bobss396

I got working papers when I turned 14. It was through the school district office. Most of my jobs were cash and carry. I sold flowers by the side of the road for a neighbor. Mainly spring holidays, up through Mother's Day. I cut lawns, I had a garbage picked mower that I fixed up, towed behind my bike with 1 hand. It was a junkies mentality, get enough money for the next fix, aka another model. We did chores for a disabled vet my dad knew from the Masonic lodge. At 50 cents an hour... but at age 10, we were mixing concrete and doing painting. For BIG jobs, he wrote up a formal contract that I had to sign. I signed up to scrape the rust off his front porch railing and paint it for $3.

I like everything about it,well executed. I have 2 Southern Stocker cars in the works now. I'm using a similar cage approach with one. I rarely toss out any NASCAR kit cages. There are lots of pieces that can be used. Like going through the metals rack outside the garage when building real stock cars.

Message me your address when you get a chance. I don't want anything for them.

I was hanging out in L.A. between 1984 and 1986. I did some "canyon carving" in a Hertz Lincoln Town car on Mulholland. You can get those bad boys in a 4-wheel drift...

I fell asleep on the couch, hit the bed at 2:30 am.. tossed and turned and the cat wanted attention. It is fairly normal for my garage mounted motion lights to be tripped. It could be a raccoon, a moving tree branch or a car close to my driveway. It goes for a minute and turns off. This time. 3:40 am, it is accompanied by what looks like a large light source that lights up my bedroom. So I'm out of bed, looking out the window that faces the driveway. I see someone with a flashlight walking up the neighbor's driveway, into their backyard. I see the light moving around. I can't tell who this is, my view of a car in the street is blocked. Then the person gets into what is a county cop SUV. That moves down the block with the spot light going. Obviously they are looking for someone. We have an all night gas station at the end of the block, maybe 500 feet from me. I'll try to see if it was robbed.. again.

Quite cool. I may steal that front cage design from you. I like the MPC-ish stock car air cleaner.

Scale Auto did an article years back, I have seen it online too. It was maybe my 2nd NNL East, someone did a clinic and chopped one in all of 10 minutes. The body was marked up already.

Rally for sure with beauty rings and the little center cap. I was camping with my family in 1968 and someone at another site had the first Z28 I ever saw. It was blue with white stripes and the "302" badge on the front fenders.

I made a fuel pump...

My BBC from Jay's Resin Wheels showed up. I am impressed, nicely done and clean. I cut off the oil filter, it was in the way of something I was doing. The headers will clear the front crossmember. I need to add a fuel pump and starter. I make my own starters most of the time. I'm not sure on the front pulley system yet, looks a tad busy. I'll be using Ron Coon Resins M/T valve covers, VCG Resins Muncie and bellhousing.

I have one set. Also a set of wheels if you want them.

All stock car items, headers, wheels, hubs. The shocks are quite nice. Distributors that are crisp and clean, valve cover breathers and some Predator carbs. FAST service too, a great guy to deal with. Oh yeah, the HDR_16 headers look like they will work on the MPC modifieds.

I'm in. Looks like a great project.

That looks like a lot of fun. I'd like to get into a geezer class, none are local. I can pick up old Troyer Pinto modifieds for decent prices.

I likely have some. Let me know if you need them and I'll start digging.

That was at a very low altitude. The copter had no business being that close to commercial air traffic. From what I've seem on the news, ATC had contacted the helicopter twice and got no response.

Definitely eBay. I have seen them and have a set from 3D Scale, I'll take a picture later on.

Ace Hardware.. dig through their o-ring drawers.

The AMT '49 Ford has an OHV Caddy V8 that might be workable. But a lot of work if accuracy is desired.

Nice build, that was a great era for stock cars. I think the '64 Ford had a tub less the back seat. One issue had a decent cage, some fuel cans and a helmet. To eliminate back seats, I would partition them off using salvaged roofs and hoods. I need to see some '60's stock car under the hood pictures. I'd like to do a Mercury or '63 to '64 Ford.

I was about 10 when I learned about "hot" paints on bare plastic. Before 1997, I never heard about priming a model. That crinkled up body gave birth to a demo derby car. We really built models to smash up. We did them at recess at school in the gym... for a very short while until it got banned. I filled the front of my car (hidden of course) with plastic steel. My dad had a can in the garage.

Upper bushings are in.

I decided to make up some bushings to help locate the front strut rods and lower spindle mounts. I still have to do the upper spindle locations.

Possibly from VCG Resins. Most other 3D parts I find on eBay. I have to get back on this. I ran into am issue with the rear partition or firewall location. The kit headers are a horror show. I have a few sets on order from Ron Coon Resins.

This is high end insane! Great detail.