Harry P.

Nah... not even close!

Romell... DUDE! You are keeping me busy!

Guys... by this point we all have had a chance to spout off. Enough already with the holier-than-though posts. Let's cool it with the silly back-and-forth about who said what and why and who's trying to stir the pot and who's defending who and all that nonsense. Try and keep the comments focused on the model.

Thanks, Skip! More progress made today... I got the external gas tank details finished, tank painted and attached to the chassis, front axle and shocks assembled. New photos will be posted tomorrow (Saturday). Stay tuned...

That turned out beautifully! Great detail all around. I love seeing the old "brass age" cars getting their turn in the spotlight. Well done!

My car is definitely a coupe, and it has no framing around the door glass. The terms coupe, roadster, sedan, etc. all can be traced back to the days of horse-drawn carriages. That's when most of these terms originated, and were used to describe a certain carriage style or configuration. The terms were carried over when cars began replacing carriages, but the exact meanings and definitions have changed over time. Just a few carriage names that were carried over to automobiles: Brougham, Cabriolet, Coupe, Station Wagon, Limousine, Landau. Phaeton.

You loose the effectiveness of the Spell-check function in you're post if its filled with words that are correctly spelled but incorrectly used their. I know that never happens here, though... so I could care less.

Amen to that. This model isn't even worth half the asking price, IMO. DM's '56, their '57 Bel Air and their classic Cadillac roadster, while half the size of this model, have twice the detail, if not more... and they cost a lot less.

You guys were too smart this time! Final vote: 10 REAL, 48 Model... and it is a model. A 1/6 scale diecast from Highway 61.

My oldest daughter graduated from U of I... she liked the area so much she decided to stay there after graduating. Now her kid sister lives there, too. C/U is a cool city (cities?)... I can see why my girls like it there.

I'm pretty sure you mean Libertyville...

No, but I sure wouldn't mind knowing her... :lol:

I'm from Springfield originally (actually, Pawnee, to be specific). My mom had relatives living in Pawnee, Auburn and Springfield. My dad went up to Chicago to look for work, and when he found a job in the "big city" he sent for my mom and me. I was a year old. Spent the next 27 years in Chicago before moving out to the 'burbs with the wife and son...

Cool! Just one question: what does "grinned" mean?

Don't post a link to your photos. Post your photos.

If you meet in Champaign I can always use it as an excuse to go down there and check up on the girls...

Very cool, as usual. What you can do at such a small scale is crazy... but you should have doubled up on those yellow panel decals... they're looking kinda green...

I've been a fan of Torq-Thrust wheels since... forever!

Thanks for the invitation, but Decatur is three hours south of me (my daughters both live in Urbana and that's a 2-3/4 hour drive... Decatur is even further). I do appreciate the invitation, but I don't think I want to do seven hours and almost 400 miles of driving (with gas at $4+ a gallon) to attend a club meeting. No offense... I hope you understand.

How does an old post from two years ago suddenly pop up???

Yeah, I might go back and do that.

I'll concede you have a point there.

To all the guys who I pulled quotes from: I agree 100% that we all have the right to post our opinions, comments and criticisms. I'm sure most of you realize by now that I'm the first guy to stand behind that idea... and have done so many times in the past. My point is, I'm surprised at the level of personal hostility I've seen here. I just don't see it as justified. That's just my opinion, of course. Like Dennis Miller says, "I could be wrong." And BTW... I did read the whole thread from the beginning, and did read the entire posts of everyone I quoted.

Jon, like Ken said in a previous post (and with which a agree 100%)... you post your work on a public forum, and it's fair game for comments from the public... pro and con. There is absolutely no problem with anyone "daring" to criticize John's work. I've even criticized his work myself! It's the level of apparent hostility being directed towards him that surprises me.

"Detail for details sake may have WOW factor, but for those of us that KNOW better, it is a cheap attempt at best." "To boil it down what I got out of that was "Kiss my butt and lick my boot-heels and you're my friend, dare to question me and I will resort to throwing out tired cliches and call you names." I'll come out and say it, that's a crappy attitude to have." "By the way, in my opinion, this project comes off as little more than an exercise in self-indulgence..." "So the only thing you care about is the praise you receive for building stuff "just for me"? I have more pride in my work than that - & I thought that you did also." "So - I get it now. I ask how General Mechanical things that I KNOW to be inaccurate will be handled & I'm called a Bully & told to basically go screw myself? Thank you for that." "it's almost like you went into both with this big "screw you" attitude" "so far you've just thrown accuracy and any hint of realism clean out the window in epic manner and are going for what, super show ridiculous bling?" Don't comments like this come off as a just a little hostile? Especially when you realize that John didn't do anything other than post photos of a "phantom" NASCAR racer that he plainly stated up front would not be an attempt to create a 100% accurate replica of any particular real car. The amount of jumping down the guy's throat that's gone on here seems to me to be way out of proportion to anything John actually said anywhere in his posts. That's not to say any of you were wrong to post your opinions. I just don't see where all of this hostility is coming from?