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Tim , I like the car , it looks like a " Factory Experimental " . Ed Shaver

Randy , everything and I mean everything was done to 1-24th scale . The cars of course are 1-25th . Ive got a 1941 Lincon I can't seem to find but it will reside in the grease pit area. This was a model of an actual working station too. It quit selling gasoline somewhere about 1959. It remained as a repair shop until about 1974. The origional office was turned into a Convience store for aboiut a year or two . I'ts been vacant since about 1985 according to city records . Ed Shaver

You know yer going to HAVE to move to Texas as they're one of the few places except for Los Angles where you can manuver a trailer that long in traffic . I know as I used to deliver cardboard boxes to Moving companies in Oaklahoma and Arkanas as well as Texas . getting a 48 ft trailer in to some of the old city docks like Scearcy Arkansas and making a turn ..... whew . it took work ! Ed Shaver

Yes , hold the can back at least 24 ins for a couple of LIGHT COATS FIRST !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ed Shaver

Building this job only required a year and a half . Doing the research too two years . built in 1937 at the corner of 3rd ave and Preston Ave in Richmond Virginia , this building survived intact even with the construction of I - 95 in 1958 . [ IMG]http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt266/scrubba/gettinerready.jpg Ed Shaver

Sam , I don't generaly do Large scale unless a meuseuem needs it but that diorama is an outstanding piece , especially the fire pit ! It really came off very realistic . Nicely done . Ed Shaver

Im with 99 G T , heck the day I build a Low Rider or a Nascar or anything " Bling " watch the ground kids , the lil red guy gonna come up an say Hy ya kids ! I have tractor tailer models but I don't build them . I spent too many years driving and serviceing them . I may at some point actually get round to doing one or two . I enjoy seeing several other peoples work on ALL levels though . Anyway , I have to go to work , I'll check in later ! Ed Shaver

Ladies and gentlemen , thank you for your brave service ! Ed Shaver

Halilughia !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YOU SAVED A PERFECTLY GOOD MODEL FROM BLING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so sick of BLING HERE ON THIS FORUM TOO !!!!!!!!! Heck , Im beginning to think I should start listening to Disco and Rapp and looking like Mr T !!!!!!!! I wasn't raised in the getto even though Ive had to live in several dives . You are to be comended ! Ed Shaver

From reading your story , the kit sounds very interesting ! Two transmissions , a seperate windshield frame , a Hurst option ? Gee, this sounds very much like the old days of the 3 in one annuals with a refinement added . Now is this worth the thirty dollars that Revell wants to extract for this kit ? Ed Shaver

Revell did do a Karmann Gihia but the body was a multi piece affair back I think in the late fifties , very early sixties . I had one too. The one you have , Pyro perhaps ? Ed Shaver

I agree with Art ! I'll get ya some pictures of a 1929 Ford Jalopy racer I did for the Amoco projek ya'all have yet to see . I used the Model A 4 banger with very period speed equipment and of course Steel wheels . See Jarius I do pay tention ! Ed Shaver

Jeremy , I actually sold Chrysler products when that car was around ! Considering the kit an all, I like it -------------- A LOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You done great ! Ed Shaver

Greg , that Yellow is so bright it reflected up on yer screen and made you post it twice ! You did well ! Ed Shaver

Mannnn , I got to wear sunglasses to look at that ride !That yellow is soooo bright , im swearin thats the sun itself !!!!!!! Ed Shaver

Used to inspect these jobs for state inspection every so often . U - Haul here had a slew of them and a fellow I was friends with had one as a wrecker . This cab shopuld sell very well ! Ed Shaver

Ken , you and I have discussed this topic at lenith. I agree with every thing you said too! I should ought to post the service station I sent Bill Gery of last year. It was a complete replicia of a former Conoco station that was built here in Richmond Virginia in 1923 . To make a long story Short , I entered it in the I P M S contest only to have the entire entry disregarded by the judges . The judges were from Tidewater and of course they awarded the prizes , all three to their own . I heard several stories after the fact . I didn't say anything on account of the fact that I didn't want to create a scene . As for my feelings about the host club , well it certainly wasn't their fault , hey threw out the mat to recruit people who thought they could be impartial . Still , we found rampant politicing going on as it happened again last year , ask Don Yost of Lone Wolf Custom painting , he was there and witnessed it yet again ! I was a judge for that contest once and never again as the time when I did , I refused top give an award to a " Certain builder " he threw a temper tantrum afterwards and called me every name under the sun . I swore then I would NEVER EVER judge a I P M S contest again and guess what kids , I never have ! Ed Shaver

Mark , as a side note here , the Monogram 55 Ford Panel Delivery came out in 1975. It was molded red and in 1-24th scale . The glaring thing that grabbed me was the WAYYYY too flat foof . See, I own a 53 Model . The roof is correctable if you're really intent on going after dead accuracy . You need to put a curvature in the width and breadth of the truck but an experenced model builder should be able to do the job as it didn't take too much of my time to correct the mistakes . Building a genuine stocker out of the Monogram will require a chassis from the A M T 53 Ford P U or a Revell 56. Either way , some lenthing will be required as the body is a milimeter or two longer . The seats in a panel have to be scratch built as Ford actually had special seats for them . By the way a passenger seat was an option too. The easiest way to do the drivers seat in stock form will be to cut down a stock bench and make it smaller to fit the drivers side . If you need to make a 53, the grille will need to shaved a might as the A M T grille is a might big . Also , the grille in the " Annual " showed a optional , " CUSTOM " cab grillle as it had teeth . Standard cabs did not have this option and a Correct Custom Cab for 1953 will also include chrome drip rails , door panel trim , and a chrome trim piece on the dash board mounted just under the speedometer panel running the lenth of the dash . What i did was to cut the teeth out and then sand the back of the grille to " Open the grille up for a more realistic appearence . I hope this helps someone trying to do a 53-55 Ford truck . By the way , I'm very happy to send copies out from my parts books and shop manuals to anyone needing info on them . Ed Shaver

O K , now that i'm more confused as ever , I will now go back to pouring resin into ONE PIECE MOLDS and hoping for the best ! Whew !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ed Shaver

Ron , I still fail to see how you are going to heat the place in the winter time . Where you have the tire changer , there should have been a Utility room . I know what working in such a place is all about too. I worked in a fprmer Texaco/ Fina station with no heat in Dallas Texas once . Never again , I beleive that was the fomation of several of my current health ailments I suffer from today . Ed Shaver

The only thing I can think of would be to soak it in hot , not boiling water for thirty minutes . Carefully with some gloves on try and form the body back . Ed Shaver

Thats a real shame Ben , this was one Luxury ride too ! Ed Shaver

CAN WE PLEASE HAVE AN OFF TOPIC THREAD WHERE SEX DRUGS AN POLITICS ARE DISSUSED ???????????????????????????????? Ed Shaver

Bill, I need 4 hubcaps and 4 compact tires fer either Buick . Ed Shaver

Ken , did someone tell ya that you should persue a hobby? Ed Shaver