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I am using boiling water, clamps,,,,and a hair dryer .....You have to take it slowly too much heat will melt things down,,,,,,,,,straighten a little at a time...I will leave it as shown below over night at least,,,use the hair dryer and then leave it again for a day or so to see how it goes............................. thanks for the feed back and comments and veiwers......................................

Slowly rising from the scrap yard....a little at a time....remember it took 60 years to warp,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

The glass is toast,,,,,duh,,,good guess............................. the bumpers are cast metal,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, great news,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

i have a few ideas but not sure if anything will work,,,,,i cant hurt it any more than it already is.....................

Not everyone who might be interested in this reads my thread so I am posting this way also for now.... Would like to try to save it if I can figure out a way to straighten the body,,,,May have ot be a convertable...

nice to see you back on the bench............................

Picked up this AMT promo today.....all nice chrome and parts but not sure the body can be salvaged,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, I think it is a 1955.... Might be able to get a convertable out it I am not sure,,,have to try to straighten it out somehow

going to tone the light down a little but here is the dash lighting prototype,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

made these with my 32 spoke jig as outlined in my K3 build(link below) The rims and wheels are my own quicl castings.....

getting it together for check fit....rear fenders have been mounted permenently. thanks to all my followers,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

That is sweet...chopped channeled sectioned shortened "c'ed " "z"ed and welded,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,a ton of work on that one,,,,,,,,,,,,where is my old stud'y kit

parking places must be expensive.......................................

some sanding and a little paint it will be just like off the assembly line..........................

the front end is done except for some sanding and final adjustments to the hood.....Might get the bug sprayer out and blast on some primer on the fenders this week end yet. I have some more work to do on the rear fenders to get them fitting right.........................

Thank you Matt.......That may be a starting place but need a 1/20th for my MG k3's.....I scratch build everything but it might be worth the kit for all the right information and dimensions,,,,,

I had to rework the front fenders so they fit better and looked better,also got the running board fit to the body correctly now,,,,,,, just a little transition to fit. Thanks for the comments and suggestions,,,they are always welcome..

model trains photography writing collecting LP;s amd music computers I built model trains for over 40 years....had to sell them when I moved to my apartment.....I do have some 1/2" scale yet though....all scratch built of course.

It is most likly an early AMT kit,,,,they were ot terribly fussy about the frame details and I think they used the same basic frame on everything,,,,,,,,,,,,,, I could be wrong but if I remember right they just figured getting the body close was enuff................ It is a styrene car so very little warping if any,,,should be a great build when you are done You might consider a 59 chevy for a donor car for all the goodies................

specially frame details and other information.

what is the writing on the frame rail,,,,,,,i cant make it out.......................

from the dismanteled kit is looks like a kit from 1959,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,i had a pontiac and few others like that.......................

here is quick search http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=AnkNywjqjQ4MFC5N6qaE6YSbvZx4?p=1959+buick+promo&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=fptb-yff13

I was asked a question on another thread I am doing and think that others that dont follow it might be interested in it. Where do you find the plans for what you build? I spend a lot of time searching out drawings. I use the search engines and use the car name and drawings,,(i usually use the images option),,,it gets some information,,,,, also use blueprints.com as a starting place. They are heavy on the exotics and rarities and newer cars. Color schemes are harder but if you type in the car name and use the images option you can glean some information there. Older cars that are popular have more information posted than obscure cars......I will search for hours sometimes and get very little but each piece is saved and then assembled into a file for each car I work on. I currently have about 10 cars that I am searching information on and saving each bit into the file. The K3 has so much information on line that it was an easy one,,,I also have a lot of drawings for the K3 in my own collection of books and prints, so it was a no brainer....... There is also a lot of intuition and base knowledge that is used in building something from scratch when you have little to go from. This can also apply to when you are just looking for additional information on a kit you are working on for ideas and basic information.. Key words I use are drawings plans specifications blueprints I hope that helps some..

I spend a lot of time searching out drawings. I use the search engines and use the car name and drawings,,(i usually use the images option),,,it gets some information,,,,, also use blueprints.com as a starting place. They are heavy on the exotics and rarities and newer cars. Color schemes are harder but if you type in the car name and use the images option you can glean some information there. Older cars that are popular have more information posted than obscure cars......I will search for hours sometimes and get very littlee but each piece is saved and then assembled. The K3 has so much information on line that it was an easy one,,,I also have a lot of drawings for the K3 in my own collection of books and prints, so it was a no brainer....If you check out my current Scrathing the Surface build thread I go throw creating plans when I cant find any......that is in the model cars section, currently I am working on a 1936 Bentley with no drawings but show how to get what you need to build a car. There is also a lot of intuition and base knowledge that is used in building something from scratch when you have little to go from. I hope that helps some.. Thank you for the questions....

John...thank you for the comments.....you point out one of the main reasons I post heavy and with a lot of imformation on construction. If you just try to make that bracket or valve cover you want I have accomplished what I intend, I dont expect everyone to spend 3 months of a year scratch building one car...I have over 200 hours in the MG saloon,,,maybe closer to 300. If you make that seat or wheel or bracket you want instead of saying I wish then mission finished.... Thanks again to all those following along with this and stcik with my as I go off on a different direction that seems off the pathway way to a finished Bentley. Each post and direction is an effort to learn something new that will be applied to the finsihed product that streatches the boundries of my humble talents. Not everything I do is perfect and you will see imperfections but the end product is what is insight. Sure it could be better and the next one will be, but when the entire car is done you will not see the blemish or slight imperfection,,,,,it is the overall product that is in sight.. One to new tires....I think the picture will tell the story here.