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tabsscale1

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  1. Nope not Johnson controls Exide technologies. Every battery we make is the same for everybody we supply to. I build the batteries themself and we don't know who they are getting built for and we used to make advance auto batteries. Yes because Johnson controls batteries are junk they just did a test on them and ours were far superior than Johnson Controls. We aremaking the Auto Zone batteries as of a couple years ago Had Nissan in this week and last week had ACDelco come in.Ford has come in recently as well. All of which are thinking of leaving Johnson Controls because of quality issues. We have more customers coming in this week ass well been working at the plant over 30 years and have not seen so many potential customers come to the plat as i have seen this year.
  2. I justthrow mine away tried 6 different colors and same results from every one. I would rather use Testors enamel paints before i buy another can of Tamiya paint!
  3. I can tell you one thing that was made For Walmart was built the same way as any otherand that was car batteries. I know this as we used to make the Walmart batteries and we built them the same as any other one. I have had stuf from Lowes that was just ###### and they were name brands and the same stuff from Walmart I still have. So that isn't true on all accounts.
  4. I don't know but thought they looked good in the one i did!
  5. I still have to finish mine may get to work on a model on Tuesday been busy around here
  6. There is a guide out the I think Bill Coulter doew it I had one years ago . I know I have read somewhere where he just had another published
  7. Trying to make some tuck and roll on mine. Going to use the pattern in the seats and added some in the package tray. the doors i cut out te panel and now setting up thetuck on them. will be doing the backs of the interior when i get the front done.
  8. this one is the new tooling as i have several of these
  9. I don't ever get any models for Christmas or my birthday wife thib\nks i have enough of the already. i did have over 2000 but have been selling them off for the last couple years.
  10. I have been using lacquer thinner in enamel paints for over 10 years. Always have had great reusults. I even decant Testors enamels and put lacquer thinner in it to spray through my airbrush.
  11. Nope never let it go that far something irratates me i either put it to the side or put it away and come back to it at later time
  12. And if you add your age this year and the year you were born you will come up with 111
  13. Have the body in primer now and working on the suspension
  14. Getting the body closer for paint. Decided to keep the drip rails.
  15. I useAmbroid Pro weld and Testors liquid cement in the black bottles. I have CA and epoxy but hardly ever use either of them. I tried Tenax a couple different time and just threw it away. Ambroid Just works so much better. I have Also got some of Plastruct liquid cement as well that work just as good as the Ambroid. Ambriod around here is hard to come by so when i do see itI buy 2 or 3 bottles of it.
  16. I have had one of these for overa year now and love it. Liked it so much that i have 2 of them. They were an exclusive to Hobby Lobby for a while
  17. I have found that wheb i want to post a picture on here the paste method doesn't work either. If you look at the top at the far right is a clipboard when you click on that then it will allow acces and put your image code from photobucket in your post.
  18. Here is the wheel and tire combo i decided to go with
  19. Here is a little more work done on the sides at the rear windows I use Ambroid pro weld and plastic to replace the plastic so this needs to set now. So while the glue sets here is what i did with the grill
  20. I just took the B Pillars out. Was going to do slanted ones but thought it would look better without them.
  21. Okay so I have ahd my kit for a couple weeks. So here is what I have done. THe back window was thwhere I started the first cuts. Then I cut both sides and cut out an 1/8 of inches out out all three pillars The next step is to get it all attched and flowing in the right direction Trying to use the stock rear window
  22. Will probably Buy A dozen of those 50 olds and 6 or so of the 57 Fords. Glad to see thar the 29 ford is being reissued that one is getting hard to find around here.
  23. Don't have to worry about my wallet with this stuff nothing excites me to buy any of them!!!
  24. In the last couple years in a couple categories in our contest ratrods and or suede cars have won the class they were in. One even won best in show . Our contest lets the contestants vote on the models so the contestants have to do the judging and that is the cars they pick . to me it is just as hard to do or harder to do a weathered and rusted one than to paint a shiny one.
  25. One thing about that 3.1 is if it is the water pump tyhey only cost about $30 for the pump. Look at the Timing chain cover as well as they will leak as well. The water pump is an easy fix can change mine out in 20 minutes. The timing chain cover on my 97 Olds Culass supreme started leaking at 220000 mile had to take the subframe loose and the oil pan off to change it. I took the oil pan off just because it had so many mile on it and wanted to make sure it didn't leak. was just checking O'reilly's and the water pump cost between $14 to $53 depending on what kind you get.
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