MrObsessive

It all looks good to me Cruz! Your trim looks very symmetrical from both sides which can be hard at times when hand applying it. One thing that's nice about the Plastruct styrene is that it's a bit denser than the Evergreen stuff. Meaning if you're trying to bend it around corners and such, it won't snap and break as easily.

Hmmm.......that's a good tip Rick! Another tire I found that works well, is if you use the rear tires out of the standard C6 Corvette. I always thought the sidewall profile of the kit tires were a bit too tall for a SRT-8. The kit tires seem more suited for a regular RT.......... Here's a side shot of a Magnum I did last year where I used the rears out of the 'Vette for all fours on the car..........

When I was learning to drive in that '69 Mark III that my stepdad owned, we were visited one weekend by my stepdad's brother who had just bought a brand new '77 Mark V. I thought that was one of the coolest new cars on the road at that time--------and that wasn't sayin' a whole lot as there were slim pickings in the late '70's! At least for Ford it was a big departure from the somewhat bloated looking, rounded Mark IV's. You definitely got a rare piece Bob, as that's the first time I've ever seen a Mark V model of any sort! It doesn't look half bad considering that Sam may have started with nothing for a master.

There's actually a '71 which was put out by Model King a while back............they're all over eBay in the U.S. Not up on my T-Birds of that era, but the differences seem minimal to my view.

If I were to buy a car like a Mustang (GT or other) a stick would be a MUST! Even for small cars a stick to me is much more desirable than an auto-------stop and go traffic notwithstanding. When I bought my Saturn a couple years ago, I insisted on a stick otherwise there'd be no sale! Autos to me are just sooooooo boring. Likewise when it comes time for repairs, automatics can leave your wallet a hurtin'!

Keith, you have to get rid of the "http" in the field before you paste the addy. At least that's how I have to do it using Mozilla......... That rust is unreal!!

Hey I don't mind being lost in the '50's! At least those were among the first cars I can remember seeing when I knew what cars were! But yeah Bob, all those cars you mentioned would have some appeal........especially for those of us who were of driving age in the '70's. I'm still wondering why there's been no decent 1971-73 Riviera kitted out there.........that car would be killer among the lowrider crowd for sure!

Excellent FIA Cobra Terry! Remember the kit manufacturer "Sunny" in the '80's? I think they did a "427" Cobra although it looks a lot like more of a FIA car that you did. I've got this kit somewhere in my stash, but haven't looked at it in years. The tooling IIRC looks suspiciously a lot like the old AMT kit-------just modified a tad.

One of the first cars I turned a wheel on was one of those! My stepdad had a '69..........I remember the starter was waaaaaay down on the bottom of the dash, had to be careful your knees didn't jam into it!.............and that car could get up an GO! Between learning to drive in that and my Mom's '69 Javelin SST (with a 390 no less) I was one happy 16 year old learning to drive!! Another one of my long lost '70's favorites would be the Lincoln Mark V from '77-'79............I wouldn't know where to begin to even think about scratchbuilding a body for that one!

Well said Mark!...............And no, I didn't mind being the "guinea pig"! Yes, it's very true that I've rather "plateaued" in my pushing the envelope. I'm more focused now on getting details correct be it body shapes/contours, interiors, etc. It's also true that if I tried to outdo subsequent builds with ever more working features, burnout was sure to set in. I actually began to notice this when I was building the '64 GTO.......you remember the one with roll up windows AND a working folding top?? I was running into frustration the deeper I got into the model to the point where burnout was setting in...........not to mention I was in the process of a big move, new position/responsibility at work, along with some other hassles going on at the time. After the move to the new house.........I decided to shelve the GTO and kinda "get back to basics" with a string of simpler yet clean builds. Witness the '61 Cadillac curbside, '59 Buick curbside, box stock (basically) '05 Mustang and 'Vette, and the '06 Magnum. Now that I've sorta gotten back in the swing of things and gotten into the '55 Ford, I'll tone it back a bit again when I'm done with it with a couple more somewhat simpler builds before I get back into something crazier. This is what's been working for me........and with my life being a little more complicated now------Mortgage & car payments, yet another new position at work, I want this hobby to be more about relaxation, and not so much outdoing myself with each build anymore.

