Ron Hamilton

WOW!!!!!!

Those are some nice finds gentlemen! I have never understood why Johan supplied the mainstream exterior trim and wheelcovers, but included the sport bucket seat interiors in the kits. I have both the hardtop and convertible versions of these cars in my stash waiting to be done. None of them are particularly pristine, but they are very much restorable. I was fortunate that The Modelhaus had a '64 Fury Promo interior tub in its line. Also, I have been told that the JoHan USA Oldies '62 Plymouth Kits has the '64 Fury interior tub in the kit. I purchased one to do a '64 Fury 2 Door hardtop, built from a junk body, and odds and ends from my parts box. The build has hit a roadblock for now, but I plan to finish it soon. I want to do both Dodges as a Polara 500. My uncle had a white '64 Polara 500 Convertible, with a Red Interior, wit a 383 4bbl. and a Torqueflite. I liked that car, and mine will be that color combination with the white up top. On the Dodge builds, I have been able to procure a set of Polar Lights' '65 Coronet 500 Wheel Covers for each of them. On the Plymouth Fury Hardtop I am working on, I used the wheel covers from the Lindburg '64 Belvidere Hardtop, which are better detailed than the pieces in the JoHan kit, and besides, neither of my '64 Plymouths did not have any wheel covers in the first place, as they were built-ups or pieced together builds like this one. I have to cobble a 426 Commando Engine together for this one, and tighten up the fit of things, and it will be done. I cannot wait to see what the two of you do with yours.

I like the '63 thru '67 Corvettes. A future project I plan to do is a '64 Convertible, built from an original '63 Glue-bomb with the rotating headlamps. Why a '64? I like the wheelcovers, and I have a pristine '63 and '65 to be built later. I may do it as the last "Route 66" Corvette form the series in memory of Martin Milner, who was one of my favorite TV actors from the period.

I have resurrected a few Glue-Bombs, and I like doing them. However, the rules I have for them is that they have to be restorable, rare, and cheap! Otherwise I pass on them. Besides, I created a lot of them when I was a kid.

My! My! My!!! That is gorgeous!!!

That is some nice work. I have yet to start mine, as I have a set of Rudge Wheels and some Continentals ordered form HRM for my build when I get there.

The next couple of days, I have some yard work to do. There was a '66-7 Coupe' a couple of towns over from me. If It is still there, I want to photograph it, so that I can get a feel for the angles of the roof pillars. It's been modified, but the body looks stock. Unlike a lot of folks, I "eyeball" the changes when I do a modification to a model. I want to start work on improving the interior. The dash, and seats are glued in, but I have another unused seat, and I can extract the dash from the car without damaging it.

RIP Harry. You will be sorely missed.

Thank you Eric! I think that once I get some putty and primer on it, It will look pretty good. I'm sorry that I did not take any pictures of the car as I bought it. It was done as the custom version, which does not look too bad. Who knows, I may do one up as a custom. Nah! I really want to do my Dad's '66, followed by a Coupe'.

I like those Javelins Snake! A while back, I picked up this '68 promo off of Ebay. It is not pristine. I may strip the paint off, and have the chrome re-done, as well as add a vinyl roof to it, and swap out the wheel covers for a set of Styled Wheels. I am not too crazy about the green. My preference I Red, with the Black Vinyl Roof, Side Stripes and Interior. I also have a '69 Resin piece from Raoul (Sport Suburban). It took a little work to clean it up, but it was worthwhile. I plan to do it up as a "Big Bad" car. I have to tweak it a little, but I think it will work out.

Nice '60's vibe!

Great Work!!!!! I love the color!

I got a little more work one on the '66 Lincoln Convertible. I made up the flipper panel and fitted it to the body. The fit of the flipper panel is very good, needing to be blended into the body with a little putty before primer. The interior tub actually fits better than what is in the picture. The windshield unit needs to be trimmed at the bottom so that the tub fit is better. I also adjusted the fit of the hood, as the kit hood on all of my '66 through '69 Lincolns needed the same adjustment. I also did some more work to the up-top, adding the bows and welting around the edges and the rear window. Now, I have to do some putty work in the roof and put it in some primer before I add the seams and final trim above the rear window. At this point, I want to remove the custom front end from the car, and create a more positive attachment point for the front grille/bumper unit, as well as add the body seams between the cowl and front fenders, and fix a sink mark on the right front fender before I shoot the primer. Next, I have to make a set of sun visors, and cut the interior tub apart to detail the interior. The seats, dash pad and steering wheel are welded together pretty tight, bit I have dealt with worse, so I do not foresee any problems with the next step. In doing my research, I have a little work to do to the interior to bring out the detailing. I am narrowing down the color combination, as the factory up-top colors were Black, White, or Dark Blue. I want the car to be Replica Stock, but for what those cars cost new, I am quite sure that there were a few "Special Order' color combinations done by the factory.

