seeker589

That truck looks great. I learned some skills watching this thread. Keep it coming.

I was thinking about building a Locost frame! Both in 1/25 scale and in 1/1 scale. I love it!

That is one very nice model! Thank You for sharing!

What size compressor do you use for air-brushing? I'm looking to buy one but I don't want to over buy or under buy. I have about $200 to spend. Suggestions?

Todos es muy bonita! or All are very beautiful! At least that is what I wanted to say! I hope I can build as clean and detialed as that one day! Thanks for sharing.

First of all - I REALLY like the build! It has great flavor (salty) and personality. Great execution! I do have a question, however. How can the tires and wheels be so clean and the frame and body be so salty? Not a criticism - just a question.

I am Pixar-head and a Disney kid. My parents didn't have any hobbies - but they did travel. Many of those travels brought us to Disney World or Disney Land - like twelve times before I enlisted in the Air Force at 19. Back to Pixar's Cars - When the first one came out I was working second shift (3PM - 11:30PM). The first showing was at about 10:30AM. I just had to go! I was the only solo, grown-up movie-goer. There were plenty of preschoolers running around and parents giving me some rather odd looks. The movie was quite possibly the BEST movie Pixar has ever made (Toy Story 3 threatens that position). I rank it as one of the top five car movies in existence.

Very nice - i'd love to see that one slithering down the street! Heck - I'd love to be the one doin' the slithering! I wouldn't kick that one out of my garage!

Really nice build! I can hear the engine fan now! Gotta love that flat six engine note!

Great looking build so far. I will be looking forward to seeing how the front wheel well changes look on the finished project. I'm liking the wide-white-walls much more than the narrow ones. I like the wheels with the wide-white-walls, too. Just my humble opinion. Keep it up.

Chuck! I have searched for the Plastruct stuff and cannot find it. I know they make it but my LHS can't even find it to order it. I did find some micro fasteners. I ordered drill bits so I can use them - I had used .039 drill for the three link- I need bigger holes for the fasteners. I also have some hexagonal beads that are just a bit too big for standing in for fasteners - they will make nice fittings, however. The project is more stalled for the landscaping we are doing - that and me having to install my new Pace paint booth. we'll get rolling again soon! The G-bucket will be completed!

OK - I'm guilty of this. My first truly complete build when returning to this wonderful hobby was not a careful kit build of a familiar kit. It was virtually all fabricated hot-rod-roadster thing. Do a search for G-bucket. I fabbed the frame. Hacked up a 60s Ford Galaxie. Fabbed a three link rear suspension. Since I didn't want to rob a VW front suspension from a kit I plan to build - so I fabbed that, too. You know what I'm stuck on? Bold heads. Replicating bolt heads. If I would have built a kit - like smart returnees would have done - I wouldn't need to replicate bolt heads so an exposed frame wouldn't look so bare. I will finish the roadster. I am being lured by a vision I have about a Pro Street Vette - I hacked up the frame last week to fit the tires and get the stance - not exactly a beginner's move. I could finish the '49 Merc I chopped almost 20 years ago. Or the custom Camaro I started about the same time. I have a vision and I just start on it. Sometimes I stretch my skills and other times I have no idea how I'm gonna get there. But I am determined to finish the projects I started- even those I started almost two decades ago. I will be open to criticism - good or bad. You-all have taught me so much already. Thanks. Now I have some food for thought, too.

Last Thursday or Friday I ordered this: It's a Pace 24 Inch Mini-Plus I recieved it less than a week later (Wednesday the following week) in perfect shape. I'm looking forward to installation and use. I have a Bazillion paint ideas!

After reading the initial post I did some research on Eric because his name and face were familiar. It took me to the IMDb. His page had a link to the full length feature. link to: The Beast - Full Length

Sorry - I just found this thread. If I remember correctly - many times drag racers that wanted to do the AWB/big engine set-back thing - would just hack off the stock frame rails from the firewall forward. Then fabricate frame rails out of 2x4 tubing with similarly fabricated cross-members and motor mounts and/or motor-plates. Simple and lightweight - keep thinking weight transfer to the rear wheels. Traction!

I'm pretty sure they call them Bullets because they are similar to the wheels Steve McQueen had on his iconic Mustang in the movie Bullet. Ford also had a Hunter Green mustang called The Bullet that had what Mustang junkies call - Bullets. It was an option package to celebrate the influence the car in the movie had on Mustang culture and Ford's sales numbers!

I totally concur! Some of that stuff is illustration magic!

This guy is a great illustrator. His name is Dwayne Vance. He has gathered automotive artists from around the world for his second book - The Hot Rod Artbook - Masters of Chicken Scratch - vol.2. He's looking for pledges to get this second volume book off the ground. So far he has well over his fund raising goal but his pledge packages are really not too bad for what you get. One package ($60) gets you the book, a t-shirt, and a limited edition print signed by Dwayne. Even if you don't buy or pledge - just the illustrations on this website are enough to get your imagination well on its way to the next build. You really owe it to yourself to check it out! Really! Link to the beautiful illustrations... oh, and a book

I love it! Nice build great color mash-up - authentic. We need more autocross/road-race/drift/time attack cars! When I'm done with my G-bucket - I'm getting on one.

I'm surprised no-one else said this: That paint is smokin'! There - I said it!

This is the shizznit! Now if I could just figure out CAD and be effective/efficient enough at CAD to prototype some parts!

Thank you for all of your replies. The example given for the Grainger sourced fan seems like someting I would be looking for. I would love to see examples of other people's painting fume/odor removal systems.

I am building a spray-booth area thingie. I really need a source for exhaust fans that are recommended for painting. More explicitly - sealed ones with no exposed sparks - chemical fire in a house is bad. I need two of them - one for my work area and one for the spray area. Any help would be great. Thanks

I just HAVE to contribute to this thread! I love the MB transporter! This was built to haul race cars on the west coast: It was built by Norm Holcamp who was associated with the early Troutman-Barnes Chaparral team. Jim Hall was the driver. It looks so much like Stan's build I just had to post the article! The article is from a "little-book" titled The How-To Book of Hot Rods. Published in 1961 - It has some great old tech and features in it.

So far your build is very nice! I'm looking forward to seeing this one finished. The timing of this build is very appropriate. Some of you may know I build Harleys at the plant in York, PA. I worked on the Softail line. The reason I say worked is because as of today - we completed the build out of the 2011 Softail model line. In the next 2-3 months we will begin combining the Softail and Touring lines on one assembly line arrangement. It will be at the York facility - but it will be very different from previous build practices with a very firm focus on the bottom line. Today also marks the final build of the Springer style of front fork arrangement. Due to outsourcing and various questionable decisions of the current leadership - Harley will no longer manufacture the Springer - in or out-of house. The reason given was expense in fabrication and lack of an outside source willing to take on the liability at the cut rate cost Harley was willing to pay. I always thought the Springer was unique and respected H-D for continuing to make such a niche product as the Springer. Today - some more of the soul that was Harley-Davidson - died. Long live the Springer!