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I think what he wants to know is where to find the shocks that have a spiraled designed stamped into the metal cylinder itself. I don't know what kit has those but you could scribe your own spiral on the regular plain shocks.

It is important that you vent your spray booth to the out of doors if you are doing any spray painting in the new room.

The bottom of the windshield looks very wrong on the Le Baron.

The Wilhelm car was also sold separately as the Wilhelm's Wonder.

Welcome to this real zorch site.

I am attempting to build a model of my own car, a 2007 HHR panel. Since no kit was ever made of this and I am a bit of a fumble fingered oaf, I am using the body off a Road Rippers RC car I found at K-mart. The body itself checks out pretty good against a pic online at the Chevy site. The side view and top view were spot on, although I do not know its exact scale. I am assuming it's close to 1/24 or 1/25th scale. I am even going to cut out the windows. So that means I will be scratching an interior. (Oh wow, hide the X-acto knives and call 911) I am at a loss as what to use for a chassis. Someone recommended a Citation kit, I was thinking cutting up one of my Geo Metros. I am open to suggestions here. Any promos or models using the Delta platform out there? If I can remember how to get pics on my Photobucket, I will post pics of the body.

Welcome Green Duster. Nice to have another Wisconsin modeller here. I am from Muskego, near that festering sewer known as Milwaukee. It's warmer here by about four degrees LOL. Not that it matters when the wind chill is minus 40.

I am amazed at the detail of the Ferrari ensignia. Very nicely done. Should scare the Porsches!

Fords in canada had the same trim as the US cars. Meteors were models in addition to the Fords. Very much like Chevy sold Chevelles in Canada, but there was a separate Beaumont make using the Chevelle body, but with different grille and taillights. In Australia, the 58 Ford did indeed use the 55 body with Canadian style trim (car was imported from Canada with RHD) Some 61 Fords in Oz were based on 58 bodies but there were 57s as 57s as well as 58s as 58s...very confusing. Also, some Fords imported from the US and Canada in the years 57 and 58 used Edsel dashes in the RHD models. I know, confusing isn't it?

It's just as Crispy sez. Did I recall you belong to a car club? This is a good way to get them involved in it as well. Manpower to help the kids with assembly, questions, and a small display outside with the real cars. Make it an event for the day. I did one in conjunction with Goodguys events and we had boys and girls on the floor all around us as the tables were quickly filled. We were doing 57 Chevies then, but I've M&Ts with PT Cruisers, Vettes and others of the Revell Snappers

I love the retro cars!!! Good one Capt. Obvious.

http://www.amgwi.proboards55.com/index.cgi?board=models Auto Modelers Group-WISCONSIN - The Models First Friday of the month at Wauwatosa Savings Bank in the basement meeting room. 6:30 PM. 6560 S. 27th Oak Creek, Wisconsin (Milwaukee)

I'm going to take this a different direction, wholly based on something I heard from some young kid at a car show. There are very few young ones involved in the car culture as we were. They don't have the each Boys or Jan and Dean and others extolling the virtues of having a cool car. If a car is mentioned at all in todays music, it's about the big screens and thumping stereos in the back or using them to do "drive bys". Also the political attitude of the young in regards to the environment has them thinking of cars as major rapers of the Earth and should all be scrapped. Think about this, when a kid looks out into the street and sees his parents car, what does he most likely see? It's not some flashy chrome laden finned beast with a motor big enough to pull trees out by the roots...it's a utilitarian plain vehicle like a mini-van or a pick up truck or a SUV. Even my own old man had a V8 in his Chevy wagon. My Gramps had high performance Buicks and my other Gramps on the farm up north had a cool 1960 Ford 2 door hardtop. So getting back to the kids at the car show? They just didn't understand the whole interest in old outdated cars. They consider large engined flashy cars as a pariah and a detriment to the environment. When the most exciting car in their minds is a hybrid like a Prius, the car hobby and model cars in particular are indeed in trouble. Thankfully, there is a small rabid bunch of kids who are going to carry on the car culture with there interest in 50s and 60s style traditional style hot rods.

That's what I do. Great source for 69 Cutlass frames and Old Pro Nova frames as well.

Try plain old white latex house paint, slightly thinned. It dries and does not react with the tire.

You could start by sanding out the scratches with 8000 grit and progressively move through 10000 and 12000 grit followed with polishing compound and then an application of Slick and Smooth.

I say model

I get mine mainly from the local LHSs (Model Empire and Greenfield News and Hobby, Milwaukee rocks) some Ebay purchases, also from Modelhaus and HobbyLink Japan. Wally is a last minute effort if I really have the hot fantods for something they have, but I don't make a practice of it.

Jairus, since I truly love my job in the wiring harness industry, my art tends to be a hobby business, just like my DJ service. I am closely associated with the local car show organizers who let me ply my trade on the show grounds. (I draw cars for the entrants of the show) Although I do not charge a heck of a lot (these are down and dirty drawings that take about an hour to do with colored pencils), you on the other hand are a well known artist who could benefit from hitting the car show circuit selling high-end auto illustrations. I'm talking about shows like NSRA and Goodguys. There vendor fees are a bit more than I care to pay (and why should I when there are so many local events I don't have to pay) Oh, I saw the Toro on slotblog...COOL!!

I figure that to obtain the best possible wheel mounting that looks like a real car is all you can do. If the model allows you to make the wheels rotate, that's a bonus. I normally don't make my cars roll because of the accidents others before me have said.

It's not so much about Chevy, but about Americana. Chevy sees itself as an American icon. The song waxes nostalgic for an earlier time in regards to rock and roll. The connection is obvious. American Pie, Chevrolet, Rock and Roll, all iconology.

The standing guy looks like a fellow DJ I know. Great stuff indeed.

Kind of like a Beaumont, Harry.

This is my old car that I want to fix up This is my new car, er...panel.

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