Terry Sumner

Alright! This is really nice! AND...you get it...you didn't call it a Gasser simply because the front end is up in the air!

John, If I may offer a suggestion.... In the future when you have a decal sheet you are worried about or can already see cracks in...don't spray clear paint on it. Paint was never intended to be a carrier for decals. Use actual decal film itself! Just dab on a liberal coat of Microscale or Superscale Liquid Decal Film (They're both the exact same thing). It's the same stuff the major decal manufacturers such as Microscale and Superscale use as the carrier for their decals. The only difference in using it in this manner is that you are putting the film on top of the decal rather than on the bottom. But it makes no difference in how the decal is applied. The only difference is that you now have to cut the decal out very closely...but you'd have to do that with a clearcoat too. Just slather it on there with a paint brush. This stuff will level itself out and become very thin...just like a real quality decal. I've used this stuff to save very old decal sheets that I could see were all cracked up a number of times with excellent results. Here's what the bottle looks like.... Hosted on Fotki

Since you said you intend to enter this cool model in a show, may I ask...in the last photo..the windshield...near the top..what is that line running horizontally near the top? Is that the top line of the windshield glass or something else? If it is the windshield glass may I make a suggestion that you fix that before entering it? If it's not the windshield glass, what the heck is it?

A friend will stand beside you when you're knocked down...a good friend will tell you..."Stay right there..I got this!"

Well...good to know everythings ok at your end...Doesn't look so good for those poor folks in the thick of it though...

Brett...how'd you make out in today's earthquake? You okay?

Me too! Well..actually I owned 3 in all...2 Super Sports and one plain jane work car. Miss those cars all the time and still kick myself in the butt for selling them. But who knew back then? PS...sorry Brett..didn't mean to hijack your thread. My apologies.

BTW Mike...I see you're from the Berkshires area of Mass? Although I was born in St. Albans, Vt...your area is half of where I'm from...my father is from North Adams as was my grandfather. We lived in Cheshire around 58 - 62. Moved away for some years and returned to Adams in the fall of 1967. I played football for the Adams High Hurricanes when we ended up moving back to Conn.

That's only because we've had decades of experience to form those opinions!

Yer Right Tim...Old Guys Rule! At least that's what it says on the shirt my son gave me!

Geez...what's NOT to like??? Arguably....along with 32 Fords and 66 Chevelles, 41 Willys got to be the best looking cars ever made. Well...at least in THIS old guy's opinion anyways...

Might have to change your class to an Altered class. Gassers had to have a stock automobile type chassis, unless running in Supercharged, A/G, or B/G classes. And even then the front end is way too high. Rules prohibited that really high front end, contrary to what a lot of modelers seem to think about gassers. Here's a link to the rulebook if you're interested.. http://quartermilers.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=rules&action=display&thread=933 Not a crticism..just trying to help.

May I ask what's up with those front wheels? That's about the largest positive camber I've ever seen!

Yeah...some would call it a Gasser!

Ya know I personally have a dislike for all these rustbuckets that seem to be in vogue now...but THIS one is SUPERB! As others have said...not taken to that unrealistic uber rusted out junk fad! Your weathering techniques are spot on. Would love to see a how-to on how you accomplished this weathered car.

Looks like a resin pop of the old MPC kit to me...who makes it?

Got mine today too. Not bad...had some good stuff. I especially liked Tim Boyd's visit to the Model Car Museum. But he has a small mistake there...in the caption under the photo of Mike Johnson's Pegasus, he states that museum staff located Mike and secured the loan of the model to the museum. Not entirely true...unless I'm considered Museum Staff!(lol) 'Twas I who located Mike Johnson. You see, I had volunteered to clone the Pegasus model for the museum's Clone The Past program. In getting started there was little documentation to view so I decided to try and find the original builder. Took some time but I was able to find him in the Vegas area. We even talked on the phone a couple of times. Then he and Mark G got together to arrange for the loan of the model. That was pretty cool and I didn't have to clone the model. Good thing because those bubble shaped glass parts were actually the glass from the LevaCar kits, which are of course rarer than hen's teeth nowadays! And now I feel a little tiny bit of pride knowing I at least made a very small contribution to the museum by making it possible for the Pegasus to get placed there.

I have a Fisher Minute Mount 8' plow on my truck. I could send you some detail photos if you need them.... Hosted on Fotki

Although this is not a photo of my actual car, it's pretty close. My favorite was my 1966 Chevelle SS 396 Super Sport that I purchased in 1969 in my senior year of high school. Mine was just like this one, Cameo Beige, except mine had the code 6 Beige vinyl top, which was a little darker than the paint. 4 speed Muncie trans, console, bucket seats, same hubcaps...man I loved that car! I later made many mods to this car including transplanting a 427 bored .030 over into it. The new engine had L-88 heads that were worked on by a local guy, a Crane roller cam setup, an Edelbrock tunnel ram with twin Holley 600 center shooters, Hooker Headers into 2 1/2" straight pipes into Corvair Turbo mufflers. Rear gear was 4.11 posi. I made some homemade ladder bars for the rear. What a great car that was and I kick my self in the butt all the time for ever selling it! As they say, Hindsight is 20-20! Hosted on Fotki

The new Revell Bel Air Hardtop kit #85-2069 has it. This is the kit with the gold car with flames on the boxtop.

Love everything but the tires. Sorry...I'm old school and don't care for rubber bands on hot rods. Might be okay for Lambos and suc but I don't think they fit on a 32 Ford.

Funny...the issue that I have with the blue one on the box...the 3 in 1 kit #6581, the instructions call the engine an Oldsmobile. LOL Sure looks like a nailhead to me! Definitely not a Rocket!

Yup! My senior year in high school....

I agree...I used to own a Wagoneer and it was a great vehicle in the snow. Wheelbase a lot longer than a regular Jeep like a Wrangler or CJ so much more stable.

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