Terry Sumner

Very nice indeed! Clean...sano...nice work on the hemi! Agree on those headlight pins... Maybe they could pass as Angel Eyes????

Nice!

Nice! I like it a lot!

Oops...forgot...this was a cooperative effort by my youngest son and me this time. TJ did a lot of this with me just kind of guiding along. Gotta give credit where credit is due! I'm very proud of him!

This is the fairing to my oldest son's Harley Davidson Street Glide. Silver base for the flames....House of Kolor Kandy Tangerine over the stock Harley Charcoal Black. Gave the whole bike a kind of Burnt orange color. Man I wish I could lay out flames like this in 1/25th scale! Hosted on Fotki Here's all 15 parts out in the sun baking since I don't have a heated booth! Looks like a bike parts garden! LOL Hosted on Fotki

+1

"Homo" parts? What are those?

Cover???? heck I'd just be satisfied to get a pic of one of mine anywhere inside a magazine!

The Gassermadness website owner has passed away. He will really be missed....

Looks good! I'm curious about that open door. Is it just propped open or is it on a hinge? If it's on a hinge do you have any shots of the hinge mechanism? I'm curious as to how you manged to get it to open in that manner. It looks like it opened AND moved forward. Pretty cool if it's hinged!

+1000

Geez... I gotta get out of the house more often...I never heard of either of those two companies...

Looks BETTER than my kitchen!

Happy B-day George! And may you have 50 more!

Dave's correct.

Looks great! What's the story behind the number plate?

I don't mean to butt heads with ya Ed, but spraying a clear paint is no where near as good as coating the decals with Microscale or Superscale "Decal Film". This stuff is the same carrier that the decals are printed on. Lacquer is just that...a paint. It isn't flexible and it won't repsond to setting solutions. When you overcoat the sheet with Decal Film you can lay the decal down and then apply Microset and Microsol (or Super Set and Super Sol...same things) over the decals and they will settle down like new decals. I've saved and used decals sheets that were 20 years old and cracked all up using the decal film.

You are already doing one thing that can be a great help to you in self evaluating your work....taking pictures! It's amazing what you can see when you view pictures of your models! The good and the bad become glaringly apparent!

Same comments as the guys before me!

Personally I would leave it as it is now. One can buy a new issue of the same model and then do whatever one wishes with it. Same can't be said for that piece of history I guess....

Man...did you hand paint all those chili peppers and the graphics??? Great job!

I raced, but not gassers. I had a 66 Chevelle that I ran at Connecticut Dragway fairly weekly in C/MP. Best run ever was only 11.22 @ 122 mph. Couldn't afford to go any faster! But I also worked at the dragstrip for 3 years as one of the three announcers in the tower. At only 19, I was the "rookie" so I never got to do the announcing during the "big" shows. But I was intimately involved with those guys back then. It was a great time to be into drag racing. You would'a loved it I'm sure! You've done a lot more actual racing than I did because I had to give it up in 1974. You see, I became a Connecticut State Trooper that year and they frowned highly upon Troopers being involved in drag racing! But kudos to you on that 33. That must have been a cool car to own and run!

Shore is purty!!!! Is the blower drive tension pulley adjustable so you can take out the slack?

Darryl...those you built look terrific!

The whole spirit of a gasser back then was that the car could have been driven on the street...notwithstanding the little items like license plates, wipers and that sort of thing. By simply throwing on the little items like mufflers and wipers, the gassers back then could easily have been registered and driven to and from the track. Indeed, many, many gassers back before 1970 were driven to and from the track. Additionally, many were flat towed to and from the track. The guys with more money had the trailers! Something like the gas class cars of today don't fit within the spirit of what the gas class was originally designed for. Of course, by the late late 60's and early 70's, the match racer type of gassers started to appear. These were gassers that became heavily modified to the point they could no longer compete legally in an NHRA Gas Class. So they had these "Match Race Shows" around the country where they would only race against each other. I think THOSE types of cars were no longer "gassers" and were more akin to the gas class cars of today. The bodies of today's gassers are radically different from a stock body. Can you imagine trying to drive one of today's gassers to the track? Like you quoted above...."capable of being driven on the street" to "capable of self starting and suitable for street use".... I would venture to say that today's gassers don't meet either criteria from back "in the day." Dave, just curious as I don't have any clue as to how old you are.... were you around drag racing back in the 60's? Just wondering if you had the good fortune to be involved with the original gasser cars.