Chuck Most

Don't know about you, but I'll still be building hot rods when civilization comes to a screeching halt!

I have seen Latham blowers on Flatheads, but I've never really looked at the manifolds to see what they looked like. I will say that Ardun heads look really great with the Latham blower on a Flattie!

Mine now has an engine- that terrible 390 out of a Jo-Han SC/Rambler. I got it as part of a box of glue bomb engines a few years back, I just gunked it up some. Still needs belt and an air cleaner but you get the general idea.

Might be better off measuring the pattern and printing it out yourself from a computer drawing program. From what I've seen defroster lines barely show up in photos.

Phillip- not sure if there will be a WIP- I'm hoping to just throw it together. Glenn- I'd say put it in on the bench, it is a work in progress, right?

Love the crankshaft spreader bar!

To cut the hole, I do one of two things- I scribe along the rectangular opening left by the tape with the back side of a #11 blade and repeat until the blade is almost through, then pop out the unneeded part. Or, I drill a hole at each corner and use a saw to cut from one hole to the next.

And Glenn- that plow is blowing my mind!

Working on a Hummer H2, built in an apocalyptic rat rod style. Whatever that means!

For me anyway, digging up an AAM transkit might be less of a pain than converting an AMT Taurus SHO into a wagon, much less a Sable!

I just can't believe the screen name 'nobody' wasn't taken until now!

Years ago AAM did a Taurus wagon- if you could find one of those you could rework it into a Sable.

Hirohata Merc meets Squarebird? Who knew the design would translate so well. Very nice!

AMT made a '56 as well (American Graffiti box art), and I think Monogram did a '56 in 1:24. Not sure about '55, but '55 and '56 were identical. As far as the proposed project? Go for it!

I guess I'm full of it too! Yes, the Revell Deuce kits were only my second choice, but still.

IF the tooling still exists (and that would be a big, huge if...) Premiere- Studebaker Champ and Corvair Rampside AMT- '58-9 Lincoln Annual kits AMT '69 Lincoln Continental MPC '32 Chevy Cabriolet- bring back the panel van variant!!!! And #1... Aurora '34 Ford Street Rod

Jimmy Flintstone casts a Divco, and if I'm not mistaken, so does R&R.

Wow- you had me at the AMT vs. Revell debate. I feel the same way- somehow, the AMT stuff just seems to have that 'old styrene mojo' working in its favor. I think you did a better job explaining it than I ever could. Oh, and the car is shaping up to be pretty killer!

Oh, and I do remember the Challenger promo's box art- had some cheesy saying on it like "This model may cause the rest of your collection to come unglued".

When Aurora went belly-up, didn't Monogram buy the molds? A few of those kits were reissued by Monogram, but many suspect the majority of them got scrapped.

(Slapping forehead) Forgot all about the Revell-tool 3 window, even though I have half a dozen of them in the stash and, yes, it clearly is the Revell kit in the pic. I stand by everything else I said regarding the tires, though.

It goes pretty far beyond just having an engine. At least from the way I'm looking at it. When you crack open a Trophy Series, what's the first thing you see? Right- sprue after sprue of parts. Most were marketed as 3 in 1, but with a little bit of creative parts use (not to mention kit bashing) you could build quite a few different variations of one particular kit. Not to mention the fact that the Trophy Series kits were among the first fully-detailed kits of their time. Other manufacturers had kits with mutliple building options, but as far as I'm concerned, nobody ever topped AMT in that respect. And yes, other manufacturers would have stumbled onto it, but it was AMT that took the idea and showed it to the world, and proved it was a good idea. And they STILL managed to do it better (and for a longer period of time) than any of the other guys.

Love it! I'd buy one of these diecasts if it weren't for the fact they're available in resin.

Maybe it still would have existed, but would it have been nearly as diverse? I wasn't around back then, but looking at it from where I sit, without the series AMT introduced in the early '60's, particularly the Trophy series, I think we'd still be getting simplified kits with sealed hoods and seats molded to the tub.

About time. Now, when this one's done, what do you say you get back at that Marauder build?