sjordan2

Well said.

Thanks, Bob. Not all of these got into Harry's book, but maybe a memorial website could be created.

Bravo. But you left out the distributor mount. Harry and I were very much alike – we never met face to face, but our correspondence online and offline was very important to me. We're both shy and never broke the fourth wall of direct contact, until he called to thank me for my contribution. I will forever be proud for him giving me a shout-out in his book for helping him with car reference. So sad that the Pocher Rolls-Royce shooting brake never got finished, but you can see where he was heading in his 1/16 version, replete with Purdey shotguns.

I have no words. Harry was my online pen pal for over 15 years, going back to his days at Scale Auto.

The whole kit reminds me of the old story about the blind men describing a camel to each other. The shift lever, for example, looks like someone's description of the original gooseneck long shift on the first 50 Gullwings, only at a teeny scale; the original shift lever was mounted directly over the bell housing and ran back more into the interior.

Great interior – I see you replaced the ridiculous snaky shift lever. Just wondering about the placement of the parking brake, which would normally be located between the driver seat and the door sill.

Got it, thanks for showing what you did. Do you have more interior pictures? Also, very smart move to use knockoff wheel spinners to replace the hubcaps, which are just as bad as the grille.

GREAT work on a terrible kit -- so good you can't tell how bad the kit is. Fixing the grille star makes a huge difference – what was your technique?.

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Hmmm. I concentrated my search on Bugatti but it never turned up.

SMASHING!

The hose runs from the valve cover to the neck at the top of the oil tank filler cap (part B18) that's mounted on the outside of the frame, as shown in your last shot. This is a dry sump engine, hence the external oil tank.

Dang, that's amazing.

You'll have to figure out the injection tubes yourself - not in the kit. Just remember, the only way they can be seen is to keep the belly pan clear or removable. Not visible with an open hood.

That's a pretty good radio. However, it should be easy to surround it with the seat-material mounting bracket as shown in the photo I posted. That's pretty standard.

Masterpiece.

There were multiple plaid designs and colors. Please contact me if you want images. I have thousands of Gullwing reference photos. As for dash and hubcaps, they were always body color from the factory.

Not only do the Rudge wheels look racier and more serious, they also keep you from the nightmare of accurately painting the hubcaps, which were always body color without exception. The 1/24 AMT kit includes Rudge spinners and luggage rails. In either case, the knockoff wheels can be body paint, chrome, or silver paint, with or without chrome beauty rings. Mercedes offered knockoff racing wheels, which had a slightly different slot design from the Rudges, so you could just put some 2-eared spinners on the kit wheels and be accurate. Here's the way I'd do it, which I think is both racy and elegant:

The package shelf also seems to lack the 2 chrome luggage rails – one that runs around the upper curve of that area from door to door, and a straight one that runs horizontally across the front of the shelf floor; these are meant to attach leather belts to keep the luggage from sliding. Your build looks very accurate, so I'm sure you have reference to look at.

Another thing to look at is that the kit supplies radio speakers, but there's no radio or indication of an antenna on the body. Here's a typical Becker Mexico from a Gullwing. Look at a dashboard photo for placement.

Looks great. The one odd thing about the kit is the hollow back of the seats. Should be an easy fix. Will you leave the belly pan clear or paint it?

I think you may have confused me with Dann Tier's comment above. EDIT: I owe John an apology here -- I did not see Dann Tier's diss of John's build and only meant to agree with the OUTSTANDING part of the comment on this one.

Keep it going, Bill. You're doing a great service.

You bet.

Harry did, indeed, make a beautiful version of this kit. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/68927-westward-ho-concord-stagecoach/