Maindrian Pace

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.

It's both, actually. I've been using it for the better part of 20 years, it's a gentle formula that won't bite into soft paints like Testors enamels, but can be used to polish out fine scratches left after using a polishing kit. I use a small piece of toilet paper with a few drops of water to use it as a polish, and it hasn't failed me yet. For use as a wax, use soft cotton cloth with lighter rubbing. From their site: http://thetreatment.com/modelwax

I'll take the '63 if it's a splittie and not a roadster. And any 427 midyears. -MJS

Treatment Model Wax.

The Econoline pickup got a heavy steel counterweight bolted in above the gas tank. Reportedly, a hundred or so very early '61s (the first year) didn't have it, and could tip in heavy braking in just the right conditions. So Chevrolet either found one of those, or removed the counter weight from another one for this "demonstration" video. They also raised the rear suspension of the Econoline, note how high the back is and how the axle doesn't droop when the back comes up. They could have also added weight under the front overhang, car manufacturers were notorious back then for sabotaging competitor's products to fake demonstration films before the era of truth in advertising laws.

The junk model gets an appropriate junk model drive train. This is a few of the parts that will make up the engine/trans, an AMT '90s F-150 351W block, an AOD from a Revellogram '32 Ford, and other stuff from the parts box. Valve covers undecided, I'll surprise myself there. 4x4s do better with less weight over the front axle, hence the small block. Getting everything finalized on the chassis, added two more front shocks, made a steering damper with brackets, and built a simple steering box with pitman arm so the tie rod wouldn't hang out in space. The divorced transfer case makes it easy to add about any engine/trans you want. A Fox double sump oil pan was the right shape for the cross member. The short wheelbase makes the two piece drive shaft with pillow block/center bearing unneeded. Time to blow it apart for paint. -MJS

Draw your own conclusions. -MJS

Yeah, I'd say he's got a few bucks wrapped up in that.