Maindrian Pace

I vote for the Citation, but with a twist, a notchvember-busting conversion to a hatchback. X-11, White with red graphics just like the neighbor's car back in '81, and just like one of my favorite Hotwheels in the collection. So cool. One of the 1:1 projects in the back of my mind (that I will likely never have the chance to do) is that exact car with a Caddy Northstar engine swapped in, otherwise stock appearing. -MJS

Who doesn't like a classic 23 window bus. Beautiful. -MJS

I must have missed that, because they zapped the thread. Darn, I love a good fraud. -MJS

Thanks Mike. I've got two of the Trumpeter Rancheros, and one will be a replica of mine some day. You're right, it will take a lot of kitbashing and part replacing to make it look even close to the 1:1. The Flinstone delivery is close, but the rear pillars of the roof are too upright, they need to be leaned forward at the top about 1.5 mm by the looks of it. The length and width could require some adjusting too. -Mike

Yes, he showed the conversion on a few sets of bed sides some time ago, all long beds with the original lower trim, said he still needed to do the inner panels, and that was the most recent update. -Mike

Roger, It was easy! I got them about 25 years ago from a club member who bought in bulk and sold at the meetings. I think they were 4 bucks. I'm a real pack rat. I suppose that doesn't help you much... But I know that one of the casters who posts here reproduces them in black flexible urethane rubber.

My Father bought a red '86 351 Eddie Bauer brand new, it was one of my favorite family vehicles of all time. Before my brother rolled it in the desert north of Phoenix. I'm still mad at him. -MJS

Mike, I like your delivery, I used to have a '61. This is mine: Few casters actually make their own masters, many if not most are made by modelers and submitted to the casters. I'm sure that most of the casters would like to offer a stock short bed, it's just a matter of someone doing the conversion work and sending it in. -MJS

I like it! Love the stock small block, the wheels, and the doors. I'm thinking that a well designed, factory looking R/T graphics/stripe package would be cool too. -MJS

I thought they gave that car away in a Mt Dew contest.

Thanks Gentlemen. I've been plugging away when time allows, and have most of the chassis and engine finished. One thing that the parts box never seems to offer up is an A/C compressor. So Plastruct and Evergreen to the rescue. I can tell that the exhaust system on this will be tricky. -MJS

That was the one that needed the least amount of work. I've heard that it was determined that only three cars would be restored, the Blue Devil, the black '62 (by an outside restoration shop) and the white 1,000,000th convertible. The other five will be displayed as is, and the sink hole will be filled completely. -MJS

I can't think of a single elitist jerk here who bashes others' work. Some people try very hard at being unhappy or negative. -MJS

Gee whiz, that looks real!

Back in the early '80s, I had a particularly boring job at a hospital, developing X-ray films in a darkroom near the radiology department. I had to work almost every Saturday, and Click and Clack made the job bearable; even fun. Great show, and in between the riotous laughter, they actually answered almost all of the questions correctly as near as I could tell. RIP Tom.

He must be running a visible 4 bolt main block and the visible forged plastic crank. -MJS

Yes, Paul has been selling pro built models on ebay for years, and it's taken a lot of time to build up his clientele. His cars didn't always go for that kind of money. He specializes in resin kits that were never offered as plastic kits, like the wagons, and that has become sort of his calling card. -MJS

I always thought it looked kind of blank without the side trim.

But you only ever saw it in the opening credits, and not much of it.

I bought a bunch to use behind headlight lenses, they all yellowed and I tossed the whole lot. Crummy product, those train guys must be very forgiving.

They are the right offset for traditional full size low riders like Impalas, Galaxies, etc, but a bit too deep for compacts like Falcons, Corvairs, and the like. I bought two sets and I like them.

Very nice, a 460 Bronco with righteous rubber.

You need sideburns and lots of white patent leather to rock one of those.

And the world is full of them. Thought for the day.

Wow.