Modelmartin

People run anything and everything at Bonneville. Grab your parts box and start something. I went there twice in 90 and 91 and I did see a couple of midgets with offies running there! T-buckets with Four cylinders to Semi-trucks were racing on the salt. Your imagination is the limit. In the past there were little streamliners with anything from snowmobile to motorcycle to even model airplane engines powering them.

Nice job on the Corvettes! There have been a few resin bodies of these in 1/25th over the years but no one gets the Waldorf Nomad right! They always use the 53 corvette as a base and a nomad roof. The actual Waldorf Nomad was built on a standard chevy chassis and was a taller car through the sides. The roof on the actual car looked slightly chopped too. The few attempts I have seen in 1/25th have a short body and a tall roof! I see that Provence missed out on the body height but did do a good job on the roof.

Perhaps a Korean model manufacturer will take it on. The Japanese would never do a kit of Korean car! Bit of a cultural dislike.

I almost have my Heller 540K conversion kit ready to cast. It allows you to convert that kit into a model car!! It will be a resin cast main body shell that the rest of the kit fits on. I would recommend using a Jo-Han or Italeri kit for the wheels and tires. The Hellers are beyond saving. Seriously, this kit was the worst engineered of all the Heller kits but it is one of the most beautiful classic cars!

Oh but what a glorious glorified beetle motor!

They have tooling from everywhere! They acquired a lot of Pyro tooling which was pretty uneven even in the day. They were selling the old AMT 34 Ford pickup, IMC Little Red Wagon Dodge A100 pickup, It is a real potluck of kits!

And I wanted to see whatever was on back of the flatbed! The japanese have had those style of trucks for years. There are actually some older 1/32 kits of them in Japan.

Very cool, Harry! That is a pretty small scale build for you but I suppose the overall size made up for it! As for the open driver's compartment - It doesn't get as cold in winter in London as it does in the midwest! It doesn't get as hot either! At least it didn't until global warming!

That is wild bunch of plastic! It is very obvious that you ENJOY model building!

Hmmm. Right hand drive. Old shape with modern lights and tires. Weird.

Very sorry to hear that!

I only have one kit which I would never build. It is the first kit I ever bought with the intention of saving it for the future. It was the Jo-Han Sox & Martin Cuda. I bought it in '71 shortly after it came out and I still have it and it is still sealed! It is just the sentiment that keeps me from doing anything with it. Everything else is for building!

How about $4500. for a pair of bicycle wheels? I have seen soem for more! The bike I ride has a pair of $150.00 Ebay wheels and I think that was going some! http://www.competitivecyclist.com/product-components/2013-reynolds-rzr-46-tubular-wheelset-6753.41.1.html

So what kind of "traditional four cylinder" motor are you going to use?

I have a Pyro Beetle Beach car started that needs some motivation to finish. I would love to post it here when I am done!

We have a show by the same name here in Minnesota WHERE IT DOES SNOW!!!! http://www.royaleresin.net/Zumbro/showinfo.html

Patience is the best tool for Alclad. Like everyone says - light coats. You need to just continue dusting it on. Do not get it wet with Alclad. I do it all in one session by continuing to apply it until it is chrome!. Someone liked doing a few coats, waiting a few minutes than applying a few more coats. Whatever technique works for you is fine. THE most critical is the light coats from a good distance and the glossy and smooth undercoat.

Very well built model! AMT led everyone down the wrong road with this kit, though. Chrisman never ran a car like that! His Comet was one of the first flip body funny cars built by Logghe that year including Dyno Don's car. I guess we will have to file it under the "Phantom" category!

It should have been done in 1:1!

What you are doing is what model car building is all about! Keep it up and do what you want to do!

Bad cars I have read about - The first Rotary car, the NSU Ro 80. They replaced so many engines they almost folded! The early Minis. Now I am a Mini lover but Issigonis thought the first customers were R & D people. The first year of production almost bankrupted them with all of the engines and gearboxes they replaced under warranty. How about the infamous Cadillac 4-6-8? In addition to the previously mentioned Chevette diesel, I do believe GM did produce a Pontiac Grand Prix deisel and of course the Cadillac diesels. Are there any Olds deisels or GM diesels at all still running? I read that some of the high performance engine builders liked to take the heavier duty diesel blocks and convert them back to gas!

Just pack up the car and come on out to Minnesota! We have not had much snow in the last few years. We are practically in the Banana Belt the way Global warming is going!

Or Minnesota, too!

Guido made up the Wobbly wheels. I have never seen a Mini with them. I think they were mostly on Lotus. I have most of the ScaleKraft Minis and have finished several of them including this one, the Minisprint(chopped and sectioned), and the woody wagon. They are great pieces to work with. I am doing the pick-up next. As of a few years ago there was a place in Belgium who was still converting 1/1 Minis into Broadspeed fastbacks.

Worst car? There are so many to choose from. What is the criteria? Styling? Then the Aztek or the Pacer wins. Reliability? How about anything British. The most unreliable car I ever owned was a 57 Chevy. It was used and abused before I ever got it and it continued unabated until one day some friends and I destroyed it with an axe and a driveshaft! We smashed the roof down to the tops of the fenders! Don't worry kids! It was super rusty and all the good parts were gone already! It was a 150 two door sedan with 6 and automatic. That was back in 1974.