Tom Geiger

Put Mr eXacto into my thumb. First Aid provided by Bob Smith Industries.

Worked a bit on the Studebaker Gullwing this weekend. The suspension is very fiddly and took a bit of doing to get the chassis assembled. Model is 30 years old and first time up on wheels! Body sitting on chassis. Wheelbase is a bit off, my first early attempt at a heavy mod. Did manage to quarrel with a number 11 blade, which also hampered progress.

One of my favorite old kits, multiple ways to build. It does have a few funky things like inner door panels engraved on inside of body but nothing we can’t fix

And broiled rabbit

I’ll follow your Firebirds with this pic from yesterday... Weather was gorgeous, the old cars were out...

Fresh cooked dinner ?

Funny you said that. When I discovered eBay, my very first purchase was a book I wanted for years that I had as a kid.. “Cars of the Stars” by George Barris. I had gotten it through Scholastic Book Club in fifth grade!

The danger of this, as well as having a catalog of 60 year old tooling, is that consumers often don’t understand. Someone buys a kit that was recently tooled with intricate parts and full detail, and then the next box they open is this Chrysler tooled up in 1959! A big difference in both what was possible and expected back in the day vs current technology. There have been the challenges of consumers screaming bloody murder that they’ve been taken. There was a guy on the boards a couple years ago that got the Model King version of this kit and complained that Model King kits were garbage and he’d never buy another. It took some explaining!

I don’t think anything is really rare or elusive in the Internet era. You can find anything with little effort. In the old days you could search for a specific kit for years at shows and such. Same with most collectibles. There was a specific stamp item that I had always wanted but had never even seen one in person, looking at shows and through dealers for 20 years. Enter eBay and there are a few of them available nearly every week!

Best to you Alan!

And your chicks..

That’s exactly what it is. Welcome to 1959! Back when the tooling was found, it was missing parts.. I believe the chrome tree. I know Dave Burket/ Model King ponied up the funds to bring it back.

I’ll agree with the guys who said engineering. Since I rarely build anything the way the model company intended, I’m always concerned that all my varied parts go together right. And right now I’m working on an extensively modified project I hadn’t touched in 25 years. I don’t remember a thing about how it’s supposed to go together.. it might as well have been someone else’s old project!

A good guy to talk with would be Bill Geary. I know he put a newer roof on one of the older bodies. I have a 59 Buick resin I have unfinished for years. The interior in the original issue Buick is more narrow than the Revell 59 Chevy. I’d say the manufacturer differences between models is more of an issue than GM

Build looks great! I make those lists too!

Love stinks yeahyeah

Great work! I’m enjoying this thread! What tires do you have on the Scenes Unlimited wheels? They look perfect! I have planned on building something like this for a long time. I’ve had a junker body set aside and bought a complete kit at the last Ollie’s $9.99 blowout.

Wow! Lotza work there! I like the foresight of the pin mounts. Will save you fits later on! Pins are my friend!

Thanks guys! The whole idea is that a 12 year old in 1966 would be very proud of this build! It’s the folk art of our youth. It makes you smile!

Ordered from eBay

Amen Carl! I build to the best of my ability for me! I know when it’s right, whether it sits in my case or I take it to club meetings and shows. Good ‘nuf isn’t good ‘nuf!

The glass will fill the gaps, both front and rear. But beware that the glass fits so well it will snap into place and i couldn’t get it back out! Also, pay attention to the wheels and tires.. they are different front and rear.

There's a big difference between collectibles and consumer goods. eBay has been chasing Amazon on the consumer junk end, but has been applying those standards to collectibles, which once were their bread and butter... remember Pierre invented eBay for his girlfriend to sell her Pez dispensers! I've been on eBay since the beginning, and it was a friendly collector to collector medium. You communicated with people via email and you'd get folksy communications with photos of their cars and interesting conversation. It was fun when I had an extra new GM electric antenna and I knew it was going on a Cadillac in Switzerland! Per Carl's description, I was one of those guys who worked full time and did eBay on weekends. I sold mostly automobilia ... car brochures and such. I set my auctions to end on Sunday night, because that was the busiest night. I made sure they ended mid evening on the west coast so the whole country got to bid. Then I'd send out my email invoices, and people would mail checks and money orders. I told them that I shipped every Saturday for all payments received by Friday. On Friday after dinner, I'd open up all the envelopes and wrap everything that was going out in the morning mail. Then I'd drive to the post office. We didn't have printable labels with postage, so my favorite clerk would weigh and add postage labels to my 25-50 pieces. I'd cash all the USPS money orders towards my postage bill, and pay the balance with my credit card. Nobody ever complained. That's the way it was. Then I tried to sell some consumer stuff. I had some family items as well as a big box of new computer items that my brother in law in the IT business gave me to sell. I saw the stiff competition to sell a computer battery for ten dollars. My first customer paid on a Friday and the part went out on Saturday morning. I got dinged with a "Slow Shipping" neutral! I questioned the guy and he said it should've gone out within an hour! I realized he was dealing with 24/7 computer parts companies and gave my brother in law back the box. I didn't want to be in that business! Still on the stamp collectors side, I deal with two people who sell a big volume of $1 to $5 items. They tell you NOT to pay for each one, but to amass everything you wish to buy for a month and message them for an invoice. They reduce the postage down as if you bought one item. I'll immediately pay and they still take a few weeks to ship. And the collectors don't care, we know the deal and nobody needs this stuff immediately anyway!

those driverless cars!