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And the lean burn ignition can be replaced by a points distributor, coil, and ballast resistor I think. Had to do that to my 84 Dodge truck once. May be more parts involved that than though. Long time ago. It will crank until the battery dies with NO firing whatsoever. Parked it one night, next morning would not start. Checked everything and the lean burn was the problem. probably fancier better ways now though. That was probably 25 years ago.

Hmmm, could be a number of things. If I have the car jacked up, I might try to cross the terminals of the starter with a screwdriver to see if the starter would kick over. A SAFER method might be to remove the starter and have it checked locally. Or to put power to it on the bench. I gave up on an entire project once, thinking the motor was the culprit and it turned out to be the starter. Wish I had THAT ONE back... Young and dumb... If the starter checks out then it's an electrical issue. Mice could have eaten the wires from the ignition switch. Advance Auto used to offer a remote starter thing - very unsafe by today's standars probably. Clamp the wires to the appropriate places and squeeze it - had two big copper contacts - yes it would spark. But it did what you're wanting to do, IF you can get to the appropriate wires under the hood or car. I used to live and breathe MOPAR and they aren't too complicated, even up into the 80s. Not as easy to "jump" as a Ford with the solenoid on the fender, but not too hard either. And oh yeah, can you turn the motor at the crankshaft? To know that it isn't locked up or too stuiff for a starter motor to turn? Take the plugs out, do as others instructed. Carb isn't even important until you can get the starter to work. You can pour gas down it's throat to keep it running, if it will fire. Or a ketchup squeeze bottle is my favorite I've seen on the reality shows. You can rebuild the carb after you hear it speak. Don't try to start car to run before making sure it has oil. Some water is nice for any length of running time. And you can be serioulsy injured doing any of the things I have suggested. I am sorta old skool and learned a lot of things the hard way.

Just finished season 4 of Bosch last night. Yep I like it but you have to pay attention. They don't waste a lot of time on unimprotant details. Have watched The Fall on Netflix, The Killing, and most every other one. It is a genre where my wife and I can agree. Sit coms we are not able to agree on what is funny. So we try about all of them. And she loves Criminal Minds. I like it enough that it is our "go to" if we are between series. I enjoy the BBC crime dramas that take a season of episoides to unfold. Most of the time if they keep it moving. Some have lost me with too much minutiae. NYPD Blues was a fave back in the day. Hill Street Blues before that. I go back as far as Adam 12. Not so far as Dragnet other than in reruns.

RandoCar9916 is mine. I'll try to add you next time I get on.

I have that on my Amazon wish list and Father's Day is coming... At the rate the hobby is going, all we're going to have left is reading about our beloved kits. Thanks, Tim, for ALL your contributions to the hobby!

This kit is one of the easiest EVER to foil. Great kit to practice with. The engraving is deep enough to make it easy to trim. As nice as the rest of your kit looks, I expect your foiling will be better than mine. Thanks for the compliments

The original shipments of these kits did have matte chrome. BUT replacements were available in bright chrome. I may have some somewhere. Nice build.

Here's mine finished. Similar color but yours looks more correct than mine. My mom had a 72 in this same color scheme so mine is a tribute to that car. Mom's was a base model so I didn't use the wood grain - just black pastic in there. And you;ve gone farther than I did with some of your detailing. great build you have so far.

And my version. LOL A fun, quick build.

I played casually on my son's PS2, but was laid up with a broken (casted) wrist from motorcycle crash and the doctor said gaming would at least help keep my fingers moving. And I really liked playing Tourist Trophy with the motorcycles. Shame that didn't catch on better. I had NASCAR racing 4 (?) on PC way back - that's when I had a good wheel/pedal setup. Bought it as a way to pass the time when wife & I were separated and I could buy crazy stuff for myself. I also bought and built a 1/12 scale Tamiya Porsche 935 (martini) - my most expensive kit to date at $75 at the time. Fun build too.

Nothing of any real value. First year Squier Classic vibe 60s strat. my favorite. 95 or 96 Lake Placid Blue Mexi Strat. Bought by my wife for my birthday first year we were together - like 2014. I had been trying to buy it for a year til the guy at the music store finally came to MY price. A nice yamaha bass given to me by a close friend of my dad's after my dad passed away. A very cheap LP copy I bought for $30 at a yard sale - plays great. I think that's it for what I have in my possesion. My son has my 66 Musicmaster and my 95 Mexi strat. I have an Aspen (not much history on those) Strat. Has a very narrow neck, but has been a great slide guitar. My son has more than I do but even he doesn't play as much as he used to. He is a pianist now which takes up most of his time. I have a Roland 30 cube amp, too. Have no desire to sell any of them currently. They comfort me just being in the closet. LOL I was the drummer in our band (that's my training), but used the guitars to noodle around on and arrange some of our songs. Easier on everyone to play guitar than to practice drums alone. Musical instruments would be a good "off topic" thread as well. Bet some folks here have some really nice stuff.

