62rebel

"it takes a licking and keeps on ticking!" marvelous little car.

very well done, young lady!

they are indeed air intake tubes for the interior and heater. the driver's side opened into a vent under the dash, the passenger side through the heater and into the interior. while you're somewhat correct in assuming a convertible might not necessarily NEED outside air, consider the time an actual convertible in daily use really operates with the top down, and driving in cold or rainy weather when the air has to be heated to demist the windshield, heat the interior, etc... now, considering that a modern version of the Merc would seldom see poor weather except through the windows of a closed garage door, omitting the tubes is moot, null, and void of meaning.

John, i'm deeply sympathetic for your loss. there's no easy way to get through times like this, except push on. don't be afraid to let your feelings out, either. this is no time for silent containment of emotions; keeping it bottled up will kill you. chop a cord of firewood, or go to the gym and rail on a punching bag. hang in there. we'll be here when you get back.

it's FRIDAY, Harry! all i got is foreign version of American brand car.

that's pretty impressive! shame nobody kitted a late model Cherokee; they're popular here.

sure it is... your kids can blow it on stuff YOU wanted, but were too "sensible" to waste money on! me, i'm leaving the way i came in... broke.

trailers for sale or rent rooms to let, fifty cents no phone, no pool, no pets; i ain't got no cigarettes... two hours of pushing brooms buys a twelve by eight four-bit room i'm a man of means, by no means; king of the road......

so, we're working on mere conjecture, without established facts to rely on? i mean, that's fun and all, but without reliable data, it's meaningless. ah. someone with data beat me to the keyboard by seconds!

so far as i know, it's only ever had a flathead four cylinder with stock or hop-up parts. beautiful suspension and frame, fiddly openig doors and hood. been around for what now, fifty years?

it's not PC to use the term "Hunchback". hence; "Bellringer"..... Aurora caught the dickens for the horror series when the soft minded people realized what their kids were building.

great work, but the body seems "off"... nothing YOU'VE done, just that both the red and the black car look out of proportion in the roof-trunk area. i had a 1:1 sportsroof Galaxie, and the body doesn't seem heavy enough in the rear quarter. man, i miss that car now.

i like it a LOT.

i never get these right. i say real.

i still have one of those boxes.... no Petty Plymouth, just the box. sigh.... great looking build, btw. that really does look like good old red clay....

seems like my last few builds, i must have been wearing mittens. my clean-room suit was out at the cleaners, and all i had to work with was a snowmobile suit and some swim fins. still, i was doing okay until the welding goggles auto-darkened on me every time i looked towards the window.

as jamie and adam would say; that sounds plausible! i have some pieces i salvaged from a hacked up promo that was made into a slot car, had to cut off the pins to get them off. i even cut the trunk lid free and saved it.

i was hoping they'd get around to reissuing that version. i thought the tincan was the old PepperShaker kit. glad i'm wrong, because no way would i pay that much for the current de-contented version they've been selling.

it's pretty easy to start with this kit and go whole-hog detailing it. really, i hadn't encountered serious flash issues with the last few i worked with... the headers, custom seats, and dual filler caps were in the Iron Horse kit, one of the permutations of the '66 base kit molds. from what i've discovered restoring my two, they're not simply one or the other of the 64-66 series or the 67-up series... they're a mixed bag. i'll more than likely snag a couple more of the art box '66's; i like the kit the way it is.

wondering why they put an extra taillight and headlight in the sprue.... but happy to see that the Iron Horse issue dual fuel filler caps are there. i need two correct ones.... the stock tires aren't very good at all, compared to the others.... i seldom use those on ANY builds. it's essentially the same Mustang we're used to seeing for years; but, that's not a problem to me. it's got good proportions, it goes together well without massive work, and it's not hard to update using parts from other kits. new decals are a welcome change, as well.

now we know exactly what it means when someone says "they broke the mold..."... literally. unlike nearly all of R2's stock, JoHan unbuilts are a finite number, unlikely to ever be released as original ever again.

that will really hold it's resale value now.

it literally had no taste of it's own. all the recipes i read called for spices which create any flavor desired in the combinations given, but as far as i'm concerned gator is down there below store brand chicken. i'd rather have a nice mess of catfish nuggets fried up in House Autry meal, or a rare sirloin and a baked potato, both less expensive than gator.

i can probably ID 90% of the parts i have except mag wheels. i have a heck of a time trying to pull together a full set from my parts boxes.... but nearly all of the regular parts are identifiable. generic parts are the toughest.

and, as far as i'm concerned... i'll pass the plate from now on. if i have to kill one to eat during the Zombie Apocalypse, so be it... but for now, they're safe from my kitchen utensils. i've had black bear, squirrel, rabbit.... and now gator. bear was good but i won't go hunting one for supper.