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Man, this one hit home! My first car was a '75 Camino. Crashed it and put the motor in a Vega. Later, I got a '74 ElCo and put a '76 Laguna nose on it along with swivel buckets, L-88 hoodscoop and those big, bad turbofins with superwide tires. Those ElCos had room for 50s in the back! It just looked perfect. I have long thought of doing a conversion considering there are different Chevelle stock car kits. I realized it would take a lot of work but this thread is inspiring. I can't tell by the photos but it looks like you used the correct dashboard. The Caminos had Monte Carlo dashboards. How's that for some trivia?

That steering wheel is awesome! Looks much larger than 1/25th scale. Way to go with the detailing! how about WoodChucker or WoodTrucker for a name? Plays on the Cord name (cord of wood) and the transport of it.

So what would be the suggested method to get a decal sheet that is out of production and not listed on the site you supplied? Specifically, the Jones Javalin. I have a mix-mash of decals, thanks to a kind member of this forum to mostly complete the kit but would love to get the actual sheet. Thanks in advance for any and all help!

You can see in the pics both the differences in the cage as well as the rear bumper area having more of a stock type facia. I think this will be like any racer in where you would need to pick a date and/or race to model the car after as it is clear that it has gone through some changes. I like the idea of getting a head start with a chassis from another kit. Did I read he was racing a 351 cleveland? It would be fun to work on a project simultaniously as it would be bennificial. Lots of sharing of tips, tricks, sources and ideas... But, I believe my next project will be an extreeme detailed Corvette GS.

The bed extension is looking pretty good. I wasn't too hot on it at first but finished and primered, it looks great. A maybe-too-late suggestion would be to extend the rear of the roof a bit and maybe shape it to somewhat mimic the rear of the car. That would move it more away from a stock appearing roof into the full body custom. Either way you go, it's inspirational and looking great!

This is an awesome build of this curbside! It prompted me to do a bit of research for a possible conversion to a full detail since I have the kit and am on the lookout for my next high detail car. What puzzled me is the rear end. The front appears to be of one version and the rear of another... Anyone else come to that conclusion? I hadn't found any pictures that matched the configuration of the model. 3men2s: How close is the '86 IMSA Mustang chassis to the Kemp chassis?

Looking great so far. That motor will bring that phone booth to life! I have a simular idea for mine so I will be paying attention to this thread.

It's put out by someone on the TRaK board (Traditional Rod and Kustom). Here's a link to purchase: http://magcloud.com/browse/issue/37517

You know, I am on these boards daily and am always amazed at how fast some of you produce some great looking models that I know takes myself many, many nights of work just to get to the halfway point. Of course, I see things from my perspective where I have to work, take care of my family, my house and two rentals, obligations with friends and family, birthdays, home improvement projects, four cars and don't see how everyone gets so much done. But I'm not everyone and while my life is busy busy, others don't have as much on their plate. I certainly look forward to retirement and having more free time to work on models and my 1:1 projects but that is a few years off. Now, in regards to my job. I do enjoy the work and being challenged but I think I enjoy the people and commeradere more than the job. That being said, I feel I'd be happy no matter what I did. One of my favorite jobs was working part time in a local hobby store for minimum wage! I pretty much only did it for the toys... I had my regular job to pay the bills. And, finding this board. Whole new level of friends, inspiration, ideas, contacts, sources, and commeradere! I have a place where I can go and talk to like minded folks about something we are all passionate about. No more showing the wife, family or friends something and watching their eyes glaze over...

Here, we have some over and under highways downtown and I used to love opening up my '68 Torino running through them with the windows down. The wail of the small block Ford screaming at 5500 RPM echoing off all that steel and concrete is pure adrenaline! 289, .30 over, .478 Isky, Hooker, Holley 600 double and 3:89s = lots of fun and quite a few jaws contacting floorboards... Especially when they find out I'm under 300cid... I do love a good lope. My Torino lopes very nice. I had a '76 Vega with a hot-rodded 4 with the cam, carb and headers and that one had a healthy lope. Not what you'd expect from a Vega.

