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Charlie, I couldn't think of a better place for this to go! It will make a great '49. Give me a few days to see what the '51 Promo looks like. I may want to squish some molds of trim and logos off the resin body. I got it from R&R Resin but don't see it there currently. It is a good casting and the chrome looks good to. There are more photos on another post I did about it here. I have a ton of reference material, photos and links, that might be helpful for a '49 ... even a '46 to '54 Plymouth Service Manual. I tried to PM you but your box must be full ...

I'm a little familiar with phenol since I did a lot of structural work here where GE had a phenolic resin plant servicing their large transformer facility. We didn't wear any protection in those days when entering the plant. Now it's all gone and the small lake they dumped everything into has just been cleaned up. But, I hear ya. And we also engineered asbestos discovery and removal ... maybe I'm due for a lung checkup anyway. Looks like there's a possibility of phenol or acetate. I'll have to figure out how to tell. I'd have to assume phenol would be much more stiff and brittle.

I'm curious about that ... will see when it comes at the end of the week. I've been researching and found some Torque Thrust wheels from Morgan Automotive Detail that look like they should work.

Oh, nice! I should have at least you rooting for me . ehhe. I see you're north of Chicago .. did your '50 start in the winter?

Very nice! I had five 924/944's, so I may be bias, but that is a clean job resurrecting parts of it. I was surprised to see no rear wing but looking it up I do see many group 4 924's didn't use one. I love the widened fenders! Do you have any photos of the front from lowed down? I'm still working on a build of that Monogram 924 rally kit with contributions from an Arii 924 to make the '81 turbo I had.. Haven't gotten to far with it so maybe this post will get me back to it.

The wall is interesting ... and the car looks at home.

That's seems too obvious to get into final production. hmmm .. a 1/16 Isetta ... I might even have shelf space for that

Sorry about the pics delay ... Photobucker was down and I got delayed. First are photos of my 1:1 .. I was in college at the time so only did some cheap mods from JC Whitney ... fake mag hubcaps and seat covers in the interior I stripped and painted. The gloss black dash was masked to paint over the ugly painted fake wood. If only I could have gotten it to start in the winter! This is the '50 Plymouth resin kit I thought I would have had to convert .. glad that's not necessary now! These are some auction photos of the '51 Promo I will be using for this build. I haven't received it yet so I'm getting anxious as to how well it will work. This is the L-Head from a '41 Plymouth I started building to just display along side the ;51. I'm not planning to open the hood ... yet.

Maybe we should start a fund to send this guy to engineering school ... That's a great looking dio and must have been a fund build!

I'm a happy, but poor, puppy this morning ... I won a bid for a 1951 Plymouth promo last night that is my Holy Grail! This is the first car I owned and have been looking for something to use to build it. I have a resin kit of a '50 but that would have taken major work to make it into a '51, as you can see in this thread I started 5 years ago. I just recently saw these '51 promos that I never knew existed and HAD to have one. This will be a pretty simple task to make my car .. yes some scratch building for various pieces and trim ... but it will me so much better in the end. It seems Photobucket is down right now so I'll post some photos of the 1:1 and of the starting promo later .. I'm just too excited NOT to start this thread!

I like how far you've taken this rust also ... it's believable for something left outside. With an original L-Head there's no worry about how to weather an alloy metal as it's just plain old steel. I didn't realize the Parts Box had finned heads for this engine (!) so that should give some weathering challenge!

I've built replicas of two of my daughter's cars and she was overjoyed. I'm sure your's will be more appreciated than anything you would just buy in a store and wrap.

and it's packed tight, and pretty well. I was worried because some have said the top was crushed down, but mine arrived perfect.

Thanks, guys. And my daughter really loved it

That is one magnificent build!

I beautiful build!

The price IS a nasty point on this kit. It was around $70 ... most I ever paid for any kit. But, if I ever 'had to pay $70 for an auto kit', this would be the one I'd pick! it LOOKS like a $70 kit!

I never got to drive my brother's because I was home on an Army pass a few days and the Cit was "up on logs" for repairs.

Thanks Geoff! This was everything I needed!

Cool, so II have a question for you. All I've seen have the same color on the C pillar ... under the roof lights. Is that a white? .. or silver? It's difficult to tell from interned photos.

That's an interesting body .. and the paint looks good on it.

I recently received an Ebbro Citroen DS19 1/24 kit which will be built as the '65 my brother had long ago. I am astounded at the quality of this new Ebbro kit, both in the amount of detail and the fitting of parts I have started. Everything seems to have alignment pins and they fit together well. I remember my brothers car as a maroon and he confirmed it was maroon with a maroon roof and had a light grey and black interior. I have some research to get the colors right, but I expect I will have to mix something up that's close. I have only started cleaning up the engine parts that have virtually no mold lines, even on the round parts! It's pretty much only finishing up the tree attachment points. This is the kit and a shot of the engine assembly ... even the fuel line off the carb goes into the pump assembly!

Coach-builder IS the proper description of what he does!

Looks like NYC will be the buried one, but they know what snow is. North in the Berkshires we're still MAKING snow on the slopes .. not a flake in the air!