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I've started on the firewall and moved the bellhousing mounts back on the frame. Engine is a small block with a Hydro trans, I cut the front of the frame off because it'll get new straight rails.
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That's cool. I prefer it without the stacks. Where are the wheels from? I could do with a set like that.
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the revell hotrod mag set 54&55#57 chevys set has 3 409's in
Two. The '57 only has a small block. The AMT and Revell '62 Chevys 409s are much better though.
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Good start, which decals are you using? Landy's?
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John...not to take away from your skill at building because it looks great, but may I ask you about the engine? You have small block Chevrolet valve covers on what appear to be maybe Oldsmobile cylinder heads? How did you happen to use that engine instead of the Hemi that the real car ran?
That's what I was wondering, though I thought they looked like Ford FE heads. The paint and finishing is excellent, but when the basics aren't quite right it takes something away...
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Cool. This is what I'm building - a '57 150 gasser. It'll have a set-back injected small block, and new front rails with a beam axle.
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The top is fitted now, but still needs a lot of work.
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I've got the body assembled and rough cut the top, ready for fitting. This resin is quite brittle, so rather than thin it down under the windows, I'm going to open up the body and sink the top in. That'll give me more surface area for reinforcing it too.
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I've got a '57 chevy gasser just started, if it's OK to join in?
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Point taken, some things will react violently and/or produce toxic products when mixed with bleach, so yeah, best to avoid mixing it. I wouldn't suggest experimenting with anything else.
The OP could always do it in stages: soak in IPA or similar to remove the clear coat, rinse thoroughly, then use the bleach.
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I've had that problem with regular chrome too. I mix some isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol with the bleach, about 1 part alcohol to 4 parts bleach. The alcohol dissolves the coating, then the bleach can react with the aluminium. It should strip the chrome in a minute or so.
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It'll get worse before it gets better. I've separated the dash because the cowl and windshield moulding will be replaced. This is going to be built as a '60s style street machine, maybe with some speed shop signwriting. I was going to put a Cammer in it, but now I'm thinking about an 8 carb Lincoln, putting more towards the early '60s.
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I've made a copy of the sedan top. Now to hack it up to fit the Ranchero.
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I haven't waded through all five pages, but one thing that I wonder about is why people use certain aftermarket distributors i.e. those which are merely an aluminium tube with a bunch of wires coming out of the middle. Adding plug wires can do a lot for an engine, but those things just look ridiculous.
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I had build the Hot Rod version about 1987 or so and remembered how horrid that kit was.. upon getting this one for my birthday ( first time I had seen this style of box art. I cringed.. then I opened it in some hopes that the new box art = better model... wrong as with a lot of over ran model kits they get worse with time!! heck there is a 3/16 inch 1:1 measure not scale gap between the front fenders and the cab.. and thats just the easy to see hehe..
Sounds like the Hot Rod kit you're thinking of was the Revell '56. The '53 flip-nose is an old MPC tool, IIRC, but equally terrible.
I've just got hold of a new Revell '57 Ford to help with my Ranchero. The plan is to take a mould off the top half of the body and cast a resin piece to restore the top.
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The doors need to be lengthened by 6.5mm to 47.5mm at the longest point. The window height on the old unchopped Ranchero is 12mm, whereas the new tool sedan is closer to 13mm. The sedan has thinner window frames, and the doors are fractionally taller overall.
This is a side panel from the unchopped version, compared with the new sedan.
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I'm going to start on mine later.
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This is what I've got to start with. I forgot I'd cut the driver's door out and cut a hole in the hood. The tailgate is missing as well, though I think I've seen that in one of my parts boxes. This will be a challenge.
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oh, the English are just silly, the U.S.-Roll Bar should be a U.K.- Anti Crush Bar, because I've never seen any anti rollover bars except on bicycles, they look a lot like "training wheels" ... which I'm sure the U.K. have a totally different name for.
(and don't try to tell me they call them "trainers" because I already know that U.S. - Tennis Shoes = U.K. - Trainers)
Roll bars are sometimes called rollover bars in circuit racing circles, but I've never heard them referred to as anti-rollover bars. They've always been roll bars to me anyway. Sway bars however, are called anti-roll bars in the UK.
Training wheels are known as "stabilisers" in the UK.
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Actually, the word is ellipsis not ellipses or ellipse.
Also, there should be a space between the end of a word and the ellipsis. As such, a phrase should not be typed thusly... but should be typed thusly ... in order to be a proper use of the ellipsis.
The ellipsis is a form of proper punctuation ... used properly.
Ellipses is the plural.
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US - hood, UK - bonnet
US - top, UK - hood
US - trunk, UK - boot
Confused yet?
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Count me in. I want to try to rescue it.
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"Then" where what's meant is "Than"
Oh yes.
Another bugbear of mine is ellipses in place of proper punctuation... where did that come from... I mean... why use a full stop (period) when you can use all these dots... or worse,,, how about when people use commas as universal punctuation,,, man, that really winds me up,,, thanx
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I'm in with a Revell 57 Ford Ranchero, the chop top multi piece body with the wrong length doors mess of a kit. Going for a corrected to stock build.
Whoa. Good luck with that. I've added you to the roster.Can I join in with one of those too? Mine is worse still because it's also a glue bomb that I built in my teens. I tried to un-chop it, but I bit off more than I could chew at the time.
Whoa. Good luck with that. I've added you to the roster.
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*Still* no I beam? Argh! I was all set to get a couple of these, but if it's another rehash of the tube axle & air bag setup, I'll pass.