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I like it a lot. Very nice work.

Oh man. I can't imagine the level of frustration you must be going through. Best of luck with the Falcon. I like it just as it is.

I'm speaking of cars with style, creativity and artistic flair. I'm sure most of you would argee the late 40's to the mid 60's were the pinnacle of automotive design, aesthetically speaking. Milage wasn't an issue so they could build pretty much whatever they thought up. Lots of chrome, big curvy glass, space age styling as it was imagined at the time. Two toned paint jobs and lots of trim. I was born in '68 so I saw those cars as they were on their 14th owner and headed to the junk yards by the time I was old enough to take notice. I've always hoped that maybe someday when an alternative fuel source/technology comes around where again milage isn't an issue, we might see a automotive design renaissance. I've been holding onto that hope for a long time. But the more I think about it, the more I doubt it will happen. Because I think the average car owner doesn't want it. There has been a culture shift. To most folks the car is the object that gets us from point A to point B. It's just a tool. It's not a statement or something precious. Heck, most folks don't even wash their cars anymore. When I was young we washed both cars every weekend, unless it was snowing. What do you think? Will we ever see their like again?

At this point I really don't care. This was the punishment I wanted, and I got it.

Studebakers. Any.

Yep. That's the ticket.

I, and I'm sure others here, would like to thank everyone with real 1:1 scale experience with this subject and sharing it wilth us. While my father loved cars and brought me up with an appreciation of them, he wan't much of a mechanic. So my automotive expertise stops right after oil changes, starter, alternator and shock absorber replacements on my cars back in the 80's and 90's. Easy, bolt on stuff. Everything else I know about cars I have learned through modeling, magazines and car shows, talking to people. When I build, I really strive for mechanical correctness, so to speak. I want the model to look as if it was real, to be capable of driving off. So my tires don't rub on fenders or wheel wells, my axles are (almost) never laying on the frame, engines always have motor mounts and aren't laying on the front suspension K member. I do a lot of Google research. The internet is a great tool. But when I need engineering advise on real hot rods, how it was done then or done now, you guys (and Bill especially) have always been there to keep me plumb. Thanks very much to all of you, that help us plastic hot rodders who love the genre, but have little espertise with the real stuff.

Perhaps, but I'll need a completely new idea. There's a swap meet next month. I'll see what I can come up with.

Revell '67 Charger. A fantastic kit of my very favorite muscle car.

A friend of mine passed recently. He built this originally. I received it after he passed and I wanted to do something to it so that we had both worked on it. I roughed it up some and added some weathering powders. I changed the wheels/tires and fabbed a new bug catcher from an old oil pan.

Finished this up. Check it out in Under Glass.

Welcome. looking forward to seeing your work.

Same here. Guys, I have too much other stuff that has my bench packed and I'm not overly inspired by my Cannonballer design. Like as not I'll not be competing this year.

I dig it. Fantastic work. Great design and execution.

Have we heard even a whisper from Round 2 that they would creating new kits? Right now they seem perfectly content on bringing back our long lost classics, even reverse engineering the missing custom parts like they did with the '53 pickup. With the combined molds from AMT, MPC, Lindberg, Hawk and Polar Lights, to pull from, expecting new tooling from them (that's not enhancing an existing kit) just isn't realistic. And that's not a complaint. I'm very happy with what they have been doing.

Neato!

Yep. It should work out nicely for the dominators too.

Gotcha. And boy does that semi-elliptical setup look squirrely.

Here's a semi-eliptical. This guy went the extra mile and added a panhard anyway. Seems like some shocks would be useful too.

That seems like a very cool option. Take out the stock spring perch add some channel with some rods running through it, and some lever arms outside the frame, and you can call it a torsion system all day long. And you can still mount the radiator above it. I like it.

You are correct sir. After further research of the page the pic came from that is the case. I've replaced that pic with another option.

I suspect, like a lot of you, I'm already planning my 30 Model A coupe build. One thing I'm planning on is to lower the front end (I do like a rake) and push the front axle out in front of the grill a bit. So lets talk about the ways that might be accomplished. And what would be better, more PERIOD correct. What I really want to know is how a serious hotrodder, who does quality work, (looking at you Bill) who wants to really drive the car and be safe would accomplish this modification. There's lot of options. As I'm just a plastic hot rodder, I just don't know which option(s) were conceived by a deranged man with a welder. Any help or insight would be appreciated. 1st. Keep the stock spring location, just move the spring mounting points backward. This is what I'm leaning towards. Assuming you are a competent welder it seems the safest. 2nd. Remove the frame horns and add a suicide perch. I like this also. It screams period hot rod. However the "suicide" moniker is not lost on me. 3rd. Quarter elipticals. I'm told this is a very unstable setup. It does look great though. 4th. Then there's this set up. Hmm.......

Wow. An original '66. The velocity stacks say this one had the clear hood also. Do you have it? I'd love to find this kit.

Yep. It depends on whats getting modified. Any mods require copious test fitting so whatevers getting changed get the attention first. Once the mods are done, then I can worry about the rest of the model. Those are done in no particular order with body paint being decided by weather.