mr moto

Thanks for the tip! I've been needing some of that stuff. We used to call it 'Yak fur' !

Great work!! I built one some years back but nowhere near as good as that. How did you do the angel hair interior? All the KOOL Kustoms had to have it back in the day!

Ringo? Now that's OBSCURE!!

I've done two of them. Here's a stock one: And here's a custom with a Revell Parts Pak Caddy engine:

The picture looks like it was taken at a salvage yard. That might offer a clue! I think they were spicing up another dull day at the junkyard.

The error on the "Demon" is that it says '57 Ford. The illustration shows a '56. The actual model is a lump of blue plastic.

Does he have a bar in there, too?!!

Looks great!! Especially for a first attempt at a car. It's easy to see you already had some talent and experience to work with! And, yes, the old Photobucket wasn't that great but the new one is WAY worse.

Wow! Great thread and a great looking build. I have an old Aurora kit (blue plastic version) of this car that I've been preparing to build so I'll study this with great interest. I think my solution for dealing with Aurora's horrible wire wheels will to be to replace them with a resin set of Minilites - not factory correct but the sort of thing a trendy owner might have done in the 60's.

Question: Here's a good-looking pickup. What is it? Answer: That's a good looking pickup! What do I win?

I like your point of view! Just think if we didn't have them at all!

When model kits cost $2 you could buy a new 1:1 car for $2,000. Now model kits cost $20 and new cars cost $20,000. It's all about the zeroes!

Sure, no problem! I spent more than that on breakfast!

That's a great job! It has a very convincingly real appearance. The paint looks perfectly smooth and glossy but not overly shiny and show car looking. It looks a real Sprite that you might have seen on the street back in their day.

That's fabulous! I hope I can acquire a little of your skill by following this thread but don't hold your breath, anybody!

I'd try to Google up some reference material and find out which trans the real car used. If that doesn't work, my best guess would be that since it's a Ford the standard would probably be the faster choice. Mopars usually ran better with automatics.

Just saw this news item about Bruce Weiner's amazing Microcar Museum closing down. That place could be the source for about a thousand Auto ID's! http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/world-largest-collection-tiny-cars-going-going-gone-205639795.html If you've never looked at his website you owe it to yourself! Some of the cars are amazing and others are just amazingly weird but I love to look at them. http://microcarmuseum.com/

That's too cool! I hope it's real so I can build a model of it!

That's an excellent build and a very interesting bit of history. Who would guess that the first race winning Cobra was painted red? What was Shelby thinking?

Great looking Plymouth! One of my favorite cars and kits. As far as the wide whites, the look is a matter of opinion but if you want to make it look like it would have on the street in 1964 it has to be narrow whites. Narrow whites hit the streets with the new '62 cars and by '64 nobody used the wide ones. Tires didn't last very long back then and by about halfway through '62 you seldom saw wide ones. Of course, wide whites could be had dirt cheap so many of them got re-capped into cheater slicks!

Wow! The wonders of technology!

I don't remember those! Can anybody tell me exactly how that welder worked?

I would have never gotten that! It has a strong resemblance to an old Mercedes and I kept trying to go down that path.

Nice, nice, nice!

That's just about exactly what I planned to say! I better start building pretty fast if I'm actually going to get it done but I can't figure out what I'd be saving them for if I just saved them.