Dave Van

COOL!!! I grabbed a few of those promos when a toy chain had them on blow out. I only found one of the 2 door versions. Nice work!

NICE CLEAN WORK!

WOW WOW!!! I did in fact go down and see the real Elinor Mustang. Even got to touch her. But that was not the highlight that week. Next day my buddies and I stop at a Shell station on Independence at Idlewild for gas. Who pulls into the station?? HB Halicki in a P/U towing Elinor!!!! The one time in my life I wish we had cell phones back then!!! We got to talk for a few minutes....a nice guy. My brush with fame and why I am a Gone fan..... Thanks for digging that up!

Thanks all for the comments. The resto shop screwing me over did have a happy ending. While they took my money and did super poor work (they had bailed on their auto shop and went into real estate speculation....were they lost their shirts). It forced me to redo the car top to bottom myself. After some health issues I did not think I could do it......but I found out I could push myself to do it.....and now she is all my work. VERY satisfying, more so than a paid shop. So while I lost a lot of money, lost in court to them.....I got a personal win.......much more valuable!! Again thanks!!!

50 years ago this week I found my 66 Mustang on the Young Ford used lot in Charlotte NC.. I saw a newspaper ad by Young Ford for cars on their used lot. Two Mustangs were listed, a 71 fastback and my 66. The 71 was a 6 cyl 3 spd base model. My 66 had a 289 4 spd. The 71 was a better car overall, like new.....but V8 wins out!! The 66 was my daily driver until 1985 when the clutch went out and I decided to do a full restore. I had no idea of the time or cost so she sat not running until 2018 when we had to sell her or fix her. We went with fix. Like 99.999% of car restoration stories go...it was not easy. It involved a well known car resto shop, the courts and us paying a few times to get the same thing done. But in FEB 2019 she was 99% complete and we took her to the 55th Mustang show in Charlotte. Been a long great ride!!! Thanks 2019 55th Mustang show and about one year after I bought her.

Really nice work!!!!

There is a detailed post about the AM Taurus kit. Long story short the kit was designed by Bob Johnson who did the majority of Monogram NASCAR kits. The kit was never produced and sold in any numbers. My brother in law worked at AM, as did I part time. When they closed I was given a large tub of Taurus kits. IMHO only I doubt the tooling is still around. The tooling was shopped to a number of companies and there was no interest. https://public.fotki.com/DaveVan51/accurate-miniatures/

Hit two Ollie's Friday while traveling. Beckley WV: ZERO new, Wacky Racers and missle kits. Lewisburg WV: The Atlantis run, AMT Miller trailer, Mixer truck and CAL race team all at $25. Picked up the race team.

I'll get a drag team if I find one.

Looking good!!! Is that a young Chessie???

Maybe nothin to show????

Mine is no were as pretty but bought it back 1994....Pretty decent cars considering AMC had no money. Mine feels much more modern than it\s age.

That came out really nice!!!! WELL DONE

I picked up a mint kit last Fall at the Ohio model show. I'll be watching!

I'll get the Mustang for sure!

Thanks....I can get local....Out of pocket....the reason I do it by mail is it's my insurance supplier and free....

I have a new USPS horror story.....anew LOW!!!!! I order my refill on Meds, they ship from Cinncy 300 miles door to door. JAN 12 2025 A few days later package is in Charleston WV. GOOD I get it next day if things go right. Well.....it sits therefor a few days...OK Claim weather delay but my daughter lives near postal sort center and she is getting around fine in her mini van!?!??! Then the package goes on vacation. Next it's in Indy, sits for a few days. OK Next up some skiing in Denver CO. Sits a few more days. Package REALLY liked Indy so a few days there again....... NO ETA and I have one day of meds left. I hate the USPS................

The NASCAR Cup rule at the time was the race car had to have the same TYPE of suspension at each corner. IE the factory car had leaf rear race car must have leaf. Factory car had rear coils, race car must have coils. But the GM truck arms were used on cars like 76 Ford Torino too as it had coils rear. The Dodges of the era had to run torsion bar front even though it was altered from production. This was the start of the full race car chassis that had nothing to do with the production car.. thx

I have 3 packages sitting at the regional sorting center since LAST Sunday. With my inside connections I now have I had them checked on. Because we have had snow the sort center does the very least and slaps a 'Weather Delay' on what they do not process. If I did that in my job I'd been gone......

Good start!!! I was one of the folks that worked on those MPC reissues by Model King. I have a Fotki that has a few tips on these kits..... https://public.fotki.com/DaveVan51/model-king-stocker-/ These are box stock builds to show what can be done. I did add a few roll bars with tube stock, nothing major.

Cool idea and nice work!

Things are changing for sure. There is a new video on YT about Tichy Train Group, maker of plastic model train parts. Owner is also the tool maker. He uses aluminum blocks to cut tools and they are a few hundred each. And if he sits down and works at it a new tool takes him a few days. Most of his tools are two part simple tools with no slide action etc.....but shows what can be done today. The factory tour is interesting if you like that stuff. Thanks

I get it. I love all those 1/24 kits Monogram did in early 60's. A 6 in 1 kit!! What's not to love!!!! My dream is somehow someone clones these kits!!!

More info????

I like the kit. A very different pick for AMT at the time. My build with a model of my real Concorde I had. Thanks