Ace-Garageguy

Black Bush. Definitely.

Yeah...surely you can find a priest who's not cleared for little boys anymore but who still works with spirits.

I believe the black tonneau may be from the same kit, seen in the left upper quadrant of this photo, to the left of the rolled rear pan, and under the exhaust pipe.

The white tonneau in the foreground is from the old 1960 MPC Corvette kit. It's to the right below the instructions in this shot.

If I remember right, it was about 1960 or '61. The wiring didn't require any soldering, only had spring connectors for the various components, and they would get corroded enough in a few days to function erratically. Still, the thing taught the basic functions of transistors, resistors, capacitors, potentiometers, diodes, etc.

Alan Parsons

Hawkwind

The Bloody Moos

Pentangle

Looking good so far.

My first foray into electronics was one of these GE intercom kits. Amazingly, my parents let me string wires throughout part of the house. It was pretty useless actually, but it started a life-long interest in and understanding of circuit design and analysis.

That 'pursed lips' or slightly fish-faced styling was a recurring Panhard theme on several models. Working on them can be kinda weird. It's like a car from another planet. It does does all the same things familiar cars do and works the same way as all internal-combustion-powered vehicles, but few of the parts look like what you'd really expect. Everything is just different.

The engine appears to be a representation of a 4-rotor Wankel, configured for a front-engined application (unlike the Chebby Aerovette and the Mazda 767/787); I have NO idea what kit it may be from.

I LIKE that buggy, Miles. Looks like some of the cut down stuff they ran in the dunes, desert and down in Baja after WW II...WAY before anyone started running VW Bug-based cars.

And here's a '62 GTO (f'glass body on a Datsun 240Z) with a twin-turbo big-block setup.

Me neither.

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There's a Chebby big-block powered 288 GTO that ran 275 MPH at Bonneville too...

From my admittedly limited experience with reworking diecast models, I'd advise extreme caution far as trying to bend the stuff goes. It's similar to the potmetal a lot of old-car cast chrome trim is made of (with which I have rather a lot of experience) and it doesn't bend very far before snapping...especially if it's already been bent in one direction and you're trying to bend it back. There's also a significant variation in the composition of the metal from different manufacturers, and even differences from time periods from the same company. Some of it is so brittle it's impossible to bend at all without cracking or shattering.

Also a company out of Dallas, Texas (John's Cars) that made the swap kits for Jag XJ-series cars first, I believe. I put a GM 700R4 trans in my personal XJ-6 using one of their kits...which was OK, but I didn't really care for a lot of the engineering details.