bill-e-boy

That's a charming AV8 PU Bil. Don't lurk in this corner of the woods very often and was looking through the other day - I am missing out on something I think The Boyd Tribute was a fun build that I participated in.

That's a mean looking truck Bil. Like it a lot

I just looked up the California Kid Express and I think you nailed it better than they did

What a cool build. It has the right bit of everything. Kool Kustom factor, striking paint, cool wheels and just superb looks. You must be very proud of it.

Small update Slowly coming together. Last nights effort was to glue the fenders on and polish up some 3/32" ally tube for zoomies. These are now installed. Tonight's effort is ignition wiring - firing order 1342 for bangers I glued the floor to the fenders and they need a bit of a squeeze On checking the body fit I had to grind some more off the firewall to clear the rear zoomie. The body lower half is now ready to be installed. I have kept the original fitment of separate lower and upper bodies as it is easier to assemble as there are some roll bars to go in there yet Just waiting for glue to dry. Thanks for looking

Thanks Sid I agree.

Don Take the sanding all the way up to 2000 -2400. Lacquer has a bad habit of throwing up sanding scratches. 1200 ok for primer but 2000-2400 before colour

Some of us never left🤪

Bit deaf! Nope. No squirrels down these ways. So no excuses

I think we had a few originals but most were "cab forward" where the rest of the pickup was hand made by a coach builder - there were quite a few around back then. But no Tazzy devils🤪 thankfully There certainly are a few original LHD PU's floating around these days

Don - as for most of the above the original primer was wrong for a hot paint like SMS - which is real nice paint. Also a word on SMS pearls - always a good idea to lay a metallic layer down before the pearl - makes it pop a we bit more. Silver is the most common (and the SMS silver is nice too), champagne gold or gold for something a wee bit more brash.

Looking good. I have a radical 34 part built in a box and have been thinking of resurrecting the build - this thread is pushing me I thought squirrels went into hibernation at this time of the year😬

Looking real good. The black wall slicks give it a more menacing look IMO. I think the white walls just made it look "pretty". Too pretty for, quote.

As part of research into getting the look right I came across this pix on the interweb after I had started this and it confirmed I was on the right track. Although this is most probably a resurrected survivor car with new running gear my model is about showing it off when all was pristine and new. I have yet to try a patina car - something to do in the future - maybe Getting on with assembly Another view of the chassis with the body Carbs ready to be fitted. Painted gold with sg black base plates. The electrical wire ferules have been polished with metal polish.Height is a bit extreme but wasn't everything back in the day. And collection of a bunch of small things ready to go together. I have removed the headlights and horn from the headlight bar - who needs these on a race car anyway. The seats have had the belts picked out with sg grey and now need the belt hardware detailed with Molotow. The radiator core has been blacked out and the instrument cluster detailed all ready to go. The steering wheel had the holes opened out and painted ally with wood detail on the rim dry brushed with browns and then over coated with clear red. Some small detail paint SNAFU's need a fix up before final assembly Thanks for looking

A rather extreme build going down there Dan

2015 on Mustangs have been available in NZ new with RHD. They are now a world car. There are a few newer LHD "specialist" Mustangs come into the country as they need to be model variants not sold new here. Not so for GM who pulled out of the RHD market world wide - we lost some cool makes of car because of that decision. There are some rules for importing LHD vehicles into NZ - if under 30 years old must be special interest and is limited to about 250 per year. Over 30yrs no issues but there are some border flags for such things as rust which needs to be sorted before certification and being driven on the roads

I have a lowly few 26T pickup that just needs finishing - been building since the early 2000's - got to the stage where some parts needed to be chromed and this was before Alclad became available A lowboy 34 PU that got too hard - been on the go for at least 10 years A Monogram 32 roadster with a R&D Unique chassis that really does need to be finished - but original build style now out of date so a rethink needed. This was stalled because at the time again because Alclad etc was not available Then there is the AMT 49 Merc I chopped way back in the 80's and one or two other minor builds that got put back in teh box for one reason or another There are others but I do try to keep the number of kits on the bench to two or three as I find it too hard to pick up the pieces and move foward

Started assembly - up on two and four Now to wait for the glue to dry

Its also good to see this thread still chugging along

Looking good Dennis. The light blue tint is just the right shade. Any darker would have been too much IMO And paint finish is nice and clean too

The is a bit of the back end of the car in the pix with it behind the Daimler Dart I did not take any other pix of it sorry

I had a long think about this and remember reading the rego - 32 Hupmobile not Hudson as I originally posted. Got confused by the "H"centres on the spinners

Yup it was a bit of a sleeper and very well presented for a mordor A couple of pix of under the hood

It sure is - was not sure of the year so took a guess at 56 - gm cars are not my strong point In general for a street sow there were some very nice cars there - most impressed

Meanwhile - I have been slowly beavering away at this model - the deadline is closing in fast, so it is time to start getting it all together. I have fitted new rear motor mounts to take up the difference between the Monogram chassis and the Revell motor. And made a new one for the front too. And fitted the pulleys and made some fan belts from some 0.5mm black wire - like plug wire but slightly larger. . Cleaned up some carbs and have adapted some electrical wire ferrules for the carb stacks I have painted the carbs gold with the bases sg black - waiting for that to dry. Also polished up the stacks so nearly ready to put the motor to bed Tonight's effort was to check fit the body and frame with motor. I expected a tight fit but not this tight - I will need to ring the butcher Well the butcher has been and gone and this is what is he left. I will spray some primer around the hole to represent a newly butchered body to fit the new race motor. This motor is huge - well compared to a stock banger it is I have masked and painted the running boards with some Tamiya rubber black - again waiting for paint to dry Thanks for looking