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Thanks, I will look for it. Nothing locally so far. I have a good selection of their stock as it is.

I built all of the ones in the OG form, probably around 1970. The Comet, Mustang, Falcon and the Time Machine 1965 Chevelle. I built another Chevy II around 1995 when I got back into modeling... man did it look like BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH. I should un-box it and give it a new life. Like the old MPC modified kits, they are a good start to a well detailed build. Like a blank canvas.

I have to grab one of these kits, nice work... very slick looking. I have to give 3D printing a try. I spend enough buying parts already made, but the $$ is not too bad. On small tubing and other stock. I use a load of K&S 1/32" and 3/64" brass wire. I pin almost everything these days, makes a good fit a lot easier. Also their 1/16" aluminum tubing and up from there. I have looked around for some 3/64" tubing, no luck. RB Motion has some on their site, tried to order some but it failed. I have to give them a call to see if they are still in business. I'm doing some hinges mow on a pro-street Chevelle trunk and somewhere got a package of Plastruct 1/8" square tube with a hole through it. I'd like to hunt around for more. This is the stuff you need to get their solvent glue for or use CA glue. On roll cages, I use almost exclusively Evergreen 3/32" tube. The hole takes a 3/64" piece of stock.

I need to get out more, SA was pretty good for a long time. They even had a forum, but I was done with forums for a very long time until recently.

The '31 Ford was a woodie, the box art had it posed like a surf wagon, in stock form with black wheels. I'll look for a shot of it. I'm going to see a collector later on, I'll see if he has one that isn't buried. Found one. I think the one I had was way older. https://www.modelroundup.com/product-p/rmx-7637.htm

I have to look for those kits, I have a snap Earnhardt Jr car I have started. The tires on those are extra nice.

I was about 10... got the Revell '31 Ford woodie... never finished it. It was hard to tell the parts from the chrome-tree. Other Revell gems of the era were the '56 Ford pickup, the '56 Chevy (green car on box top) and the '57 Nomad. I had always wanted to do the OG '55 Chevy (2 cars racing on the box top) based on the boxart alone.

Very nice, that was a great annual when they came out. VERY hard to come across now. I have a '62 Galaxie glue-bomb in the works, I have to take some pictures. I scored better bumpers at the NNL East this year. I was lucky it came apart without breaking anything like the glass and interior tub. I swear by those PE saw blades that Model Car Garage makes.

I hit the local bookstore 2x... no dice. They used to have the Scale Auto Contest Annual, is SA still in business, been a while for me. My local hobby shops are awful for anything but $40 car kits. Hobby Lobby has some scratch building stuff, but 40% off on kits at times. No car magazines at all anywhere, maybe some military stuff. One hobby shop is a few miles from me, I pick up glues and KS materials. And a hardware store 12 miles out has some KS and other materials. The other 2 "bigger" shops are 25 miles in opposite directions. One... zero model after market stuff. The other has about 1/100th of what I have and is mostly Pegasus wheels and tires.

I built one MANY moons ago, it was unusual then as it is now.

I am a '36 Ford junkie. I have likely every release from AMT from 1961 to the Dick Tracy version. I have a couple of Monogram issues boxed up. Like the AMT '40 Ford, the '49 Ford and Mercury, it is a timeless subject.

I saw Allison at Flemington with a #22 DIRT modified. I met him in the pits after the race, he signed one of the Flemington purple bumper stickers for me, I should have it still somewhere.

Exceptional all the way. I have an old Torino Cobra I tried to rescue last year, maybe the #43 is the way to go. I definitely want one of the ramp trucks.

That looks like the OG style issue from when I was a kid. Most of us gave up on them... the stuff was way too fiddly for a 10-year old to tackle. I knew only one kid that had the patience and skill to pull one off.

I had some made up ones from various hobby sources from places like Gofer. The body is 1/8" aluminum tube, the piece that goes into the engine is 1/16" aluminum tube. Well, the smaller tube has no support and I have found them bent in the packaging. I tried to fix one up yesterday, no good. Since I have tubing and a ton of wire-wrap wire, I gave it a go. Some here may know that aluminum tubing fits inside the next size up tubing. My solution was to use a short piece of 3/32" tube between the 2 sizes for support. Only a ring 1/16" tall was required. The body I increased from 1/8" high to between 9/64" to 5/32" so I could get enough CA glue to hold everything together. I can take pix of the next one I do if there is interest.

I ordered mine from a CA hobby shop.. $14 later I have it, my '49 Ford made it, from the NNL East.

I made up a dummy 6-cylinder block for my headers, I still have it around. Clamped that in a vise and went to town. I used aluminum tubing for the collector.

I have to look at how far I got with the cage, which is mostly painted, not sure if the top bars are in place, maybe on one side. I have the engine 100% built up and it looks good. I have the rest of the parts cleaned up, some primed, some not.

Nice job on the headers, very slick. I used the solder on a set of 6-cylinder headers I did on a Monte Carlo stock car.

Lately I have been pinning fiddly parts together with either brass rod or stainless steel pins from McMaster Carr. It does help a lot and these kits will surely need some help.

I haven't seen the Nomad in a while. I offered to swap my '59 Ford for it... he did think about it. It may have had the side glass painted, or it may have had Nomad wheel wells slapped on it. I have to dig up my spool of .062" solder, great for making headers. My brother did some for a '57 Chevy, he lucked into some dead-soft aluminum wire that was tossed out at work.

I have a few '65 Ford kits, great donors for many projects. I used the '65 Chassis under a '66 stock car a while ago. The 427 is hard to beat. I think I saw the green kit in a hobby shop, possibly it was a '66. I have to check evilBay too.

I might try making one up, thanks. The style I came up was used many moons ago and usually looks great when done. I may hang an oil cooler off the side like I have done with other builds. I'm still in the priming-sanding stage on most parts.

What a great resource, I just ran across it. Is RB Motion still in business? I tried to order something the other day, no success. I'll have to call him up. He used to be a vendor at the NNL East a while back. I use the metric system mostly. Since .040" = 1", the rest comes naturally to me.

I like it. Definitely a lot of work but worth it. The Buddy Nova pictured, I know the builder/owner. Buddy is a Bulldog that goes to cruise nights. He also has a '55 Nomad wagon sedan delivery.