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Wheel Cover - Wheel Embellisher I'm nearly 50 and I've never heard anyone use the term "wheel embellisher".
The old metal ones were always hubcaps; new plastic things are called wheel trims.Never heard any normal person use the word backlight either - it's rear window, or rear screen.
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Yes, my '80s Revell 'Black Magic' Pete 359 has perished tyres and a Revell Germany rebox of the Italeri container trailer I bought in 1984 also has rotted rubber.
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All these were bought 20 - 30 years ago. Hardly any shops over here sell kits these days:
Monogram '70 Boss 429 from a Do It All DIY store.
ERTL COE & conv. Transtars and an MPC El Diablo from the back room of a bicycle shop.
Jo-Han Mustang Funny Car from the gift shop at a preserved steam railway. I think it was the only car kit in a shop that understandably stocked a lot of model train stuff.
Revell '60 Corvette from Tandy (Radio Shack).
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Yeah, there's no way you're going to get Milliput to work with a silicone mould, You need a low viscosity polyurethane resin. That Blu-Stuff looks pretty expensive too - I use EA Silicones, a 1kg kit comes in around £20.
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Tyres look to me like the AMT ones Mark mentioned. Modelhaus replicated them as their T110.
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If i was to build one.
That's more like it. 14" or 15" wheels, max.
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Ps, this is the 1st I've ever heard them called ' Petty Headers ' or Nascar Only Headers. To my knowledge they were standard issue on every factory produced 1964 and 1965 Race Hemi car. Be it an oval track packaged or Drag Race packaged car
+1.
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Brief glimpse of Dave Strickler at 1:45 here:
No roll bar, not even a full harness. Racing in shorts, too...
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I seem to recall an article in SAE, but that was probably 20+ years ago. Here's how it's done in real life - the key points are to cut out the whole rear window intact and lay it down, and to make sure you don't have the front lower than the rear (which Revell got horribly wrong):
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/tech-chopping-a-49-50-merc-the-barry-mazza-way.168831/
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Me too, or do you mean 'bon and bed' ?
Nope.
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I've heard a lot of English fellers say "Porsh" over the years, but I figgered it was just a little lingering animosity towards the Germans.
For the first 40 years of my life, I only ever heard "Porsh". I thought Clarkson was putting it on when he started saying "porsh-er".
Still, for years, Nestle was pronounced the same as the verb, now we're told it's "nes-lay".
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The heck with Porsche, I want to know how to pronounce Worcestershire.
I can help you with that one: wust-er-sheer, with emphasis on the first syllable.
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the British almost never pronounce the letter R, unless it's at the beginning of a word? The word "world" is pronounced by a Brit "wuld."
As a born & bred Brit, that's news to me.
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Did this not happen with Danbury Mint? If you offshore to China in the name of saving money - you made your bed, you have to lie in it.
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I think you're barking up the wrong tree there,,, those don't go "up and back" like boat headers. It sounds like the OP is referring to cast Max Wedge manifolds.
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This set-up, or one very similar, was also available for the 409 in the original Trophy Series '57 Chevrolet, as well as some of the later repops.
That was a Roots type, bearing a resemblance to a S.Co.T. /Italmeccanica blower. It does have sidedraught carbs though.
The Jo-Han '70 Eldorado has a Latham, IIRC.
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Plastic rod and a candle. It doesn't get much easier than that.
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That's the one I have. The bumper is too wide, to my eye... as a result it's remained untouched in the box for years.
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My '70 GTO is the 1980s reissue. I wasn't aware the body had been modified from the first issue.
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Reliable Resin 1970 GTO body - Since this is molded from the 1970 kit, it should have the body wide enough so that the bumper will actually fit
I wouldn't... but if you do try to purchase from Reliable Resin, use your credit card and/or Paypal and keep track of when you placed the order, so you can file a claim if he doesn't deliver.
As an aside, I have the MPC '70 GTO and the rear bumper is too wide on that too.
Finally - as Bill and the others said, use a Pontiac engine. A BBC is nothing like a Pontiac.
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Much better, I can't stand those huge wheels on old cars. Would look even nicer with redlines.
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Thanks for the Info on stretching the Bed. I might look at the beds from two '53 Ford Kits. Maybe they will be close enough to pass for a '61 Chevy longbed with the proper fenders.
I looked at stretching a '65 bed, but with everything being moulded in one piece, I decided it would be as easy to make a new bed. I used the custom (Chevy) fenders from an AMT '53 Ford, but had to add .060" to the mounting faces to widen them. Still in progress, but it's getting there.
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Yes, I've used GIMP for years. I also use Drawplus SE which is a free (with limitations) vector graphics program. I have used Adobe Illustrator and had a Creative Cloud account, but for my needs, including my day job, those free programs are more than sufficient and I said goodbye to Adobe some time ago.
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Pretty sure that's not it. I don't have that issue, and I'm virtually certain it was R&C, not HRM. And IIRC it was a dual-spring setup, not the suicide setup on that cover.
Fair enough. I do have that issue of HRM so I've just dug it out. The article discusses both transverse and dual spring suspension. Most of the photos are of the dual spring kit, but either way, the frame was lopped of in front of the firewall and replaced with 2x4 box section.
The old metal ones were always hubcaps; new plastic things are called wheel trims.
Divided by a common tongue
in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
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Indeed they are different. I'm talking colloquially - to the man in the street, in the UK, they're hubcaps.