured it's okay to destroy that to kit-bash with the old timer, to make a resto-rod. It will take lots of Dremel grinding. Big difference in width, wheelbase is about 2mm difference. I can see blending the lower rear valance of the 360 into the 275, using two 360 taillights. Think the wheels will look good. Interior will be the most challenging, might go with the old school look, with LHD. If anyone wants to do this, it won't hurt my feelings.

exponentially intertwined pursuant

I built that when it was new! It's in my junkyard.

Oh man, you have now become corrupted, no hope for you if you try building those!

leave of absence

Love the subjects, and of course well done.

Very cool, with a turbo Subaru engine! Pirelli tires, haven't seen that tread pattern on a model before, for some reason always liked those tires, then their P7 took over.

I'm chugging up this long steep hill, and see headlights approaching fast.

past seven years

If I get on the ball, will have my new Coco-Cola cooler available. Members of the model club up here, will have a table.

Welcome back, it's a different world 30 years later.

at Hoover Dam

"Kerb" weight, what are they, British blokes? Yea that's pretty awesome looking. Couldn't the exhausts be wrapped with asbestos tape, or Jet Hot?

SWEET! Nice shade of blue, like the red accents. If I may suggest, the reflectors can be done by cutting out tiny rectangles from Farmers Insurance bumper stickers, and they actually reflect (can barely see one in the picture of my kit bashed Slantnose). That kit has the engine?

hour shifts with plastic Moderator note: misterNNL used only two words, so I made up for it by posting four words. ~neener neener~

made from resin

LOL The boots are back there, over the engine, to keep them warm. I couldn't wait to see how the last pieces look after getting painted. I could keep going with smaller items, but this looks good enough. Last tiny detail was melted snow on the floor mats.

will be fooled

I'm at the stage, of messing with parts that I wasn't happy with, which introduces a Murphy's Law that it has the *exponential probability* that it will get more messed up. And I keep coming up with more cargo items, I had a list, but it gets longer instead of shorter. I'm having a problem with the engine lid, caused by opening up the grill slots, I lost the tabs that keep it from falling off (I knew something needed to be done when I removed them). This is a part I needed to design and execute, with no idea *if* it will work. The problem is, the body/chassis has to be glued together, then I need to glue this on with the lid open, and hope (fingers crossed) it closes. I see the slop in operation, had to Dremel grind a recess under the interior panel so it sits up, good thing I have the paper inside; the wire *should* hold it up when closed. I bent the wire so it *should* hold in the open position. This *could* ruin the whole project. On to easy stuff, making the cardboard box. I figured some items were carried in something, fills up the space easily. No measuring, just eyeballed the size, cut a wood block, then cut out some paper bag and folded. I made a couple of random bags from Milliput when I did the boots, one fit nicely in the trunk, so a little shaping to fit on the floor, added a few links of chain to hint at the purpose. Made some generic looking fruit from Milliput to put in the grocery sack, trick was to not leave fingerprints in the clay, along with a generic little bag and box. Needed to rework the lid handle with a longer wire pin, that *should* help keep it in the closed position. Coats, not the puffy down kind that were invented after 1960, but they look like jackets, my mom knitted sweaters so that is a factor I considered. Kleenex cut to a rough pattern, soaked in diluted wood glue, set on aluminum foil over the cargo. I also made a blanket out of a paper napkin that had some texture (not photographed).

Nice, a subject I have not seen built. Wish Honda or someone built AWD cars nowadays, not into crossover SUVs. I like the subtle weathering and paint overspray.

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