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I am enjoying. I needed good Frontenac T reference and there it was. Thank you very much.

Grooving on the painted rims/chromed spokes thing. 8) 8)

Cool ride, Man! It will take you full day to foil that baby. I did one once many moons ago. Finish it! :evil:

Very cool project, DaytonaTim! Is the AMT Allison output meant for a shaft drive (automotive) application rather than a prop drive? begging forgiveness beforehand for momentarily hi-jacking but here is my Allison application.

I can pronounce walleye!

Looks like it was a fun model to build. Nice job, too. I always wondered why AMT had such a narrow track on those kits. They always look like an altered chassis stuck under a full size body. I never liked that axle either. It seems a straight one would be more appropriate. I will have to try one and see if a few corrections make it look better.

Got my freaking plug-in. Watched your little deal. Big Deal! Ocean, waves, beaches, lush greenery, beautiful weather, unpronouncable fish names. So really, why did you move back? :roll: 8)

Pyro did a 33 Plymouth 4-door in 1/32. Quality is so-so. That car in the pics has a 33 hood. The 34 had opening vent doors on the hood sides. The rest of the car is almost identical. When I do see those Pyro 33s on Ebay they actually go for pretty good dough. $40-60.00 is typical. In 1/25 there is nothing close andI have not ever heard of one in Resin. I might have to consider that one. A longer nose makes it a Dodge. HMMM! Full disclosure - I had a 33 Plymouth 4-door in high school which I attempted to build a street rod out of. I realized I did not have the skills, knowledge or equipment to do it so I sold it. :cry: Some one did finish it and it is still running around out there. It is easy to spot with a 4" chop top!

General Motors Firebird III now available! I had to fill some early orders and get dealers orders filled first but I have them in stock now.

Nobody mentioned how the hood on this kit needs more of a point to it when looking down on it. I added some evergreen plastic to the nose of it and reshaped it and it was 100% better. In fact it kicked @ss after that was changed. Also the battery box is way too shallow! Laugh , but when you are running the fresh air intake hose through it to make a Parnelli Trans-Am car you notice such things. 8)

It looks like "Chrome" paint. Some Rolls had polished aluminum bodies and that duplicates the look fairly well.

Nice build! I hardly ever see these kits built well and it is a pleasure when I do. Entex/Minicraft has everyone confused. It is not a Silver Ghost! The silver Ghost has a longer wheelbase and a 6 cylinder engine. This is the previous model that Rolls-Royce sold. The body is identical to a body that typically would have been on a Ghost. This body could be mounted on the Balloon Car chassis along with the artillery wheels from this kit and then you would have the actual Silver Ghost from 1907. By the way, all Rolls-Royce bodies were custom built before WWII. They were no factory colors or interiors, etc. Some of the Coachbuilders had somewhat standard bodystyles but everything was ordered individually and anything could be ordered and was!

Very cool! 8) I had one as a teenager and loved it. The showrod guys have driven the price of unbuilts through the roof! :cry:

I am digging the MOCO. It looks like a tall Mini.

The Cube rocks but my favorite micro-van of all is the Fiat Multipla. It is basically a toaster on wheels. I want one real bad! A model of it, that is!

New meaning for the phrase " Get Naked!" :oops: I don't know why more of these companies don't bring these little vans over here. My mom got a Scion xB and it is a fantastic vehicle. Rommy, economical, hauls a lot, handles well! There is nothing not to like about it. I know some don't like the styling but that is their problem. Nissan has a similar van and that Naked van is very cool. The Suzuki one is cool, too.

There was a little drawing in Road & Track several years back showing a Le Car in a showroom next to a Pacer that was labeled "The Voiture"! When I was in France I saw all sorts of weirdness. There was a special version of one car called "Le Shopping". Porn businesses all had their signs in English! I guess English is sexier. 8) Nobody has a lock on using another language badly to lend an air of the exotic to their product. :roll: My personal favorite was a line of kits Nichimo had out many years ago - The world-wide worthy car collection! Perfect.

Almost as good as us using French -"Le Car"! :roll:

Holy Dimunitive Transportation, Batman! I love microcars. Thanks for the link to the Microcar museum. I will have to get to the Southern NNL next year and reserve a day to go see the little guys!

There are many more people than you who are unsure of which is which. Some of them may have added to your confusion. Some of the confusion is that some of the drag racing classes have been around a long time and have morphed quite a bit. Todays pro-stocks are as fast as a 60s-early 70s Fuel Funny car! In a nutshell.. Pro/Stock is a stock(almost) bodied gas-burning, carburated, drag car with doors and driver sitting on the left. They started as production cars in 1970 but are all tube frame and carbon fiber now. Pro-street is not a class but a type of street driven car that resembles a Pro/Stock Pro/Mod is a basically a Pro/Stock on LOTS of steroids. Some are supercharged, some on nitrous, huge motors up to 700 CI. Wild bodywork, etc. Funny Car is a Fuel Dragster shortened with a flip-up fiberglass body. It started as a production based altered wheelbase car in '65 and morphed into Fiberglass flip bodies within a few years. You may be confused by some of these early funnycars looking a bit like gassers. Gassers are harder to define but basically they are 10% engine setback and gas-burning. Some are supercharged, some are injected and some were carburated. Most were Willys, Anglias, Austins, but most any car could and was turned into a gasser. They had to have a full body. Some had Flip front ends, some had flip-up bodies but all had to have opening doors even if they did flip up. Some pro-stocks were run as gas class cars in the 70s and 80s. Altereds had 25% engine setback and were generally smaller and lighter. They had a shorter wheelbase and could run without fenders and hood. There were many classes and you could go from AA blown fuel down to Gas burning carburated inline sixes in E/A. They are many good sights out there. Do a google search. Hope tis helps get you started. Drag racing classes are confusing and it takes a little study to get it all figured out.

I get a plug-in error whatever that means. I am semi-illiterate with computers. :cry: :cry: :cry:

What kind of resin? It makes a big difference regarding what you can use as filler. Usually just the resin is good enough if you are just filling holes. You don't need to add filler to the resin. If you are wanting it to be more like a putty I would recommend using an epoxy putty like Milliput instead. you will be happier with it.

I don't know this truck but the front end looks like an IHC cabover and I would bet that the rest is custom built. It is very cool. 8)

I love old car discovery stories. Thanks for sharing this with us. I appreciate it.

People tend to come up with the same solutions to the same problem at the same time around the world!