The Junkman

During a gap in games that I wanted to watch today, my wife wanted to visit a local art tour. This is a pretty rural, relatively (esp. for Calif) low income area unless you're growing some "alternate crops". Anyway, I've got to keep up deposits in the "Good Husband Brownie Point Bank". Hit a couple of places, nothing interesting. The last place (the owner's wife has a separate studio for stained glass art) I spy in the garage a 2015 Corvette-7k miles in 4 months. First I've seen in its nest. Next to that-a late model CTS-V. In front of the Caddy, a Crossley Formula Ford and next to the Crossley, an immaculate 66 Mustang Fastback. I start talking with the husband and he allows that he has a F Production MGB and a Bugeye but the Sprite's in the shop and the MGB is in the trailer about to go out really soon for another run. It still has the dirt from Indy deposited in the wheel wells where he got to run it in a once in a life time experience. The only other car with any bug splatters was the Caddy-apparently the wife's car. He also has a brand new F-150 for use as a tow vehicle. I'm just not doing something right with my life.

I bought the 2010 and 2013 Revell Mustang kits and am going to duplicate my 2013 GT (check signature for photo). Cobbling those together leaves me with a good basis for a 2012 Boss 302. Just like this: One problem: no one is doing late model Mustang stripe sets (are you listening K Marks? An orange stripe set would be awesome for a Laguna Edition) So, I've got several 1969 edition sets-Last Detail, Fred Cady-with the correct "C" stripe. Would they work or should I wait. A second question: anyone got a line on "5.0" logos/badges for the front fenders? Detail master Mustang set has exactly one and it looks too big for the fenders. Along with the fact I'd have to buy two DM sets.

How many '60s-'70s TV shows substituted a Checker when they needed a Soviet limo or somesuch. Virtually defined "utilitarian".

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We had our local car show today with a meet-n-greet last night. Of all the cars I saw this one last night caught my attention more than the buffed and polished ones. Oxidized 392ci hemi, rust and corrosion and the gas tank was a beer keg. Am I a rat rodder after all?

The blue one at least appears to be a Lola GT, a stepping stone on the way to the GT40. For that I'm prepared to forgive it. While on the subject, note the tail lamps of the majority of GT40s. Note a certain similarity to the tail lamps of a distinctive rear engine, air cooled, GM product?

Front end has a bit of the Austin-Healey 3000 to it but you would have to pull back/lay down the grill somewhat.

Mercury Cyclone II Gurney Special (a "W" grill could be added" 71 Cyclone GT 289 Shelby Cobra w/street, FIA, and competition body/wheel options Lola T-70 coupe and roadster 1955 Buick Century so I could do the Dan Matthews memorial I've wanted to do. ("21-50 to headquarters")

Wonder how much he charged per autograph. The guy knew every way to another buck.

It is beyond me to understand, excepting licensing fees, why there is not an up to date 1/24 or 1/25 scale 289 Cobra kit. The AMT came out in what: 1964? Except for the Revell 427 and the Fujimi replica of a 427 kit car, there is nothing else ever released. A couple resin transkits that are OOP. Its a car that straddles generations. Street, competition, FIA bodies all could be reached with a common chassis and minor parts change/additions. To say nothing of the Daytona coupe. Maybe when I win the Lotto I'll fund the cutting of some molds.

Stanford University has digitized their photo archives and one in particular could hold much promise. https://revslib.stanford.edu/ For instance the Jean Charles Martha Photography Collection has beautiful Kodachrome photos of mid-60's European races, Martha being the official Ford company photographer. Long time author Karl Ludvigsen has over 50K photos in his collection. You can search by person, event, model (Porsche 911, Mustang, etc). Some things are not as useful, we don't need 30 photos of Zora Arkus-Duntov's files, but there is a lot of wheat in the chaff. i.e. prototype progression of the classic 55-57 Thunderbird Hint: find the photo you want, click on it and when the photo pops up in another box use the controls in the upper left hand corner to expand it. There, that ought to waste most of your afternoon.

I've got a set-good quality but limited run type printing, buy 2 and double up.

Bah, we need (NEED!) a new mold Shelby 289 Cobra, street and race. After that you can have your '30s Chevy.

Do you have any details on that build? Whole body or just fenders, etc? Right there is a big hole in the car model panoply: how can a new mold, modern 289 Cobra (both street and FIA/USRRC) model NOT be a home run for some enterprising model company. AMT's 260 Cobra has to be 50 years old by this point. And lets add a Daytona Coupe to that, shall we?

+1 Haven't cared for a Ferrari Halo car since the F-40. I also like rotary phones, newspapers, analog cell phones with a little antenna you pull up.

I got this back in April. Told the insurance that I would put, maybe, 5K miles on it. Just clicked over 16K on Friday. Ooops. I had wanted a Grabber Blue Mustang since I was 17 and I saw my first 1970 Boss 302. Had to go through a lot of minivans to get here.

The big winter toy show in Nurnburg started on Thursday. Here's a preliminary list of announcements-autos under the "Ziviles" listing. Not much for us to get excited about. Mostly stuff we already knew about and re-releases. I know the plane and armor modelers are stoked. http://www.ipmsdeutschland.de/Ausstellungen/Nuernberg2014/Nuernberg_2014.html Here's a photo gallery http://www.ipmsdeutschland.de/Ausstellungen/Nuernberg2014/Bilder_VH/Bilder_VH.html

FYI: I found a 170 c.i. Ford 6 cyl engine on Ebay. No connection with the seller http://www.ebay.com/itm/Resin-Ford-170-C-I-engine-Mustang-Falcon-Fairlane-Ranchero-Missing-Link-/350951953843?pt=Model_Kit_US&hash=item51b65dd5b3

I got it to work. No dates posted so I don't know how old some of the info is. http://www.bonediggers.com/toc.html

1: A new, up to date molding of the classic 260/289 Cobra 2: Same as above only the USRRC and FIA versions (Come on Revell/Round 2-the only injection molded kit was released in 1962/63!) 3:Any late model F-250/F-350 Ford pickup 4: Lola T-70 roadster and coupe 5: (now fantasy realm) 69, 71 or 72 Dodge Polara 4 dr. I love my classic police cars

Well, there's another one but they drove Mercury Monterey's in 1957.

Can you model and shoot? I peaked at Kodak Instamatics http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/10/mini-motorama/#slideid-100881

More than likely- :o

My Squadron flyer shows them in stock. Cars are 1/43rd and the planes from Planes are 1/100. All run about $8 http://www.squadron.com/model-cars-and-trucks-s/2373.htm?searching=Y&sort=3&cat=2373&show=18&page=1&brand=ZVEZDA

Well, here's one way to contact them. http://stores.ebay.com/Missing-Link-Resin-cast-model-cars And are you using this link? I asked because its working fine for me. http://www.missinglinkrc.com/ (Postscript: yeah, you're right. The parts link is verclempt.) Nice people to work with. They sold me a rear bumper off their mid-70s Ford Mustang II separately (going to use it on my Gunze Mustang II as the one in the kit is totally wrong).