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Roy Sorenson just sent me this link... Stacey David’s GearZ and Revell’s Hot Rod Model Building Contest

Harry, I know what it is, and I just sent in my answer. But my question to you is.... Who the hell cares?!?!?!? It's hardly even a car. More of a golf cart with windows. By my definition of a "car", if I can't at least make the tires squeal with the gas pedal, then it really isn't a car.

I think Norm is snail mail and phone only. He does have an e-mail address, but that's it - replmincomd@aol.com I don't think he sees the value in spending time and money on a website for what amounts to a part time niche business - that's probably one of the reasons he has been able to stay in business for so long.

Nice job, this one is on my to-do list too.

Hey, I'm supposed to be working here... Please stop posting this really interesting stuff. I can't get any work done.

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Oh well. I couldn't tell from the photos if there was a radiator. I still had fun building it.

Actually, neither. I filled the slicks with A+B Putty and drilled holes into both of them. I inserted a metal rod into the holes. Then I drilled holes at an angle into the mounting base to match the metal rods in the tires. I had to glue the rear tires on really well, and I got the angle a little too steep compared to the photo, but it still works. The photo below shows the pin on one side. I need to touch it up with some black paint before I show it at a contest. The good thing about this is I can take the pins out and display it flat and then judges can look underneath it. And oh yeah, there isn't any driver in the car, so it would have to be a paranormal event to get the wheels up like that.

Forget Scary Jerry, Chucky is scary enough for me! What a hoot, I am very glad I don't live near this guy.

The body is from the Monogram 1930 Model A Coupe kit. The frame is pieced together from the Model A kit and a spare AMT 33 Willys. Wheels and tires are from the Willys kit too (I think). The engine is from the AMT 67 Impala (the rest of the Impala kit is going into a replica of my 1:1 1968 Impala). The only resin is the Hilborn intake manifold.

Here's my latest, based on this photo I found of a gasser running at Thompson Dragway in the early 70's

Hi, I built this back in the late 1980's, before AMT had reissued the 1970 1/2 kit. I used a resin transkit (can't remember who made it) along with a 1976 (I think) kit to create this. Fred Cady supplied the decals. At the time, I owned a 1971 Camaro, so I was able to go out to the driveway to measure stuff and check the details. I had to change the shape of the back window to match the 1970 model, since the later version of the 2nd generation had a rear window that wrapped around the side of the pillar.

I have always followed one simple rule: It's a Hobby. If you aren't having fun, you're doing it wrong. I have gone past the level of "fun" once, and now I know where that point is, for ME. My suggestion is for you to find that point for yourself. I will also add that the point where it is no longer "fun" will probably move. As I have gotten more experience, I have found that some things that used to be difficult are now much easier, and so that has allowed me to move on to the next difficult thing and still have it be fun. And also remember that everyone has their own definition of fun. Don't take someone else's definition of fun as your own. Don't do something in this hobby just because you think your are "supposed" to.

Nice, I have had all the same kit/parts/decals in a paper bag on my bench for way too long. I am going to use your model as inspiration to build mine. I have a friend who is a big Bob Glidden fan, and I just say the words "Lee Shepherd" when he starts going on too long about Glidden. That usually shuts him up for a while. Gone too soon.

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My bench is based on one I built back when I was a kid, and that bench was based on plans that were in the old Car Model magazine back in the late 60's. Most of it is from scrap lumber. Pegboard on the back wall for hanging stuff. If you look carefully, you can see the top of a rocking chair in the lower right hand corner. That is so my wife can come down and sit with me and chatter on while I am building. Believe it or not, it makes my model building experience much more enjoyable, cuz I don't have to listen to her complain that we never get any time together.

Very nice build.