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I'm going a little old school and using the wires with big'n littles from the Revellogram 1/24th scale Deuce Roadster, they are a lot like the True spokes even though I think they are supposed to be Buck wires except except the wide and widers aren't anything like something Buick released. But I think they are a lot better than the Kelsey Hayes that came in the sedan kit.

Or in a lot of instances the builder went for a station wagon or van roof panel cut to fit the opening and it was even better if it had ribs or even wider grooves in it. They helped immensely with preventing "oil canning" and added to the ability of roof to absorb outside noise like rain etc. and wasn't prone to getting innocent dents or ripples from the idaknow or the notme critters.. In scale the roof from the late '70s Dodge van worked out pretty well and it wasn't as hard to get the double contours into it.

Great to hear about that, because as you know the first thing is to toss the instructions in the Circular File but then when something goes wrong and doesn't fit like we THINK it should we end up in the garbage can with our feet hanging out the top hoping that the cat litter was bagged BEFORE being tossed in the dumpster.

I bought of the Polar Lights kits over 10 years ago and paid $12 for it at a Longs Drug store and thought it was overpriced but I really wanted it, it came with wire wheel looking wheels and mid size whitewalls it's been waiting for me to get the mood for a fancy cruiser aka the Tony Stewart one.

I wish they had carried it over into the newest Boss 302 kit. I have some cool ideas for a '60s - '70s dirt track modified. They ran a modified class here that was basically the same as the Super Modifieds but were limited to 302 c.i. flat tappet cam and a single four barrel carb and run gasoline only also the body had to be of steel construction. No Fibreglass allowed..

These were actually offered by Chevrolet dealers up through the 1939.model year, there is a small door directly under the bed and the spare tire is located there in the same location as the coupe except the coupes lacked the little door.

Now you need to have a build off for a AA truck with a trailer and flatbed so everything can make it to the show in REAL style.??

Thanks, but being in Northern California we don't have any Ollies stores here I can still get one from Hobby Lobby at a 40% off every other week, but I miss their old online coupons because they worked on anything that wasn't already marked down.

Cool, another kit I need to get now.??

I was going through my "toss it in there, it'll be super safe" box for resin stuff that seems to always somewhere else when I look for a part and to my surprise came up with one of the rare (?) Autolite/Weber inline four barrel carbs and intake that I picked up from someone I have forgotten about,. I think it would be a perfect oddity intake set up. The thing I was thinking of was putting two together but then it would just look like a normal Weber set up and I still have a set or two from the original ITC(?) Cougar concept car.

Is that tonneau cover on the bed the one from the Monogram custom S-10 kit?

The cool thing about that original sedan body is it doesn't take much to make it look a Chevrolet body for an older oval track racer.

I wish someone would produce the parts to get make the Bonneville Salt racing version with all the streaming stuff added (and removed) that would be perfect for the 429 "Shotgun" with two fours and it would probably fit under the factory hood without a added hood bubble for it.

The AMT '57 hardtop has an excellent Y block and speed equipment too and the factory three speed and I need to dig one of mine out but I seem to think it might have an overdrive solenoid on it too. Another source for a Y block would be the original Revell '56 Ford pickup it's a stock only but does have the funky front crossover pipe that the Y block engines were noted for.

Might be better for everyone in the long run if all tools that could be get returned to the USA. Cut down on redos in and shipping times and costs for kits and test runs. With rising fuel costs bumping up shipping costs how much are the manufacturers saving by having China produce kits any longer?

There is also a Dodge (Chrysler) Kit car Challenger that a "young newbie" tested and managed to find a wall but no real serious damage resulted. And it might be one of the few tests that were done on a dirt track.

Just my preference but I'd much rather see some of the Indy roadsters released, I think that they would have a lot of interest and there are a lot that could be done with just a minor swap in a parts tree and different decals. There are also some that can be called or considered oddities like the Smokey Yunick "pod" car and the Jim Hurtibise "Mongoose" the last front engined Offy Roadster to qualify for the 500.

It's the "Early Modified" series of kits and these are a little different than most you're going to find, it's an early I believe it might have been a Wieand and they have the carb twisted slightly on the top of the runners and the theory was that it equalized the runner lengths to the different intake valves.

I wasn't sure what it was but now that you said that it's funny because a month or two ago I picked up one of those Brookfield promo style Monte Carlo's in sealed box for $5, it is black but I was going to build it up as one of the Earnhardt Special Edition cars, but I can't decide if it will be a Taz version in red or the Dale Earnhardt Sr. Special Edition in Black with Silver trim.

There's been a single plane intake produced by AMT for quite a while now, they're on the big block engines in the dirt track Modified center steer Tobias Chassis kits.

It was in my mind anyway a mystery why nobody ever released a model of Ford's Bronco II, or for that matter one of the first series Ranger mini trucks.

There's also the Chevy Barettas, and I seem to remember a Lumina (that wasn't a NASCAR kit) but can't remember who released it or the year of production. Surprised myself while looking through some stash boxes and came across one of the Barettas in a sealed factory box that for some reason I picked up at a KayBee Liquidators store for 99¢ after it was marked down a half dozen times or thereabouts.

I've heard that they think of it kinda like having sex in a canoe. Now let's see how many actually know the punch line to that old joke.??

Those "Hot Knives" are still available in a couple of different forms, I know that in my last Micro Mark catalog they had one that was still sold as a Hot Knife, and I have seen them in crafts areas of a couple of different stores that have the same basic thing sold in a woodburning kit that had several different screw in tools and one of them was a metal screw collet for a #11 blade in what was basically a extremely high heat soldering iron and both of them had a disclaimer that you were to only use the first 1/8" of the blade to keep from melting your job into a mangled blob of plastic. They weren't very good at the time they were first sold and they haven't improved over the years.

I knew that the frog mouth tops for the old 97s came in the latest retool of the Tweedy Pie, but didn't know they were in the Tweedy Pie II kit, the only things that I found in mine were the velocity stack type with just a flared top on them. I might just be over looking them, not a new thing for these eyes. But I haven't been able to find anything to clear up the haze and make sure they can see better.??