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The only thing to remember about using bleach is it will remove ONLY the chrome, and not the lacquer base coat. I've had my containers of the original Castrol Super Clean for almost twenty years and they still strip just as well now as they ever did. The only thing I might recommend is occasionally pouring through a metal strainer to remove some of the excess paint chunks that build up in the bottom of the container. I do have problems with stripping real lacquer like Tamiya or automotive paints, that may be why the Aoshima chrome doesn't strip well, it is topped with a clear lacquer finish for protection, or to achieve the semi polished appearance of some of their wheels.

And lot of it depended on the area too, since almost all the trucks were gasoline engines and didn't have the power of the later diesels, they didn't tend to put larger loads on trucks that were going to see mountain traveling. The big deal about not seeing trucks or Corvettes on the same shipment as passenger cars is because they were built in different facilities and the only time you might see them shipped together is just like today in the case of an inter dealership trade, where a special drop shipped passenger car for one dealership would be made and pick up the trade of a truck or Corvette to go to the original dealer for the shipment.

Great to hear about the success of your surgery, and I bet that the second most elated person is Kelly, now you both can hopefully get back to something very close to a normal life style. (If anyone in Hawaii has what can be considered a normal lifestyle) Personally I think the new printing schedule will be the best thing since running water, those five month or so lead times confuse the living daylights out of me. And the possibility of more outlets carrying the magazine is also good news, now it'll be easier for to get back up copies for the ones I wear out or manage to spill my beverage of the day on. Keep on improving, maybe we'll meet up at NNL West this year. I have another surgery scheduled for the fourth of February and hope to be walking around with the help of a trusty scooter by then, keeping the fingers crossed.

They should have kept it and molded it in glow in the dark plastic. Would have been a great Cheshire cat funny car, "bnothing but the smile"

That's a nice looking Cobra, got some more shots of it? Would really like some more information on how you achieved that fantastic finish.

Larry Watson would give you a big thumbs up on the 'Bird, it's a great job on a wonderful model.

It shouldn't be to hard for Revell to offer a Bell four spoke w wheel, they'd just have to add an outer wheel to a spruce, they already have the artwork for a photo etched spoke assembly left over from the midget kits, that would be perfect.

Everyone assumes that the roadsters don't have a master cylinder because it's not hanging off the firewall, or crammed into a tiny hole under the floorboards, when in fact many newer cars are being built with the master cylinder an booster mounted under the cowling using a bell crank to operate the master cylinder that is mounted running from one side to the other like some full size vans used to do, this hides all the brake goodies and also keeps them from being exposed to excessive heat. I just think it's a little ironic that some are wanting Revell to build a more modern style chassis, but then don't acknowledge it when they do something that is up to date, but complain because it's not old fashioned enough for them. If you want to build a deuce roadster with a I-beam front axle, nab the deuce chassis and front axle from the Model A roadster kit, or use the axle from one of the many different Model A kits that came with both a stock and dropped I-beam front axle in chrome, it wouldn't be that hard to change one of those over to disc brakes and get rid of the bulky spindles if you wanted to.

Now you need to do another So-Cal built car, get some pictures of Jimmy Shine's Ford pickup, or if you can find some of the videos from the show, they did a really cool '55 Chevy gasser, and the apprentice they ended up hiring has a super trick Model A coupe with a Hemi engine radiator under the deck lid street rod that looks like a gassser coupe..

Great build, makes me want to drag one of my old Caddy kits out and try the same idea with reds, maybe Testors dark red fenders, Guards red body, light tan leather, should make quite a statement. I did a '32 Ford coupe model years ago when I had my body shop in the dark red body, black fenders scheme as a demo for a full size 1930 Packard town car I was restoring for a customer, and everyone thought it was a burgundy instead of red.

Great job on a semi luxury ride with just a hint of an middle aged owner who refuses to grow up.

John Sinclair, by John Lennon. It's in reference to John Sinclair being sentenced to ten years in jail for selling two joints to an undercover cop.

Nice build, but it may have looked like a shadow in your photos, but the So-Cal roadster used stock style stampings that had the factory reveal on the frame rails in place, like the Revell kit was originally, it just needed a little rounding off of the edges so it wouldn't appear quite as crisp.

Just an FYI, for weathering these early stovevolts, they had three vents in the valve covers, one at each rib and they always had an oily area around these that worsened as the engine aged and acquired more blow by.

The real current trick set up is to replace the urethane subframe bushings with aluminum, or steel. This is to make the subframe a virtual part of the body when combined with the connectors. It stiffens the suspension points and cuts out the majority of chassis flex.

Sorry, but I just got a notice in a newsletter from Ford about this last night, but I guess that's about right for Ford, a day late to the party.

Sorry, but the body styles were '71 -'73, '74 -'76, '77 -'78, & '79 -'80, the first were the small bumpers, but '73 used an aluminum impact bumper and cushioned brackets behind the small bumpers, and in '74 switched to the big five mph bumpers in '76 tthe bodies didn't change but the grille changed from vertical vanes to an eggcrate design, in '77 & '78 they went to the slope nose flexible nose piece, and '79 & '80 they went to a bobbed front end that used single square headlights, and a much larger grille design.

Sorry to report that according to his son Brett, the King of Kustoms, George Barris died peacefully in his sleep at 2:45 a.m., he was 89 years old. Both the full size and model car builders has lost one of its most flamboyant and prolific designers.

Looking good, that should be good for a fe "atta boy" points with the wifey. And we can always use those because we all know one "Oh BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH" cancels a thousand atta boy points.

Of ALL the good Pinto kits produced by MPC, why did they pick the ugliest body style of the Little Pony, the '79 & '80 bodies looked like someone took a chainsaw and cut the front fenders off right behind the previous years front nose assembly.

Of ALL the good Pinto kits produced by MPC, why did they pick the ugliest body style of the Little Pony, the '79 & '80 bodies looked like someone took a chainsaw and cut the front fenders off right behind the previous years front nose assembly.

Notice where it says "older subjects"? No mention of new releases of newer vehicles.

This was released in one incarnation as a Demon, I was digging through a box I had of some of the original kits I had that hadn't been finished and found two different front bumper grille assemblies, and it's supposed to be an 8 3/4" rear axle, but all the ones I saw in the real world had quick change rear ends, the best one for that is the one in the original AMT NASCAR truck kits. On the whole, they're actually a very accurate kit, the only sad thing is they never released one with the Challenger body option, there is an article in the old Stock Car Magazine on the development of the real car showing one of the test cars, a number 0 Challenger, it driven in the asphalt testing by Pete Hamilton, and on dirt by a new comer, an upcoming young driver named Dale Earnhardt, he wasn't a Sr. yet, and in a single car test somehow managed to bend up the front fenders on the new car.

I've seen a couple in blue with silver stripes, But dare to be different, go with a lime green pearl, and maybe gold stripes.

By chance could the paint have been the short lived House Of Kustom line? I heard of cracking problems with some of the acrylic clear from the line, but haven't heard of any of the colors doing so.