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  1. So Google apparently has limits. I believe it was in the cover of one of the model magazines back in the early to mid 1990s. I want to show pics to Mom. She’s into building models. Mainly armor for her, but she would like to see that big rig and race car. Thanks
  2. Thanks. I looked around but must have used the wrong search terms. I kept finding modern harnesses and vintage passenger car seatbelts.
  3. The Heller Hispano-Suiza K6 has decals for the same type of thing. I would imagine they are way out of scale, though. Custom decals could be an option. I think that would look pretty cool. Of course the wicker would have to be sanded off the kit.
  4. “…poor craftsmanship by the builders.” The things I’ve seen on rat rods. A fuel tank directly behind the driver’s head in a 1930ish Tudor Sedan. No headrest. A collision could smash his head into it. A channeled Tudor Sedan without a transmission tunnel. Exposed driveshaft in the passenger compartment. These may have been the same car.
  5. I think they would. Let’s work something out.
  6. Hey- you never know. I’m looking for these parts for my Dodge Fever 1968 Coronet tribute build. These parts are called for in the how-to articles from 1969 (Dodge Daytona body). I believe the seat is from the later dragster. I’m including pics from the May and July 1969 Car Model magazine articles. Glue bomb parts are cool with me. Thank you, Lee
  7. That is a really nice looking car. It looks like it can have different grilles. Also cool. If you decide to sell copies, I’m interested.
  8. Ah. Here it is. https://www.facebook.com/FrankiesShoppe/posts/dean-jefferies-mantaray-positively-the-most-difficult-car-we-have-ever-created-a/983142490500455/
  9. Frankie’s Hobby and Horror Shop on Facebook is working on a Mantaray. It’s not ready yet. I’m on a cell phone in an area with poor reception and could not find the post about this car. https://www.facebook.com/FrankiesShoppe/
  10. Stopping here tonight Edit: one more step
  11. Getting a little work in tonight. I don’t have any kits of dragsters from the late 1960s. I ordered an MPC Ramchargers FED for wheels and tires + front suspension. Maybe some other parts as well. While I’m waiting on that, it’s on to the chassis. Jim Keeler showed how to make a Monocoque chassis. It had a front and back half, made of laminated sheet styrene. It was covered in very thin sheet aluminum printers plate, with rivets punched in from the back. I’ll use a different method; adding styrene rivets one at a time. Here is the front half. I used small drops of super glue to hold the pieces together and scribed them to profile. After filing the laminated pieces as one, they were popped apart by sliding a #11 blade between them. I’ll sand the super glue residue off. I think this way gets them all to a more uniform profile.
  12. So many great quotes from this movie. “Your majesty- the people are revolting.” ”You’re tellin’ me. They stink on ice.”
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