Toner283

Check for places that sell scale tractor parts. A retailer near me has 25-30 different sizes of tractor wheels and tires for restoring toy tractors.

close but no cigar pim. Nick is a Canadian feller. We actually got several makes and models of cars that were not available south of the border.

Welcome back Nick. Are you going to be at the Group 25 show this weekend? Stop by my table and say hi if you go.

Does this T kit come with two building options stock and street rod like the last few releases in the T series or is this one a stock only release?

X2 on that. I bought one of the 1971 Ford truck kits, opened it when I got home so I could look it over, and it took quite a while to figure out how to get everything back in the box without breaking or bending any of the parts. I can see how if the sprues were packed when they were even slightly warm they could very easily get warped or deformed.

Another good paint prep solution is to use comet powdered cleanser, water and an old toothbrush. That will allow you to get into all of the small nooks and crannies to give a good "tooth" for the paint to adhere to. Works great. Also makes sure that all skin oils etc are removed 100%.

Do you have any tips on what pressure you sprayed at, tip size on the air brush etc? I have a bottle of the pearl white and a bottle of the pearl green but I have not used them yet. I am still doing body work on the car they are going on.

You could try yellowbullet.com. Just be warned, if you are thin skinned or overly sensitive you might not like it much. Those boys play kinda rough at times.

Try to find the Revell 72 cutlass supreme kit. Not the hurst/olds version. It has an up top that is basically a direct fit for the 69 SS convertible. the hurst/olds version of the kit does not have the up top in it. The box art for the cutlass supreme as a black and burgundy car on it. I read that Revell is supposed to be reissuing the 72 olds kit 3rd quarter 2015. I am not sure if that one will have the up top or not. Check out this link. Lots of great info.

I agree with Ace. Kinda hard to tell from the picture (I am on my phone). But both the in and out and the reverser became more common as time went on. The lenco reversers are easy to spot on a car in person. They have "LENCO REVERSE" in raised letters on the case.

Doesn't necessarily have to be a nitro motor but a big horsepower engine is definitely needed. And most of the ones I have seen up close there is a big safety cover over the drive shaft. Usually a heavy duty piece of metal bent in a U shape to cover the top three quarters of the drive shaft. Usually 12 or 14 gauge. In the second pic you posted imagine yourself sitting in the driver's seat. Where are your legs and feet? Plus if catastrophic failure were to happen and the driveshaft broke and got loose what is the first part of your anatomy it is going to come after? This is the same reason they made clutch scatter shields mandatory on higher horse power cars. if you go to Google Images and search clutch explosions there are a lot of pretty wild pictures showing the aftermath of a clutch explosion after they have come apart. Big Daddy Don Garlits actually lost half of one of his feet due to a clutch explosion in one of his Top Fuel Cars.

For drag only vehicles. You are either sitting still with the clutch in or you are moving forward. One speed, driveshaft spinning the same rpm as the engine. No reverse. Wind the engine up, dump the clutch and hold on.

Plus it would let the builders get ahold of one for a reasonable price and let the collectors fight over the originals and spend stupid money on them.

I have bought a couple of them just for the boat. And then sold or traded away the Grand Prix because IMO that is a pretty ugly car and I know what I would never build it. I have enough cool subject matter that I may not get to to keep the ones I know I will never build.

I think the tooling for the boat is still around. Isn't that basically the same boat as the one that was recently rereleased by the model king in a double kit with the 70(?) Pontiac Grand Prix? Is the tooling from that boat (the MK version) a modified version of the original raysoncraft ski/drag boat from way back when or is that a completely different boat kit?

That first one looks like an oversized pedal car.

When I got mine the guy from touch-n-flow told me that you had to put the non hypodermic end in the bottle of glue and let capillary action pull the glue up into the tube. then turn it over and let the glue flow down the glass tube to the hypodermic end. The plast-I-weld glue that comes with the touch and flow system I use for 90 percent of my glueing now. it is very very thin almost water like consistency and it actually melts the parts together for a permanent bond. if the hypodermic tip happens to clog with plastic (very common) I was told just put the hypodermic and in the glue for a couple of minutes and it will clear it. As Ace said some of them come with a little squeeze bottle to force air into the tube. that is also helpful for clearing a clogged tip.I have also found that sometimes when the glue gets down to the hypodermic end it does not want to flow easily out of the tip, I give it a slight flick with the end of my finger and that seems to get the glue down to the very tip.

I'd be happy if they were to release all of the main body and interior parts (minus the fender/frame unit) as a parts pack. Just make those parts available and I'll do the rest. I'd buy at least a case of them.

Wasn't there a 1:1 scale show rod Red Baron built with a slant 6 for the engine?

The kit supplied chrome reverse rims fit very nicely into the tires from any of the Revell Deuce kits. Those tires are much nicer than the kit supplied ones. In addition the modelhaus also has those Revell deuce tires recast with whitewall inserts. They look great with the chrome reverse wheels supplied in the deuce roadster kit you are working on.

The camper from the vintage box art reissue of the 65 elcamino is the same camper that was in the "Elcamino Camper" issue of the 59. AFAIK that was the only boxing of the 59 to have the camper shell included. The vintage box art reissue of the 65 elcamino has both the camper shell and the bed cap included in it.

I have worked on this one. The owner (and editor of Canadian Hot Rods Magazine) is friends with the owner of one of the shops I worked for. It came in for some work to be done for an article in the magazine. The front clip is a one piece fiberglass lift off unit. Cool car.

In Arthur, Ontario. What is up?

I took the parts out of the box for the 71 to look them over and cannot get them back into the box. Man it is packed tight.

I'm curious, what exactly does a Thundershirt do?