Modelmartin

I always thought that the Auburn body panels were well shaped and that is most of the battle. Source some wheels and tires from elsewhwere and some careful tweaking. Of course, I haven't done one yet but maybe I need to. Some of them had exposed wires and some had disc wheel covers. An up convert top would really make it! Fred Cady once showed me a hand written list of Classic cars that Monogram had considered making back in the day and it was incredible! I can't remember them all but there were Bugattis, Alfas, Packards and likely the Auburn. I think all of the Monogram classics were done just because the powers at Monogram liked them a lot.

The Cop-out Duster will not work out very well for the Ramchargers Duster. The Ramchargers Duster had a "digger" frame (narrow like a dragsters) and a much more modified body. A Revell duster would be better but the best thing would probably be a Revell or AMT/Model King chassis with a resin body. There was about a 3 year gap between the Mongoose/Cop-out Duster and the Ramchargers car and the development was quite rapid in the early 70s. Sorry to rain on the parade but I just thought I would alert you to what's correct. When McEwen ran the Duster, the Ramchargers had a Challenger. Have you thought about doing the Mongoose car? The kit is pretty well done and there are a few guys on Ebay selling the correct decals.

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I am also a big Duesenberg fan and have started a few bodies and conversions for Aardvark Models. I love antique and classic cars but they are a tough sell in today's dying market. The Model Ts I did have sold poorly compared to other things I produce. I really want to produce them but don't know if sales will be there. I imagine I will get several of them out there eventually.

Easy for you, being so good looking and all! Most of us can't do modeling! What most of us do is model BUILDING!

Is anyone holding a gun to your head and forcing you to read this? I frankly find your post insulting to all of the people who weighed in on this issue, whatever their position. Go back to the other forums!

Creative Miniature Associates( www.cmamodels.com ) has a 1/12 super-detail multi-media kit in the works for a long, long time. I have seen the pattern work and it is absolutely top-rate. It has been in the works for about ...Oh.. 15 years. He still plans to get it out to the marketplace. He has a lot of great pictures at his website. Look at the "kits" page. It will be very pricey when ready.

Bluesman Mark very succinctly summarized the recent history and meanings of the Confederate battle flag in my opinion. I don't mind tossing a little gasoline on the fire here and there and want to relate some of my thoughts on another flag. I came of age during the Viet Nam war and my family was involved in the peace and anti-war movements. The pro-war folks (we called them Hawks and some were called Chickenhawks!) made a lot of negative insinuations about our patriotism and miscellaneous personal qualities and heritage and waved the Stars and Stripes in our faces and told us to love it or leave it(the USA, of course). The American flag has negative connotations for me as a result. To me it is a focal point for wrong-headed nationalism run amok and we Americans are certainly not unique in this regard. Why on earth do we need to use any of these flags and symbols? I am an American and a Minnesotan and also an Earthling! I do not need to fly any those flags because I know who I am. Misc. Thoughts Department: Fighting for the flag. Whaaa? I think the fighting is for the nation, state, or cause and not a piece of fabric. The more importance one puts in a mere symbol the more easily offence will be taken and conflict begun. If someone burns a flag I do not think the nation will fall to pieces! Jaffa - You certainly will be able to find lots of land here in the US. You can find a few acres and a ramshackle house out in the prairie for a few thousand bucks! You might have to drive 50 miles to get groceries, however! Over here we don't use as much government to over-regulate daily life as in Europe. We use Personal Injury attorneys to do that!

Not that anyone would use it but why is my Aardvark Models logo in the Avatar bank? Please remove it. GREGG!!

Jaffa, Don't put too much stock in America being the land of the free and the home of the brave. We are just human beings like people everywhere. The types of people you described in Sweden are also here in America. We have the good, the bad , and the ugly (Hmm! Might make a good movie title). There is probably greater economic and personal freedom here but job security, economic security, and health and education are more precarious here than in the EU. No matter where you go - there you are!

You guys have most of the basics covered but I will add scotch tape. It is invaluable for doing mockups and playing around with stuff. Tamiya masking tape is fantastic and makes all other types of tape seem like garbage.

Hands are cool!

Who needs a digital? I use a dial caliper and NEVER have to worry about batteries. Of course I can't press a button and switch from Metric to Inches!

I have a Moto tool with speed control but only use it for heavy grinding. Everything else is done by hand with knives, saws, files, and sandpaper.

I never heard of this Bill Lind character before but from what I see posted here I don't agree with his backward and mistaken..... I mean conservative..... view of our culture. Society has been going to hell in a handbasket since it began! The ancient Greeks talked about the decline of their society!!! How can this be? Life on this planet has never been this good for so many people in the history of man. It doesn't mean that it's great for everyone or that everyone likes it! Our perspective is just distorted. Culture is highly dynamic and a lot of people do not like change. They need to blame someone for it. Nostalgia is mistaken for reality. Get used to change because there is nothing BUT change ahead of us and it will continue to change at an even faster rate. It is going to get really scary for those who resist it and long for the mythical "good old days". The good old days were actually NOT. Look at the misery that the Islamic radicals are spreading to their own people in quest of the "good old days" of the Caliphate. What foolishness that is. We are just as human and potentially foolish as they are if we allow a similar thing to happen here. By similar thing I mean a backward looking theocratic government to take over. It's fascinating how this thread has morphed from poor Jaffa asking an innocent question about a flag and all of this spewing out! Peace and respect to all.

That is looking great, Harry. You must have ample space to display and store those 1/8 scale models. I could never get into big scale stuff myself but really enjoy seeing others, like yourself, having fun with it and gluing together some very cool and well built models.

