Craig Irwin

I never heard it until sometime in the 80's.

OK, I'll throw a log of this fire, where in the world did that stupid "kemp" thing come from?

Fantastic! Lets see, an earlier Gremlin built with Missing Links grille and bumpers, Wally Booth pro-stock, beater,.............

Maybe. I built a 71 GTO annual when it was new, and I remember an optional front straight axle and raised rear suspension. The front axle had coil overs that were made to glue into the holes for the metal wire axles, and had chrome 4-links that went back and glued to the side of the frame. A roll bar, racing seats, slicks and a supercharger were pretty standard parts in all the 3 in 1 kits back then and made the rest of the "funny car' option. Is this the one you remember?

It also didn't help having a flathead 6 when everyone was switching to OHV V8's.

Hudson spent their limited budget on tooling up the Jet, which was the answer to a question no one asked, a small car that sold for as much as a full sized car. This left Hudson with no cash to replace the aging step-down models. Ford wanted to out sale Chevy and be first in U.S. sales again, so they stepped up production and forced dealers to discount. Chevy simply did the same, which priced the cars where the indpendants couldn't compete. This forced the mergers that killed Hudson and Packard, and the big Nashes.

Hudson is gone because of the Hudson Jet and Ford's aggressive 1954 discount sales drive to out sale Chevy. It didn't hurt Chevy, (they just discounted too) but it really hurt the inpendants .

I think I'll go build something, maybe a 69 Camaro or 57 Chevy.........

These AMC cars were unibody, with no separate frame. The closest chassis I can think of is early Ford Mustang with the lower control arms reversed. Then start correcting...... The later AMC V8 is in the monogram CJ-7 Jeep kit (304), but it's 1/24, I don't know if its undersized and would work or not.

Bash away, but It's on my "must have" list.

Fingers crossed !

And I should add, some model railroad stuff works for this too.

Some military decal sets have small labels that look good as underhood stickers. Be sure to use ones that are too small to read.

BINGO ! You see 32 Fords, tri-five Chevys and 69 Camaros because........ 1 Modified reissued kits are much cheaper than all new tools. 2 They sell.

We still don't have a 67 or a good 65 Nova. One man's floor is another man's ceiling.

If that 57 Chevy was a Nomad or convertible, and that 69 Camaro was a SS396 coupe or a ZL-1, I'd buy a few.

Passing on this one.

I'm going to build a boring old stock one too!

I see none of you were brave enough to try and explain Ford's engine familys. LOL

Do you have a local glass and mirror shop?

Looks hopeless to me, maybe someone makes a resin body so you can use the rest of the kit?

Basically how this relates to us is injection molding equipment used to make plastic models is very expensive and requires expensive molds be made by tool engravers. Resin can be cast in simple molds of rubber by modelers in there spare rooms or garage, The "tooling" is nothing more than a model itself, either an original part or something hand made.

IPMS chapters are a mixed breed, some have members who know car models and judge them well, and others only know tanks and planes. It depends on the membership they have.

One mans floor is another mans ceiling, I'm waiting for a corrected resin body.

I'm off to my LHS to get my nice clean, un-folded, spindled and mutilated copy .