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Thank you for sharing your photos. So many great looking builds and some inspiration for future projects.

Thank you for sharing your photos. As always your photography is outstanding. I remember several of these models as I followed their builds on this site. So much creativity displayed in one place at once.

I think everyone would be correct on the Rochester 2G carbs. The physically smaller Strombergs would usually appear on Flat Heads. The reason I pointed out the Intake Manifold was because of it's appearance and what I feel is it's accuracy. The casting provides an opening, very small, for the Distributer and the Thermostat and it is a very clean casting with great details. As for the use of Holly Carbs., since this would be an after market type of modification so almost anything would be possible. The most likely being the afore mentioned Rochester 2G. The general shape between it and the standard Holly 2 br. Carbs. would be similar but the high performance Holly's with the center hung floats have a very distinct appearance. If you have access too one of the Revell '67 Corvette big block Tri-Power intakes and Carb. set ups you will see what I mean. This casting is in 1/25th scale so when looking for the Carbs. that you want to use remember a 1/24th part may appear somewhat larger than you may want. If you remember exactly what was on the car that should give you an idea of what you should be looking for. Good luck with your build going forward.

Glad you're OK for now, but the new Doctor and or Hospital sounds like pretty sound advice to me. Whoever the "Doctor" who was supposed to be checking you out goes and "scrubs in" with another Doctor sounds like they had a T Time. I went thru much of the same problems minus the Ambulance ride a few years ago. A single flight of stairs at work had me panting like I had just run a 4 minute mile. I ended up having a Stent in the LAD 2 Artery, the one they call the "widow maker". I spent one night in the Hospital and walked out the next day. Your Cardio. Doctor should be all over this with more than a Stress Test. That only tells them how you're doing at that moment and not if there is any blockage. You have to follow this closely because it sound like the only person thinking about you is you.

Check out Replicas & Miniatures part # SRD 1103. This is a perfectly done 3 - 2 intake manifold. They also offer the carbs. and shorty headers part # P-123.

I followed your build on this and really like hoe it turned out. All of the detailing you did during the build shows. I like the subdued factory type colors you used on the body. The bed looks perfect.

Turned out beautifully. I did much the same a couple of years ago trying to replicate the '67 El Camino I owned many years ago. I ran into the same problems you mentioned. I thought the Revell '67 Chevelle SS and their '66 El Camino would have been much easier to combine but the Firewall and the inner Fenders are different but they should be the same. Oh well yours turned out great. Look at my Avatar for an idea of how my attempt turned out.

I like how you aged the paint finish. Well thought out build and a perfect theme build.

Your "Timmy" looks well beyond "pretty good". The color and paint looks good. Any more information you care to share ?

You took an otherwise uninteresting kit and really made something great out of it. The way you finished the body and decals make it outstanding. For myself it's the way you did the interior and all of the fine detailing that really make this such a standout.

The paint shows the signs of a desert "Sun Burn". The good news is that it should be relatively rust free, providing it didn't spend much time around the Gulf.

"Going in style" with Freeman, Caine and Arkin, besides being well written these three actors are standouts in their own wright and together their acting was very convincing.

Great looking group of Mustangs. The weathering on the Capri looks very convincing .

Great looking Stock Ford. Always nice to see one done that represents the original in both appearance and paint finish.

I think the "Bent Eight" moniker refers to the fact that the Ford, as with most others" were not an inline or straight eights. Think of the Buick straight eight for example. Beyond that I think who ever made up this name is a big scrabble player.

I have used the suspension from some of the John Greenwood Corvettes on a couple of projects. I even put the complete engine, transmission, and IRS under a Revell '56 Del Ray.

The Cab is from a model A and that is what I based my opinion on. I agree there is probably as much model T as there is model A so I should have called at an "AT".

Thank you for the pictures. An amazing variety of models.

The second engine in this kit is supposed to represent an early Cadillac engine as that was a fairly common engine swap in the early '50's.

Beautiful looking build. This looks just like, probably better than, what these trucks looked like when new.

That has to be one of the best looking A Bones ever.

Relooking at this I notice the way you removed some of the side chrome. From the side the trim looks like a '52 Ford.

Maybe return it to it's former glory.

I have built a couple of these and the Wagon also. They are great kits. If you are going to lower the front ride height you might want to look at how the fender well area was changed on the wagon kit as it's more accurate in that area. There is not a lot of room in the front fender wells on the 1:1 or the kit if you lower the suspension very much the top of your tire is going to bottom out on the top of the wheel well and the lower rear area of the inner fender apron is wrong on the coupe but closer to correct on the wagon. Should you use wide tires this problem becomes worse. As for built models I built one of the 1:1 Ford coupe I owned years ago that was just like the kits 312 single 4 barrel with 3 speed and overdrive. Another was an Out of Box Duel Quad coupe. For the third one I added the Hardtop Roof from an old AMT kit to make a base model Hardtop phantom. I'd google '57 Ford and see what all they have for pictures.

Major fabrication work going on. I'm impressed with your use of alternative materials. I'll enjoy following your build on this.