The one that's in the first video Harry is the only one that's running to be owned by a private collector. There were 55 total cars built------5 were for Chrysler testing............a couple no doubt for crash testing purposes. The other 50 were for the general public to test out in 3 month periods. If I remember my Turbine Car history correctly, the first cars were given out in October 1963 and the last cars were turned in I think January 1966. About 200 folks participated in the test and were given pretty much unlimited mileage to put on the cars in the 3 month period. Another reason that Chrysler might have destroyed the cars was for product liability issues. In the free wheeling 1960's this may not have been much of a problem-------------but you can betcha it would be a big deal today! As an aside I could swear I saw this car as a four year old in 1965! I had no idea what it was at the time-----I can remember though going past a shopping parking lot with a family friend who was a certified car nut as I remember. He all of sudden whips into the parking lot to ogle this bronze/copper car which for years I would figure out that it was probably the Turbine Car that someone in the area had. I wasn't that much interested as a little kid.........I just remember a LOT of people around it. Wish I was a little older then with a camera........I would have taken a TON of pics!! I have to give credit to this "family friend" though as he would later date my Mom (for years!) and as I mentioned was a super car nut. The particular job he had gave him access to all types of cars----it seemed he had a different car every 3-6 months. This ranged from '60-'61 Corvairs to '58 Ramblers, to a '60 Olds (I ruined that car one day ) just to name a few. He's probably the reason I have such interest in cars out of the '50's early '60's as I got to ride in 'em alot as a kid and as well as see 'em on the street in front of the house.

The only '67 Camaro kit I know of would be the AMT kit from a number of years ago Kyle. I can't remember if MPC did one, but if they did it would be MEGA bucks for a untouched kit! The AMT one had issues as to body correctness and interior, but I too can't quite remember what they were either. Something about the roof never seemed right about the '68 kit which it was based on-----------so if I were building it, I might swap roofs say from the Revell '68 Firebird, add vent windows and use the chassis from the '69 Camaro. Or better yet, use the mechanical parts out of the Revell Firebird sans the engine..........they were essentially the same car anyway!

Bump..........Geez!! I thought this thread had gone to cyber heaven! At least some of the original pics did, but they've been "resurrected". Hard to believe I've been fooling with this model off and on for over TWO YEARS! Well it's not part of the other thread so don't get confused!

Yeah I'd like to see a convertible Mustang too! It's conspicuous by its absence.....

Ooooooh! I just looove this car!! One of my favorite '60's road racers! I've got Harold Bradfords full detailed kit of this, but haven't been brave enough to start on it yet. I just like looking at those beautiful parts he's made for it! Absolutely Awesome job Dave!!

That's Ford's "celebration" more or less of the 40th anniversary of the Bullitt movie. It's Ford's way of paying homage to one of the best car chase scenes ever to hit film. Not to mention it'll be one of the last special editions of this particular series Mustang. Word has it that '09 will be a very short model year as the restyled '10's are getting an early intro. The shape Ford's in however, all that can change on a dime!

AAHH! I see.......... I'll probably get one of those when it comes out............no one's ever done a really good '57 Chevy post sedan.

That's this one here Clay........... VERY popular back in the "old" days! What's pictured is the "Black Widow" which was a successful racer back then. Not sure if Revell will give us the parts or not to build that one as I thought it was originally cancelled.

Thanks for the tip Jairus! I've never heard of Petg.. We have a local plastics place here.....I'll have to definitely check on that! That Lotus windshield looks great! I see what you mean about scale thickness as anything thicker on the Lotus would be out of scale and ill appearing. I dunno about me being the "god " part..............I have my moments with models!

