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Yea, I may be crazy! A good friend of mine is working on decals for this, should be fun!

I got the 426 powered car that I posted last week finished up so I started on the next one. This will be the Lou Baney/Don Prudhomme "Shelby Super Snake" Top Fuel car. The basic Ford SOHC engine is from the AMT Ohio George '33 Willys with the blower from the Ivo kit and a Revell funny car injector. Still got a long way to go.

No, I don't. It's simple though it's just a piece of plain sheet styrene. It needs to cover the top of the carbs and a little down the front and back. The four rods holding it up are the air cleaner studs. They're just small bits of wire in the center of the carbs. NHRA required all open carbureted engines to have a flash guard like this to keep the flames from a backfire getting out of control.

With all the excitement and talk about AMT's newly re-issued Double Dragster kit I thought I would throw this one up here just for fun. I built this quite a few years ago from the Blueprinter version. It's mostly out-of-the-box with the exception of the Olds engine from Revell. The intake is modified from the one intended for the Chrysler in the Double Dragster which is also where I got the eight carbs. The headers are from some unknown funny car kit. The plate above the carbs is a flash guard that was an NHRA requirement on all open carburetors. It's just made out of some styrene sheet. I've still got a couple of those Blueprinter kits so I haven't been motivated to shell out the bucks for one of the new kits. Maybe once the cardboard box version is out.

Pete, what are you cutting your decals with? If you trim the decals with your hobby knife, you are creating a raised edge. Make a cut on a sheet of plastic and run your thumb over the cut edge and you'll see what I mean. The knife does the same thing to your decal. Cut the decals out with a pair of scissors and that won't happen and your decals will look 100% better.

They are. I was in the middle of my first cup of coffee in the morning when I posted those. I thought he was asking about 210s. But they still serve to show the difference.

Only at the bottom.

Hey! I think I photographed that car at Barona a few years ago!

Well Chuck, I agree and disagree with you. (Hows that for being like a politician?) While I was thrilled to get the 150, I also would be just as thrilled with that '57 Bonneville or a 5-6-7 Oldsmobile!

Well, Junkman, I'm going to stand up with Luke on this one. And having spent twenty years as an active member of the Classic Chevy Club and with experience judging 1:1 cars at the national level, I feel well qualified to do so!

Well, I had this stuff laying around already, so . . . . I just looked at their web site and maybe I'll try some on the next project. Thanks for the tip.

Anybody mind if I toss in a couple of photos of the car in action?

Just generic.

Been working on this most of the weekend. It started with a Tommy Ivo kit frame. I stretched the wheelbase to 204". The engine is from a Revell funny car kit with JoHan valve covers. As usual questions, comments, and criticisms are welcome.

Thanks. There will be a lot more on building this kit in a future issue of Model Cars. Stay tuned.

I think the orange, like you've done, though it may not be correct, certainly looks much better than the peach. I found a bunch of photos of both the original and the restored car on the web and the color looks different in every one of them due to camera and sunlight angles. So who knows. I like your version a lot!

When this kit was first on the market way back in the early '70s I built a lot of them but never straight-out-of-box. So when the re-issue became available I told myself I should do one straight up, and so (drum roll please) . . . here it is: The first thing to note is the sort of "peachy" color. I mixed this up using Testors Model Master paints. Started with a base of gloss white to which I added a few drops of bright yellow until I got a very pale shade of yellow. Then I added orange, a drop or two at a time, until I got "peach". It's pretty close to the way I remember the car. The only thing that would make it better would be if it was all done in pearls. The decals are mostly from the kit with some of the lettering from Slixx. The model's not 100% out-of-the-box as I tossed out the unrealistic, and much too wide, rear wheels and tires that come in the kit and replaced them with parts from my stash of spares. My main criticism of the finished model is that the body doesn't fit together all that well. Especially at the front. I needed to spend way more time on that than I did to get it right. The engine is also nearly 100% out-of-the-box. The injector and the magneto are from a Revell early funny car kit and the throttle linkage and barrel valve are scratch built. The exhaust headers are from the MPC Willie Borsch altered. The injector was a little frustrating as I made sure I had the two halves glued together very solidly and I sanded down the seam. Then, after it was painted that *&%$#%&* seam opened up at the front! As always, comments, criticism, sticks and stones, are welcome. (Your mileage may vary)

The Hobby Lobby here in Kingsport is basically useless. It's a craft and housewares store first and foremost. They have only a token selection of model kits and just the bare minimum of supplies like paint, glue, etc. Not even worth going in there.

This is part of our "fleet": The hot rod is a '28 Ford Model A, lakes modified. (Not a T-bucket, and not a track T like most people think it is) The Mustang is an '02 that I bought new when I worked at a Ford dealership. It's my fair weather car. The '47 Mercury coupe is the car my wife usually drives to shows and on runs, etc. It's definitely a long term work in progress. My wife also has an '04 Focus that's her daily driver. We don't have any photos of it. And then here is the workhorse: It's a '95 F-250, with the 7.3 turbo diesel, getting real close to 180,000 miles now. It pulls the trailer, obviously, when we take the hot rod to out-of-town shows. But it's also my daily driver in crappy weather, the Home Depot, Evergreen Nursery, and anything else hauler. It rarely gets washed, gets minimum service, and just keeps on getting down the road. And comfortable. I have driven this truck for as long as 14 hours at time when driving cross-country. Great truck!

I just watched the video all the way to the end and the credits say it's from the DVD of the 1991 MoPar Nationals.

Looks to me like both cars are recreations and this video is not all that old. Look at the tower in the background. Much more modern than 1970-71. And they're doing burnouts in a water box. And I only watched the first 20 seconds or so. There may be more clues as it goes on.

Not enough differences to worry about, Use this photo for both.

Here ya go!

That's too beautiful to actually race it.