Lyle Willits

As always, I plan to take as many pictures as I can until my old back and knees give out. Then I'll sit outside the display room, which is always about 90 degrees, and bitch about getting old. I won't hear who or what won best of show or what next year's themes are. Then we'll go to dinner and I'll over eat. Then I'll brag about taking the wife back to the room and rock her world, when in fact, she'll probably help me get my legs out of the car and I'll be asleep in about 2 minutes. GOD! I LOVE GOING TO TOLEDO!

But you don't like me any less either. Smootch!

I can't take any credit for the design. The master was done by board member, ARIEL HERNANDEZ. The resin body had NO FLAWS whatsoever, and looked like Revell plastic. I just painted everything and glued it all together. Thanks to ALL for the very nice comments.

Well, it'll be in a box inside my Magnum. See, Gregg and Tom aren't the only ones who can play with resin wagons ! Carbon Copy Resin's '49 Merc wagon. I added a chrome strip from plastic (just to be different). Wheels and tires are from a Revell '32 Ford kit. The wide whites were painted with Polly Scale acrylic white. Paint is Tamiya gold with several coats of Duplicolor acrylic clear lacquer. Tailights are red glass beads frenched in. The doodads from Dudek are aluminum exhaust pipe tips. Again, just to be different, this is a '69 Olds 400 c.i. with the twin-snorkle air cleaner from the new Revell '69 Nova. Seeya in Dayton and Maumee.

Okay thanks. I got it. THIS is what I had - marcos.cruz@allegiancetelecom.com

CRUZ - whats up with your email. Did you change it? Emails to you keep bouncing back to me. Your email isn't working.

York Springs, Pa.

Yeah. It's mine, but the lighting under that pavillion was poor. I'll have it finished for Toledo. I told yooooooooose guys earlier, that you're not the only two building one.

The rest---->http://public.fotki.com/mamaprez/car-shows...rn-museum-of-m/

Terry Myers 1:1 dirt track car. More interesting stuff here: http://public.fotki.com/mamaprez/model-clu...-meeting-at-la/

This is just one beautiful model. You did an excellent job. Gee, I just may have to NOT street rod my next '32 Chrysler!

Hold on there, kimosabee,,,keemosabe,,,chemosawbee,,,,uh, the Lone Ranger's gay Indian friend,,,,,, WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THERE ARE ONLY 2 OF YOU BUILDING ONE OF THOSE???????

Nick, I have no idea. People seemed to have stopped putting their names with their models like we used to do. Now stop asking so many questions and go do your homework.

Cakes from Tim & Dawn Powers. Old photo albums showing our history with young people with dark hair,,,,,,or just hair! Old models. New models. Much more: http://public.fotki.com/mamaprez/model-clu...8/mama-meeting/

Great pics, Dave. Thanks

Wow. I mean,,,,,,,,,,WOW! Fantastic builds.

Back around 1999, I made these marketing study cars for the Franklin Mint when George Bojaciuk was the product development manager. A "marketing study" model is a one-off creation to be passed around for a couple of years to the auto makers and several other companies who hold license on products to get their approval to mass produce the model. In these cases I was given existing Franklin Mint cars and was asked to turn them into other cars that could be marketed, giving new life to the tools. The amazing thing to me was that I was paid a VERY handsome sum to build these and then about 2 years later I got them back to keep as my very own. Franklin Mint decided not to market any of these and shortly thereafter, drastically downsized and let about 300 emplyees go. I've been told these are worth approx. $2500 each to a serious diecast collector. If any of you happen to be SERIOUS diecast collectors, let's talk. Earhardt's rookie year car. The Bonnett and Earnhart cars were converted from the existing Petty car. Didn't take much to convert the Pete Hamilton car from the Petty car.

Your model is coming along great. Really nice engine work. The "problem" with replicating a B-M car is that almost all of the 1:1 cars were different. Rosen would modify your Chevy any way you wanted and was only limited to the money one wanted to spend. There was no cookie-cutter formula to building Novas, Chevelles, Camaros, etc. He put together certain pakages with varying prices and called them Phase I, II and III. But, as I understand it, you could mix and match many of the performance and visual items to your own liking. In addition, one could buy or mail order any Motion parts and do the work themselves. This was not an option with Yenko cars. The B-M hood you are using was referred to as a "Green Meanie" fiberglass hood. I never knew why that was - maybe the name of the company that made them or maybe because the unpainted raw fiberglass hood had a green tint to it. The other hood style was the L88. I don't know if it was mandatory or not, but every B-M car I have ever seen used the Crager "fly eye" air cleaner. Apparently the valve covers were optional - either stock chromed or ribbed with the MOTION emblem. Bottom line is, there is no ONE WAY to replicate a B-M car. Yours looks just great so far.

This model won the "Street Rod" trophy. Hmmmm. A tudor sedan with steelies, white walls and an Ardun engine. I could swear I've seen a similar model somewhere,,,,,,,,, LOTS of pics at the link: http://public.fotki.com/mamaprez/model_car...-showdown-2008/

Just foolin with you. But I HAVE been correcting people about that since I owned my '67 Camaro 40 years ago.

THE SHOW IS TOMORROW. BE THERE!!!!

THERE'S NO "E" IN CAMARO!

VERY nice build. I really like it. Love the colors. I'm honored that my model inspired yours.

M.A.M.A. will sponsor a trophy. Let me know who to contact, please.

Thanks for the great pics.