Modelmartin

This thread is interesting in that one can see that some folks are quite knowledgable and some are very much not. This isn't to slam anyone because automotive history isn't everyone's thing. I happen to enjoy knowing the broad sweep of automotive development and history including knowing about the people making the cars. I am glad the Cord thing got ALMOST straightened out! The Oklahoma cars were the Cord 8/10 which was a 4/5 scale Cord with a Corvair driveline up front. Glenn Pray was the man behind it. It was the precursor of all of the "Replicars" we see today. From an engineering standpoint I would nominate the 1890s Panhards from France. They were the first front-engine rear-drive car! The Chrysler Airflow was significant because they moved the engine forward so the passenger compartment would be completely between the wheels and lower. The first production monocoque (unibody) car was the Lancia Lambda from the 20s. The first production 4 wheel brakes were on the 1920s Duesenberg Model A produced in New Jersey before E.L. Cord bought them out. A must on the significance list has to be the Rolls Royce Silver Ghost. It is hard to imagine how high they raised the bar on reliabilty with this car. The early days of motoring were rife with breakdowns. The ghost was as reliable as a modern Toyota - without the unintended acceleration!! A Dodge pickup with tailfins? Waaaaaa?

Define car. The Benz was the first internal combustion vehicle to be put into production. It does have 3 wheels, however. I would not argue that it is not significant. It certainly is. Cars started out as motorized wagons so I think maybe we should include the first 4 wheeled wagon with a steerable front axle! I think the parameters need to be better defined. Are we looking at technology only? Performance? Current collector value? Styling? There are lot of great cars out there. I say add a Model T and a VW Beetle to the collection. The T put America on wheels and the Beetle put the rest of the world on wheels. Easy to find models of them, too!

American Industrial Models Makes a Hayes Clipper conversion kit. Hayes kit

When my wife and I bought our house I noticed that the previous occupants had nailed paneling up under the basement stairs with no access door. I made a joke about somebody hiding a body in there. It seemed very odd. After we closed on the house I went done there and tore off the paneling. No body but I did find about half the pieces for a 60s Ford 352 V8!!! including the block. No crank, rods or pistons but most of the long block was there. Too funny!

That is a little over the top but very thorough, I will admit. A good wetsand and a simple soaking in Westley's, or bug and tar remover, or Prep-Sol type of paint prep product is all that is needed for most resin parts. I have built hundreds of resin models and have never needed more than that.

I am pretty sure I have a feature article on that car in old Hot Rod. I will look for it and scan it in the next few days.

Okay. My story doesn't involve a junkyard or cars but it was salvage! A big old hotel in Minneapolis was going to be torn down and they were having a sale to clear out whatever they could. The last owner was a religious group who used it as a residence, school, church, etc. We were only supposed to look at stuff on the first 2 floors. Of course we went up to the top floor(approx. 10-12 stories). This was the penthouse, fancy restaurant area of the former hotel. There was a door which had a piece of buckskin with the words "Leather Room" engraved in it attached to the door. We went in and there was this big free-standing brass and glass fireplace and deep shag carpeting. The room was strewn with dozens of ladies high heel shoes of the strappy, sexy variety. Hmmmm. Do you suppose this was where the pastor ministered to the young ladies of the congregation? Or maybe he liked to wear them? Sorry! No Jimmy Hoffa in the trunk but it was all I had! I never found anything more interesting than old combs and loose change in junk cars. Oh! I did find a nice Snap-On 1/2 wrench once!

Looks like a typical Yooper motor pool!

Dave, I don't understand why you would be so disappointed about the awards at an NNL. Popular vote doesn't always do much better. I could understand if it was billed as a contest. In order for there to be a set of judging standards, there would need to be a broad agreement on them. I don't think IPMS has even accomplshed that. I see a lot of variation in IPMS judging. I think standards are a pipe dream, a well intentioned pipe dream. Even at GSL which generally is very well judged, there are occasionally odd results. We are dealing with humans here!!

Love those weird old Pyro bike and trike kits!! Too weird and very cool. You going to build them?? OK! the Chuka Cannon is too funny! What were they thinking? Oh yea! Love the hands. Are they cricket bats or SM paddles? I never saw the Lindberg Sorry Surrey and Back Buster before!!! Can you post some pics of the contents of those?

Here is the section of my stash that has most of the older goodies. There is a lot more! This model is one of my favorites. No wiring no p/e, etc. It was rebuilt from a mild gluebomb. Tamiya paint, replated chrome, original decals. I thought this was a generic dune buggy based on a Manx but one day I was leafing through an old car mag and found an ad for the Sand Shark. It was made by a company in Michigan. I would assume it wasn't far from MPC headquarters. Most of the boxes shown have original kits but some are re-issues in old boxes, a few are empty and some have original gluebombs in them. Nothing for sale! So sorry.........not. When it get downs to it, I am an old AMT trophy series guy. I do like kits from all of the companies and especially cool old boxes from any of them. I would love to get more flatbox Monograms.

You can paint resin with anything you paint styrene with. My advice is to thoroughly wet sand the surface of the resin part and use very light "dust" coats of paint on it. Automotive paints are better all around. I use lacquer primer and colors on everything. I don't know if the self-etching primer will attach itself to resin like it does to metal. That would be a good thing to find out.

Very Cool! I like it. It's very well designed, aggressive looking and colorful.

Those look like fun builds. They look very period correct. Real nice job!

Wasn't there a Mercury Macaque?

Ok now! How about Cars named after primates?? I know Honda has Gorilla and Monkey Scooters but I can't think of any cars named after primates. I guess primates just don't have the qualities that one thinks of being important in an Automobile like speed, grace, fleetfulness.

Of course you personally did not evolve from an ape. Individually, none of us evolved from an ape. I don't think we can consciously evolve no matter how hard we try! We are already apes, all born homo sapiens, at least most of us!! We are classified as a primate which is the same order as all apes, monkeys, etc. We share 98% of our DNA with Chimpanzees and 97% with Gorillas. Of course we share 40% of our DNA with bananas and some have the same IQ! I'm not naming names! You can choose to believe anything you want and many folks do but we are ALL just a bunch of tall hairless chimps! Hmmm! I seem to be getting more hairless with age.

I use Isopropyl Alcohol just like I use for the Tamiya paints. Seems to work just fine.

That's like saying we aren't apes!!!

Where did that race?

OOPS! Waaaaa. p.s. Spelled crustacean.

The Mikado was the emperor of Japan. I did find a reference to a fish. Mikado is also the name for the Mantis Shrimp! Ding!Ding!Ding! Fish connection. I love Wikipedia!

This is an easy one. Porsche only built one and raced it twice! There are similar private built cars but extensive body mods would have to be made. Don't sweat it. You can make a street car that will look racier than any 911 with a whaletail stuck on it.

That's similar to the GSLIMCC out in Utah. The Greater Salt Lake INTERNATIONAL Model Car Contest meaning , of course, the whole wide world!!!!

They are next to each other, Harry. Camden NJ is across the river.