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Getting Gregg to focus will be hard seeing with all those Wahines that surround him daily.

Went to a swap meet yesterday and I got a 1964 Rambler American with a 6 cylinder in it. Nice clean build up but not so good spray job in screaming yellow zonker yellow. I bought it because of the six in it. All for 25 bucks. I also got a Flinstone 48 Chevy woody coupe body and a 59 Dodge kit from JoHan.

http://www.6066gmcguy.org/ Try this linky. The V6 GMC engine seems to be a motor all it's own. The valve covers resemble the old 348/409 Chevy engines but that is all. I know that earlier in the 50s, GMC used Pontiac V8 engines.

Use the Merc kit. The Revell is already chopped. Those front grille bits are not Lincoln. They seem to be Buick teeth and dagmars. The hood trim can be scratched easy enough and I have no clue as to what the bumper is off of.

No one likes to just toss a friend to the cops in a case like this. I have had some experience on either side of the problem. I used lotsa drugs before I got rehabilitated. I also worked eight years in rehab helping those who were in the same situation. Ken raises a valid point with the availability of things behind bars. Addicts are most likely to steal from friends and family because of that misplaced sense of loyalty. They know they usually won't get busted by people close to them. I guess everyone will have to deal with this situation as their heart leads, but I have seen and talked with people who ripped off their own parents, grandparents, or other relatives to get high. Guess what, people? An addict who will rob family and friends are not loyal to them, they only are after the "high". They know that "family" is an easy mark. I never did that myself as I was away from my own family and I was closely associated with musicians, so the drugs and pot was easy and free usually. I did see my youngest sister put my mom in debt to the tune of 40,000 bucks because of her habit. Mom wouldn't kick her to the curb, and suffered for it. Mom had to sell her house and everything else she had. If you don't want to involve cops, get them into a rehab situation.

Wagnerian Opera, but seriously folks, I listen to talk radio and oldies or the sound of the little woman talking to me even though she knows I can't understand a word she says from across the house. I also like a more eclectic collection of music like Celtic Woman or some South American folkloric songs, polka, parody songs.

Now if I could only find the Graham or Hupp front clips to make those post Cord variants.

I don't understand the concept of over-education. How can someone be over-educated? Never can have enough knowledge. It's the under-educated ones I worry about.

OH MY. The last one I finished was two years ago, a 56 Chevrolet Del Ray 6 cylinder. Whats on the table is a 2007 HHR Panel being made from a toy RC car; Galaxy 48 Chevy, frame done, trim made from strip styrene added to the body; 68 Beaumont, body being converted from 69 Chevelle; Fuso truck and auto hauler from Japan with assorted Japanese vintage cars for it to haul; plus various promos to fix up and paint as soon as I can afford the new chrome bits from Modelhaus.

Hoo boy, you gone and done opened a can 'o' worms here. First, I like Ask G & J (I didn't used to, but I mellowed), but I would like more letters to the editor stuff. I always find those the most interesting parts of any rag that I read. A guest editorialist every so often would be awesome. Serious articles about changing body styles or creating a car from some other car (like Juha Airo does). More models of cars that are not the norm, I mean, how many 32 dueces or 69 Camaros can we read about unless of course they are outstanding in detail and build. Also would like to see more hard news about the industry and the people in it. Once in awhile a cartoon would be nice (Model Behavior?) More sketch pads by Jairus of course and perhaps other artists who can meet the design and quality criteria. Also, pictures of models could be a bit larger, a certain contest issue had me reaching for a magnifier lens which us old guys need because of macular degeneration due to age. Bios of leading masters in the hobby and in the aftermarket industry.

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.