Ace-Garageguy

Yup.

I can use most of your words to sum up how I feel in line at the Publix, watching folks in clothes much nicer that what I wear, with multiple kids in tow, buying groceries with food stamps, then going out to the parking lot and driving away in much nicer vehicles than what I own, all while talking on the latest smart-phone. Where do I sign up for the free ride?

Which is EXACTLY the comment, in essence, I made originally. What "scale" they're made for means nothing. NOTHING. I asked for, and received (through TooOld) exact dimensions...which had NOT been previously posted. The website has had the dimensions added as well. The comment thereon as to "scale" is totally irrelevant and meaningless, as you say. I'm missing the "tempest in a teapot" part. Seems to me the problem was solved several posts earlier. HOWEVER...if one IS trying to make a particular diameter wheel in a particular scale, taking the dimensions and doing the math is the only way to know what you've got...which is why I posted the SCALE EQUIVALENT diameters for 1/25. I also missed the part where you state "some people get so engrossed in "scale" when it comes down to what will fit and to expect a company to list all the available tires that will fit". HUH ? ALL anybody asked for was exact dimensions, and we got 'em.

I used to do a lot of photography in the film days, but my digital equipment hasn't been updated in eons...still shooting an ancient 4-megapixel Nikon. Also draw, paint, sculpt, build / restore / modify real cars, dabble in electronics and to a very limited degree (for now) AI. Audiophile stuff too, high-end system built from a mix of older tech. Occasionally pull out a larger-scale wooden model sailboat or flying model, or something in HO, and 1/32-1/24 scale plastic aircraft. Read avidly, science fiction, crime fiction, history, tech and science stuff. For several years, I was involved with gunsmithing / reloading, still do some target shooting to try to stay sharp. And still fly occasionally, when the time / money situations permit. Ummmm...and hiking. Beautiful day here, out the door momentarily. No wonder I never seem to finish much of anything!

Seems like that damm near happened a few years back...

X2. Fits together much better than many of these too. Looks good with the hood on and off.

Firewall's a piece of cake. If you want a good stock-style piece, get one from any of the OLD-TOOL Revell '31 Fords based on this kit... The roof looks like it will take some relatively simple scratch-mods, using sheet styrene. A good skill-building exercise. Hot-rods by nature have things modified as they're built, and many bodies like the one represented in the new kit will have had their firewalls and/or roof openings modified. It is of course impossible to represent ALL the possible permutations in ONE kit, but it's a great starting point for building a chopped '30-'31, and will look just fine built straight out of the box.

X2 ...though I certainly agree with Greg that the style of box art for the '55 Chevy kit above is WAY more evocative, and STILL makes me want to buy that kit.

Good of you to go to the trouble of emailing and posting the numbers, good of them to respond and volunteer to post the dimensions on the website. Thanks to all. However, this particular sentence doesn't really make much sense, as it fails to acknowledge that scale tires come in a wide variety of scale diameters. "The sizes of the wheels were designed to fit any 1:24th or 1:25th size tire, meaning the Bigs are for 1:24th scale and the littles are for 1:25th scale" Doing the numbers from the given diameters, for 1/25 scale the .670" "bigs" would be about scale 16" wheels, and the .640" "littles" about scale 15" wheels (subtracting roughly one scale inch from the OD of each wheel)

2017 Ford Ford GT. #2 is the 2009 Dodge Challenger, #3 2007 Corvette C6R

It was about 2011 or '12 that coyotes began becoming fairly common in my area of the NE Atlanta suburbs. A neighbor had told me that smaller dogs and cats had been disappearing and she thought it was coyotes, but I discounted her theory until I was looking out my back French doors one day and saw a scruffy looking one ambling through the yard. Seems like we cross paths every few months. Last time I saw him was during a walk on Thanksgiving day. The area I'm in is hardly rural, but several species of hawks, owls, rabbits and LOTS of raccoon and possum are common here. There are also rather a lot of feral cats, but they seem to keep the rodent population down. There's one hugely fat possum that still comes up on the front porch late at night, looking for the cat dish and setting off the motion detectors. Fattest possum I've ever seen, obviously not having to work too hard for a living. A nearby small lake has a year-round resident flock of Canada geese, and one solitary blue heron. It's kinda thrilling to see a small hawk go ripping through the yard, twisting and turning to avoid branches, in hot pursuit of dinner. Much as I love the songbirds the little hawks prey on, it's quite something to watch them hunting, up close. Every now and then, one of them will perch near the house, or outside if I'm working. Man, what beautiful creatures. I've got some kind of hoot-owl who seems to have my property on his rounds too. Love to hear that sound on a cool, crisp night, with the air smelling of wood fires and burning leaves. Had a family of raccoon living in the attic of the last place, and had a devil of a time getting rid of them. Two of them once came in through the cat-door, and the sound of them rummaging through the kitchen trash bags woke me up. My cat just sat and watched me chase them around the house and finally out, looking like "Don't look at ME, they're not MY friends".

I agree. The FED sets the standards that ALL current production cars have to comply with, but state and local jurisdictions are given the option of selectively enforcing them. Makes no sense whatsoever. Government logic at its finest. I'll never again own a vehicle that's subject to emissions testing for a variety of reasons, among them the knee-jerk aspect of the regs, the arbitrary enforcement, the rampant incompetence or just plain dishonesty of the people doing the testing...geez. And MOST people just stand in line behind the next little sheepy and think they're doing the right thing, because they don't know any better...or care to know. Follow the rules. Don't think, don't question. Accept that authority knows best.

Many state metropolitan areas have mandatory vehicle emissions testing programs, where more rural areas don't. My state is no exception, and last time I registered a car in Az, it was the same way. The theory is that it's simply more important to ensure clean running engines where the population and vehicle density is high.

Some just defy description.

Yeah, all MG Midgets or AH Sprites, 'cept for the black MG B Came across these trying to find a shot of an old employer's big-block Chebby powered Spridget. Here's some more beauties. This one's a TR. Another ungainly B. Crash bumper IMSA Midget... Another embarrassed TR... TR 7 with extra chin... And a melting MGB GT

The Minipower was a great concept...hyperlight car with a transverse mid-mounted engine. Unfortunately for the little car, vehicles sell in large part for their looks, and the "interesting" styling didn't do much to engender mechanical lust.

Or just has his head up his apps.

Love the tread pattern on the tires, and big / little versions of those, with your upper wheel design would be absolutely perfect for an updated '32 Ford roadster, set up with 4-wheel independent suspension, that I've been thinking about for a long time...but couldn't come up with the right rolling stock to get a look that moved me. Nothing earth-shatteringly new, but something that gives the initial impression of "that thing must handle like a slot car".

7:47 PM, trying to respond to this thread http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/112794-fogey-forged-wheels-for-the-traditionalist/ NOTE: I removed the copied photo from the reply and the response posted normally.

Yup. Just like real cars, I've seen a whole lot of monkey bodgework buried under primer..."just needs paint".

VERY nice. 18" fits my personal old "fogey" idea as to how tall wheels need to be for function. The centers are clean, purposeful and look like a forging. Yup, very nice. When will they be available?

The unfortunate side-effect of going through life with your eyes open and your brain in gear.

The engine and transmission are significantly underscale, by about the same amount the new-tool Ala Kart engine and trans are.