Ace-Garageguy

According to some of these dweebs, there is a significant "military presence" (maybe part of Jade Helm?) who stop anyone from coming too close to "Antarctica" (you know, the REAL ice wall...) under some nebulous international "treaty".

I'm about 98% sure the chopped top has been re-tooled, and not done as an exact match of the very cool original. I have BOTH the recent issue and several versions of the old-tool kits on the shelves. I'll look into it carefully in the next day or two. I've built several of the old-tool version over the years, and fitting the top, chopped OR stock, to the body shell has always been challenging, even on the 5-window version. Poor fit of the turret-top is what generally ruins these models. It IS entirely possible to do a very clean build, but it takes more than average effort and thinking-through just exactly what you need to do to get it to fit together well. And yes, the doors are incorrect for a roadster.

I've been a fan of Colani's work sinne sometime in the '70s. This is the car above, before it went to hell. Here's some more of his work.

Well, the way I see it, it's just symptomatic of the widespread scientific ignorance of the general population...people who are voting. I'll wager if you ask people in the street, the majority won't even know the Earth orbits the sun, or that one orbit defines one year. A friend of mine was dating a "well-educated" professional woman who truly didn't know our sun was a star, like billions of others twinkling in the night sky. She refused to accept it. I know a very well-paid real estate agent who didn't think levels had been invented when my last house was built...in 1969. She cited that as the reason the doors all hung wonky and the masonry was a joke. The majority of people don't know what makes their cars go, or what actually happens when you turn on the lights in your house, or how the electricity to run them is made. Yet THESE are the people who are essentially running the country, voting for representatives and policies about which they know absolutely NOTHING...by choice...and if they DO know anything, it's media or politically-twisted, and half the time, wrong. That's how it affects YOU in the long run. NOTE: I believe this comment qualifies as "civics", not the forbidden "politics".

Great looking rework. I love to see old models recycled into new projects. Like your drilled crossmember and zeed frame too. Nice work.

The old BlackForce snapper has some beauties. Not exactly, but close to what you want (but you'll have to paint the whitewalls).

It just gets better and better. On the Flat Earth Society forum, there's actually a thread about the dangers of being exposed to moonlight and the precautions to take against it. Crikey. Yeah, like we've only been exposed to it throughout the history of the human species, ya' know? They go so far as to claim that the "rays" from the moon are different in composition from the simple reflected sunlight reasonably sane and aware people know it to be...but of course, they also seem to fail to actually define exactly WHAT these "harmful" rays are. How typical. Or maybe this is all just a joke ?? Somehow, I don't think so. Superstition, intentional ignorance, a widespread and blind willingness to follow stupid, delusional and / or deranged leadership...human kind has some serious innate problems to overcome if we're ever really going to mature as a civilization.

I found a fair number of jumping-off points for articles by doing an image search for "Pikes Peak race history". Here's one: http://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/1977-pikes-peak-hill-climb-broughams-to-the-clouds-2/ Lunajammer is right about pinterest too. Here's a starting point: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/559501953678247583/ Unfortunately, it looks like there was a rather extensive photo archive of Pikes Peak competitions from the 1910s through the '60s, but the links posted at the HAMB seem to be dead. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=2674

I agree. The wheel treatment works well too. At first glance I thought they were whitewalls, but after I saw the underside shot with the wide meats, I went back and actually looked at the wheels, and saw what you'd done. Nice indeed.

Apparently, the "thinking" is that NASA is in on the conspiracy, as they're all Nazis and determined to perpetrate this great hoax for some unintelligible reason having to do with control of the masses and Freemasonry.

I had the same questions, so I looked at a few other yooboob segments on this. Many of the proponents apparently know very little of anything and have never flown or traveled much. They feel no need to actually understand any of the "concepts" they use to justify their views, and routinely misuse words and make up meanings to suit whatever the logical challenge may be. One spokesman for the flat-Earth idea, when asked why, if the sun was overhead all the time and only traveled around the edge of the dinner-plate Earth, it can be dark here and light somewhere else, answered by stating that "you can't see forever. It's perspective, like the vanishing point where things vanish". Okayyy...

Yes, there is that, which I tried to stay away from because it's treading dangerously close to a forbidden topic. It's very troubling though. We live in complex times that demand a good working understanding of our world and all that's in it...if we expect to survive as a species...so fact-based knowledge of the world around us and well-developed critical thinking skills should be what's stressed most in early education. Welcome to the idiocracy.

Liking what you've got so far. A lot. Good luck with the warp / repairs.

I kinda have a feeling defining "rockabilly" is going to be about like getting full and complete agreement from all parties concerning the one-and-only-true-and-complete-definition of "rat-rods" or "muscle-cars".

Pretty sure Buddy Holly fits in there.

The music I can enjoy if I'm in the right frame of mind...but I REALLY like the girls who get into the look...

Yes kiddies, apparently there are really people in developed countries with a modicum of "education" that actually believe this ignorant drivel...

Do you have a digital caliper? And a cheap calculator? Plug wires are roughly between 7mm and 10mm in the real world. The later and higher-performance the vehicle, the fatter the wires, in general. A '50s car would run thinner wires than a current top-fuel dragster engine. You CAN see the difference, both on a real engine, and on a model. Mr. Math tells us that 7mm is about .276 inch. If you're working in 1/25 scale, divide that number by 25. You get .011 inch, which is where your digital calipers come in handy (usually about $15 at some Chinese tool emporium like harbor Freight). NOTE: If your calipers measure both in inches and metric units, simply divide the metric measurements by 25, or whatever scale you're working in, without bothering to convert to inches first. Mr. Math goes on to tell us that 10mm is about .394 inch. Again, in 1/25 scale, divide by 25. You get about .016 inch. Compare these measurements with the diameter of your wire, and think about the age and genre of the vehicle your model represents. If your material is much fatter than this, your plug wires will look like sausages or garden hose.

Positively 100% identified as a Johan '63 Olds Starfire, which was released as both hardtop and convert. The top fins on the rear fenders have been hacked off, and blobular bits added to the ends...and elsewhere.

Great kit. Picked up another one this weekend. Started a front-blown Caddy-powered Bonneville thing, based on the old Cagle-San Chez car, a few years back.

One more try...I've been bumped off the site and locked out the last two times I've tried to post this. I looked in the El Camino kit to see what you'd be up against doing a front-drive 409. The top-mounted blower manifold is easily converted into a front-drive manifold by adding forward-running tubes. You can use the oval-case GMC blower in the kit, just mounted on its side in the front. The injection from the kit will work too. You'll have to file the water pump / timing cover flat, and make up a blower-drive extension from an old parts-box blower rear cover. You'll also have to make up an airbox / popoff valve and tubes to run up to your manifold. All in all, not too hard, and really unusual.

I run Chrome exclusively on this machine. Got fed-up with IE years ago, switched to Firefox, and like Chrome better than Firefox now that I have the ad-blockers running. EDIT: Now it's behaving. How bizarre. I think it MAY have something to do with where I put numbers and parentheses in the post. The site software may have been trying to read it as part of a code string.

Interesting. Last two times I've tried to post on the thread in question, I've been dumped from the site and locked out for an hour or two.