I could not find any hoods at a reasonable price in styrene. I had 3 '66's including this one, sso I paid to get te hood and some other parts cast. It was a great favor from him to do this for me, as he has a lot of casting going on. The resin parts I got look great!

Lew Wickersham drove a '67 Lincoln Sedan. It had a black Vinyl Roof, and was either Dark Green or Black. That is dependent on which TV I was watching at the time.

A few months back, I bought a built-up AMT annual '66 Lincoln Continental Sedan at our model cub meeting. It was built cleanly, using the Gene Windfield custom front and rear end treatments and wheels. The best news of all, it was never painted. The bad news, it had the 1/2 Vinyl Roof overlay glued on the back half of the roof. I like the '66 Lincoln, as my Dad had had one when I was a kid, and I plan to do a future build of his car with another one of the kits I have. I figured that this one would be the perfect candidate for either a re-build of what the previous builder did, as it was not too bad looking, except it had a couple of minor glue smears, and a heavy handed application of glue to attach some of the parts on the body, or what I have been wanting to do for a while, a late '60's Lincoln Continental Convertible. I started to hunt for the parts I needed to do a Replica Stock build, as well as do the research to get the project going. I bought a few pieces off of Ebay, and some hard to find parts resin cast. At this point, I have everything I need to get the project off of the ground. Earlier this week, Eric McLeod posed his '66 Lincoln Continental Convertible build, and his fine work gave me the inspiration to get things started. I took the car apart, and got to work. I cut the roof off after I removed the custom 1/2 vinyl roof overlay. It looks like the cuts came out pretty good. I have to do some fine tuning, fit the interior tub into the car better, make up some sun visors and a flipper panel for the rear deck. I also got another Idea, an up top.The roof came off in one piece, and its shape is similar to the actual car's up top. The roof needs some fine tuning ( bows, minor shaping and seams) but I think it is going to work. Last night (actually this morning) I completed the second step, which was making up, and installing the flipper panel on the body, and modifying the interior tub into a convertible configuration, re-aligning the resin hood to fit better, and starting work on the up-top. I have to shoot some pictures of this work in the next few days, as I want to do a little tweaking of these items before I get into primer and putty I want to improve the fit of the up-top. Special thanks go out to Eric McLeod for getting me off of my duff, and a certain master resin caster (Norm Veber) who cast some parts I could not get otherwise.

The American Satco Firestone Deluxe Champion in their different iterations have been my go to tire for many years. I bought up as many sets as I could get. I also bought some of Modelhaus' tires too. I am just sorry that they are out of production. I am quite sure that some of the enterprising suppliers out there can create a set of tires that are just as good, ay the right price for the replica stock and mild custom builder.

No. those are Chrysler 300's/ Maybe Juha can be talked into doing a '69-71 Sport Fury.

That is some nice work!!!! I just got an Air-Trax Resin Chrysler 300 2 Door for a future project, and I can say, that 4 Door rings my bell !!!!!

Unfortunately, I got rid of that roof long ago, as it was a very bad glue-bomb, and I had to slice it up. I wanted it to be a hardtop, but it could not be saved. I have to still find some glass for it, and I do not want to raid a pristine S/C Rambler for it.

I make no bones about it. I have always liked AMC cars, and I have several in the collection, as well as three under construction. A '65 American hardtop turned into a convertible. a'66 American Convertible, and a '66 American Hardtop. All three are resurrected glue-bombs. When I got it, the convertible looked like this. . The hardtop was almost as bad. It has taken a lot of work, but the convertible has been fixed up, and is in primer and the hardtop is ready to be put in primer. I was able to save the trim and emblems on both. I may paint them both the same color, and they will both have 6 Cylinder engines.

I built one of those when the kit first came out several years ago, and I really liked it. I bought a Donk version of the kit, and promptly got rid of it, because of the hideous interior. I was able to pick up another one before they disappeared. My Dad's last decent car was a '81 Coupe DeVille, which was a good looking car. I would like to modify one of these into a replica of his car. He would be proud.

Masterful!

Steve, The build is beautiful, as usual. I truly wish you and your wife well on this new adventure. Your builds have made me step up my game, and I thank you for it. Keep in touch.

Wow! I just had one of his business cards in my hand this afternoon. R.I.P Daryl.