Craig Irwin

This is as insane as the Volvo tractor vid, but looks like even more fun!

Collector car values are a strong indicator of popularity, and perception of appearance is a strong part of of a cars popularity. Value is only what someone is willing to pay for something.

True, but when I hear "Chevy " or "Chevrolet" I naturaly think of full the sized cars.

A 1970 Chevy doesn't look as good as a 1935 Chevy. Check prices, which one is worth more in equal condition?

Looks like a great fun toy, but worthless as a farm tool.

They say GM still has a styling department but nobody knows what they do all day. I vote with the pre '70 idea.

Althoe I have severial (I'm old and have earned the right to gripe), Muscle Car is my big one. A Chevelle SS 396 or 454 is a Muscle car IF the factory built it, if you put a 454 in a Chevelle that left the factory with a 307 you have a Street Machine. Muscle cars were factory built, not home built.

If you want to build a '60 the Revell '59 would be a much better starting place, or the MPC '60 for that matter.

To finish something!

Home chores for the next couple of days then back to work. Being a teenager is much more fun than being a responceable adult.

I have tried the hardtop and uptop from the MPC '60 Corvette, and the hardtop from the MPC '57 flip front Corvette and all three will work fine, but the headliner detail in both hardtops will take some work. Downside is that neither hardtop have the quarter windows which must be there as they did not retract. Simple scratch build.

Any blown engine can also run street equipment. The water pump and street pullys are normaly behind the blower drive, close to the block.

Torch cleaners are really files, not drills.

Is your "Bondo Glaze" an air dry product? (without a hardener?) If it is remove it completely and use a product that uses a hardener. I use Evercoat Metal Glaze.

I know a young man that was in your exact situation a few years back. He got HER house into great shape just in time for her new man to walk into a nice place with nothing needed. He had his maxed out Home Depo card to rub salt into that wound.

I'm another body and paint guy, I've been at it for 40 years now. It was a good profesion untill the insurance guys ruined it. Like the OP, I tried to play guitar for years before trying a Harmonica. I was a natural and did quite well with it. I still play open mic nights and set in with some local bands.

What goes Clop-clop, clop-clop, clop-clop, BANG!, clop-clop, clop-clop ? An Amish drive by shooting.

I would so love to see a crusty Cranky-ised 'Vette from thr Lab-Rat-Ory !

I'm being sarcastic, taxes and schooling costs are two of my pet peeves.

Good luck with that, I think 2013 is going to make 1929 look like childs play.

Pay the taxes on it and use whats left to pay my daughters student loans down, I don't think it would be enough to pay them all off.

Social indoctrination.

Bo and Luke must have hit the loto, those cars sticker for over $100.000.oo !

Welcome, former SAE guy here too. So whats that car in your avatar all about? (Big pony car fan here)

Monogram makes a "porportionly challenged" 53 Belair 2 door hardtop in 1/24 scale, and Revell makes a "sort of" 53/54 210 2 door sedan that has custom lights and a gasser style chassis that would be a real challenge to build anything close to stock from. The only resin body I know of is a Phantom 54 Nomad wagon.