Some of these did hit the streets though I know of only two I have/saw. The Daytona and Firebird with the JL car did come out. I got a couple of each on closeout for $5 each about a year ago. Both of these appeared to be re-issues. Unfortunately, none of the cool ones made it... I have to agree with most of you. If a company says it will produce an item, it should do it's best to follow through. BTW, the Daytona kits did not appear to be very thought out. The nose was a multi-piece assembly for the body and the custom rear wheels were super deep and way too wide for the provided tires. I'm sure there's more issues with it but that was my initial inspection...

I think this would be a prime candidate for the Rapid Prototype Modeling they have mentioned elsewhere in this forum. Though it might be a bit more expensive than a plastic kit, it is a way of getting unique subjects into model form. They do require a bit more work than the standard kit but they can be done. I'll see if I can find the post... Here's the guys who do it: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.p...65&hl=rapid

How much work did you do for JL? I'm thinking that I just might have a lot more of your artwork than I thought...

Now I got TWO Torino projects based on your artwork!!! Awesome stuff my friend! One of my "down the road" projects is a Talladega Land Speed Racer but I never thought about doing one as a quarter-miler. Thanks for some inspiration! Was this a Johnny Lightning artwork?

How about a Torino? I know Jairus has a pretty green one that I hope to someday put a 3-d version on my shelf....

I did mine from the little tube chassied '34 from Revell before the Monogram kit came out. I have since gotten the Monogram kits but haven't built them. I'm using one to build my Sooo Fast LSR right now.

Hmmm, Robotic Surgery.... I've taken apart a few tape recorders and fixed a couple of computers. I guess I feel okay about working on a robot... Might snip the wrong cable or put a servo in the wrong place but hey, what's a real robot without a tick? Oh, ban the sob and send his e-mail addy (if it is genuine) to other spammers...

This post brought up one of mine. The George Follmer Javelin. I have one I built so many years ago and want to rebuild it. Found the decals for it and just this weekend, found a magazine in Books A Million with the Javelin on the cover!!! It has a fairly nice article on the car. Something like Race Cars Monthly or such... Aside from this one, I got a lot of em. I wanna do a '57 Ford Fairlane land speeder, a T-Bird Coupster, a Stude Verte, a 409 track nosed A roadster pickup, A '69 Pro-Tourino GT Coupe, a '53 Vette land speeder, a '32 highboy low buck drag racer, a Cameo project truck, an F1 Rat, a '53 Ford Truckster, I could go on for a long time. I have all of these sketched out on little pieces of paper covering a large cork board in my hobby room... Don't ask what I have on my bench. The list is about as long...

There is a HotWheels out right now that is really close to this. Maybe this one was the inspiration for it? I thought it would make an interesting model, though I was thinking of trying to find an ol' Willys body to do it with. You know, put my own spin on this thing.

Would you be able to source this from a Ford GT kit? I don't know if there was ever a full detail kit of the GT but that would be my first guess at a source. If not a full motor, maybe you can source the heads from the GT and the rest of the motor from the Mustang?

Sure wish I was in that area. It would be great to see such a collection and meet a lot of like-minded folks. If you run across any boxes of pre-1950 cars (year of the car, not year the model was produced) bodies and/or parts, I might be interested. I'm always looking for the next big parts box build and I always love digging through parts boxes... My cat knocked over one of my tall storage parts drawer thingies and though I was irritated, I enjoyed sorting all the parts all over again... I know that's sick but hey, it's a hobby...

It appears the fiddilly part of this frame would be the suspension assembly. I would think the frame would be pretty straight forward. One other thing of note would be the frame being tweakable would seem to have a benifit. How many of us have cars that sit on three wheels? With the frame being tweakable, it would be a simple adjustment, or so it seems.

They are a great source of old school engines and different bumpers & grills that you can use to customize cars with. They have cutting edge parts of the day in them like the Spalding Flamethrower Ignition and such. A great snapshot in time type-of-thing...

Does this pretty girl have a name and address??? Hosted on Fotki

You can get some plastic rod or metal tubing that friction fits into the wheel or poly cap and drill/cement that to the mounting points on the car, then the wheels should just mount. Each wheel seems to be different in the way they mount as is each model so there is no easy answer here. To be honest, I rarely ever build a car that has rolling wheels. That is leftover from my younger days and has served me well. Rolling wheels lead to things like rolling cars. Rolling cars like to roll off gently tilted (and sometimes level) shelves and are prone to little fingers wanting to play with that shiney car... Anyway, just my 2 cents.