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Rodent

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  1. Not today, but a few days ago. Correct wheels for the Charger Pursuit, a '71 Duster grille, and a grille for whatever year builtup D100 I have in the restore queue. I think it is a '74, but I have to find it first.
  2. My 2 cents, if you are going to all this trouble, find one of the "corrected" grilles. I can't unsee the headlamps on these kits and I don't even own a 1:1.
  3. I remember seeing red cars with the white "swoosh" and logo in Northern California as a kid. IIRC, they were mostly Fords. They were probably used by salespeople for the local independent bottling company. You would also see decommissioned examples, usually faded nearly to pink, driving around or parked.
  4. LOL, a friend has one. Previous car was an A35, previous to that an S3.
  5. USA painted on the street stands for Underground Service Alert
  6. Thanks guys. I am going to start shopping for some 6-lug wheels and better tires for this thing. I don't want to go much larger in diameter than the tires that MPC supplied.
  7. Chevy looks nice Jon! I will seek this out and experiment.
  8. Does anyone have one of these trucks handy that could measure the OD of the cartoon tires? I have my original built one somewhere that I would like to restore with a more correct wheel/tire package but it would take me a while to find it. Thanks!
  9. Clothes that have the possibility that the last owner died while wearing them have no appeal to me.
  10. It would probably be easier to install the GTO parts on your Lemans, LOL.
  11. OK, I understand now. My company's web product is very image heavy and we did the same thing a few years ago.
  12. I saw that on their website a couple of days ago when I was looking for a Charger Pursuit. One of these days I am going to spend a few days down there and check them out and see the Peterson Museum while I am visiting.
  13. Since you are painting in your garage...... This is my garage compressor, a 4.6 gallon Husky that I bought used from a colleague. It is very quiet, airs up the car and bicycle tires nicely. Has enough capacity to use a blow gun. Oh, yeah...it is very quiet. I have an airbrush hose with a pressure regulator and two water traps that attaches to the standard air hose. It works well, and I can "open the garage door" and paint on the driveway if I want to. I don't have a paint booth.
  14. No. Very close, but the accessory drive changed in 1969. The A/C compressor swapped sides.
  15. Not an expert here by any means. I bought a Paasche H around 1980 and it is the only airbrush I have ever used. I use rattle cans when I can (Tamiya), but Scale Finishes is the most brain dead airbrush paint I have ever used. Mix it up, put it in the jar (or cup) and spray it. No thinning, just use it. I would never want a dual action airbrush, but for those of you who have mastered them, more power to you.
  16. I would love to see a '69 and/or '70 Elky myself, but the interiors and underhood ('69-70) are quite different as well. Round2 had enough difficulty updating the '70 1/2 Camaro kit to a new front clip that they still may have a sour taste in their corporate mouths and may not be interested in beating their heads against that wall again. But who knows?
  17. It was missing link and they were a repop of the JoHan Maverick. I have a couple of them and they are kind of narrow and too short to fit 67-up engine bays at all. The AMT 66 Fairlane has towers, but they are missing the shock mounts. Scott at Futuraattraction made those. 1:1 Fairlanes, Torinos, etc. have a bit taller body than the Mustang. The Mustang uses a crossbar type upper shock mount, the Fairlane uses a stud. If you installed a Fairlane shock and upper mount on a Mustang, it would probably hit the hood when you closed it. 65-66 Mustangs have a somewhat different shape to the shock towers than 67-up. The 64 1/2 generator cars also have a "dent" on the bottom of the passenger tower for generator clearance on the V8.
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