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In case you don't know, there was also a mid-engined version of the Avenger called the Valkyrie, which carried its V8 in the middle, using a bespoke steel tube frame. The car in this video is kinda dorky, with the too-wide tires sticking out of the fenders, but there's potential there.

Exactly.

Anybody recognize this blonde honey?

Lucky they haven't evolved opposable thumbs...yet.

Excellent point.

The old Avenger doesn't HAVE to look like a retard-clown-car. It's idiot builders who make them that way.

Gummy Bears, huh? I'll have to try it. Last 20 or so rats I caught (I live in a wooded area in an old house the critters always find ways in to) couldn't resist Spam's greasy meaty goodness.

Whoa....guess it's a popular look. Everyone knows you jack a car way up to make it really handle well.

Gettin' the donk moves goin' on...

Hmmmmm...I didn't know that, having never seen the Avenger kit. I had a real Avenger on a Bug pan with a 140 Corvair mill for a while. Lotsa fun, but kinda awful fiberglass.

Speed City also lists these in 7" and 9" widths, soft resin, for 6 bucks. http://www.speedcityresin.com/PartsPageTires.html

Lotta cheater slicks had / have nothin' but straight grooves to comply with the most basic definition of 'tread'. Not too hard to chuck a standard slick in a drill and cut a pair of grooves...if you can't find anything from a kit.

The tube stuff is a solvent type glue, and if they used a big ol' blob of it, you won't get it off without damage. It will have actually 'welded' the parts together, and you can not break the bond. I used to do gluebomb restos almost exclusively, and finally just got tired of trying to correct all the 5-year-old-chimp work that had been done previously. A good indicator of WAY too much glue on a glass-to-roof bond is wiggly bodywork on the outside of the roof where the glue has softened it. This poor little '32 Ford was so well stuck together that I had no alternative but to cut it apart.

Hmmm. Looks like your OP photo has evaporated again. It's still in your P'bucket, but it doesn't come up when you try to link to it from here for some odd reason. Here it is again. Let's see if it evaporates.

I think those probably do more harm than good. The primaries are kinda longer than the optimum tuned length.

Man, you don't see those engines very often. Cool. That's quite the set of headers too.

Oh YEAH ! Though... if i were the driver I'd sure ask if the mechs could get the wiper to park somewhere other than in the middle of the screen.

That's some pretty country where you live, Stephen. Sure wish I'd bought a little farm when I had the money, but the then-significant other was opposed to the idea of living too far from flashy nightlife. Good luck with your new venture.

Man, beautiful truck. Occasionally I'll come across a very well-maintained and relatively rust-free old farm truck, but so far, I haven't had the money on the day. It's amazing how well some of these have survived intact and unmolested. Glad it's found a home with someone who would travel so far to get it.

Great looking color for a drag car, and it looks like you've done a fine job spraying it. You may know this is a repop of a vintage IMC kit that dates from the mid 1960s. IMC did several highly detailed kits that have been re-released over time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just a note on terminology..."altered" and "gasser" are drag-racing classes and are not interchangeable. A true gasser was a US-based car, with the engine in essentially the normal location (10% setback was permitted at one point). Gassers originally had to run full 'street' equipment but gradually evolved into full-blown race cars. The altered class, which this kit represents, allowed far more radical modifications, like this VW body on specially-constructed chassis with virtually any engine. Fiat Topolino bodies were common too, as well as other small European cars, and early American bodies like Bantams, Ford Ts, As, etc.

Nice work on the Focus, Jonathan. Self-reliance is a great way to save some money AND make sure the chimps don't break any more parts. That's a kinda cool little car. I don't honestly think I even knew there was such a thing as a Focus wagon. I may have to find out more about those.

Yup...I forgot about that. The stuff works well for representing clear "glass" instrument lenses.

Yeah, but it sure looked good for those three hundredths.

I was. About 60 miles south of New Yawk on the Joisey shore. Love the music.

It is used as an ADHESIVE or a LAMINATING RESIN. It is NOT A CLEAR COAT.