Craig Irwin

Please do the decals for the Tom Sherlock / Snodgrass (hope thats right) Psycho 66 Mustang and the Shake Rattle and Run 57 Chevy!

This is a must have, very nice!

Wasn't there a good artical on pluming old fuel engines in MCM a few years back?

Just re-read the orignal post, to answer one question, Pauls 65 'Vette with the Hilborn stacks was not rased in the front, and was somewhat lowered. But it did have 6 tail lights!

The whole Street Freak thing was about cars that were "over the top". We were trying to copy the drag racers so the guys wanted that gasser look. Straight axles, blowers, drag shutes, you name it. A friend of mine actualy ran Hilborn injection on his 65 'Vette big block, what a nightmare that was! The whole Pro Street thing was the next phase, trying to look like the Pro Stock cars.

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Is everyone SURE the Spruce Goose only flew once LOL! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088433/

Me too.

The Spruce Goose flew on its own, was never towed. Also it was a float plane so any tow would have to have been from a boat.

Yes! And it took some going to out ugly the Aztek.

I sugested just that to Okey years ago, sort of a plastic resin kit if you will.

Thanks! So if the 56 F 100 chassis is correct this must have been a straight axle truck?

OK, I admit it, I'm more of a Chevy guy, so I need help. I just bought a resin 63 Ford unibody pickup in 1/25 scale. So, it looks like I need a Y-block V8 engine, correct? Also, the chassis is the old wire through the engine type, is something better out there? I may scratch build one if need be. Would this truck have the Ford twin I Beam front end or something else? Thanks in advance.

Anythings posible with a Sawzall and a MIG welder, I guess I should have stated all factory produced 1:1 1949 Mercury wagons were woodies!

And now you can start on the pre-1960 list! LOL!

Good turnout, I got some great Jo-Han stuff, a 69 AMX curbside kit and some 64 Dodge kit cheater slicks, and some Modelhaus resin parts to finish a few restorations. Looks like I'm brown bagging it for a few weeks!

Multi piece hands down.

I've heard it said that in case of a nuclear apocalypse the only things that can survive will be cockroaches and slant 6 Dusters.

My broher put over 250000 on a gas Chevette, my uncle got 500000 on a diesel (which used an Isuzu engine, BTW).

Over the last 40 years I have worked in the automotive service and repair busness. I started, just out of school, at a multi line import dealer, where we would service any import that came in the door. Everything from late 50's Voxhalls to Ferraris came through, plus the FIATs, Triumphs, Alfa Romeos and Subarus that we sold new. This was in the early to mid 70's. This was quite a shock to a kid who had grown up in a GM town where people expected cars to start and get to their destonation without the aid of a tow truck. I soon learned about FIATs, as the young new kid I got to climb up on the transports to get the brand new "cars" (term used very loosly) running long enough to be unloaded, or to push them off to the more experanced mechanics. Those Yugos everyone badmouths? They are a FIAT design (FIAT 128) built under license! Triumphs normaly went 18 to 24 months before returning home on a wrecker. Then they seemed to remain forever. Alfas required constant "fideling" to keep them happy, A trate I found all Itialian cars to have, the more expencive (read Ferraris) the worse they were. Subarus were good cars, even in the early days of imports to the USA. As for the "off brands" that we didn't sell new but serviced, German cars from VW to Benz were great cars, only Audi ownership needed to be avoided. NO ONE should ever own ANYTHING French, and I don't believe that the French should even be allowed to make cars. The British were somewhat better, but were stuck with the Lucas electrics and severe oil leakage. I remember a TR 4 that came in with a timing chain so loose that it had sawed a slot in the timing cover. It was still running fine! Having said that, the worse car I personaly owned was a TR 7, Yes, I should have followed my own advice. A Hyundai Elantra is a distant second. A Plymouth minivan third.

I'll be the ugly grey-bearded guy in a black leather motorcycle jacket, say hi!

All 1:1 1949 Merc wagons were woodies.

I've owned 4 Cavaliers, driven hundreds of thousands of miles in them, and am looking for another to replace the one that was just totaled 2 weeks ago. (it had 190,000 miles on it, trouble free). Not exciting but good, solid, dependable transportation.

Because the factory tinted glass in early and mid 50's cars had a green cast to it, and over doing the % hid the lack of interior.

4 years ago I would spend $45 on a resin kit, buy 2 kits (or more) as donors, a photo etch set, $30 worth of automotive paint and some aftermarket decals just to build a model if the subject interested me. Today I have to think out every dollar I spend. I would be a buyer for PE sets for kits that lack scripts and emblems, but I would want them smaller than whats been out before (no pedals, wiper arms, plate frames, ect.) to keep the cost down. Scripts and emblems only.