Junkman

The Jo-Han 61 Olds isn't a wagon. It's a Ninety-Eight hardtop sedan.

That's the one, thank you so much! It's a John Frankenheimer movie, so go figure.

Yes, you modified a used S10, which had already been modified, plus, the S10 is a truck, for which afaik the specs are less stringent than for passenger cars to begin with. However, my question was to build a 1968 spec Mustang from new parts, then register it as a 2011 car. This would be impossible over here. However, if you'd use a 1968 VIN and papers from a 1968 car, it wouldn't be a problem at all, since it only needs to comply with the specifications which were valid in 1968. Pretty much all newly built hot rods over here run on vintage paperwork. A brand new state-of-the-art 32 Deuce could be registered as a modfied 1951 Ford Popular for example.

You cannot see the wiring on those engines:

Congrats! That's quite some metal you brought home from one show. Would love to see the builds.

Stripes were not available for the 1966 4-4-2. The first stripes appeared for 1968, the vertical ones on the front fenders. The two wide stripes on the hood became available for 1970, but only on the W-cars. If we omit the Hurst editions and pace car replicas, no decklid stripes were ever available on 4-4-2s.

TV? Don't you have any reliable sources?

Ununited States, huh? But if this was built using a new shell with a new VIN, wouldn't it have to meet current federal specifications? And even if the car can be registered in -say- Michigan, could you sell it on to -say- California, without the new owner there running into trouble?

There is something else that puzzles me. If I'd import one of those 196X Mustang replacement bodies, and they have a new VIN, i.e. I could not use the VIN and paperwork of a 196X donor car, I would have to register it as a new car. This is impossible, since it would then have to meet current emissions, passive restraint, lighting, etc. specifications. Possibly even an NCAP crash test, if I plan to sell the finished car. How does this work in America?

Interestingly this was always common practice with cars in Europe. The date of the first registration counts, no matter whether it was a leftover from last year or not. This sometimes led to lawsuits when buyers found out that their new car was already almost a year old by the time it got registered and thus they passed a law that says a car can be registered and sold as a new car up to one year after it left the factory. I guess it doesn't matter that much anyway when you don't have annual model changes. But it happened with cars that were replaced with new models, too. I once had a 1986 registered Ford (of Germany) Granada. The model was built 1979-1985, my particular example in 1985. More than once I got pulled over because the fuzz thought it's a stolen number plate. When you buy spares for European cars, you always need to go by the VIN, not the registration date.

I've seen worse. Much worse. Predominatly on my shelf... Your models are well constructed and nicely painted. If you could bring yourself towards taking the next step forward and use BMF, you'd be right up there with the best in no time.

Oh Chuck, I'm hardly ever the same person at any given time. May I introcude myselves?

You just described the overwhelming majority of all restored cars. The only thing you didn't mention yet is that usually the parts of several donor cars go into one restoration, not just one.

This is the wishful thinking of self-declared 'car collectors' wearing pink sunglasses. Show me a thing that's original on a car shown and winning a trophy at Pebble Beach. Theseus' Paradox is thousands of years old, yet it will never cease to amaze people. Interestingly, exactly restored automobiles are a prime example for discussing this paradox in modern philosophy.

No, it is an old movie, I think even black and white. It is set in 1930s gangland ad it's one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. Later in the film the mobsters cast the police chief into the foundation of the new police headquarters.

Interesting. The same discussion we had in Europe about 10-15 years go, when they started making replacement shells for the Citroen DS and 2CV. In the Nineties, when there was the fist rush on Ford Escort MK1 RS 2000s, and MK1 Capri 2600 RS's, we used remaining original factory spare bodies. 'Re-shelling' was never considered illegal, or the car not being original afterwards. Once factory replacement shells dried up, we used Escort shells from 'lesser' variants and fitted RS2000 front clips to them (actually the only real difference, body-wise). We then stamped them with the chassis number of the 'original' car we had the paperwork from. Albeit this was completely legal, and 'officially' the cars could have been sold as originals, we felt we did alter the originality by doing so much surgery and advertised and sold the cars accordingly. Interesting, this did surprisingly little for value loss in the eye of the buyers, since they didn't view them as clones. From lots of full restorations I have carried out since then, I can tell you that 15k US is a bargain for a body in new car quality, no matter how you look at it and which car it is. I think it is OK, as long as you tell people what you were doing.

Reminds me of Village People meet Blazing Saddles.

But it quickly turns circles. Even the newest shade can often be mached closely enough with something that had been there already. Close enough for modelling anyway. I also have to say that I always try to go a notch brighter on the model, than the colour is in real life. There is so much less refelctive area, that if the colour is used 1:1, the model often looks a shade too dark.

Oh, I should have omitted the word 'Dart'.

Not getting it. Where is my answer wrong?

There are literally thousands of liveries for these buses. I want to do at least three. Too bad that thing is so big, I can't move into yet a bigger house just now.

Really? I was still flying with the midges in 1962.

I can't remember what the movie is called, but the entire opening scene, i.e. when the opening credits are scrolling, is filmed under water. There are dozens of dead bodies with their feet cast in concrete blocks, in every stage of decompostion imaginable. If anybody out there knows the film, I'd love to know it's title.

It is explained in the book that the car was built to special order. I think this was omitted from the film.

Speed Trap - in the opening scene a Jensen Interceptor is nixed. The original Herbie movie - it starts with a figure of 8 race. What gets trashed is heart breaking. Pas de Probleme - it starts with a very tongue-in-cheek but brilliantly choreographed car chase with superb south of France Gipsy music.