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lordairgtar

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  1. The term RAT in vehicle arenas first referred to the guy who had a sad looking motorcycle that looked like it was cobbled together with parts from different machines. Or was just an unkempt bike, because the rider was more concerned with the engine running right and could care less about the looks of it. Rat rods are an off shoot of the traditional rodder culture which itself goes back to the simple stripped down machines built in the beginnings of rodding or a custom rod like Roth built as opposed to the modern street rod gold chainer crowd (as those on the H.A.M.B call it). Rats are an offshoot of the trad scene that combine old rusty looks with outrageous build style with exposed drive shafts going through the cockpit, mismatched body styles, and exhaust headers made from square tubing or other outlandish things. Some traditional rod clubs who do events won't allow a rat rod in the show as some are unsafely built. They could not even pass a simple NSRA safety inspection. I am a member of the Wisconsin Street Rod Association and have a bit of knowledge on this.
  2. I can see the 510 influence, but I see a lot of F10 ugly in there too.
  3. Got to meet Danny Koker from Counting Cars today. Bitter cold and windy. Us tough Wisconsinites could deal, but I felt bad for Danny. Gave him some of my art and got an autographed pic from him. Really cool guy. Our car club hosted his event a a Sears Auto Center.
  4. I agree with you Mr Lombardo. The money for ACA has got to come from somewhere, so discretionary spending suffers and luxury purchases will suffer. I pay about $500 per month for my healthcare. I would certainly look into ACA if I didn't fear it getting scrapped. Then where would I be? $200 a month sounds pretty good right now, but with a pre existing condition, I have to be wary. Lincoln could turn itself around if they got away from the dull styling the possess now. They all look like SUVs, or CUVs at the very least. Like I said in my previous post, a hot coupe as the Continental, and a hot sedan as the Town Car. People know and understand those names. Maybe keep an SUV and call it a Premier...another old Lincoln name plate.
  5. badge engineering is a bit differnent than platform sharing. As was said, sharing a platform doesn't make it the same car. In days of yore, Eldorado and Toronado shared a platform with Riviera. Now everyone knows the Riv is a rear drive car when the other two are front drive cars. Even the Eldo and the Toro did not share sheet metal until they later were downsized. Wasn't Lincoln always paired with Mercury. I have seen stand alone Merc dealers but never a stand alone Lincoln dealer. i could be mistaken on that one though. Lincolns all look like SUV, CUV vehicles now. They need some real sedans and coupes. I say a hot coupe based on the Mustang platform (but no Mustang sheet metal sharing), A serious sedan similar to a Jaguar or Passat could be the basis for a Town Car that can handle well. Maybe just one CUV in the Cayenne vein.
  6. I think when I was young, there might have been some rough play involved with them and they got wrecked unintentionally. I know when I was 20, I was living in a Christian Commune and a guy gave me a truck model kit when I was hitch hiking around the country. One of the so called "holy bretheren super spirits" had told me that hobbies and things like that took away time from Bible Study and were basically idol worship, and I believed him, and broke up the unbuilt kit and threw it away. Later on when i was working in California for a different Christian ministry, the Director of the place said I needed a hobby. I told him about my experience before and he pretty much told me that person was not too bright and said God gave us time to rest and follow our recreational pursuits. He hunted and hiked wilderness trails all over and another guy in that same ministry had dirt bikes for his family and took us all up into the mountains to ride. I learned something that day...always question things people tell you to believe.
  7. in the same vein as the JoHan Turbine kit would be JoHan's two Mercedes kits. Those were so awesome to build. It was like putting the real chassis together. I hadn't anything like it until Galaxie's 48 Chevy. In the first issue of the Sindelfingen limousine, it had that rich maroon plastic that was darker than releases later on. You just waxed it and there it was all shiny and stuff.
  8. The bad guy looks like one of the CBI agents in The Mentalist...Rigby.
  9. Hmmmm, interesting. just before the advent of CDs, someone started experimenting with cassette cases made of a resin type of material. Supposedly, they do not melt in the automotive environment. I have one. It came from Ford and was a sampler of music to tout their stereo cassette decks. I left it on the dash of my Mercury at car shows and guess what...it never warped or deformed. But with the coming of new music storage media, the development ended as the manufacturers figured it was a wast of money to go further.
  10. The long roof isn't a bad build. Some BMF would make it so much cooler though.
  11. I know. We had a similar arguement at a show where a Mustang 260 was being judged. lucky for us, Google is our friend and a quick search on the phone proved the car was correct. I'm still learning about all the variants myself. I just recently seen a 170 six banger in red with black block and head, and next to the car was another six done in blue. Both were 65s. I believe the blue sixes did not come out until 66. But anything is possible. Both cars were purported to be original.
  12. Would not be too hard to make one out of the Ertl kit of the later model Scout.
  13. Indeed! I had the non Shelby version with the quad headlight set up. Could eat Cavaliers and Escorts and most other non turbo fours all day.
  14. I just watched it again and the car does have a 260 badge on the fender.
  15. So I click on to the link and wound up watching the whole movie. Cool. The car in the flick did not have it's vinyl top so I guess sanding is the order of the day for this build.
  16. Are you sure about that. Depends on the engine choice. 260V8s had blue valve covers and air cleaner. The only thing I can see wrong with their engine is they are using a blue distributor cap when that should be black. From Mustang Monthly.....The 101-horse 170ci six had a bright red valve cover and air cleaner. The optional base V-8, the 260-2V with 164 hp, had a Light Ford Blue air cleaner and valve covers. The 210hp 289-4V was a low-compression small-block with a gold air cleaner and valve covers. Like the 170ci six and the 260ci V-8, the 289-4V had a black block, oil pan, timing cover, water pump, and cylinder heads. The 289 High Performance with 271 hp sported a black block, oil pan, timing cover, water pump, and cylinder heads, with the chrome dress-up kit that included valve covers and an open-element air cleaner. The base V-8 during the Mustang's first five months was the 260-2V with Light Blue valve c One important issue to consider with air-cleaner color is the intake snorkel. Instead of being blue or gold, the snorkel is gloss black for 1965. Read more: http://www.mustangmonthly.com/howto/mump_0308_select_correct_vintage_mustang_engine_paint/viewall.html#ixzz2kuiYVNNp
  17. i take a build or two to the NNL Milwaukee and that is pretty much it, unless a car show has a mode contest too. I chair a model show for my own car club's annual Corn Roast on Labor Day Weekend. If I take a model to that, it's not eligible for voting. Would not look good if the Chairman took a trophy home, now would it. My stuff generally isn't up to the highly detailed standards of most. I just like to get opinions from others at the NNL, as I try and do something unusual or different or off the wall. This year I am thinking of a FUSO truck and auto hauler with a load of JDM vintage cars. A fictional collector car transport company based in Japan as it were.
  18. I like the bit of 6 banger tail pipe just hanging there. Then I really liked the exhaust dumps out the bottom for the V10
  19. What is the sedan? Toyota Crown?
  20. The two Eldon kits are quite rare....bath tub and milk truck.
  21. I recall a funny car kit in 1/32nd that had Brut sponsorship and was molded in green.
  22. By the time my bank account allows me to get the latest releases, those releases will be expensive collector priced kits.
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