Brudda

Now that’s really cool!

I love them all, but as a kid I bought amt because of the instructions. They labeled each part to what it was. And as a kid I learned from that. At 11 years old I did not know what a coil was or an alternator for that matter. But AMT labeled the parts so I learned a lot about cars from building the models. Did the other companies do that? I’m going from memory of a very long time ago so I may be totally wrong. Plus I thought amt had better models at that time . But this is from memory and that may be wrong also.

Put plug wires and brackets for the floating alternator and power steering pump. 1964 Pontiac GTO. 389.

I am trying to hold back on the super detail stuff. Do not want to go down that path on this build. This build is supposed to be close to out of box but i cannot let some things go. I have detailed pics of the carbs and it is hard not to go down that rabbit hole. Had to stop.

I added brackets to the floating alternator and power steering pump. It just bugged me. Oh and had to add red spark plug boots.

Thank you Carl

I try to go to my addiction meeting er model meeting every month but I believe my addiction gets worse so I believe it’s not working.

Man I used to love looking at these magazines. I remember Tim’s work back then and wondered if I can build like that … well no but I tried.

P.S. I thought the engine color was a bluish silver but my GTO buddy said the first one in 64 was a turquoise color. So I tried to match the best I could.

Things are finally settling down a bit. Trying to finish this before our sept contest. Might be a tough thing to do as sept is really busy with the 296 Ferrari challenge cars. I’ll be in Monterey for a week . The Ferrari challenge will be at Laguna Seca. But anyways the Pontiac is comming out . Was able to work on the engine. Not a lot of detail, just engine plug wires. So far

Nice job! Cool subject

Mike buddy, if there was an Aston in there I would just give it to you. I have given away so many models. I just gave away a tamiya f1 kit to a friend that completed his 1/20 collection. Carl ( Slusher) I gave him a Jo-Han kit not long ago. I just gave away a few 1/8 very expensive kits to guys who didn’t have much. We have a small group of young modelers at our club and all of us give them models. I just gave away 2 1/32 f-86 jets to a couple of kids in our club. So making a little on kits but giving them away to kids that cannot afford it, it’s rewarding . Another story, the local police and sheriff dept for some reason had a whole wherehouse of plastic model kits . They get toys donated every year at Christmas, but the kids do not want models for some reason. So the kits were getting overwhelming. Like a wherehouse full. Over years. They came to our club and asked us if we wanted them. We took them and put them at everyone s houses. For a few years we had a great raffle drawing. Brought in a lot of money to our club. We had veterans builds for free, Kids free builds. Things like that. Sometimes things come to you in this hobby. Plus you get to meet a bunch of great people.

None of this made any sense to me also. I asked him ( are you absolutely sure you want to do this?) the also terrible part is that he built this really cool 2 story shed ( more like a small house) that had a lot of models in there. And a beautiful bench with all of his tools. I was called last night and he wants me to buy the Fujimi sports car models. Of course I said yes. So I’ll have a small collection of those also. $5 each. The shed will be turned into something else. Poor Phil, it’s not looking good for his modeling .

I love the ( I want it now guys!) I do not wheel and deal much in this hobby but when I see a deal I do go for it. Like yesterday I bought a Jo- Han collection of maybe 150 models. I had a friend pick them up in a truck, The guy had them for years and his new bride said get rid of them or I’ll throw them out. Oh they were $5 each. With just one call I sold them to a guy in the Bay Area. $30 each. Even that’s a deal. But if you play it right, this hobby can be just about free. My wife loves it because I used to vintage race my 66 Shelby and that was $3000 to $5000 a weekend. Now I still have nice cars but they cost. I learned how to be patient and buy right from a fellow modeler. My modeling money (as I call it) is around a $1000 in the black. This is a great hobby.

Yup patience is the answer. Another story, I was at the Fremont IPMS event a few years ago and there was the Buick grand national kit from monogram. It was is a big box with other kits. A big $5 price tag on the Buick. At 10 am. Well my buddy told me to wait until 4. So I did. A chance because it might sell. Well it did not and I walked by at 4:15 and the seller said ,( I need to sell the Buick and I do it want to take this big box of models home) so I said how much? He said ($20 for the whole box of kits), could not pull $20 out fast enough. I had 15 kits plus my grand national Buick. I traded them away for the things I wanted. I traded 6 kits for a 1/32 trumpeter me109 kit. I sold that kit for $60. And the other kits I traded , some on this site. Soooo you can come out ahead. With patience.