dragsterguy

The Cad L head seems like a natural for 3d printing...as does the Packard 8, Olds Big 6 and more. Instead 3d printers give us flatheads, Chevies and other stuff done in styrene a million times,

There are a bunch or accurate drag racing kits now, thanks to Moebius ! A missing link for years, the 65 Dodge and Plymouth kits have really filled a void. Along with the Atlantis kits things are looking good! Glad to see these by a plastic manufacturer instead of sometimes iffy and pricey aftermarket vendors. Vendors can focus on other parts! SORRY, this is my feeling! After YEARS of buying I now ( in the last year) have been outright cheated three times! Sorry modeling has come to this after so many years of honesty> THANKS to the above companies!

This name ring a bell?

B/FX would be the small block, the 289. This car still exists, it was restored years ago.

Thanks to everyone! didn't see these messages until now, I'm still figuring this message board out.

I like this purple! Looks nice and good work!

This has nothing to do with the Olds kit except it defiantly would be included in this weirdo category if it had been built. Thought some might enjoy this slice of the 60's world of funny cars! Mods, delete if inappropriate! Sorry for the ridiculous ads!!!

A knockout! Spectaculars! I'd love to get these old unobtanium kits! You did an amazing job!

This really made my day! It's 1960. I'm back in cool guy high school cool guy Ritchie Bartell's room amazed at his models! The B-58! The USS Iowa ! FRANKENSTEIN! My God! FRANKENSTEIN~~ I was hooked for life! This is the real deal!

Unfortunately Revell chose to replicate the Sizzler early 60's kit, not replicate an accurate early 60's dragster. it was not fish or fowl. The out of scale bad Hemi in this kit matched the original Sizzler all right! Yes people are / were nostalgic for the Sizzler kit, but that didn't mean they wanted all the poor things of the original reproduced. The "bantam" body was about 2/3 the right size, the Chrysler was terrible, everything else was Ok but I can't imagine why Revell thought their target buyers ( early dragster guys) would 'not want the most authentic car possible....like the old, SWC,, Tony Nancy, ivo and Thompson Revell kits were. I see you borrowed some items for a better build! It really looks the part! I really like lower class cars like this, in triality. You actually did the work Revell didn't! That being said, i have 4 Slingster kits and a million parts kits, plus the Atlantis kits. There were few blown, nitro cars compared to the total I'd guess hundreds of unblown diggers in those days! The backbone of hot car racing! Ya know, if I live to be 200 i can build all the kits i've stashed!

BIG thumbs up! LOVE IT!

VERY NICE WORK! Looks the part, good job. I'd like to see Rc2 promote a bunch of these 60's cars as drag racers, all they need really are decals and headers, most have slicks anyway. Milk those tools! I would love to see the 64 Galaxie come back! Just open the hood on the Craftsman in the current RC2 style. I would be a great companion to your 66! Use the 66 for parts on the 64! RC2 HELLO!???

Posted 45 minutes ago Good point on the Chevy BB induction system...the prototype Round 2 showed at the NNL Motor City last month did not have a blower scoop cutout on the hood, so that would seem to rule out the blower alternative. Here's a photo of he buildup shown there.... As for the bodies of AMT A/FX AEB kits, I always felt that they cut corners by not moving the front axle/wheel well cutouts forward on the bodies, as they did for the rear axles/wheel wells. I agree, but for AMT and all the kit makers the point was put out some funny car kits ASAP. I I remember correctly these kits came out in 67, well into the real world fc craze! Look at the improvised Revell FC kits using existing parts! Except for the hideous slicks, MPC was the one that got it right! I went out of my mind for the Color Me Gone Charger kit. Then the Cougars! LOL Would you drive a "real " AMT awb cars? The Falcon hoods are wrong, I don't care I use them anyway. BUT! They do have the "look". All of them do, but the Olds is far less realistic. but then I never got the appeal of many very popular and successful model kits that shall remain nameless. My silly fictional back story for my topless Olds is a stolen gutted body purchased by a racer and placed over his AA/GS car chassis parts and Olds motor to get appearance money at the strip. That was the plan for most racers! Get paid, win or lose! Just show up! Make some money! Body and sponsored by a local Olds dealer. A field filler. There were some strange funny cars the, and certainly some death traps. I'd have t put the AMT kits and especially the Olds in that category. Indecently, the other Olds I have in the works ae-re The Johann 62 f-85, two other 64 Cutlass's coupes and a 67 442. Maybe I'll even finish one!

"As for the Streaker kit, it shares the Chevy Big Block that is in the AMT 1965 Chevelle AWB/AFX kit. " Yep, correct. I meant however, the GMC blower or a fuel injection setup. THAT is what was run back then. Or 4 Bl carbs. I LOVE the AMT awb kits, but they are not really accurate or realistic except the bodies ( and those can be so.so. Depends on how realistic you want to be, or to put it another way, how much work do you want to put into re engineering them Just the round tube chassis is....well, you decide There are exceptions to every rule I guess, but I can't see any of these cars passing NHRA tec ! I have several Olds awb types on the bench but figure they all will have Olds motors. Seems like that's the point! I see lots of models built that don't really resemble anything in the real world, not a problem! Sounds like fun, who cares. They are just models! Build whatever you want! As do I. Realistically the Olds was pretty much done for by 65 as a nitro engine, but they are cool and match the make I'm building. As a teen in the 60's I blew a buck on a NHRA rule book, I'm actually pretty familiar with the rules, what worked and what didn't. As for the Judsons, I thought maybe I'm wrong, but i sure can't find any such things on anything but small foreign motors. Google away kids! A look at their advertising reveals VW's. British cars and a Mercedes. Just aren't seeing it, never have in my 72 years! Lots of weird contraptions at the drags, but never that. I see giant blowers on flathead Ford models that wouldn't run two minutes on a real car. So what? Look at the AMT 63 Chevy 2 wagon rear engine kit. The engine is solid mounted to the rear while using leaf springs Huh? See any problem there? If that doesn't bug the builder, it doesn't bug me. But it does bug ME to build it. I just can't. not criticizing others, but simply expressing myself! I could go on and on but why? Build what you want guys! Have fun! THAT is the point.

Back to the Hemi Cuda ! IF anybody cares (Tim) there is a good article in the June 65 issue of Car Craft INCLUDING an x-ray type drawing by Steve Swaja. Steve Swaja is an American dragster designer in the 1960s.[1] Swaja was responsible for both Tony Nancy wedge cars of 1963, the Yellow Fang slingshot in 1963, and "TV Tommy" Ivo's Videoliner in 1965. It at least has a drawing of the B&M Torkmaster !