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what parts are those? i may have them from an older issue. i THOUGHT the kit had all the previous parts in it... i have built a few of these and always (ALWAYS) have issues getting the running boards snug to bottom of body... resorted to cutting them off the frame and gluing them directly to fenders last time. NEXT one i do will have better glass in it; the kit glass is too thick and doesn't fit well. it's tough to get the kit to look as good as the real car, which, for a chevy, is a pretty nice looking car.

so.... no nibbles? who can recommend a way to repair or replace missing windshield frame? OR... who's got a spare 60-62 tudor sedan body i could rob the roof from? i'd actually rather build it back up as a sedan instead of convertible...

was putting away christmas decorations the other night and a scrap of mylar wrapping "paper" caught my eye; it is multi-color prismatic on the reverse and holiday print on face. i saw several possibilities for this in custom models as insert trim or interior accent. it doesn't do compound curves so mostly straight contours is all it will cover. I had thought of it as headliner material in my lowrider but as i said, no compound curves. always keep an eye out for oddball stuff!

i would be willing to loan out my damaged '63 Falcon convertible promo to someone willing to repair the missing windshield frame. the promo is by no means perfect but its otherwise complete except of course the windshield frame. in return for using it to make a master i would only require the original promo and one resin kit in return. the repairs to the promo do not have to be permanent!

i have to concur; amortizing a major purchase by spreading it out might not work out. it's a great concept, though, and in a perfect world all good concepts see reality. don't let it bury you if you can help it! good luck!

that could be done by transplanting the amt 68 roadrunner front clip into the turbine kit. the turbine doesn't have the torsion bar k frame most mopars do; it has unequal length a-arm suspension similar to full size ford of the era, due to the width of the turbine engine and exhaust package.

great historians lurk here; yes, the edsel was the wrong car at the wrong time; well made for the period, with great options; but without a market and during a recession which saw off the last packards and spelled doom for studebaker some 8 years later. compare the edsel to the bloated 58 buick or oldsmobile; it looks positively LEAN compared to them. set beside the imperial or new yorker, it looks like a track star next to your old aunt fanny. SO; against it's target competitors, it looked as good or better. against say, a 1962 impala hardtop; it loses the bet. me? i'd own it just because it (and me) is weird.

MOST of them were bronze; there were a bunch of them and some were in more ordinary colors. collectible automobile did an article on it i think and they'd have used great photos. it's truly a beautiful car and a credit to elwood engel's talents. compare the turbine to the 61-63 T-bird and note the similarities; engel did most of the t-bird too. i still have a bunch of parts left over from a turbine kit that aborted during assembly.... much of it went into a custom '49 ford. i'm sure there's more mopar-oriented folks who can add/straighten my facts(?) and give you a better idea which way to go.

it was in the 51 hardtop kit with the drag style fuel injection setup, i have a couple of these in the parts box. they were available but like you say they were high performance and not generally street use parts. i THINK the first issue of this kit gave a good description of the parts on the instruction sheet.

lee, i couldn't imagine a less hobby friendly environment! i'm glad you can manage it, though. i tried keeping the hobby alive while i was on the ship in the Navy but recreational facilities onboard were tight. you had to work in a shop environment to get any working space; even in my office i didn't have room to keep anything non-Navy issue. on shore duty it was another thing entirely! i never saw so much unused available space until i was posted to Great Lakes!

it's in the server i have to work with; if good looking 1/25 strombergs are your need, check the old AMT 53 f100 custom engine parts; 8 strombergs in pairs of 2. snip carefully and touch up with sandpaper and paint. i use them on lots of flathead or old school 6-cyl projects.

i wish i could see your pics; my server doesn't give 'em up. what are they used on? what kind are they? i've kept so many little parts on hand i might have something like them.

Yeah; the details in the lindberg kit are somewhat shall we say lacking? really, only the body shell as a starting point is of any use except to do a straight out-of-box build. you could carefully drill out the cast-in headlight lenses and replace them with parts-box ones. replacing the kit v-12 requires either a monogram 41 kit OR.. i'd splice together a couple of shortened v8 blocks from AMT's 40 sedan delivery with some other modifications. they'd look a little more like the lincoln v12 than the kit engine. as a matter of fact; i'd lengthen the frame from the sedan delivery and use it instead of the kit version.

Okay, not real fiberglass; but a similar concept. i've had to graft major portions of models together or repair broken ones and putting plastic or wood strips inside some is just not possible. when i was trying to fake a "black beauty" together from pieces of '66 mercury and '66 t-bird roofs, i had plenty of trouble getting the widened and stretched t-bird roof to fit the merc body and still allow the interior tub to fit inside. so; i hit upon a trick i learned from my dad and his stick-and-paper airplanes. i soaked a strip of paper towel in ca glue, just enough to get it good and wet, not dripping, and laid it across the seam i was having trouble keeping closed. i held the parts in alignment until the ca set, but you could use accelerator. the towel acts like the glass fiber and the ca acts as the resin, and it turns out pretty tough. it only took a couple of strips to hold the top in alignment. grafting together sectioned bodies works the same way; and the thin cross section of the paper almost eliminates extra work fitting the interior past plastic strips.

