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I built one around '78 or '79. Great kit, besides the nice T-Bird valve covers it had some real deep dished Ansen slot type wheels and maybe 60 series tires. Still in the basement a little worse for wear after all these years and a cross country move. I think you will enjoy this and at $25 it sounds like a great buy.

I'm like Tom Shirley and Richard Hass, it says "War Baby" at the top of my birth certificate. In 1944 every thing was olive drab green, or navy blue or gray depending, and Uncle Sam had an ID tag on everything. The good thing was that we got to buy all the good cars you talked about when they were just cheep old used cars. My #1 son came home in a new 1966 Impala SS 396 4-speed. #2 son in a new 1968 Bel Air 427 4-speed. Insurance was thru the roof, but the insurance companies never thought someone would get a big engine in a Bel Air. Insurance dropped in half. They never had to pay a claim, so no harm done. To Ray Kurn, The Crestliner started in 1950. Yes I had one. This was Fords answer to the GM hardtops until they could build theirs in 1951. They were really good car, I owned several and loved them all.

The unfortunate thing for Speed was that they were the only channel that would bring you NASCAR and WRC and other forms of racing when they were not widely accepted. After promoting different motor sports for years, the sanctioning bodies started wanting larger and larger pay backs for the writes to show their races. That's when Fox and other networks started to buy up the writes to show these races. Speed just couldn't get the revenue to buy the shows.

I wonder what you have in those smaller drawers in your desk ? For myself I have an old rolltop desk with several smaller drawers that are just deep enough for spry cans. Some of the lighter weight iteams could be put in the roll around unit. Like Michael said, those plastic storage units just will not support a lot of weight. I like your jar storage. I need to make something like that for myself.

John mentioned the $1 price and the regular price being $1.57. The sad thing , and hard for some younger people today to understand is that with inflation that is about the same as $15,00 today.

This is good. A kit of a "kit car". look forward to how this comes out.

I went to the theater for "Indian". The movie was great, a real must see.

It's called "thinning of the heard" or cleansing of the "gene pool". But they are fun to watch.

'32 sedan, that's the one I was thinking of. But I think using a couple of truck fenders to make a grill is still a good idea.

As Bill pointed out, this kit should give you the basics to work with. One thing you may want to look at is the rear window. The model art shows the large rear window, and your uncle's truck looks to have the more common standard small window. This can be changed very easily. On your uncle's truck the outline of the large opening is like a body molding with a metal inset to cover the gap between the large opening and the small rear window. On the 1:1 truck this is all one piece and a very small rubber molding holding the rear window in place. Please keep showing your progress.

Looks very good. I think that AMT had an accessory grill in one of it's early street rod kits that used a '59 Edsel grill and had quad headlights built in.

I might see "Rush" only because Ron Howard is the director. I just read something about "Rush" in Auto Week magazine. At the premier showing with several drivers and Bernie Ecclestone gave it a thumbs-up. Remember Ron Howard did the movie on Apolo 13. As for the other one, I don't think I'll even bother with Netflix on that.

You could try first cleaning the tires in the purple pond. Rinse well with water, spray with gloss clear ( that way the decals will not show silvering ) . Use the decals. Then spray with flat clear. The main thing is to get the tires as clean and free of any manufacturing release agent used in the making of the tire. Check out Hobby Lobby or others in their arts dept. , There are several different pins with every color you can think of with very fine points to hand draw the lettering. I think you will want to seal your work with a Flat clear after your done.

I agree with the spoon method. Has worked for me also. Just painted my 50 Olds Model Master Flame Red over gray primer. I wanted a more 50's red look than I got over the white. The white will almost always give you a brighter looking color.

The 1950 CpeDeVille looks like a very good builder, or drive as is. The others have some good things going for them, but you will need very deep pockets.

Kansas City area has been mostly rain off and on. Then last week, Monday and Tuesday it was in the 70's and I'm pulling and spraying those pretty yellow flowers. Tuesday night into Wednesday rain turning to snow. Only in Kansas can you mow your yard and pull dandelions one day and scrape ice off your windshield the next.

Interesting looking old Buick. One thing that looks odd is the front end looks like a '59, and the rear fins look like a '60. The '59s had a more pointed fin and the '60s were a little shorter and rounded much like your model.

Looks perfect. In 1973 I had just gotton into the car business, and the dealer 's demo Caprice looked just like your model.

You need to market that shelf. I for one would buy at least one. I think at least half the builders here would like one also. Tell your boss you just invented a new product for the company.

If your building a hot rod motor you can put the plug wires where ever you want, like the picture Jeff has shown. If you're going for the O.E.M. look, Chevrolet usually ran the plug wires over the valve covers thru small metal and rubber holders. This kept the wires from getting in touch with the exhaust manifolds or shorting out on each other. They also had a small holder that used the lower valve cover bolts to guide the plug wires when they turned down to the spark plug. Hope this is of some help.

I don't recall ever seeing one. This isn't a bad kit, you might be surprised by how good it would look with a little extra effort.

You might have to look around in your leftover parts boxes. You can work with what's their depending on the level of detail your going for. If it's something you like I would get it. It's a good kit, just not of todays standards. I built a black sedan when this was new. Looked good.

You get the tree build options on the box art. The "wagon" roof has a clear plastic sun roof as I recall. Remember this is a 60's - 70's kit with the screws holding the chassis and metal axles thru the engine and all. But it was a very good kit at the time and the body proportions are good as is the interior. You can build a very nice model out of it, but know what you are starting with.

Looks great. Your blue is like the O.E.M. color called Marina Blue. You could get a very light blue mt. and a dark blue mt also.

I can see why your Plymouth won. Congratulations !