roadhawg

Thats a really good idea. Leave it to modelers to come up with new ideas for "recycling"!

Nice collection you have there. Actually, the proper color is Dupont Imron Phantom Grey, fleet code 5031. Its a dark grey that throws off a greeninsh-brownish tint when light hits it. That particular museum in Pigeon Forge is no longer in business. The last I heard, about a month ago, was the Lady is being stored at another museum at the Sevierville TN airport....and she's on the ground this time. She has been on Ebay a couple of times, but the winning bidders turned out to be "tirekickers". By the way, the replica was built in Dawsonville GA by a guy that restores AMC musclecars. We now return to our regularly scheduled topic..............

Nice! You're gonna keep on and force me into building one of these darn Rutabega's, aren't you? (my buddy with the dirt tracker always called Studes "Rutabega's"...)

Dude...he's offering to send em to ya.....FREE! If I was you, I'd say "sure, thanks!" Even if you DON'T need slicks now, you might in the future! If worse comes to worse, you could always chunk em at squirrels!

That really looks good, and those wheels really stand out! Seems like everywhere I look these days, somebody is building or has built one of these! I've been thinkin' bout building one as a Bonneville type car. Back in the 70s, a guy in my hometown had a real one of these he made a dirt-track car out of. It had a 283 engine....it looked just like a small block Chevy, but it said Studebaker on the valve covers. Anyway, what engine you going with in this one?

Not to offend anyone, but if it was a union company, your company would probably already be out of business now and you would be laid off. Thats the reason the automakers are in such trouble.....paying people 40 bucks an hour to screw on lug nuts would break ANYBODY! Anyway....I don't really see where they're giving you any choice. All I can do, my friend, is tell you what I would do if it was me. The biggest issue is the day care. Personally, I've never heard of a day care that won't take kids before 8. I have a kid in day care and they start takin' em in at 6:30.....so you're probably going to have to find another day care, or see if a family member or friend could help out. Once you get the day care situation resolved, then you can tackle the job issue. If I had no other choice, I would accept their offer.....for now. 4 bucks an hour is a lot of money, so as bad as I hate to say it, you might need to cut back on some stuff, temporarily. Things like cable TV, internet, and yes, even models are luxuries.....the priorities are rent/mortgage, utilities, and food. If you are making payments on a car or boat or something, maybe you should consider selling it and driving a paid-for clunker for awhile. Now....once you get all this in place, its time to start looking for another job. As mad as you are at the place you work now, don't ever bad-mouth them.....things like that can come back to haunt you! I DO realize jobs are scarce right now, but I also know that if I look hard enough I'll find SOMETHING.....it might not be exactly what I want, but I KNOW I can find something! What are your attributes and talents? What type of work are you good at? What is it you LIKE to do? The truth is....it SOUNDS like you need to be looking for something else anyway. Even in a bad economic environment, if my boss told me something like that, I don't wanna work for him anyway. Just remember that YOU are in charge of your own destiny....not your boss, certainly not some union. As Yogi Berra said, "when you come to a fork in the road, take it." Hope this helps.....Good luck, man.

Oh, man....that would be wrong on soooooooo many levels! LOLOL! Plus, the neighbors would have me arrested for visual pollution. Dude, I could talk Airwolf with ya all day! I'm planning on doing a photo-tutorial soon on another site on building a ACCURATE 1/48 Airwolf. Anyway, about the clothes, just don't wear anything like flannel, that attracts a lot of dust. Real car painters wear lint-free paint suits (No, not PANT-suits......PAINT-suits) because they've learned that most dust comes from their clothing.

Excellent advice here! Also keep in mind that most dust doesn't come from the air....it come from the painter himself! Don't wear flannel or anything when painting, and minimize your movements so as to not stir up dust. A lot of real car painters used to lightly wet down the floor when they sprayed, to keep dust down.

Wahoo McDaniel......now THERES a name I haven't heard for awhile! I'll bet the PC crowd wouldn't let him do that Indian dance these days!!!

A regular printer won't print white, so yes, you need white decal paper. Yes, use an outline. Make your outline as close to the color of your model as you can. Does this make any sense?

To be honest, that was pretty much EVERY driver back in the day. My dad took me to a race at the Jefco (Jefferson GA) Speedway in.....oh, 67, 68? This was when Nascar was running 50-60 races a year. I was 12 or 13. After the race, we went in the pits and I got the autograph of Petty, Bobby Issac (my favorite!), Tiger Tom Pistone, and David Pearson. We left, but when we got back to our car, I realized I had left my jacket in the stands. We went back and started searching for it, with no luck. One of the drivers was walking from the track up to the scoring tower and saw us looking....he came over and asked if I had lost something, I told him yes, my jacket. He helped look for awhile, then took me to the tower to see if anyone had turned it in. I never found my jacket, but I became a fan of that driver that day. His name? Dave Marcis. I wonder if Kyle Busch would help some nobody kid try to find his lost jacket today? Oh, and Tim Richmond? Had he lived, he would have 7 championships today too.....if not more.

