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Great Build! Man, I love that era of drag racing, when it was truly "Run Whatcha' Brung" and the Genie was let out of the bottle. I was a teen throughout the mid 60's and I remember reading about "Funny Revolution" that was sweeping the nation. I am stuck in the 60's when it comes to building my models...mostly early Funny Cars, to flip tops, just stock body movers. Your depiction of "Psycho" is right on, and hats off to those "knuckle heads" that had the balls to build those wild ass machines. You nailed it, nice work...Run Whatcha Brung...words that resonate even today.

You Aussies, you guys still have real cars. Granted, everything that GM/HOLDEN build, translate, but we here (USA=Lawyers=Politicians=Money=Ruling Class, nothing has changed in the thousands of years...wow how I digress) are sometimes governed on what "WE" want, or would like. v.s. what the Insurance Industry wants us to have. Insurance companies are NOT in the business of giving money away...that is save for their share holders! I will admit, GM has done a lot with the new Camaro's and the different level of Corvettes (basic, Z06, Zl-1's), depending on how deep your pockets are, but they still believe in speed, but guarded in pursuit. So thank you Aussies for our 14, 15, 16 & maybe 17 Chevy SS...sweet car. Hey, spring is just around the corner for you guys! Lucky Ducks! As we hurl into the dark abyss of winter, it only with the advent of winter I can appreciate Spring, Summer and Fall. Unfortunately I cannot control time, and winter seems to last longer that the other three seasons. Keep building.

too cool, and nice sculpty work. One of my daughters was a sculpty sculpturist, and she did stuff as a teen that blew me away. You Sir have you've Deal Right...Big Deal being one of my favorite car artist...the freedom of the 60's mindset, go with it. Nice work.

Nice Pee-u-muf, and your photos, perfect spot, fits in with the 1:1 background. Looks good. Good eye. It's the added depth, makes it all look good.

Tyrone, you surely work magic with the plastic. I can't believe the detail! What do you have, hot rod sprites working for you...killer! Micro midgets putting these models together? I enjoy the detail and your photos of the details to keep us posted. Your technique is something to be admired. I'm always impressed. To live in the miniature world.

TYRONE! Please send the tiny people you hire in my direction. It's all in the details..."push off" in one of your pics, only a tiny person could script that...not to mention the rest of the "tiny" details. Einstein said something to the effect, "time is relative" and you sir have found that "sweet spot" in time, your attention to detail...and your consistent grasp of detail, you live in a miniature world my friend; excellent work.

You young whipper snappers.....lemme tell you Just be glad somebody out there is putting this stuff together. Sweet Geezus, we use to really have to be good with a brush, toothpick, needle or pin just to get white letters painted on the tires back in the late 60's. Funny thing is after a dozen or so times on one tire one gets pretty good at it...practice, practice, practice. Granted, I'd never have the mad money to spend on these tire packs (money went to models), but these tire packs are pretty sweet when one wants a finished look to the model. Funny thing is, it was the same with our crappy painted letter tires...they're just models, it's all in the head...smooooooothhhhh and looking bad! Going fast but never moving, just looking good...oh so good. It's all in the details.

Alright, what do you have, some kinda "shrink ray" or something.to make yourself small and work on these models? Your attention to detail...sez it all! Eye grabbin' detail.

JUST SPEAKING FROM experience and usage, Revell 68 Roadster...it's got it all. BBC, S/C, nice HAT...manual trans. It's a start.

Everything I've read about S&M, they always refer to the "blue" blocks. Don't know, never seen one, or failed to notice, but it has been reported that it was a trademark of Jake King, the engine builder for S&M, that he painted his blocks blue. Rumor? I'd say "google" sox & martin - jake king hemi's and read on, there has to be an answer.

REVELL 68 roadster, bbc two optons, stock and the supercharged version, which is pretty nice. The s/c is a carb fed version, nice hat and with a little work, you can make it f/i,

Tim, sorry about the "MAMA's BOYZ" reference, as you know by now it is a group of auto modelerz. Your work is "attention to detail" and was just wondering being D.C., whether you attend MAMA meetings. No slight intended just a question. Just one other question, did you ever work for UPS?

Change your name to Gulliver. Nice work, I love your attention to detail, but it's never ending. Do you ever go outside?

Tim, are you a MAMA's Boy?

It is so typical of "Run Whatcha Brung" or even the "OPS", and you know it's not a street car by any means. Good job and you capture the spirit so well...TEAR IT UP AND GO FAST AS SH*T!

What did you do for the last 40 years? You seem to be working out some frustrations. Are you now retired? Man, I look forward to retirement. I still have work to deal with, art that I want to do, too many books to read, there is so much to do, but I do wish I could spend more time building models. I too have just returned after 40 years, and the aftermarket parts available just boggles my mind. Back in the 60's, I would use sewing thread for plug wires, strip phone lines for color wire or the copper wire to paint silver to look like aluminum tubing or leave copper to use as fuel lines. The mail order parts, and the detail, this is a whole new game. Your work is amazing. How are the eyes? Fingers still nimble?