Looks great! Love the GS vettes!

Heck yeah on the racing setup. That's cool. I had a nice wheel setup back in 2006, which is compatible with exactly NOTHING now. lol. I use the controller with Forza and do okay. I can get into the top 15% in the time trials and figure that's about it. Our current "gaming chair" is a nice old rocker my inherited from her favorite aunt. When we call it "the gaming chair" it makes her shudder. We turn it around for gaming or back into the family area for family things. That's the difference in "gaming chair" versus Aunt Irene's Rocking Chair. We kid her about bolting some 2x4s onto it to hold a whell and pedal setup. She is not amused. When I lived away from family for a job, I had my son's old PS2 and played GT4 or Toca about every afternoon after work. I had no other life down there. BUT I could also build models on the good sofa... bachelor's life sorta. My guitars have been in closet for a couple years. More or less gave up on music when the band fell apart - our adult lives got in the way of our Blues Legend dreams. LOL again. Thinking about making a hanging rack in spare bedroom just for the guitars to be wall art. Just don't have time and space for every hobby and a wife that (seemingly) enjoys my company - was much easier with the ex - she could care less where I was as long as I wasn't speaking to or bothering her. I kow it's no the same as actually driving a real car, but you at least get to look out over the dash and hood like it would really be. And if you;re really good, can paint a car up the way you would like to if you did own it. Just another way to pass the time.

I searched and only saw a post from 2015. So... anyone playing racing games? My son brought his Xbox to my house a couple winters back and we played Forza Horizon. My son and stepson were playing RealRacing3 on their phones. So I tried it got kinda hooked. My son & I played Tourist Trophy and GT4 when he was younger. I'm on Forza 5 and 7 now. My wife suggested I get an Xbox1 at Christmas so I did (black Friday special). My model workbench is in my unheated building, so winter time car fixes are the Xbox. I am not that good, but have a great time playing. And driving the different cars. Gets me some "car time" when I can't build. Just wondering who else may be playing. Now I got to remember to look on here for replies...

I converted a 1/32 slot to the Roadster body. Painted close to the Wintersteen car. Wish I could afford all the extras to make a really nice GS roadster. tires, body, headers, etc. Extra parts and decals. I do love the GS, whether model or the real ones.

THEY don't have to learn anymore. They sell it, American consumers buy it. Gas? Consumers have to have it, doesn't matter how they price it, really. We build our lives around cars and gas. If we cant afford vacation because of gas and car expense, we stay at home. But we will have our cars. I love cars. But am disgusted by my dependence on it. I have a CUV - not my favorite. Made sense for us. Haul kids, haul trash to dump, vacations, etc. Car worked, but only barely. I would rather have me a big old American sedan. Buick Park Avenue or my old Olds Aurora (one of my favorites of all I've owned). The olds averaged 27 mpg, which isn't bad compared to the 2007 Ford Edge. I'll probably gete my motorcycle out this weekend and start riding it some. 1995 Honda CB 250 Nighthawk. Gets in the mid 50's mpg. I'm a big guy. Makes a perfect commuter bike. I live 11 miles from work - can't ride a bicycle. Have to drive. Dependent on gas any way I go. I do buy used cars, so I am not particularly important to the current mfrs. Won't be long til we're all driving CUV/SUV pods. They are the station wagons of the present day. Self-fulfilling prophecy - we drive them because they make them and they make them because we buy them.

Funny, some of those photos look like a game. I guess I know what i'll be doing on Forza for a few days now - improving my lap times on this track. lol. This is how I want my laps to look... And it is amazing how realistic the gaming companies have gotten these tracks. Wnder how many laps (experience) it takes to be able to pull off that one spectacular lap.

