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Great build, like that gunmetal it looks "rich". Did you clear coat it or just polish the gunmetal?

I could be wrong, (rusty brain cells) but to the best memories I have, the 1948 Cadillac was the first factory air conditioned car that was released, there is an old '48 Caddy in a local wrecking yard that has factory air, that would be a cool car to build a resto-mod out of. (pun intended)

Actually they appear to be the 427 engines from AMT's '32 Ford 'Vicky kit.

Really great build, i think that this is one of those cars that looks sorta odd without the top,just my opinion. A question about the OOB classification though it's just a technicality though, I thought the use of BMF wasn't allowed it OOB builds, you gave it away in the coverage of the build in SA, you used it for hose clamps. Great job, now do a McClaren one in black.

That's an easy one, one on the front, & the other on the rear.

But I'll bet the smog techs would love to see that come in, with a carb & not any of the stock emission parts, they'd be writing for a week.

Since you're goin' diesel, you can send me that tired old 460 to use in a Pro Street Mustang II. thanks Del

swirlies in the headlights are easy, plastic covers are plastic in 1/8 scale or full size, & as for the window etching, even Revell makes decals of etched designs in 1/25 scale for their lowriders, would be much easier for 1/8 scale.

I went with model on this one because as hard as I looked, there was simply no lettering of any kind on the side walls of the tires, no manufacturer, model, directional arrows, nada, zip. This screamed model to me.

Just a suggestion, but with the work you have done to clean up the body, I think I'd remove the guards from the bumpers so the front & rear valances would be a little cleaner looking, & possibly even do the bumpers in the body color too.

Cooool, are they available now,& just for my interest, what wheels are those they show on the Pirelli 7000's?

Oh Goooody, the BFG's were the ones I was gonna ask about, will they be available as just the big & littles, or can we pick a set of just bigs, or just littles? You know how some of us race car types can be.

I really don't think that Harry would mess with the photo itself (the car & parts thereof) just to throw us off, so I'm going to say that this one is a model, or those are a real strange brand of tires on this baby.

Nothing prettier than a candy red "Chevy".

Nice model, but I lived through the sixties once,& there are a few things I don't care to relive, & the psychedelic look is one, other than that it is a beeyootifull car. I really like the orange & white pearls though.

You might try using either some cherry, or walnut for wood, I've seen both available in the Miniatures section of dollhouse areas in some hobby/craft shops. Just go through the stuff to get the best grain.

I found LED lights down to 3mm in size, in red, clear, & amber at the local model railroad supply store, I agree that these look very much like the newer projection lights that many cars have gone to, & they can be wired to operate easily using a watch type wafer battery.

There used to be a group of cars that were just off I-5 in Northern CA. (just south of Mt. Shasta) that I "discovered" in the late '60s, actually the people of the area already knew of them, they were cars that had set in a wrecking yard that had been in the area since the early '30s until the mid sixties, (the actual site was taken over by the state to put in I 5 between Dunsmuir & Mt. Shasta). These cars were ones that the owner decided were no longer usable, & he hauled them out into the woods & dumped them the biggest stash I found was while riding around after church one easter with my best friend & his girl friend (now my wife) & my girl friend (I don't know what happened to her) the Union Pacific railroad had taken about twenty cars from the '30s & used them for erosion control in a dip along side the fire trail. We were cruising along about 20 or so when we passed this stack of "tin" & came to a sliding stop, the girls thought we were crazy climbing around in the rust pile still in out suits. The state has since gone in & cleared out all of this hazardous material, but not before we removed several intact bodies, a '33 Chevy 4 door sedan, a '34 Chevy master 5 window coupe, a '37 Willys sedan, & a '32 Dodge 4 door sedan, along with a complete Cadillac LaSalle front sheetmetal group. I think that the official that decide to go through the local area & clean up these should'a been hung!

I have seen several & I think he's slipping in pics of a 1:1 restoration & is trying to pass them off as a model.

If the block has a provision for an oil filter on the left rear lower side, it is not a 265 as the 265's didn't have that yet.

I showed it to the dog & he didn't express his usual tendencies toward high end autos, so I'm gonna say model on this one.

I guess this is just another thing that goes along with the "if you don't hear a rumor by 11:00 a.m. start one" rules where someone heard Ernie isn't there anymore & that he was released, (he was, after 53 years he's finally free) My favorite axiom to use in these conditions is"don't believe anything you hear, & only half of what you see".

change the engine, the lotus uses an old ford engine, the caterham uses either a ford or rover twin cam engine

Great news! I've seen a couple of these 1:1 versions customized, & they really look nice,(even though they sorta look like the venerable Merc') so a few purists will no doubt be inflamed when when they see why I want one. But the one I really want is the Chrysler, gotta have a few of those, I already see Magnum cross in the works (like the full size one).

On the 392 Chrysler "early" Hemi, there is enough room at the back of the blower to run the mag, we ran a blown 392 in a boat, (it was a 6-71 blower,with two 500 cfm Edelbrock competition carbs) & the kits that have the 392 engine usually have the same blower set up. on the 426 motor there is usually a drive provision that puts the mag at an angle from the left (passenger) side of the front cover.