search collectible automobile for the willys; they've covered it a couple of times in main articles and photo features. the Americar, as it was known, was used by the military for general purpose duties and some were used by the postal service. it seems to me that someone did do some reverting to stock on this car and the henry j; i can't recall who, but they were well done renditions of stock cars. i rebuilt a couple of parts-box refugee swc coupes into street rods some time back and they are excellent kits to work with. i can't find much info on the stock suspension/running gear of the willys; there's a lot of pics of the outside of the car but not so many of the underside. the AMT kits wouldn't be much help; they're purely gassers; the AMT 39 and 40 fords are physically larger cars and use running gear unique to fomoco. the AMT 37 chevy, 51 chevies, and 41 plymouth might be better sources of suspension/wheels. the italeri 1/24 willys mb jeep IF IT IS a jeep and not a ford would be a great source for the engine.

UPDATE: i robbed the small block out of this kit (it is EXCELLENT, btw) for my satellite sebring conversion and played with the idea of doing a pro stock, but then it occurred to me that my great-uncle george had a duster when i was a kid, and it was a slant-six econo-coupe. so i've dug up an engine from a modified Deora kit....and those rallye wheels have to be replaced with steels and hubcaps. otherwise, it's the same car! the satellite sebring was also his car; my great-aunt gave me the car after uncle george died. problem is, i don't have a picture of the duster for the color, and my memory is not that good on colors....

our local hobbytown is 1/3 the game in town; one older established shop that REALLY hikes prices up, and a new guy with a wide array of models and not a disguised beanie bear store (we had another shop that was racing oriented and i think his downfall was beanie bears; they took over the shop and that was it) that promises to be good competition for ht. we got micheals and ac moore for more competition. the hobbytown held a big clearance sale last month on mostly military stuff and i was a little curious that the unsold, marked down, clearance kits had been marked back up and put back in stock! ANYWAY; i also noticed that wallyworld bucked it's 4-5 buck kits off the shelves and is putting the same models with new packaging on the shelf at the regular 10-12 bucks.... the prepainted kits usually don't sell well here for some reason; i got some great deals on clearance for the monte carlo and the bandit trans am.

even if it's a stevens repop, why the boost in price when lots of the last issue are still available? just for the old style box? i don't buy models for the box they come in, i build them,and usually end up storing them in that very same box, along with similar or same models. granted, AMT probably doesn't plan on issuing the regular 37 kit in their plain series but plenty are available. BTW: big lots (the closeout folks) was filling the shelves with AMT too fast too furious kits the other night. check there if that's your interest; they're down to 4-5 bucks. i don't generally do imports.

it's like that on a bunch of models; there's the AMT 49 merc in the store in three (at least) different boxes; the red car, the boyd car, and i think another blue (?) car. i know the boyd car will have some parts removed or changed to fit those ridiculous wheels and tires, but the others are the same kit in the box. all are differently priced from 14.99 to 16.99.... some other kits get this same treatment for being in "new" box.

hobbytown has it in the late '70's style box and priced at (gasp!) 25.99! i just picked up one of these last spring for 14.99 and it had all the same parts in it.... 25.99! maybe it's the old box art....

maybe santa will bring a digital camera and an elf to show me how it works....

i bought this one basically for the trailer in the kit, but was fiddling with the body and got an idea for an "old school" custom/lowrider model. i filled the quarter windows and the rear window opening with styrene following the contour. i dug up the custom seats from the beverly hillbillies truck and used epoxy to copy the pattern and make a stamp to emboss new seats for the 'paler. i envision a simulated padded "carson" type top and button tufted interior. i even have the AMT 66 t-bird landau irons for the top. the headliner area will be embossed with the button tuft also. i have some Olds bucket seats from 4-4-2 kit and console to put in it also. so; wide gangsta whitewalls on chrome reverse and moons; or the custom wire wheels from the '65 riviera? thinking through this one makes me really miss the superfly gran prix kit.

maybe i missed it but what was the approximate scale of the mule team? i remember watching the old western anthology tv show when i were but a nobbin. some scale livestock for dioramas/trucks would be welcome; better than the dollhouse variety of mixed-scale and badly proportioned and painted stuff we already have (since LGB stuff is 1:22.5 ratio) (how did they come up with that oddball number? i've read several opinions on how airfix, aurora, and monogram settled on 1/24 and the rest on 1/25 due to methods of scale reduction in modeling; but the 1:22.5 ratio doesn't seem to fit either version easily. if they did it JUST to be different from model cars and trucks, WHY? it doesn't seem to make good business sense to isolate your product unnecessarily.)

thats' some neat stuff! looking back on this kind of in-house development just for drag racing speaks volumes about how different the business ws back then. and to see "production-line" workmanship being put into a quarter mile pounder! "timed acceleration trials" cars weren't usually finished to very high standard seeing as how they just might end up in a ball of metal in the guardrails on any given pass.... this one was looking good in the white. and as a bonus, a list of off-the-shelf Chrysler parts to do it with!

i didn't realize how much they differed in scale. maybe jaffa could sculpt up the required conversion parts to change the monogram kit and one of our resin casters do some sets? anybody know if or when revell is going to re-release the '41 kit?