Chuck Most

The J is still inching along. Mirrors still need to be cleaned up and painted.

Best buildup of this kit I've seen to date!

Love it. Looks like the imagery of a '54 Hudson ad come to life.

Wouldn't hurt to ask, though.

The Parts Box used to sell a complete Lincoln V12 which included finned heads- I don't recall ever seeing them individually. You could make your own using grooved styrene stock.

Basic build of the 2001 Buyer's Choice issue, with Blueprinter parts pack Halibrand wheels and pad-printed AMT Goodyear tires. It's also one of the few models I've built with a small-block Chevy engine, which I think came from an AMT '66 Nova. A modified S10 Blazer air intake was used in order to fit it under the hood with no cutting. I wanted the car to appear mostly stock.

Quite the tire swing setup you have there.

This was supposed to have been a quick slump-buster. That was back in 2012. Around the time I started it, I got the news that my father had had a stroke and was going in for open heart surgery. So... that kind of killed that idea. My father made a full recovery (or at least as full as you can make after two strokes), but even so, every time I tried to work on this thing it kinda took me back to that period of time. So to say the least, getting the car finished wasn't a priority. A while back I started working on a J30, and that finally got me motivated to finally finish the Q. So, what was meant to have been a quick project four years ago ended up being my first completion of 2016. I may add a few other doodads and touch ups here and there later on, but I'm calling it done for now. The shocking thing is that, even after all of this time, I still remembered more or less everything I originally had in mind to do with it! Which is all the more amazing, seeing as how I'm the kind of guy who will get off the couch and walk to the dining room, only to forget why I went out there in the first place, all in the space of about 20 seconds. All told, I'd say the model has a total of about a week's worth of evenings into it total. Just spread out over a few years. Anyway...

I'm calling the Q close enough to call finished. Pics in Under Glass shortly.

No photo-worthy updates on the J, but I did lay some pipe on the Q. I see I may need to do a little more touch-up to the red stripes, as a little bled under the tape and down the trunk cut lines.

Well, they ain't gonna finish themselves, no matter how politely you ask, right?

The Q now has an oil cooler, front plate, and a chip on the corner of the bumper, which I think I just might keep. The J is cleared, and the side window trim has been foiled. Next up will be painting the windshield and backlight trim, door pillars, and windshield/backlight borders.

Well, that shut me up.

Nice! Now you just need a '60 Mercury and a '60 Lincoln to go with them.

The Louisville axle is a near-duplicate of the one in the C-Series kits, so... short answer would be yes.

Just doing a little thread necromancy to encourage you to get back at this one.

Where the Q ship stands as of tonight... Spare decals from a Revell Datsun 510 have been applied, trim around the windows has been foiled (have yet to black out the pillars), and the mirrors are on. Taillight panel has been detail painted. For some reason it reminds me of the back end of a '92-'99 Olds Delta 88. I'm going to try for a better, straight edge on the window borders, but the rear view mirror and wiper are installed. I also tinted the rear side windows and backlight.

I like what I see so far! I've had a mind to do a "lead sled" style Mini, seeing this one go together might inspire me to finally try it.

The Q is now wearing a BRE 46 inspired paint scheme. Some touch-up here and there is required, and I'm planning to use a few markings from the Revell Datsun 510 kit, but I'm actually almost pleased with how it came out.

I wasn't talking about the lack of an explosion being the result of time and budget restrictions- that was aimed more at the movie's other shortcomings. The lack of an explosion was just a nice little twist.

That's one thing I like about the movie- the rig did NOT explode at the end. Having it plunge over the cliff and then explode would have been oh-so-cliche. It was a '70's made-for-TV movie, so I'm sure time and budget constraints are factors in it being a bit less than perfect.

1951 Studebaker Commander. Unless somebody beat me to it, then Plan B would be the Reliant Robin.

But one less turbo would add some of it back. I think. Maybe.

Black it out, add a turbo and a 6-speed manual... maybe AWD just for added kink factor... and you'd have a modern-day GN.