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Hmmmm, sounds like something I did with this build. I had to modify the frame for the monster tires and engine, then I wanted to do the same with a 29 truck. I started digging through the (what I though) were spare parts of this build and thought "Hey, this frame might work." and started cutting and hacking it before I relized it was the frame from the 34! Definetly one of those D'OH! moments!!

It sure sounds like it!!!

Allec, the reason I and probably most others here assemble bodies before paint is so that any seams between the parts that are not present on the real car can be filled and worked on. Also by assembling before painting, in the case of models that will be competing in contests especially, there is not the risk of damaging the paint from gluing the parts after the paint is on. In my honest opinion, gluing the parts together before putting any paint on is the best and only way to do it. As for the fitment issues you mentioned, if the interior is a tight fit, it will not matter whether you have the normal front and rear parts that normally are glued on to most models anyway, 99.9% of the time the interior doesn't come close to those parts. The chassis is another story though, there are some that fit up under a bumper and may just not go in without cutting and surgery with the front and/or rear bumpers installed. The best advice I can give is if you have a doubt whether or not a chassis will fit after you glue the front and/or rear bumpers on to the main body, use some masking tape and tightly tape the bumpers in place as test fit the frame fitment. That way you know the frame will go in after you've painted the body and not ruin the paint job by needing to remove a bumper.

What, the decade or the age!?!? I'm too young to blame the 80s or the 70s, so I blame my momentary brain lapses on 25 years of paint and glue fumes!

John, actually in this case the P/M in question is Pro Modified, since the topic is dragsters! If you go back past the post that Ron quoted, there is this post... ...which not only explains the P/M, but also the John being referred to!

Actually Harry, and this is going by WV inspection laws, one since I don't live in NY and two since in 77 I was one year old , but the way it is done here even a fresh of the line new car must have an inspection sticker. If someone buys a car in our area in the northern panhandle of the state across the river in Ohio, the car must get a WV inspection within 7 days of purchase. Usually the sticker is more of a compliance thing when it comes to a new or nearly new car, if a car is only a year old, there are places that may only check the lights. As for driving to the inspection station, all the new car dealers here have service departments, and one of the services their service departments offer are, you guessed it, state inspections!!! When you take delivery of your shiny new baby, it already has the inspection sticker and temporary license plate on it when you grab the keys to drive it on its maiden voyage off the dealer's lot! You know, I just thought of something too on the mileage issue, didn't it even get taken on a test drive by the original buyer?? I know there have been times I've put 2 or 3 times that many miles on a car just taking it for a test drive!

Actually, I had forgotten about this 1980 Trans Am I ran across at a car show last year. While it is not as low mileage as the examples Bob and Christian have mentioned, it still has very low mileage for it's age and as of the time of the show, the odometer read 38,185.1 miles. This is the closet shot I have of it, but if you zoom in (how do you think I read it ) on the odometer, you can clearly read it. According to the lucky new owner, he was doing work at the former owner's home and seen the snowflake wheel peaking out from under a car cover, and asked if he could take a better look at the car. The story behind the car that he told me was that the former owner was a doctor's wife, and the doctor had bought the T/A for her as a gift. She did drive the car occasionally, but just never really cared for it and the poor T/A spent most of it's life locked in that garage. At least now it is with a loving owner who lets it out to see the light of day!

Honestly, it sounds fishy to me too, BUT 1.The woman may have been elderly, and just so happened after she bought the car and drove it home, bought the farm. There is also, elderly or not, she could have had a number of illnesses take her, maybe came down with something then passed from her illness without ever being able to drive her new car. You never know, maybe buying her first brand new car gave her a heart attack. 2.Who cares who bought it at the auction!?!? 3.Maybe the buyer bought the entire estate, including home and out buildings, and maybe that buyer never checked to see what was in the garage the car was supposedly inside of. 4.I don't know how they do (or if they do) state inspections in Illinois Harry, but here in West Virginia our yearly inspection stickers have the year they EXPIRE on them, not the year of issue. I would guess the New York sticker is the same, which would mean the state inspection was legal until Oct 1978. That, guessing again the same is true for NY as it is here, means the car was delivered in Oct 1977! At least here in WV, dealers do not inspect the vehicle until it sells in the case of a new car. It's a little hard to see in this pic, but it is the best I have right now of a WV inspection sticker, but the date on the sticker is 11 10, for it's Nov 2010 expiration date. I looked back through the folders of my pics on my computer and this pic was taken in Jan 2010. Oh, by the way, at least here the stickers change colors in June. The stickers expiring the last have of last year was blue, and the sticker that replaced it is now orange. 5.Have you ever heard of a tow truck!?!? Seriously though Harry, I must agree this DOES sound fishy to me, especially when the seller states "It had only 11.8 miles when I first saw it, so yes, it does run and drive and smell like a new car!" and "I was able to drive the car perfectly." and the pic of the dash shows 12.2 miles on the odometer. The last I checked, unless there is some strange new school math I've not heard about, that is only 4/10ths of a mile. I know I'm not going to be able to tell you how great a car drives in less than a half a mile! 6.I'm not 100% sure, but I'm sure since the tires are already mounted to the wheels and the wheels are on the car when it leaves the factory, I'd guess they would balance those wheels too!!

