Harry P.

BTW John... you're really going all-out on the detailing! When I built this kit, I didn't bother with a lot of the stuff you're doing... opening doors, corrected brake drums and shocks, etc. Yours should be a real stunner when it's all done.

The friction shocks were adjustable... they had a series of steel and friction disks alternating. I think the shock could be adjusted by loosening or tightening the tension on the disks. Here is a typical friction shock (this is on a Pocher model): On the real car they would have been painted chassis color, but I left the metal parts unpainted because I think it looks cool. Inaccurate... but cool!

Now that's funny!

Just curious... why didn't you foil the hood and trunk emblems and the door locks?

Big Tim is correct! ZZTop is playing on the radio while you are listening to them. Wow... all this schoolwork on a weekend? This blows!

Chuck, see me after class...

Wait a minute... you send me a message admitting that you were wrong... and so you want credit for being right??? Oh, ok. You were right! See? I'm a pushover!

Very impressive!

"I are very fluent..."???? "Hillbilly" is one word... and "Appalachian" is spelled A-P-P-A-L-A-C-H-I-A-N. If you got straight A's in English, the teacher was grading on a curve... Oh, yeah... that's right. You guys like it at room temperature!

No hatchback I've ever seen will hold a refrigerator.

Very cool! I'm also not the world's biggest fan of huge oversized wheels on a car, but in this particular case I have to admit it looks pretty good. Nicely done!

Looks like you have plenty of hours into it so far. Why give up now? Like the guys said, maybe put it aside and move on to something else... get back to it when the mood strikes. But definitely don't trash it!

Right you are... but he's going to have to live with my "American accent!"

Geez... talk about comparing apples and oranges...

Ok... go searching for a junked refrigerator... rent or borrow a truck and a few buddies to haul the thing home. Test it to see if it works. If it doesn't go back and try again. If by some miracle it actually does work, disassemble everything, keep the parts you'll need to build a compressor, haul the rest of it back to the illegal dump... then go to the hardware store to buy all of the miscellaneous bits and pieces you'll need to actually build a working compressor besides the refrigerator guts. Then take a long weekend to build the thing and hope to God that it works when you plug it in. Or... go online, buy one for less than a hundred bucks, and have it sent to your door. Hmmm...... decisions, decisions....

Assuming you have an old refrigerator laying around...

You still haven't told us what that other site is... But you should have posted this in the "Links, Advertisers and Websites" section.

Why would you want to go to all the trouble of building a home-made air compressor out of an old refrigerator when you can buy a brand new compressor just about anywhere for a hundred bucks or less???

You can do whatever you want! They're just models.

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2011/12/02/worlds-fastest-toy-car-hits-100-mph/?test=faces

Thank you, Karnak the Magnificent...

I gave credit to those who admitted the error of their ways, came crawling back embarrassed and ashamed, and agreed that it was, in fact, a Hupmobile and not a Graham. I don't think you ever atoned for your original sin of calling it a Graham... so, no credit for you!

Still not very "NASCAR-like"...

Would he really have come back driving a minivan???!!!

Well, Ken, all I can say is thank god you have a handle on that, because I am totally lost! Seriously... I don't even try to keep track of that end of the hobby. That's why we have you! Can you imagine what a "family tree" type of diagram of the history of model kit manufacturers would look like? Hey, that might actually make an interesting magazine feature. I bet that most people have no idea of how today's kit manufacturers got to this point. Anyone who's into the history of the business end of the hobby would be interested...