Harry P.

Bare Metal Foil won't peel off over time, if you apply it correctly (NOT over waxed paint). I have models more than 30 years old and the foil is still good as new. In fact, I have never had even one instance of the foil coming off a model... and I have built a lot of models.

No pictures.

Man, that is nice! Love that shade of blue.

Nah. He just disagreed with my source. No harm done.

Good looking model, I like it. Love those upholstery decals, too. Now give that guy with the red shirt a shot of Dullcote. That shirt is waaaaaay too shiny (unless it's supposed to be polyester and he's headed off to the disco!!!)

I don't see any argument here.

150 miles sounds like the perfect day trip.

I really like it! Just the right combination of traditional and modern, and I like the two-tone color scheme. And yes! It has mirrors! I even like the wheels in this case. I'm not usually a fan of the big wheel look, but the ones you picked aren't too big, and I like the design.Nicely done! About the only thing I can see that I would do differently is that I would have painted the rear apron between the fenders the same color as the fenders... so you get that red "sweep" all the way across from fender to fender (also would have painted the taillight stalks red, too). But that's more personal taste than a "criticism." Nice work!

Count me in!

I guess it all depends on who you want to believe. I don't know one way or another if my sources is correct, or if your website is. All I know is... I don't know!

Well, like I said... I can't vouch for the accuracy of what he said. But he has worked in the auto industry for many years (including Chrysler Corp). So I tend to think a guy who worked for years for Chrysler might know a thing or two about the goings on within the company that the average person might not know or ever even have heard about.

If that's supposed to be a street car, you need windshield wipers. If it's supposed to be a strip car, why the heater hoses, header extensions and mufflers?

What about a small palm sander? http://www.harborfreight.com/palm-sander-98622.html

What part is he wrong on?

Now that is a very cool idea!

Let's just say I have more books than I have bookshelves to store them on!

That sums it up nicely!

I received this from a "reliable source." Can't vouch for its accuracy, but let's say I trust that this guy knows what he's talking about: The story on why they were scrapped is that Chrysler wrote down the cost of the entire program against the cars. I.E. if the program cost X million dollars (nobody knows exactly how much, but it was a lot), they wrote off that loss divided equally against the "production" run of 50-55 cars depending on who you believe. Which meant that each car had a BIG price tag on it if Chrysler wanted to keep/sell them. The cars either had to be destroyed or the government had to be paid the pro-rata cost they wrote off on each car. There's a "cover story" that it had to do with import duties because Ghia made them in Italy, but that's BS. Chrysler's accountants got a big tax break off the deal for the company. The government only knew about the "production" cars, but there were prototypes that weren't officially "in the books," so Chrysler could keep them without fear of discovery. Those are the ones that exist today, along with a couple that just slipped through the cracks. Now when it comes to on-the-road trials, it was not bigshots and famous people that drove the cars, it was Joe Average. Chrysler milked the program for a ton of PR by randomly having families drive them for a few months. They logged their comments on the cars, which was actually a veiled PR program and reliability test. One of my best ChryCo buddy's father was one of the handful of field service techs on that one. They took broken cars to dealers, hid them, and had the MoTown tech guys fly in to diagnose/repair them after hours. Very cloak and dagger. Burned-up Torqueflites were the biggest issue. Power-braking the car gave it snappy performance but the loose torque converters overheated easily if you did that. Chrysler also had them at the '64 World's Fair. My parents drove one. A postscript was that many oldtimers had Turbine Car hubcaps in their offices as ashtrays before smoking was banned in the building!

You're gonna need some bigger rear tires...

Like George said, Turbine cars were given to various industry bigshots, local businessmen and celebrities for a real-world, on-the-road evaluation. After the evaluations, most of the cars were scrapped, and many people think it had something to do with import duties (the cars were bodied by Ghia in Europe and shipped back to the US). http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2013/01/30/on-the-destruction-of-the-chrysler-turbine-cars-and-import-duties/

Nice! The bird isn't a car, but it's nicely done.

The car in the picture is a 1948 Playboy Convertible. http://playboymotorcars.com/ Who got it right: wisdonm ChrisR trogdor george53 Badluck 13 otherunicorn

Regarding post #63... Casey, what is the source of those photos? Those are incredible!

It looks pretty good... your scratchbuilt bodywork is very nice. But you need to sand down the tread surface of the tires... they're too shiny.