Is building models your job? In another post (63 promod vette) you state you can't paint because of the weather, so you start another project!! I'll be doggone if I could even do in a year what you do in a day...I must have A.D.D. or something. Too many distractions (work), but I must say that you do some really fine work...I can only dream. Keep up the great scale model work...I don't know how you do it. We just got 21" of snow along with sleet and freezing rain up here and it takes me hours to clear it off my drive and walks, so much for model time.

too much, how do you sleep at night? Art...you are an arteeest. Cool.

Seeing a build like this is like listen to a great funk jam...horns, bass, drums, all rising and coming to a finally of a blast of sound that it overdrives the senses, it's where you can't wait to see where it's goin'...it grabs you, it cuts loose...nice.

Injector hat...understood, but I've had my fill of four holers..granted they are more period correct, but there are the 3 holers that were coming into the scene in the late '65's and on into the future. The early 3 holer injector hats had the three ribs on the top of the hat. Now as for size, I'm not sure on how big/little the 3 holer is when compaired to the same hat as today. I just look at pics from that period and guage what was going on, and try to make something that is within the same concept. It's a model...and I'm just trying to present something of that period...with a little builder's choice. Looking at some of pictures from that period, one car that I tried to use as a guide was Steve Bovans Nova. I guess I could put ribs on...naaaaww.

I've always felt that the AMT Nova (built one back in 67) was lacking in structural support, so I just look at what the funny cars and the match racers of the birth of funny cars were doing...so I added support on the front frame, painted red with silver to show "worn" areas that tools scraped off the paint, aluminum interior...match racer!! The first funny cars were running wild with nitro fed blown hemis, S.O.H.C.'s , Pontiacs, Olds and Chevy's. Go as fast as you can, put on a good show, and if you win, you had braggin' rights. The cars without factory sponsors, had under the counter help from the factory, but it was all hush hush. Mopar ruled the roost, but eveyone was knocking on their door...east, west, north and south. Weekends were tops, but there were the mid week (usually Wednesday night) as the hot shots were passing thru, a mid week match race was possible at a local strip and anything goes. Usually 3 out of 5 if time provided, but they seemed to be scripted for someone to win...usually the local yokel...home town hero. But, have top names facing off, it was gloves off racing. My Nova is in that catagory. Nitro fed BBC, blown and ready to roll. The bubble hood is from the '65 Galaxy, everything else is is from the parts box. Still needs wiring, fuel lines, and what not. Paint wil be a golden Lemon metal flake (ala 60's) with a 4spd and color tint windows (orange/red). Crazy colors from the 60's...everything was new, and it was open to everyone... the hunt for the big bucks.

Nice pics, what kind of camera and lens are you using to shoot your pictures. You've got an eye for detail.

Thanks all for the positive push. I've been monitoring this site for about a year and the projects and the finished product really knock me out. I marvel at the quality of detail that go into some of these projects...really outstanding, some may say ARTISTIC. Thanks again for the welcome and the support, plus the push towards completing. I must say, even if I don't finish one project, just the working on these mini mindbenders is a kick. Stay tuned ...

It's been about 40 years and now I'm just huntin' and peckin' trying to get some direction. I see so much inspiration in this site and yet I just can't seem to get it together. I've been pickin' up kits here and there for about 8 years, now I'm trying to find the time to really get with it. I've started many projects and have finished none. I find it fun of just getting ideas started, working the plastic and putty, and that has kept me going. I'm all over the place. I'm stuck in the mid 60's FXers, rule breaking match racers, 60's gassers era, but have a love of door slammers of today, odd ball hot rods, and street machines. Here are a couple that I've started. '64 StageIII Dodge (Lindberg) now caught up in the "Run whatcha Brung" grab the money, make a name. It's a car with attitude, borrowed blown Chrysler pulling a load of nitro, alter wheelbase, takin' on big boys for the bucks. '65 Nova, AMT Street Freak running Blown BB, light weight Match Racer. '64 Comet, Model King kit now is a post Nationals A/FXer. It is now a "has been", stripped and now a few pounds lighter, heading into the late fall, early winter running when ever with whom ever to Match Race for the bucks. AMT '34 Ford still running Fuel Altered in '65, and just finding it harder and harder keeping up with the Fiats and Bantams. Miss Deal Chassis, motor and suspension. It's chopped and smoothed.

Thanks all for pointing me in the right direction. I've been searching the web and have found a few sites listing these transmission. Yes they are very simplistic and following the history of their use in hot rodding/drag racing, all date their use up to the early 60's. It seems they are making a comeback in the rat rod field. As for using the Revell Miss Deal trans, I'll find something else for my project...awb '65 gto, 421 blown, set back ala Jack Chrismans 65 Super Comet. More research for the trans of the day...65, 66 early funny cars.