First, I wouldn't recommend an enamel based clear, as it will yellow over time. I've become a believer in Future acrylic floor finish....that stuff rocks! Any acrylic clear should be ok. Automotive urethane IS the best to use, but #1, its pricey, and #2, use a respirator.

Elvis had a pink cadillac......and I didn't even realize he SOLD Mary Kay cosmetics! I think it looks unique! It'll certainly get attention!

Well, I learned something today.........but I STILL hate that stupid term!

I seriously doubt they were trying to "pimp" their car in the 50s......that stupid term didn't get used as a verb until the last 10 years, as the public intellegence level started dropping. "Pimp".....I hate that stupid term. In the 70s, "pimp" was a BAD thing. Anyway....tirade over. I think it probably DID originate in the 50s.

I'm with ya 100%!!! Back in the day, there were REAL drivers.....you never heard Curtis Turner complain that his car was "a little loose off the turn". If the car didn't handle, the driver adapted to it! Todays drivers are a bunch of corporate sissies! LOL! Back in april of 2007, I wrote a blog on another website about what Nascar has become.....I figured I'd share it with y'all here..... "One Reason I've Lost All Interest In Nascar".............. Hi, I'm Bob DePesto, your Coca Cola/ McDonalds pit road reporter, from the MSNBC ESPN5 Raceday Coverage Center, here live, at Lowes Home Improvement Center Motor Speedway, with the winner of todays Pepsi Cola/ Martha White Flour/First National Bank of Everywhere 500, Ashley Pastel. Congratulations, Ashley, what was it like out there today? "Well, Bob, the ol' Gatorade/ Autolite Spark Plug/ Hardees/ Country Time Lemonade/ Advance Auto Parts/ Jiffy Lube Kia was runnin' real good today! We really had a scare one time though, when that Dawn Detergent/ Carpet Fresh/ Pennzoil/ Western Steer Steakhouse/ GE Lightbulb Nissan blew its engine down in The Visine Eye Drops Turn 3!!! When it let go, we got into some of that Quaker State Motor Oil and them Goodyear Eagle Tires lost their grip....we was headed right for that ol' Ace Hardware Concrete retaining wall! I would like to thank my crew down in the Kentucky Fried Chicken Pit area for getting me out so fast! Lucky for me, they had those Craftsman hand tools, available at Sears and K-Mart! According to that Timex stopwatch, if they'd been just one second slower, we'd a needed some Goody's Headache Powders for sure! Anyway...it went right down to the Bass Pro Shops checkered flag, and I was sure ol' Lefty Higgenbotham in the Kroger/ Blue Bell Ice Cream/ Tombstone Pizza/ H&R Block/ Legos/ Simonize Hundai was gonna get us coming off of the Radio Shack turn 4!!! But That NAPA Auto Parts clutch in my car held up to the power of that Sunoco Racing Gas, and now we gonna pop the top on some cold Budwiesers! Yes sir, its really good to win the Pepsi Cola/ Martha White Flour/ First National Bank of Everywhere 500, and I want to thank all the folks at Gatorade, Autolite Spark Plugs, Hardees, Country Time Lemonade, Advance Auto Parts, and Jiffy Lube.....hope I didn't forget anybody. It was a great race!" Well, there you have it, race fans...Ashley Pastel, the winner of todays Pepsi Cola/ Martha White Flour/First National Bank of Everywhere 500!! This is Bob DePesto, your Coca Cola pit road reporter, from the MSNBC ESPN5 Raceday Coverage Center, here live, at Lowes Home Improvement Center Motor Speedway, saying, see you next week at the Carnation Evaporated Milk/ Levitra/ Folgers Coffee/ BankOne Visa Card/ Exxon 600, live from The WalMart/ Perdue Frozen Chicken National Raceway!......and look, theres The Driver of the Dupont/ Pepsi Cola Chevrolet, Jeff Gordon! Somebody better take him some Huggies Baby Wipes!!!! Yeah....I think Nascar has forgotten where they came from.

Lookin' good, and thanks for posting those measurements. I didn't know exactly how much to cut it down. I once owned a basic C10 short bed and I've been wanting to build a model of it.

Go to your local automotive machine shop and grab a spray can of "cast iron". Less than 10 bucks. Its a big can, should last for years!

To be honest, I really don't care what else is in the box.....I just want a nice 5-window body.

That really is nice. I've just recently started to appreciate the beauty of customs like this. I think you hit this one 100%.

Me too! Some of my most enjoyable builds were those old axle-through-the-block, metal-clip-for-the-hood-hinge AMT 3 in 1 kits.

Oooooo, time for me to sing! Happy Birthday!

That makes sense. Like I said, I just avoid the whole "shopping experience" and order it online. Somebody, somewhere, always has it! And be aware.....if you order it online, don't freak out when it arrives and it looks different.....seems they have a new can. Rest assured, its the same stuff.

I had that same problem around here. I have no idea why they all wanted to change to Dupli-Color, but all the local parts stores did. Nowaday, I do it the lazy (smart) way and just order it online. I order 2-3 cans at a time, shipping is usually the same. http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&search...Kote&page=1

Thats nice! What paint did you use for the engine? It looks perfect.