Dave Van

If it's only happening to one or two out of a large collection it's a bad batch of metal. In the model train hobby a few years ago whoever was supplying the metal to the train manufacture provided some tainted material. On a set of passenger cars one set of wheels would crumble and break while the other set was fine on the same car! Traced back to a bad batch of metal......manufacture had to replace them all. Nothing you can do now....

Very nice work!!! Whos resin kit???

I can't say right now.......the brand is on the center cap....but I am drawing a blank right now.....and I ain't going out to the barn tonight to find out!!! But I will.....Thx

Funny how many of us share history.......... Late 1962 Dad took delivery of a brand new Lark wagon with the retracting roof. Dad bartered it from Andy Granatelli of STP......Dad was racing director of Valvoline at the time....Andy was getting Studebaker cars in place of stock dividends....he used many....sold or traded the others. Loved that car......rode from CA to WV twice in it.....I was in charge of the swamp cooler!!!! We went to Holley House drive in to eat 3-4 times a month......I remember the cup 'holders' on the glove box door!!!

Here in West Virginia we have classic car tags. They are good for 10 years. You can run them on your car or just carry them in it. You can then use a WV tag from the year your car was made. I have a 73 WV tag for my Javelin. Classic cars do not require inspections but have some limits on the amount you drive them. But they are not real tough on the limits......they just don't want to see you driving your Classic tagged car everyday all year.....which I wouldn't anyway!

Well....well....worth the wait.........

Biz has been good of late per my wholesale hobby buddy......looking up I'd say.

I do not understand the infatuation with corn produced ethanol......It is not environmentally friendly, cost efficient, it's not good for cars or people. But it has allowed artificially high prices for corn and thus an excuse for a increase in anything that might cross paths with corn.....food, transportation etc etc. At some place and time we will look back at this like we do the traveling medicine man. IF, and I say IF......ethanol is the solution (not saying it is) look to Brazil and their use of sugar cane and grasses to make it.

Nice build!!!! I have the kit....weather I'll ever get around to it?????

Just cool!

I do a lot of test fitting while I can. If there is an issue I can't find or fix I remove the mounting pin or whatever, set the model on a flat surface and epoxy the one wheel one so all touch the ground.

IIRC.....these are the Revell parts pack Pontiac's.......They have a great effort at being detailed...but they are so old....they come off OK. Odd parts break down. I stripped most of the chrome. Just OK.... Note that the headers do not line up with exhaust....but being a showrod.....would not be the first time!!!

Cool work.....don't see these done well often!

Gopher Racing decals???? Gasser decals???? Ask and......well you get them..... Model King decals and Gopher Racing are done by the same printer....good stuff....

Fred is FINE!!! At least last I heard......he has retired from daily production of decals. He does sell off inventory to some dealers that carried his product in the past. I hear if he gets enough requests for a decal from dealers he may run them....but it may just be old stock on hand. I understand if you snail mail him and ask if he has an item he will respond. Fred got me into the graphic arts biz. Back in the early 1980's he attended a model show he held in Charlotte. He also attended a few club get togethers as he had family in the Charlotte area and would come by when in town. A good guy....

Even on my 1/1 scale AMC's I do not worry about original block color....it's made...but it's about 3 times the cost of the Ford engine blue I use....that I can pick up down the street.....the AMC color you have to order.

Great build so far......I have a few of those kits in the stash. My Dad was racing director for Valvoline 1960-70 in So Cal. Tommy was one of their first 'big' names to run the Valvoline logo. Parent company Ashland didn't see the benefit to race car sponsorship but Tommy changed Ashlands mind!!! Tommy gave me a factory built 4 engine kit when it first came out....Revell had given him a few of them. I was too young to realize what it was and it got destroyed. All I have today is the drag chute with a decal on it.....thought that was super high detail back in the day!!! I need to build one......

Grabbed a set last trip.....at 40 off a good deal.......need a few mods but that's easy!

Been watching this build.....fantastic work!!!!! I built a gas station dio about 1985 or so.......It was fun to watch as you built many of the same things I did.....different years and styles of stuff....but lots similar! Again great work!!! Fun stuff!!!!

I have two of those Hess vans.......I hope to convert them someday! I always wanted to replicate the orange 'Palm' scheme!

I love movie cars....built the 57 but there was no post car back in the day.....but mine was close!

WOW....all I cam say

The AMT kit CAN be built into a nice model. The T nose has to be glued on and then putty applied but the kit still fits well and has lots of options. The RM T is a decent kit....but in 1/24 scale HUGE on the shelf.....zero options....and the detail is not a GREAT improvment over the AMT. I've built a number of them.

Nice neat clean work....my fav.....

Don and Carol are true assets to the hobby. Met them in 1983, first time, and buying ever since. Top folks on every level......