LennyB

Messes, you want to talk about messes, no one told me when I was hired for the after parade cleanup crew that there were going to be elephants on parade.

With 390 Tri-power

Leghorn McGillicutty got teased a lot as a kid because of his name, but now standing 6’ 10 no one dares call him chicken.

They always say when looking for something its always going to be in the last place you look. How come so many times it shows up in a place you already looked🤔

Engines looking good Bil. Makes me want to build a flathead oh, by the way I just found a fuel pump in a back pack one of the squirrels left here. 🥴

System was a go, all the I's had been crossed, all the T's had been dotted, the slow walk started as I heard the footfall echo in my head, slowly approaching the machine I reached into my pocket and pulled out a quarter and then, there it was, staring me in the face, "Out of Order"

with Captain Jack

Call David Bowie

Yet again I find I glued the chassis in place and forgot that one little piece that had to go in before I did so.

with dead battery

Are you sure you weren't at Walmart? That's the dress code there.

Bart I agree, they were ugly, glad they only used them one year.

Are we there yet????🤐

Picked this up for the coffee table, thought it looks like an interesting read. Kinda wish it went past 1961 though.

an interstellar Uber

Thanks for the encouragement Bill, I'll see what I can do.

Nice build Bart, came out real clean. That interior light makes a big difference for the pics. Good conversion on the 67 attributes. But any reason you left the 68 Steering wheel?

Maybe he's stocking up on TP now that he's run out of eggs.

Wisenheimer😏 (yeah, like I should talk)

That's simple, I built a drop top 40 back in the 80's.

Game of touch football got real serious when OJ showed up to challenge us from beyond the grave and brought his Ex with him.

Thanks guys, I hope I can do it justice. The paint is going to be the (not so) fun part.

the left one

Me too😯

I've been gathering up parts for this build for quite a while. Anyone who has watched Roadkill should be familiar with this car. I've never done a patina paint job so I figured this would be a worthy subject to start with. This is our goal. And sorry guys, it does not have a flathead. Had an old AMT 39/40 Tudor Sedan beater that I thought would be a good candidate. This body has had several different paint colors over the years. Went from black to orange to sitting in the purple pond for weeks because the paint was thick headed. This was a 70's issue of the kit that was molded in Maroon, back when Lesney ran the ranch. They had the best decals back then didn't they. I think the guy who designed these went on to work at Burger King. Fenders were from an earlier release and were molded in white. Also from a 39/40 kit as I needed to use the standard grill for this masterpiece of junk. While this was soaking I came across a resin 4-dr body on pukebay for $20.00 that I thought would make my life easier. Because in addition to the thick paint my body was melted slightly in the lower right rear. I made the mistake of buying it. It's a Vic's Resin and it turned out to be more work then it's worth. It was warped when I got it which a little hot water was able to resolve. But even after this you can see it doesn't fit the AMT chassis. Then it also is not a good rendition. If you look at the stock vehicle the "C" pillar is slanted forward, the resin body is not. That pillar is also too far to the rear making the third side window smaller then it should be. The "B" pillar also needs to be moved closer to the front. So if I have to go move both pillars and add a slant to "C" and re-scribe the door lines, I might as well go back to the original AMT body . So now we start working on the AMT body. As I mentioned the body was slightly melted in the right rear. I think it was laid down on a hot soldering iron at some point. Filled the melted bit with some sprue-goo and we should be good. Also missing half our firewall. Well, maybe not half, 30%? The next part of this which I'm going to torture myself with is I am going to try to use the chassis from a Revell '48 Ford Woody that is left over from my '41 Plymouth Woody project. That's right, the Plymouth is sneaking in here again. Only because I live by the philosophy WWJD. That "J" stands for Jim people. I know you thought I meant Jesus. As far as I know Jesus didn't build any AMT model kits. He did build a WMT Chalice once. How do I know? I dug it up last week on Oak Island while Marty and Rick were sleeping. Not sure if the chassis idea is going to work, or if it is just crazy thinking. The Revell chassis is longer. Maybe it will just be a mash-up of the two. Anyway for now I will leave you with a preview video of the Roadkill bootleg Ford. See ya later....