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Those Torque Thrust wheels were in the AMT release that had a blue car on the box, but they were unplated. They may have been in at least one of the other Super Stock kits, but it's been years since I've opened one of either of the kits up.

That's the official logo of the what is now known as the Green Triangle Growers Association. It used to be known as the Humboldt County Growers Association but it has enlarged with Trinity and Siskyou county joining.

try using a roller ball from a roll on deodorant, coat it with contact adhesive and roll it with some pressure thorough some extra coarse silver glitter, then clear it to hold the glitter down better. If you can find some Li'l Daddy Roth Flake their silver looks like small pieces of mirror it's so shiny.

Why don't you get the two four set up from one of the AMT Riviera kits, and if you want to stay fifties style trans (but you have '60s rear suspension) go with the block adapter from the AMT '40 Ford coupe, and the '50 F-1 transmission from Revell since it has better detail, but it would be relative to the rear suspension if you used the B&M Hydro out of any of the early Revell kits with the Oldsmobile motor, the new custom version of the Olds coupe even has that trans.

It would be nice to see the Craftsman line bring back a couple of their big hits too, the 1964 Chevelle Malibu is bringing ridiculous prices right now so there has to be some demand for it. It would also be nice if it was modified into a standard Malibu with a bench seat and no console instead of the SS version. While talking about kits that are bringing big money, have you tried buying any of the Pinto's lately, they're ALL out of sight, but the two sedans are ridiculous, the small bumper AMT Wonder Pony '71, and the big bumper MPC '74 both being almost impossible to get for the average builder.

I wouldn't mind if someone offered some Mercury detail kits for the earlier Ford F-1, and F-100'S to make some Canadian pickups

If this is a shot of the old tool, I like the roof line of the new tool a lot better.Just wish tthey had kept the custom version parts in this release too. If they want to redo this kit to make it right, do a four door small block version, there's more than a few of us that would build the Supernatural car if we had the right kit. Since I have a half dozen of the custom version, and a couple of nice resin flat hoods I'm passing this time around. Got the hoods off eBay, wish I remember who made them, they're removed from the box they came in and taped in place on the bodies of the kits, I learned the hard way that you don't leave resin hoods laying around in the box loose.

How about the MPC/AMT '86 El Camino that was recently reissued?

go to the train section in your local hobby shop, or the model airplane section and find some small decals of the proper size, you can also find some tiny decals that can pass for underhood informational decals, they little decals have such small writing the only way anyone will know what they say is if they carry a super magnifying glass.

Since the resin is a lot softer than the styrene plastic, using some 80 grit paper on a flat sanding board should thin it out pretty quickly, or if you have access to a belt sander and a light touch, then just switch to finer paper to finish it, or build an inner structure out of.010 to smooth out some of the coarse sanding.

the Bel-Air hardtops have been done in several different years and scales but there's only been one release of the Bel-Air sedan in '56 and it's been decades sinc we've seen that one, and the last sedan we saw wasn't the Bel-Air, but the middle of the road 210.

Thanks, that's a pretty good idea, I may try the same idea with a set of small block valve covers. It even gives me an idea of how to do a close copy of an engine Kendigit Design did on a LS series engine. Super job, that soft yellow gives it that Dad's car look and multiplies the sleeper persona. And you really killed it with the engine, I like the valve covers, where did they come from with the Chevrolet lettering on them?

Great build, I was thinking of using Krylon Metalcast silver base and a transparent blue for the steering wheel and shift knob, I used the Orange Anodizing color over that base for a Cragar metalflake wheel in a Hemi Hydro build a while back. That's a really coarse metallic silver and makes a good metalflake simulation under a candy color, for a model, to enhance the metalflake effect I use a good coat of clear before putting the transparent color coat on, it adds a little more depth and sparkle to the effect.

Super job, that soft yellow gives it that Dad's car look and multiplies the sleeper persona. And you really killed it with the engine, I like the valve covers, where did they come from with the Chevrolet lettering on them?