Agreed. After years of trying to improve and visiting here a LOT and posting a little, I have become inspired by some of the better modelers here to approach each part in a build as it's own finished model. And guess what? I am much happier with my builds. And I still finish kits. Remove parting lines and seams. This gets me on some of the otherwise beautiful builds. Glue the seat fronts and backs together, Then clean up the parting lines and seams where it was glued. File, scrape, fill, sand, whatever it takes to get rid of everything that makes it look like pieces glued together. I can get that in a Welly or Motormax from a yard sale. I want to see craftsmanship when I look at the stuff emerging from the minds on here. I am approaching 40 years of modeling. And I still have areas to improve. And there are no real shortcuts to making each part beautiful. Once you've smelled the plastic on a newly opened kit, then you have to start cleaning up parts. Nothing ruins the illusion more than parting lines or glue seams. We are trying to give the illusion of real, right? Ok, I may be stepping out of line there - modeling is an individual thing, so maybe it's some other part of the process that is the reward for you. I guess that I should back up or stop right there. I'm projecting my hobby. But I do like to see a well-finished build, whether it is straight out of the box or highly modified. Just keep building folks...

So is the Wintersteen car set up to look like an actual race car? The Wintersteen body should be the ORIGINAL GS body for the blue Roadster. See http://www.racingicons.com/gs/gs002.htm. I used this site when building my GS models for reference. They preserved the original body because of it's historical significance. I love these cars - between this and the Cobra Daytona, they are my favorite race cars of all times. Built in a time when it was raacers trying whatever they could to make cars go fast. THe Daytona got it's body because of the aero issues of hte roadster and the Chevy guys lopped the top off the coupe to deal with aero issues of the Coupe. Didn't work for the Corvette. Still had too much lift. No factory support for the GS either, which left it as an orphan that had to race in a more difficult class mostly. OP's build is so sweet as well. Wish mine had turned out that nice.

Seems to me like the steering wheel or something was closer to 1/24? I can't remember. And those tires - OMG how SQUARE could they make them? the sidewalls are like completely flat and vertical? These are memories of course. I think I may have built it when first released and later used the steering wheel for some other project in 1/24. Seems like. I may be completely off base on that. Coincidentally, the Lindberg 1/20 Explorer is one of only a few kits I ever gave up on and threw away. I can't remember why now. Seems like it was generally awful. Something was bad wrong for me to completely give up on. I dod still have the Toyota and Nissan pickups in my collection of builtups. Not sure where they are though. Love the stuff you do Adam. I always read about the car stuff. Here and on your blog. I wish there were more weird things for you to report on.

This is all pretty cool stuff. I went thru slot cars a few years ago. Still have lots fo cars and track. Fun for a while. Even made a 6' x 12' routed 3 lane layout - still at my ex house with my ex wife. I miss my lawnmower - LOL. Had a lot of fun with it with my kids and friends. BUT... Look at the Forza seriesfor example. You can drive 700+ cars now on real race tracks. Sit in the car with actual details of the real thing. I've been to VIR a couple times and the scenery in the game is spot-on. The last turn at sebring? With all it's roughness? Yep, it's in there. Plus, if you invest in a whole setup, you can have steering wheel, pedals, shifter. Some guys are using real car seats or racing seats. With slots, you get a thrill of racing, but not the whole deal. And the new system in the OP looks fun too, til you figure in the cost and space. I use my wife's inherited rocking chair and the TV already in place. I turn the rocker around and no space is taken for the hobby. With Real Racing 3, you can race anytime (almost) on your smart phone. As nice as models are, there is nothing like sitting in a 69 Boss 302, with the dash and wheel interpreted accurately. And driving around Sebring or VIR or Watkins Glen or so on. I can race against the old cars and drive them too. As fun as slots and the newer things are, I really like the racing games much more. I hope the slot hobby hangs on - they do make some very nicely detailed models and they are fun, if you got a place to race.

Plotters I used to have would do multiple passes from the machine or the software. Never exactly the same if the blade lifted between passes. And the drage and tracking was never perfect on a second pass.

If the plotters would cut all the way through a thinner material, I would probably think in that direction and use two or more layers to laminate together. The inner layers could have large holes to allow better chance at registration, due to the impossibility of friction feed plotter to cut the exact same thing twice - I've read the specs and tolerances and that is complete bs. Been there, done that. To echo others, the artwork has to be a vector format - LINES not pixels, unless you the buileder are willing to pay for someone to digitize. That can get expensive really quickly I hope. I'm on the side of the artist on that. So much work on this it would have to be a costly labor of love. It woould be quite an undertaking.

NICE! Wish I woulda done that one years ago.

NICE! I always love to see how folks interpret this kit.