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thank you for the information,,,,,,it is always helpful :) :)

have not done a lot this week on anything........................... details for this car engine is HEMI FROM THE 1973 PETTY car rear end and frond suspension are from a Firebird kit, they are for the prototype only seats are from the Dukes charger, since the Dukes car will be getting the interior from the Petty 1973 Plymouth. I might be using more of the Dukes charger on this I am not sure yet. The tires and wheels are from the Firebird also.......maybe will change to larger wheel from the MPC kits http://www.flickr.com/photos/22767382@N08/sets/72157637642425904/

received the castings for the kit today..............they will need cleanup and maybe a wash in mild dish soap....the release agent is paintable....I will be posting finished model later next week...you will need a 57 Corvette donor for trim pieces and wheels along with the suspension......the lit can be ordered thru wisdonm.

I made up a quick dummy front glass to see how it would set in, Front and rear glass are set from the outside and flush with the body. I corrected the size of the rear glass and some shaping to the roof. The chassis is coming along.The large rear tubs are designed to handle any type of rubber one would want to cram in there with space left over. I started working on the grill but nothing yet to show,,,,,,it is going to be the hardest part unless I can find a charger grill I can rework.,,,,I hope the slide show works for everyone. If not let me know. I ran out of photo-bucket space with my 5 accounts, http://www.flickr.com/photos/22767382@N08/sets/72157637642425904/

I keep tweaking it and improving it but am still concerned that the side panels do not have enough definition and need to be redone....I am also not totally sold on the grill area. I am pondering the possibility of redoing the body and making it more defined,,,,,,comments are welcome. If I end up casting it I do want it looking as good as possible. It is better to spend a little more time now than after it is cast....will post more pictures today sometime.

I get all my plastic from them,,,,,,i go through about 4 sheets a year.............. :) :) :)

my duster in 1/16th scale is totally scratch built.................there is more in the large scale threads................ http://www.flickr.com/photos/22767382@N08/10732796274/in/set-72157637426902353

reworked the rear of the roof to correct the error in shape and height and reworked the front window because it was not right. I have those problems fixed and it now looks decent.....comments are welcome... the slide show may take a little time to load and you can set the timing or replay all you need to. http://www.flickr.com/photos/22767382@N08/sets/72157637514706324/

John....that is the reason I have not cut in the taillights,,,since that is the real difference between the duster and demon of different years,,,,,the grill opening is the same for all the A bodies..........I have done some work on roughing out a chassis for this....i will be working on some body adjustments and clean up,,,,,, I may end up making a whole new body and chassis for casting. I am not sure yet. We will see how the adjustment work out. http://www.flickr.com/photos/22767382@N08/sets/72157637479197056/ all comments are welcome...thank you for looking

I am working up a decent(I hope) chassis right now........should have something by next week that has some semblance to the right one. it was a challenge to find pictures of the car upside down.... will post more later,,,,,,i do need some tires and a rear end for this,,,,I am thinking a newer Challenger will come close..... Thank you for the comments.....suggestions welcome too........

it is scratch built,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,no kit

Started playing with this Monday laying it out and some assembly,,,,,,there is a lot of work to go but taking shape,,,,,,,,,,it is set up to make dusters or demons since I did not punch holes for the tail lights...................................fairly close but still lot of final tweeking to go. this is 1/16th scale it may take a few seconds to load the slide show http://www.flickr.com/photos/22767382@N08/sets/72157637426902353/

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Hemmings had a issue about Warhoops and the finding of 2 of the cars...the Biscayne and the La Salle......here is the link. http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2013/08/16/famous-warhoops-junkyard-sold/ What else is buried inside this place

Thank you.......you are seeing the design exercise aspect of what I am doing.

they are slide shows through flicker,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,if you cant get tem you can go to the link here to see that and other things I am working on http://www.flickr.com/photos/22767382@N08/

I have set the body mount locations and made a sketch of the mounting brackets that will be on the body to plug into the chassis at these locations....each one is designed to carry power to the body systems and provide an automatic attachment system that makes it part of the chassis......................When the body is dropped onto the chassis 6 pins will engage to provide structural attachment and complete the electrical circuits for the body via system similar to and SD card into a camera. http://www.flickr.com/photos/22767382@N08/sets/72157636803889606/

