Modelmartin

I didn't even see what section you were in! I use "View New Content" and hardly even look at what section threads are in. I was just running on about what the car was about. Carry on! Pay no attention to me! You did get some good responses. 6bblbird is right. These cars were called Street Freaks. Car Craft magazine used to feature these kind of cars in the 70s.

Of course you are your favorite resin caster!!! My favorite resin caster, although now defunct, is Scalekraft from South Africa. Guido did some great subjects and the quality of the body castings was very good. I got all of his Minis and two Phantom Corsairs! I also have all of his Abarths and one Duesenberg - I need to get some of the others now. Close behind in highly favored status is Replicas and Miniatures. Norm has the highest quality in the business. He is a step above all of the others in my book. Almost forgot Fisher Models. I have all of his Porsches and am considering doubling up on a few!!

That car is frightening! I know it was built recently and was meant to be evocative of old gassers and some of the crazy FXers but by 67 things were coming back to earth. Cars like that were built strictly for the street. They were pretty impressive in a certain over the top way. I saw a 55 Chevy in Des Moines at the Street Machine Nationals in '75 that was at least that high in the air with a 6-71 blown 427 with something like 6.13 gears that the guy drove from California!! He had never raced it! You can get sturdy straight axles or dropped axles from a bunch of kits like the Monogram Badman and variants, AMT 55 Nomad, Revell 53 Chevs, IMC/ Lindberg Little Red Wagon. All of those have parallel semi-elliptic leaf springs and will get you real high in the air.

That looks like a lot of fun. Model Ts are a perfect Hot Rod canvas for anyone. I have a huge stack of T kits that are crying out for some build action. By the way Ford never made a T sedan delivery. Revell's version is sort of bogus but there is nothing wrong with building a phantom stocker. Should be very cool.

That would make it what?..... about 35 of those things you have built so far? Of course I have built around 280 Maserati Birdcages! Who's crazier? I have built 5 of the Tamiya Mini so far with about another 10 planned!! That wouldn't be my all time favorite however. I don't really know what I could call my all time favorite since I kit bash so heavily when I do build. I guess I would say AMT trophy kits like the double dragster, and Model T and then some of their late 60s early 70s kits like the Meyer's Manx, Superbug Gasser, Meyer's Tow'd, Funny Vega and Funny Gremlin. I also love the Jo-Han Mickey Thompson Mustang and Pinto and Rambunctious Challenger. Also IMC VW Beetle, Fiberfab Avenger, and Little Red Wagon. Well, not one kit but many. It's the best I can do! Oh what the H>LL! I will commit to one favorite - The AMT Trophy series Model T double kit. I still have to pick up the new release.

That is very impressive work. You obviously know what you are doing. Bonneville cars have professionalism and quirkiness going on at the same time and you captured it perfectly.

Sadly, it is real. The website I harvested the pic from had 4 or 5 different pics of it from all sides and the owner was giving all of the deatils. It had a shortened 88 S10 Blazer chassis as I recall. Poor Opel! Maybe it's all the bondo in the body that makes it seem softer focused.

Styrene is cheap. It was more likely to save money on mold-making. Cutting injection molding tooling is very expensive.

But the post before mine did ask about 1/43rd! It isn't all about you, Harry!! I don't build armor but I would guess that 1/35th was close to one of the __mm figure scales. It's also interesting that there are very few aircarft in 1/35. They went to 1/32. There are a lot of interesting car kits in 1/32nd, too. Renwal did a pretty nice line of car kits in 1/48 in the 60s. There were everything from Curved dash olds to a Corvair, Duesenberg, Indy cars, Corvettes, etc. They were pretty nice.

Even poor little old Opel GTs get the treatment!

Here is one that was Hot Rodded. Yikes!

When I was a kid going to the Minnesota state fair I recall there being a Bonnie and Clyde death car along with an Adolph Hitler car. There are probably a lot of those around!

