lordairgtar

I have a minty fresh double kit of the Tognotti T and the Wild Dream I want to undertake. My XR/6 is just a couple of glue bomb parts bags I want to do.

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQdUI_Nz-w_MVIVUP3PYEkrlZgeYFO1PJCwMOjh1l9Rew9E9CmRiA:www.thetruthaboutcars.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12-1984-Plymouth-Turismo-Picture-courtesy-of-Old-Car-Brochures.jpg This was an awesome little car. I had one and I miss it. The rust monster ate the floor pans.

How can anyone not see that the trunk was open? The spare tire cover is clearly seen.

I read the article in the magazine and it does not look like he was mis-representing the car. All those issues were stated in the article. Technically, it's a well maintained and albeit an "extreme measures taken" car to keep it going, At the least it's a nice article about keeping a nice old car going...no matter how many bits have been redone or replaced. A car is much more than the two part axe previously mentioned here.

Yer in for a treat!

What is the company?

I just picked up the Meng F-350 Ford kit today from panther Hobbies. $54 out the door, plus about six cans of Tamiya sprays.

Sheesh you guys. You'd kvetch if someone gave you $5000, but didn't give it to you in 50s instead of 100s.

I get that magazine. Good story.

Where do you guys see rust on a fiberglass body?

I think the racing is in Finland

Forgot about the Freightliner version.

Thanks. I'm gonna check into this a bit more. Some kit somewhere had to have those engines. Research time. I seem to recall my 300s had aluminum heads. I had blown a head gasket on one and the shop was concerned that the escaping gasses were causing a groove to form on the head surface.

I don't know, but it seems the Dodge Sprinter is not in the current line up due to it being a Mercedes Benz design. The Fiat Ducato is the base for the Promaster. A smaller version will be offered based on the Doblo and called a Promaster City. This one is about the size of a Nissan NV200 or a Ford transit Connect. It is built in Turkey. A side note...it's also sold by Vauxhall and Opel as the Combo. GM, Fiat, and Ram...what an unholy menage a trois.

A couple of Eidai 70s era Datsun and Toyota Can Am style race cars. It would take skills beyond mine to correct that hideous engine.

So many municipalities had those Champ trucks. Decal ideas for different city DPW liveries. Almost as endless as a Police / Fire Chief / Taxi kit.

Good to know. What source can I use for the proper engine. I figured since the car was built in around 66 (date of the film release), I naturally assumed nail head. I had a 64 Buick LeSabre (in fact two of them) with the 300 cid engine which was derived from the 215 cid, I think.

So I'm carefully dismantling an AMT ZZR Spy car build that I acquired a couple of years ago. Partially assembled but not painted. I had this as a kid and I was finally able to get my hands on one. They usually go for stupid money on eBay when they show up....rare kit. Old styrene is either very brittle or very flexible. I want to replace the front axle with a similar type in a newer kit. It's a typical dropped tube front axle like you would find on a T bucket hot rod. I'm also considering replacing the two lumps they call Buick nailhead engines with some from better kits. But I'm most concerned about that fragile axle. It bends too easily and I'm afraid to break it. AMT later killed this kit by re doing it as a fire truck custom.

I never liked the Tumbler. This new one kinda has a Tumbler stepped on by Godzilla look to it.

Still working for that curmudgeon license, eh Harry....

Yes, stands for Live Action Role Playing game. basically cosplay on steroids. A lot of people do this in conjunction with conventions. The use of vehicles specially built is not common.

Oh really? Try building a clone of a Corvette body to sell and see what happens. Maybe not officially a patent, but there are copyright laws as well that govern such things. I learned this when doing t shirt designs for a vendor. He wanted well known cars drawn, but I could not add the scripts of the car on the body. He still got in trouble for producing Tees from GM. I didn't depict the word Chevelle or SS anywhere on the drawing but they (GM) claimed the body shape was proprietary to GM

The cars, although they resembled the VW Golf/Rabbit were actually based on the Simca, a company Chrysler owned before selling it to Peugeot, where it was called a Talbot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talbot_Horizon The car did use a 1.7L engine from VW in some of it's cars, the more common K engine displacing at 2.2 L was usually in the car. I had the 1984 Charger variant with the 2.2. Pretty quick car and handled well.

Actually it has plenty of go. As far as visibility is concerned, I never had trouble seeing out the back with the side mirrors it has. The panel weighs considerably less than the windowed version by virtue of no rear seats and side windows. Plus it handles quite well too. I'm thinking of buying an SS version. look at what one did at Nurburgring. They could have updated the grille design to better reflect Chevy corporate looks and kept on selling it.

I see. That engine was slow. If it would have been let out with it's original intake design and Bosch fuel injection, it would have had some oomph. That engine did well in the 924.