The slow but sure progress of the Ford marches on! I wanted to get the steering wheel and dash test fitted to see how they’ll fit………so the steering wheel was reattached to the dash, but there was a problem! I must have lost the piece that held the steering wheel in the dash as it would not stay put on it’s own. See what happens when you drag out a project? So I made my own bracket out of stainless steel sheet and HO scale bolts. Here’s the pic where the dash is just test fitted in place…………. I figured better to test fit the dash before the doors go in, that way if there’s any binding, it’ll be easier to trim the dash down than it would be to grind away at the doors. I almost forgot that I need an inside mirror! Swiping the mirror out of the diecast, I cut away the too big “arm†and made my own out of tinned wire, cut a tiny piece of insulation for the end and epoxied this into the mirror. The “mirror†face is a super shined up piece of aluminum which has since been epoxied to the face of the base. I'll affix the mirror in place before the final placement of the dash. Now on to the door hinging! In a bit of fit of getting the driver’s door to cooperate, I snapped the vent wing off the door……………that’s why you see the rather cockeyed piece hanging below where it’s attached. No big deal as the door panel will cover this…………I just wanted the vent window to go back to where it should be. Then I another thread, I made reference to how the door didn’t want to close all the way shut. The culprit turned out to be the watch pin in the driver’s door which was not latching the way it should. This was an error on my part as I didn’t account for paint and the area was expanded somewhat more than I wanted. The watch pin is still there for aesthetics, but it won’t latch like the passenger side, and the door is staying shut by friction. Note the placement of the hinges and how epoxy was flowed around them to “lock†them in. One thing that’s very important to me when hinging doors is to make sure the doors open pretty much straight out in line with the ground. If you look back in previous posts when I was doing the original hinging, you’ll see where the supports were made to be as straight as possible. Whether looking at them from the front or side, they need to be straight, otherwise you’ll have a door that either scrapes the sidewalk, or is up in the air like a butterfly! I actually epoxied the doors last night and fully shut the doors while it sets………….taking a look at the pics, you can see that the doors now are lined up well in their openings, and there are no huge gaps around the perimeter. I still need to touch up the paint in a couple spots as well as BMF the vent window frames. As an aside, there were some posts about using Future Floor Wax in various applications. I can now vouch for the fact that Future saved the day for me when it came a somewhat noticeable scratch I put on the rear window. I was trying to make a headliner out of tape------when I got to the C pillar the exacto blade slipped and put a scratch on the lower edge of the window. I was trying to rub it out with the polishing cloths, but clear stencil sheet is not a substance to be rubbed out like clear styrene! Well, I got as far as I could, got out my widest brush, and put on one good swipe of Future on the entire back window. Needless to say, you can’t see the haziness, or the scratch as Future made the back window crystal clear! This was the first time I tried something like that and now I’m sold! Speaking of headliners, you can barely see in the pics where I’m making a headliner, albeit piece by piece. I’m gonna work reaaaaallll slow as I don’t want a single smudge anywhere where it doesn’t belong! Hindsight dictates I should have did this along with the bodywork......but I'll know for next time if I need this done. There will be a couple more updates, as I’ll soon be ready to send chrome out to be replated--------during that time I may get started on my next car. You just gotta wait to see what that is! Stay tuned………………

Sorry I missed it! I got up reeallll early this morning like i usually do on the weekends (3AM)..............went to take a nap mid morning around 8 and figured I be back up in time to get there. No dice. By the time I was up and around, it was 1:00 and I would've missed everything by the time I got there. Such is life sometimes when you work third shift and you're up all night anyway.

Why yes!........and the culprit turned out to be my watch pin "latch". Seems as though my measurements were off as to where the pin should be located as I didn't account for paint. The right side works fine.........it's the driver's side that won't latch fully like the other side. So I had to tap the pin back a little so the pin will be there, just not really functional.

I gotta admit, I won't miss it as I usually skipped over it if it wasn't model related. I might have made a comment or two on the political stuff, but as it dragged on, I wouldn't even open the section. Nevertheless, a lot of the recent threads seemed to have been started by the same individual, and that individual seems to have gone POOF since the section was given the kibosh. Which tells me they were more focused on starting political/religious fights than about the subject of model cars. Now as far as getting back to building------I've got a contentious drivers door to get back to fight with on the '55 Ford-----it refuses to hinge properly for some reason.............. :lol:

Bill, that's an excellent build as always! That color and interior combo scream "1962"! Did this kit originally have an uptop? I could've swore I had this kit, but can't remember from the stack of boxes stored in the basement. Ed that is a beautifully clean '62! GM sure knew how to style cars back in those days! At least they made tasteful changes from year to year back then, and not hang onto the same ugly styling like they do today for what seems like an eternity.

Nice engine detailing John! I'm leaning towards the Fiesta hubcaps..........they seem to suit the street rod aspect of the car a little better IMO. On the steelies: Is that BMF around the outer portion of the wheel? I'm collecting parts for the '32 (Me considering a Street Rod?? ) and I'm thinking about doing wheels similar to those for a build sometime early next year.