Tom Geiger

Or significant other

Still not pleased with the ads, but this is an improvement over the Japanese lip thingie.. Ad from our board.. which is the lesser evil? Picking up the dog poop ? off the floor or scraping it off his backside?

By choking her

Looks great! Love the patina!

Welcome to the secret hideout! ? Now build something! Some of my best models were built on my kitchen table!

From the Devil ?

Baby steps! I snapped a few photos for my club Zoom meeting last night. Headlights in place and I’m working on the little bits like mirrors, seat belts and tail lights today. Of course complicating every step along the way!

Didja order the photo etch kit for it or resin shrimp?

Very nice build that conjures up memories from when dinosaurs roamed the USA! Two years older and that would’ve been my Uncle Herman’s car! He and my Aunt Loretta lived in a little apartment over the family store so on his days off the were itching for a ride! Often their first stop was my house and they’d offer to take me out for the day. At ten it was a good deal since we were off on an adventure and they’d cater to me all day.. and we’d eat in a diner and I could order whatever I wanted without parental scorn!

He wasn’t acting!

Ha! In my club there’s a guy who always gets dates and facts wrong. We had our club picnic at a member’s house and he didn’t show up. The following Saturday he did! He and his wife and another member and his wife show up with cooked dishes, ready to party! Our club member host wasn’t even home! His wife sent them on their way! And it was a 2 hr drive!

Very nice! I like what you’ve done. I have this one and a few other versions to build one day.

Foose’s cars are very predictable, almost an assembly line of the same mods.. tuck in the bumpers, smooth out surfaces, add his wheels.. Of course the wheels are always going to be his signature ones to promote his wheel line. I can live with the car other than the tail lights. As said, they’re immediately recognizable as Camaro and they are just pasted there. If changing lights you need to find ones that look like they fit and makes you wonder if they were created just for the car, which is totally possible with today’s 3D printing. Or if a second set of Camaro lights were flipped under the existing ones they’d be hard to identify and may look cool ?

Great exploded photos! I like the brake lines! If these old beauties could talk! It makes you wonder if they won awards at local hobby shop competitions! For parts like those wishbones, sometimes they were kitbashed from different sources, so they may not be from the original kit. In many cases I’ve replaced with a new period correct pair when I couldn’t match a single part. The corduroy looks great! There may have been a roll bar and it looks like something else was glued to the fabric next to the fuel cell.. maybe a battery? Definitely a keeper!

Trucker they wuz!

You may know I have a collection of old classic builds. They are the folk art of our youth! For corduroy, if years of dust, try dry processes like brushing it off or I have used masking tape to pull dirt away. Be careful to preserve it best you can! it looks like a great old build!

The current coupon must be regional because it’s no longer on their website as I viewed it from Pennsylvania.

A few thoughts- I too have done a lot of wood beds. I dry brush them using a technique from Irv Arter. I can send you a pdf of the process. I recently bought a Pace spray booth for $250 shipped. It’s all very professionally done sheet metal. I’m very pleased with mine using spray cans.

Classic! Is that thread for wiring? I’d just carefully clean it up and display it ! It’s history!

Frolicking in it ?

Soaked in sewage

Neat! I don't think I've seen one with the decals on it!

Many years ago I bought a bag of Falcons, a 1960 promo with no roof and an awful warp, and two old Craftsman Rancheros that exhibited a lot of play wear. This was before the last rounds of the Ranchero made it back in 2003ish. I learned a lot on these two, including how to make new rain gutters and other major body repairs. And wouldn't ya know, the Ranchero returned before I was done, so I got to use some new glass and bits on them! Anyway... the point here is that I used the 1960 promo grille on this Ranchero way back in the old days! It fit right in, no problem. And as someone else said, your car is a kit, the promo was molded in green and would be warped like a Zinger!

I watched an episode of American Pickers last night.. it was on my DVR so I don't know when exactly it was aired. Robbie and Danielle went to New Jersey and visited a guy named John who had a mess of old Barris cars. They went to see him because Robin's go cart was for sale, turns out he wanted $100,000 for it. Robbie got to drive Jethro's Hotrod, and Danielle sat in the Munster Coach. Things in view that weren't even mentioned were 3 Zingers and the Fireball 500. I remember seeing the Zingers for sale in a west coast auction years ago, so I thought they were in a museum out there. And last I knew th Fireball was in a museum in Kansas. Staged or not, it was worth watching just to see this collection.

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