I actually was a subscriber to SAE #1 and I endeavored to keep the set complete even when the content of the mag was not so great but finally in 2010 I couldn't take it anymore! When the editor starts doing multi-page articles showing how he bungles builds and then reviews really cheesey snap kits - you know it is going downhill! The last straw for me was the centerspread of that model of the Jungle Jim funny car. I don't want to rip on the builder or the model. I am sure he is proud of it and all but it was not a centerspread-worthy model. A single pic of it in contest coverage would be more appropriate. It was quite mediocre as is the mag. I don't buy magazines to see features about beginner models. Perhaps some do but it is hard to be inspired by it. Do you buy car magazines to see your neighbor's Ford Focus or Toyota Camry? Model Cars still is interesting to me. I don't care about delivery schedules and such although I recognize the importance of it. I care about the content and the writing. This is what it boils down to for me: I believe that Gregg has a passion for model cars and it is just a job for Jim H.

Same record as the Minnesota Vik-queens! 6-10! My wife is a congenital Packer Backer(born and raised in the U.P.) so I have to swing that way which is cool but I like underdogs like Detroit. Vik-queens are just awful ever since thay were bought by that putz from New Jersey! B.F. and Randy Moss and the recently gone Childress are all jerks. What I really look forward to is Tour De France. I watched every day last year! It was exhausting - 3 weeks! Loved it.

1/43rd is European O gauge for model railroading. Dinky Toys were accessories for Hornby trains and people liked them so much they started to buy them for their own sake. Then Corgi, and dozens of other companies piled on and produced more in the same scale. The first 1/43rd kits were meant as gap fillers for the diecast 1/43rds and then that got out of control and you went from John Day kits to resin and before you knew it you had 200 and 300 parts kits with photo-etch, machined and electro-formed parts. That is the path (in a nutshell, obviously) from train accessories to Bosica and Superior kits!! 1/24th is the sensible scale which is merely 1/2 inch to a foot. 1/25th came about because the first Promo makers got drawings from the automakers in 1/10 scale and pantographed down 2 1/2 times thus 1/25. Every scale has a story it seems. Some are just because it fit the box which was already in stock, others are way more complicated.

To stretch styrene you hold it a few inches above a lit candle. You need the heat and not the flame. If you put it in the flame it will burn! Hold each end of the sprue with your fingers and when you feel it go soft wait a few seconds then slowly pull the ends apart until you have the length and thickness you like. Be patient. A tip: if you want a certain shape to the stretched sprue just file or scrape into a square or whatever shape you want. Then stretch it and the shape will be retained. There are advantages to sprue. When you have the ends glued in place and there is some slack you don't want you just place a hot screwdriver tip very close to the sprue and it will shrink up. Make sure it is securely glued first.

Ok guys! You came up with a lot of BJ names of people, products, etc. When I said act I meant a sexual act! I hope you all got that.

Isn't it funny how that works? JFK Hearse auction

Wooden it be nice to see people spend all their time and money on something that looked good? Wooden truck on Ebay

The thing that cracks me up about BJ (Hmmm! what other act has those initials?) is the annual appearance of Carroll Shelby being propped up on stage! Barrett was known as a hustler years before the auctions started. I remember his full page ads in Hemmings back in the 70s. It is all a big circus and most serious car enthusiasts stay away.

That's cool! It says it went for $6600. Not bad!

Why not? You wouldn't be questioning the need for something like that if they made a 1/8th scale Superbird, would you?

I used them on a hoodhinge for a bugatti T59 and they were great! Easy to use and work well, give them a shot! My Bugatti thread w/pics

Yes. Clint Williams and I are putting together a group of 4. I am eagerly looking forward to it. They will announce the route at the end of the month. If it goes anywhere near you we will have to hook up.

Haven't done it yet! Lots of things in the past were good. Getting married 20 years ago, traveling to Europe and many other places, building models and traveling all over to compete and participate in model shows, being at the first NNL ever, went to Bonneville speed week twice, running my own business, autocrossing, drag raced a little too, learned to become a machinist, got into cycling about 5 years ago. It's all good and cool. In the near future, competing at GSL again, riding my bike across Iowa this summer, completing the garage I started 3 years ago, starting to restore my 72 914.