Almost all the 1:1 plum crazy cars I've seen had white seats and door panels and the lower dash, with black carpets rear package tray, and upper dash, oh yeah, thejjy had white headliners too. There's more than one paint code that used the plum crazy name, and one thing that might be confusing you is what looks like a fairly fine metallic on a real car looks like metalflake on a model. Plum Crazy is a metallic color, I have painted a lot of it over the years, we started running it as the primary color on our dirt stock cars in 1969, when the color was first released, in fact that first purple paint was a custom mix because none of the paint companies had a mixing formula for it yet, we also painted our '55 ChevyBel-Air tow car to match the race car, it was really popular with the public, the first race car that color was also a '55 Chevy.l

Looking good, I kinda like the "optional" four speed hydramatic transmission yours came with (lol). I'm not sure that little anemic four cylinder had enough power to even turn the pump in that tranny in stock form, but it's a cute addition to a little dilemma, there aren't many kits that have the stock trans to rob from.

Two four barrel carbs like the ones in the Rat Roaster kit would work, or for a vintage look the four Strombergs like the ones on the Ed Roth Beatnik Bandit would be perfect. In fact the entire Oldsmobile engine from the Beatnik Bandit would make a great choice for a vintage street rod look.

That's good, all I want is the body and bumpers (or mid seventies Camaro bumpers) for a late model sportsman oval track racer.

Don't forget the water bypass hose that goes from the boss on the top center of the water pump to the front center of the intake, it's the same size as heater hose and is very easy to make with a piece of insulated wire bent in a 90 degree angle.

As long as we're wishing MPC would bring a one of a kind kit back, how about the 1974 Pinto, it was a sedan body style with the deluxe side moldings and chrome window trim, and stainless wheel opening trim. I want another one (I have one already) to make a version of the '71 I had when I got married, it went through four different major rebuilds, and different versions of custom and stock paint (one of the perks of owning your own body shop). It's a pretty simple job to do, just use the front and rear lower valances and little bumpers from the earlier Runabout kits. And if you want to get really technical use the interior tub and seats from the 1971 Wonder Pony kit from AMT, this was the only sedan body AMT offered, but it had the plain Jane style body and bumpers. But did have the correct '71 interior, with the different tiny arm rests and the plain transmission tunnel without the catch all mini console under the dash in front of the shifter.

Thanks for the clarification, I knew there was discussion at one time about the COPO having needed Yenko parts.

Has anyone got an idea about what will be different for the gasser version of the '57 Ford?

Wasn't the Nova a COPO, not a Yenko, but the discussion was that it was closer to a Yenko than a COPO because it had some options a COPO didn't, but the Yenko's did?

Alan, before painting the car show community with a wide brush,or a roller I'd suggest a little better research, in the recent past there have been several AMBR finalists that came from individual garage builders, and even one from a High School shop program, and the past couple of years the winners have appeared to be very close to out of the box garage builds, but the biggest difference is the detail work, and attention to the little subtle changes that take a really close look to find. And it's kinda ironic that you made the remark about reproduction sheet metal not being close enough for the purists to use, because again let me give you a little known background bit of trivia on reproduction parts, when thereproduction industry first started one of its initial offerings was parts for a 1932 Chevrolet roadster, to say these were the usual offerings that only a hot rod builder might use in a pinch is a little off. In fact to showcase their offerings, the company built a totally stock roadster using body parts that was done using the manufacturers firewall tag as the only production line part from Chevrolet, it won it's class and this was at one of the countries top concourse type shows. They did forfeit their award and disclose that the car was officially built using reproduction tin, but as far as building a real car it would still be considered a 1932 Chevrolet by the DMV. Many street rod builders really prefer the reproduction steel to original junk, because of the better quality control than the factory did back then, and because they don't have to correct or repair decades of neglect and abuse, or improperly done work before being able to start on a project. So I think that last stock deuce coupe is safe now, thanks to the hot rod industry who want a project that is miles ahead in quality of what Henry had to offer.