Nick Winter

Started it today Nick

I can answer in 1 word: SLOW! I'm still around truck is now a D200 due to only being able to find some 8 lugs to fit the tires. Nick

Bruce interested to see this one shape up, when you say your doing a "Gold Trans Am" do you mean the Gold Special Edition T/A? Nick

As far as I know you do need the Foam type. Also forgot to mention that you Should do this in a well ventilated area unless you want your whole home to smell like oven cleaner. Nick

List of required items: Plastic Container: With or Without lid Oven Cleaner: brand really dosen't matter, but if using Easy-Off make sure it's the Yellow labeled can, the Blue label can be pretty much useless to you Painted parts to be stripped Old tooth brush or semi-stiff brush Disposable mask or paint respirator Surgical style or dish washing gloves (the large yellow ones) Water Source to rinse foam I hope this can help someone. Nick

A while back some of you may know I bought a MPC '76 Plymouth Roadrunner kit for $10, it included a built up, the uncut decal sheet and the instructions, something about this particular car jumped out at me and said "buy me, restore me" so the saga began with disassembly, were I found myself lucky, the builder had used almost no glue on some parts, but a tube on other parts . I realized at this point the Orange peeled, black over sprayed, 35 year-old Testors red enamel body needed stripped, for this and a few other parts I simply went to my local grocery store and bought a can of oven cleaner, the store brand nothing fancy, it was about $1.75 before tax (13% here), brought it home, and left it with the car, when I got home from doing a bit of work up north today, I simply took a plastic container, placed the body inside it, shook the can and sprayed the body well with it, keep in mind while doing this you'll need a either disposable mask or paint respirator, you DO NOT want to breathe this in, nor do you want it to touch your skin, I advise rubber gloves, either surgical style or dish washing gloves (the large yellow ones). After about 10 minutes, I once again simply used one of my old tooth brushes I keep in my shop and scrubbed the body off then rinsed it with water. Below are my results. Before and After (keep in mind any places that paint still exists are area's where glue was present in globs)

Jim I'd love to see a Canadian Flag on it, other than that I like what you've sent me. Nick

Sorry, carry on. Nick

the more I look at the car the less I am happy with the paint, I'm thinking I'll strip it and re do it. Nick

little more done, gotta do a bit of touch up, BMF and paint a few things. It's not perfect, but I'm happy. Finished the dash as well. Nick

I use White Acrylic household primer, never had any problems, just don't try and get it off. Nick

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A bit of an update, finished the body work and did the white. Made proper air cleaner decal and finished it, finished the floor pan

Hey Matt think I can add another for Eagle Towing? a '75 Jeep CJ-5 Halfcab plow? Nick

Craigslist can be a great place to get good deals, I've had good luck getting older MPC's off it ('76 Roadrunner $10, '78 Little red truck original release $20) Nick Sounds like you made out pretty good.

Still no mail to my house today (also home of a Government worker) Nick

Looks kinda neat, can I request some photo's of the new parts? I've got a few of the Original releases around here and I'm not sure if I need a couple more. Nick

Not all of Canada just Canada Post, but by Monday they should be back in to there normal stride, been almost 3 weeks since I last seen mail. Nick

Sounds Good Charlie my Friend. Nick Guess I should finish off a couple of builds on the home stretch to being finished ones and crack out the '58.

There off Duty

not ot mention Harry's got the wrong price, He's got the price for a Single Cab, not Extended Cab. just Sayin' Nick

Not sure Charlie, but as far as I know my Bondo should still be in place after the primer is gone, so atleast I'm not starting from scratch again. Nick

Exactly what I was trying to say, the Acadian and the Beaumont both were dropped after the AutoPact of 1969, which eliminated the tarrifs and duties. Nick

I have a bit of an odd question, what's going to happen to it now? Nick

Dave I was trying to say that it wasn't our only Nova, I just chose the wrong wording. Nick