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Best use of a Jimmy Flintstone Mercster EVER!

MPC also did the 67-8 Cougar "Cougar Country" funny car in clear. I just got a painted one! Hopefully it will strip and polish well. Not quite what you asked for but MPC in the 60s did a lot of clear hoods on their annual kits.

I liked the Citroen Survolt and the new Lambo. They are very dramatic but don't have the gaping maw that several others have. The Jaguar electric car is just goofy, at least mechanically. What does that do to unsprung weight, putting motors in the wheels? It has to handle like a Peterbilt.

Guys! Guys! Guys! NHRA gas class cars have to comply with a few rules first to be a "gasser". Stock wheelbase. Engine setback of 10% maximum measured from the axle centerline to 1st spark plug. Chopped tops were allowed but no streamlining which meant you couldn't lay the windshield back. Gassers came with blowers, injected or carbs. Classes always ended with " __/G or in later years__/GS. The prefix depended on displacement and whether it was supercharged or not. A/FX and altered wheelbase cars are not gassers. They are cool cars but they simply aren't gassers. Some of the gasser websites spell all of this out in greater detail. I feel better now. Keep on posting cool models.

Actually, the line was "..accomplice in the woodchipper?". LOVE that movie. I tell everyone it's a documentary. There are still a bunch of people around who still talk like that.

If it were true, the salty air would rust that puppy out really bad! Just for giggles I did the math. The trip from dock to house( I guessed about 200 feet)would have to be done once a week in order for the car to have 50 miles on it.

Sedans were more expensive to make in the early days and most closed cars were actually limousines or open driver compartment type with enclosed passenger space. For sedans that were "owner-driven" the center door set-up was somewhat common. It had more to do with duplicating carriage body styles than anything else. They were also more rigid with the wood frame construction. There is an Auburn in the ACD museum that has a door on one side for the rear passengers and one on the other side for the front passengers! By the 20s the center door was obsolete except for the T. Henry Ford was never accused of being ahead of the times! As far as other body styles went - many other manufacturers produced the same styles and they went out of favor at about the same time as Fords did. As it became cheaper to make enclosed cars, open cars went out of favor. Chuck! How about wire mesh in all of the windows like the Golden Submarine? That would be tres cool!

Hobby Link Japan. hlj.com They have all of their line.

Christian, I am quite into Minis and used to get some of the English Mini mags. I saw mention of "re-shelling" a car. How are those regarded in collecter circles over there? It sounds dubious as to authenticity, great for practicality. I believe that Classic Car Club Of America of America requires a certain percentage of the original body be extant and used in the restoration in order for it be reagrded as original.

Check out some of the Slixx funny car sheets. They have spark club lettering decals on them!!! Yes. I have never seen anyone use them but thay exist. I think they are on the generic funny car detail sheet along with the blower belt decals and lots of contingency markings and head and tail light decals.

MPC had 2 re-releases in the 70s that went by different names. I think one was Blue Thunder or Blue Lightning or some such. I also think that MPC released a "Monster" dragster in the 80s which essentially was that car with two monster truck tires in it. Pretty dumb but what can you do!

I thought Al Teague just nipped the Summers Bros. record by a few MPH several years back. I must have been mistaken or perhaps he broke it one way and didn't back it up. Anyway, I was at bonneville in 89 and 90 and saw Al Teague run 390 and change a few times. You can watch from the 2-mile mark about a quarter mile away and it was very impressive! First you see this little black dot in the distance which slowly gets bigger. Then all of a sudden the car appears and then disappears into the distance. The sound is like a piston fighter plane buzzing you at top speed with the doppler effect of it approaching and receding into the distance. It was quite a thrill. Do you have any pics or links tothis car?

That is highly doubtful. They are very obviously made from masters turned on a lathe. The knurling is very nice. I have a set I got at the auction at GSL '07 ( $20.00! ). They are very cool but I don't know when I will have time to build some sort of Richard Carroll-esque type custom. As a kid I so drooled over his models in Car Model magazine.

I am just happy you guys bought something from me!! Also I am tickled when anyone builds one of my kits. You Duece looks great, John! I will build one soon with Mike and Ike's sponsorship. It will go along with this one - The M&M Dark Chocolate Bugzapper. Can't wait to see what you have in mind for the center door, Chuck!

That goes in Rants and Raves section...hold it...... oh,never mind! Seriously though, I loved Rants and Raves. I had more fun there than I can say. Who remembers the great Reliable Resin flame war of '07? It was epic! Good times.....good times. I will miss it.

My smallest. I think it is 1/220. I got a whole bag of them in different colors. Smallest I have built are these two. This is a Lion Models 1/87 Bugatti T55 coupe. It was a white metal kit. This was a GT Mini-Petites 1/76 Mini-Cooper 67 Monte Carlo winner. Resin Kit, lacquer paint. Yes, I foiled all of the windows - piece of cake!!

I saw the 68 Jo-Han Eldo kit I sold to him at the Milwaukee Miniature Motors show!!! Great story about that. Some guy was trying to hammer me on the price and I refused this guy's insulting "offer". Andy was right behind him and picked up the kit. I knew him from one of the first GSLs when he lived in Montana. I gave it to him for about what the jerk prior to him was trying to get it for just because Andy was a nice guy. Fast forward to a few years before he passed away. I saw a few Pyro Brass kits on Ebay and I e-mailed the seller to find out if they were the ones that were plated or had "gold" plastic in them. It turned out to be Andy and he said they were the plated ones and he was just going to send them to me because he remembered the deal I gave him on the Eldo. He said, "Sometimes payback isn't a bitch!"

You are thinking of the BMW Isetta.

I built the Fujimi and the Heller kits. The Fujimi goes together real smoothly and looks great. I think the body shape on the Heller is a tiny bit better but it is nearly unbuildable for the average modeler. The engine is a bad joke! The Fujimi may be a curbside but it has extensive detail because the rear bodywork is so open. Renaissance, Studio 27 also make great detail sets and decals for the Fujimis. Hands down the Fujimi is the kit of choice for a 917K. Fisher Models is the obvious choice for the Longtails and the Pink Pig.

In high school I had a 57 Chevy 2 door sedan with straight six and three speed. It had cooling problems so often that the rings lost their temper and wore out such that it used about three gallons of gas per gallon of oil!! It left more smoke behind it than a two-stroke. I did the drain oil thing, too. Finally one day it seized up after overheating in the middle of winter. I was about a mile from home so I walked. Once I towed the heap back home, I refused to drive it ever again. That summer a few friends and myself completely destroyed it with an ax and a driveshaft. We actually flattened the roof down to the seats!!! We had to jack it back up so we could tow it to the scrapyard!! Don't worry Chevy fans! It was a total rustbucket!

Oh come on now!!! You could have pushed it through the quarter in less than that!!!

Sweet scoot, Steve! Can you make it to Nordicon? It's in your neighborhood this year.

That was thoroughly enjoyable! Thanks, Tim.

Actually Sydney Allard was sticking Caddy motors in some of his sports cars in the early 50s! So was Briggs Cunningham. The Vega was a good looking car, it was just a sh!tbox mechanically. The Edsel looked better then it's contempoary Lincolns, I think.

My eyes!!!!