Sean, there was at one time a group called the Mid Ohio Valley Modelers that met somewhere in Parkersburg. I believe that club broke apart just as the Ohio Valley Scale Modelers up here in Wheeling did.

Too play in a REALLY BIG sandbox!!!!

OOPS, I meant "Thin Skinned"!! I'll go fix that so I don't offend anyone, and by thin skinned, I mean those who can't take criticism correctly.

You know, I'm going to apologize too, and it's for what I'm about to say, and to make this perfectly clear, I'm not talking about anyone specifically in my following comments! I can't keep my mouth shut anymore! I find it quite funny in the "Rainbows and Unicorns" phase this forum has been demonstrating lately, threads like this and also builds that are clearly not researched for any attempt at even a hint of correctness such as wiring, hoses, and other details added just to add "bling" and create a "wow" factor get praised to high heaven, but highly detailed builds that are truly masterpieces just get overlooked. There are two builds, and to not offend the thin skinned among us I will not mention names for ANY reason (SO DON'T ASK ME IF I MEAN YOU!), that I watched through the entire build process, one from the "bling" crowd and one from the "masterpiece" crowd. Guess which got more attention?? That's right, the "bling" crowd!! This is just my personal opinion, but if this forum wants to be inspired and learn to build better models, start paying attention to the true masterpieces being shared here instead of the bling added to something that is otherwise poorly built. I learned many years ago when I first started judging contests, $100 of aftermarket products does NOT make a better built model, it just makes an already poorly built model a $100 pile of junk!! Love me or hate me for my opinion, but if more members here would wake up and smell the coffee, you'd learn like I did who the truly great builders are here, and they don't need to be gloryhounds to build great models!

Jeremy Clarkson needs to take a hammer to both shows!! I haven't even watched "The Car Show", because I personally CANNOT STAND Adam Carola! Top Gear US is not as good as the UK version, there is just something about a British accent that makes those three so funny!

89 is cool compared to here right now!! According to the latest on The Weather Channel here, it's 95 and the heat index is 108!!

OOPS, sorry Cato! You would have figured someone who grew up wrenching on Windsor engines with his brother could have seen those vavle covers a mile away!!! Even worse, it took until I looked at the pics again after your post did I see the vavle covers were completely different between the two!

I don't really know what the stuff is, but try washing the parts with some dish washing liquid.

You should be lucky I looked at mine first, you almost got some useless pics and info on the SOHC engine!! Anyway, here are a couple pics to help, and the second one is Revell's 1/6 scale engine kit. As for the firing order, check out this link. http://www.boxwrench.net/specs/ford_352-428.htm

The actual one is only about the width of the brush guard part on the one I hope I can get, but that was the closest pic I could find to it! Still nothing to play chicken with though, MOVE OR BE MOVED!!

You're welcome, but I won't hate you! I just have never cared for the look of a miter cut stack!

K&S aluminum tubing is a great material for making larger stacks, and come in a variety of sizes, and I have even added it to kit mufflers to make upper stacks instead of dealing with the seam when they are two piece uppers. One thing I have found not to use is the stainless steel tubing from K&S. I used that for these stacks, and wore out a saw blade in the process! It is just too hard to cut with anything but a cutoff wheel, and is also too thick to bend. I wanted turnouts on the top of these, but I had to settle with miter cuts, and I HATE miter cut stacks!!!

Maybe too many paint fumes!!! Oh, and by the way Jon, welcome!

No offense, but what the ---- are you even talking about?!?!? I haven't seen anyone say anything about painting ONCE in this thread!!!

Yeah, but I can cut that off Hugh!! It doesn't matter much anyway, because my better half informed me I have more to make in the way of the front bumper anyway, because I forgot that I wanted to see if the towing company I bought my truck from might still have the bumper from the truck they had, and this pic is like that bumper!! So I have more than just a channel to worry about!!

I don't know, but all this talk of fish sandwiches and brats is making me HUNGRY!!!

Yeah Hugh, share with the class or I'm hunting that bumper down and taking it for mine!!!!