Thanks to those that are comments and adding to the dialog. It gives more viewpoints and additional information I may not have thought of. The basic chassis is complete for now. The front suspension is roughed out along with the electric motors. I will be refining this setup as I go along and making adjustments and changes as I see them. Lets consider what goes over the chassis so that we can build further refinements to the chassis to accept the body. We are going to have to investigate what is going to happen with the body and how it is going to be designed over the chassis. What can we do to make this not only adaptable but maybe adaptable by the owner. Taking this one step further we should look at how the body is attached and constructed. Since each car on the road can not hit another with the technology how crash resistant do we have to make the body? Can we make plastic bodies? do we need 15 airbags to protect the occupants? What criteria do we have to go by to produce a body and how can it be attached to the frame? There is a lot of thinking to go into this aspect of the future cars. I will be looking into this by means of having the body rest into 8 attachment points the not only hold the body in place but also provide electrical contacts for the body lighting, interior and headlights and taillights. Those would be needed only so the occupants can see the surrounding since at night the cars would not need them. The cars would react the same way in darkness as in light. This would be very scary for the people inside the car though. What if we made the body detachable? Can there be a way to change the body on the chassis to fit the needs of the day? Lets look at the possibility of having a coupe for inclement weather or an open car for nice days. On Saturday work days we could have a truck type of body to haul lumber and materials. This opens a whole new aspect of car ownership. One chassis and 3 or 4 different interchangeable bodies. How would this work? there could be a system to lift one body off and drop another in place. This "shell would have opening doors and and appearance of what we feel for the day. The major components would be fixed on the chassis and the body would be designed around this concept. I will be working this next week at looking into how this can be done and the different ways to accomplish this overall concept of adaptability. Note: Feel free to add information, ask questions and make recommendations as I go. http://www.flickr.com/photos/22767382@N08/sets/72157636754101494/

Tom you are so right about that. Rear suspension and drive units...electric if course,,,,are starting to come together http://www.flickr.com/photos/22767382@N08/sets/72157636724164743/

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Let us peer into the future of the automobile for a bit to see what could be. By the year 2020, 6 years from now they will have cars on the road that require no one to drive them. They will take care of the task of safety of the passengers by avoiding obstacles and getting us to the destination unharmed. They could be all electric and have interchangeable pug in battery packs that can take us anyware. We can have a battery pack that is charging at home and one in the car. we will switch them out in the morning in 2 minutes before we leave home and last all day no matter where we go. The passengers will be able to control the car around town. Taking into account of this in the design of the physical car and advances in 3-D printing and materials the car will be built differently. A typical chassis arrangement the can be lengthened of shortened will be a matter of clicking a mouse on the computer. Special new plastics will allow the chassis to be a plastic type of material that can be replicated quickly for speed in manufacturing. The body will be designed around the generic chassis and be restricted on to the mounting plates. The bodies can be made in any configuration without special dies being made up through the use of 3-D printing....A side not here,,they have printers (prototypes of course) that can be brought to a site and print a house, so doing a full size car is child's play. Onto the think tank. Starting with a generic chassis that has all the working and electronics built in we adjourn to the manufactures prototyping room to build this chassis. I will not be using a 3-D printer but all the applications I am doing can be easily and cheaply done with one. Simple shapes designed to hold all the equipment required and accept a variety of body shapes is in the works on the design floor. Taking all the variables and a fore mentioned criteria the chassis is under construction. Note: Feel free to add information, ask questions and make recommendations as I go. http://www.flickr.com/photos/22767382@N08/sets/72157636718363726/

and now from Romania......................... ..http://autos.yahoo.com/photos/ghe-o-rescue-slideshow/ghe-o-rescue-photo-1381971306987.html

There was a lot of cross pollination in the 50.s they were all furiously working on the yearly motoramas producing new concepts and using existing body types that they reworked,,,,,,the Impala and the Pontiac were both rehashed for the next show as were a lot of the others.....for GM they were considered advertising and when they were done with them they were sent to warhoops(I think that is the correct name) salvage were they were piled in the back of the yard and left to rot. In the last 10 years many of them were dug out of the mud and restored the best they could. They were all fiberglass models and some were cut up and put out to pasture. The interior and chassis are off to the caster to complete the kit. Hopefully ill have to prototype castings next week to have photos of the complete car.,,finally Some of the hard to find chrome is being cast whereas the typical items are from the 57 corvette. Mostly a few suspension parts and chrome goodies like door handles, headlight buckets,,,,,and some bumper parts........stay tuned for the final build coming up The body castings came out so nice and the final parts will be cast in off white instead of the semi transparent. This will be easier to paint and nicer to work with. (corrected the name of the junk yard where GM scrapped their cars)

now to do the chrome and interior.

PM me with a piccy and I will see if I can help