
Terry Sumner
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Wow...that's amazing. I spent some of my youth in Cheshire and Adams. We lived in Cheshire when I was in the 2nd grade and later in Adams for the first part of my sophomore year in high school. Played football for the Adams High Hurricanes! Funny huh? Hurricanes...in n/w Mass! Not too often hurricanes make it there and do damage like that... Route 2 is a beautiful drive. I especially like going up the hairpin turn in North Adams. Brings back fond memories....
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Well we'll see Mike. Here's a first attempt. Not happy with it. Shape is off, need to make the fins even smaller, etc. But learned a lot making this first attempt. Gonna try another! Funny though...it looks better in person...probably because this pic is 3 times actual size? Thanks for the vote of confidence! Hosted on Fotki
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Thanks John, Roger and Donn! Donn...the SLM is after doing things the correct way..or at least as correct as possible....true. But I suppose I could get away with such a small transgression as missing the Cragar script...mainly because I have them already but don't have either of those 2 kits ya mentioned! )
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King Kong Anglia Gasser build
Terry Sumner replied to Terry Sumner's topic in WIP: Drag Racing Models
That's right! MRC...thanks for jogging the old memory! -
King Kong Anglia Gasser build
Terry Sumner replied to Terry Sumner's topic in WIP: Drag Racing Models
Here's the Slixx decals... they are really well done! Hosted on Fotki And here's the Cragar wheels. Disregard the tire...it's not being used. This pic also shows the beginnings of the engine. The torqueflite is attached. The valve covers have to be modified a bit. The round breather caps are wrong as King Kong had 2 of the rectangular upright breathers on each valve cover. So I cut the round ones off and rescribed the fin lines where I had cut them off. Next will be to strip the chrome and then mount the 4 new breathers from the Willys kit. The blower came from the Willys kit and the 4 port Hilborn injector unit came from the Willie Borsch Altered kit. I plan on turning the blower pulleys from aluminum on the lathe. Hosted on Fotki I just need to source this part for the engine now....anyone now any resin caster that has it? Hosted on Fotki -
King Kong Anglia Gasser build
Terry Sumner replied to Terry Sumner's topic in WIP: Drag Racing Models
I have a set of those Cragar SS rims from that set that was issued a number of years ago that included the soft rubber tires and all kinds of mounting options. I forget what company made them but they had some Keystone Kustomags as well.. These Cragars are really nice but I'm going to have to thin the ones for the front if I use them because they were sized to fit the tires that came in the kit and they're too wide... -
Exhaust building
Terry Sumner replied to greymack's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
Try using solder. Comes in all kinds of thicknesses. I've also used K & S aluminum tubing. You can actually bend that stuff fairly easily... -
King Kong Anglia Gasser build
Terry Sumner replied to Terry Sumner's topic in WIP: Drag Racing Models
The front axle on King Kong is a straight axle with an overhead single transverse spring. The kit axle is almost right...except is the curved-like-a-smile type of axle. So I cut the spring and the kingpins off the kit axle and grafted them onto a length of tubular straight plastic. This one looks a lot more like King Kong's. Also in this photo is the air scoop. King Kong's was a little unusual in that it didn't have the customary fins on top. At one time it was chrome and at another time it was painted the body color. So I stripped it and sanded off the fins and I intend to paint it the body color like in the engine picture I posted... Hosted on Fotki -
King Kong Anglia Gasser build
Terry Sumner replied to Terry Sumner's topic in WIP: Drag Racing Models
After the grill shell was sanded smooth I spent some time cleaning up all the flash and mold lines on the body. This tooling is kinda old and it shows. Then I added the sheetmetal from .010 plastic sheet that goes at the rear of the grill shell. I also spent some time thinning out areas in the engine compartment so the big block Chevy would fit in there! I then laid on a few coats of Cobracolors VX Primer, which is simply Dupont Variprime... The engine is the BBC from the 70 Camaro...and I've fitted it with a Torqueflite transmission from a Polar Lights funny car kit. Photos of the engine later... Hosted on Fotki -
King Kong Anglia Gasser build
Terry Sumner replied to Terry Sumner's topic in WIP: Drag Racing Models
And heeeeeere we go! First up is the body front end. On the real car, the hood is separate from the grill shell and the grill shell is attached solidly. On the kit hood, it's all one piece and is supposed to be hinged at the bottom...which is incorrect for King Kong. So it had to be cut apart first. In this pic you can see where I've used a scribing tool to partially cut through the lines where it needs to be separated... Hosted on Fotki After using a dental flosser to cut through the remaining plastic, I had the pieces separated..... Hosted on Fotki Then I glued the grill shell to the body and filled in the front grill hole because King Kong's grill was solid. Hosted on Fotki -
The Yahoo email group I belong to, Straight Line Modelers, has decided to do a group build and the subject is to be a 60's gasser. I have chosen the King Kong Anglia due to the fact that I already had an Anglia kit in my stash and some very nice decals are available from Slixx. Now I've built this kit as a youngster but I knw it's a tough one to build so I hope my skills now can do a little more justice to the build. I dunno though...maybe with my bad eyesight it will be worse! Who knows... LOL But here we go.. this is what I'm trying to recreate... Hosted on Fotki When it ran in A/GS with the Big Block Chebby... Hosted on Fotki Next up....the beginning....
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The subject of the gasser I am now building...as accurately as I can...soon to be a WIP on this forum... Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki
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Building a drag car that I'd like to post wip pictures. Are ALL wip's supposed to go in the Workbench section? Or if it is a drag car, which it is, should it go into the drag car section as a wip because it's specifically a drag car? Or should the drag car only go in the drag car section when it's all done. I mean..I know there are a number of wip's in the drag car section but I just wanted to know what the official protocall is for drag car wip's...
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She takes a lot of pride in how she looks when she goes out of the house. She doesn't want any pity from anyone on her medical problems so she does her best to not look like she's ill. I'm very proud of her in that regard especially. She was Miss Connecticut when she was 19.. Sometimes I kid her and say "Yeah, back when you was good lookin!"
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I am happy to be able to wish my bride a happy 50th birthday today. Mainly because after 1,700 days in 9 different hospitals over the last 18 years, quite frankly I wasn't sure we'd even see this day. On more than one day it didn't appear that she would live! But she always pulled through. She has good days and actually hasn't been in the hospital very much over the last couple of years now...thank God. So here's a pic of my half century old wife taken last saturday night at a restaurant where we were celebrating her dad's 75th birthday and they surprised her with a little celebration for her as well. She sure doesn't look 50 does she? I know...I'm a lucky man! LOL Hosted on Fotki
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HOW CRAZY ABOUT GASSERS ARE YOU?
Terry Sumner replied to Dr. Cranky's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
Gassers running superchargers in the AA and A classes were in the 9's...