I will be quite willing to grant you that the Marxist/Leninist/Trotskyist/ Socialist/Communist/Maoist/Daffy-Duckist thinkers introduced the words "Politically Correct" but as Darin very eloquently stated they did not invent the thinking that was labeled that way by them. I recollect a headline in the newspaper in 1992 (IIRC) that the Vatican was just getting around to forgiving Galileo for thinking that the earth was not at the center of the universe. I think that is good example of PC thinking for its day. It would be fascinating if we had a real-life Dr. Who and we could send him back in time to find out what was politically correct for cavemen.

????????????? I don't even understand what you guys are saying!!!!!!! "historicaly accurated?" What is that? Politically correct is Communist or Russian! What a laugh. If you think any one group of people has a lock on PC you are quite badly mistaken. PC is present in every group of humans that ever were able to communicate with each other. It is called orthodoxy. Liberals and conservatives, communist and capitalist, democratic or totalitarian, on and on: each group has a politically correct set of views. There are also people who think somewhat independently. Most people have a varying mix of orthodox and free thoughts.

History is fascinating when it isn't selectively used to prove any points. Today everyone believes that Jaffa's country Sweden is a haven for enlightened peaceful people but Sweden's history was incredibly bloody at one time. Here in the US, there were lynchings in the north, not just the south. There was a lynching of black circus workers in Duluth, Minnesota in the 1920s. That is pretty far north! There were race riots in New York City during the Civil War when whites were marauding around the city killing any black people they found. They resented the fact that they were being drafted to go and fight and die for the purpose of ending slavery. Slavery is a fascinating topic too. The slaves were sold by Black Africans to the slave traders. The traders came from all of the seafaring European nations. The slaves were typically captives from enemy tribes or lower class or caste. Slaves are still kept today in some parts of Africa. Slavery has been around forever and been a part of most nation's history at some point. My belief is that people everywhere in the world are basically the same and given equal opportunity would commit as heinous or as peaceful things as anyone else. I am also a liberal and progressive and get into strident discussions with PC liberals about dropping the nuclear bombs on Japan. Does anyone think for even one nano-second that Japan would not have dropped one on Washington, L.A., Chicago, Detroit and New York City if they had the means to do that! They certainly would have. At least we didn't drop one on Tokyo....OOOPS! ...I forgot! We firebombed that city. I guess we both had "issues" about what happened during that war. I like to tease Gregg about being a Hawaiian wanna-be. Us terrible Americans stole Hawaii and treated the Hawaiians like ######. True. But they have their own bloody history of conquering each other in an incredibly bloody way. Basically in any war there is a victor and the vanquished but there are no winners. Heinous acts are committed by both sides. It is a human problem and not a national problem. It is the story of mankind. Wave after wave of humans moving across this planet and conquering and being conquered, back and forth. Bloody and tedious. I see some hope in institutions like the European Union and the United Nations. To quote that great humanitarian Rodney King " Can't we all just get along?" I do have one prejudice. I dislike Southern culture. I find the words "Southern Culture" to be oxymoronic. The Confederate battle flag is typically displayed by people who range from ignorant and harmless to the opposite. The North doesn't always have a lot to be proud of but the South has a lot of bad Karma from the last 150 years. President Grant had to send the Army back into Louisiana because white "citizens" were rounding up and slaughtering all the black people they could find. It was an outburst of Southern ethnic cleansing. The army had to be sent in to enforce desegregation in the 50s. We all know the famous cases of civil rights workers and blacks trying to vote who were killed but there were thousands of the less famous killed over the years to enforce white privilege in the South. I have a hard time with the idea that the battle flag is "just" a symbol of southern culture. Get a better symbol like Kudzu or Waffle House or Richard Petty! An interesting "what if" is what history would have looked like if the Ol Abe had said Ciao to Y'all! The history books don't talk much about the slave rebellions and the despair of the poor whites. The Klan was started to divide the poor whites and the blacks from forming a common cause to better their lives so the wealthy landowners could maintain control and privilege. Before y'all southerners get a rope with my name on it I will say I recently attended the Southern NNL and had a great time. I enjoyed meeting a lot of Southerners. I think there is hope for y'all!!!!

You must be thinking of the 429 Corvette box or similar things. I can't concieve of it having any value beyond its weight in cardboard. The only boxes with value are old (pre-75 at minimum) and in good condition.

That kit was also sold in the US by Entex in the 70s. I had a glue bomb of the same kit a little while back. The engine was pretty crude as I remember. By the way the blue 911 GT2 in the background looks really nice!

The Johan Rambler American should be a logical starting point. It isn't the molded promo style chassis. It has separte suspension and rear axle. The wheelbase would need to shortened. I haven't done it or even lined up the parts but it seemed logical to suggest it. I just pulled out my Rambler kit and looked it over. The rear axle and suspension are fine but the front is metal axle style and not too good. It has decent looking front inner fenders and a separate trunk floor. Oh well! It was a thought.

That looks like a fun model to build. Very nice! My favorite models are ones that came out of my parts box. No kits were harmed in the making of this model!

The fit of the glass on the left door looks a little fishy as do the louvers on top of the rear fenders. I am going for model without a lot of certainty.

Thanks for posting the schematics, Dwayne! That's very helpful. I am building one of my Bugzappers in M&M Crispy markings for contest use and was just going to do fuel and ignition. I think I may do it all now! What do current oil systems look like these days? I have seen those large filters mounted on the engine. Are they still dry sump? Oil reservoirs?