Ace-Garageguy

Just WHAT is so damm unreasonable about expecting professional people TO MEASURE ACCURATELY before committing to cutting tooling?? IT'S NOT HARD.

Bull. Perfect? You too? Nobody EVER ASKED FOR A DAMM PERFECT KIT. GET OVER IT. We pay money for people to measure things and scale things correctly. If they DON'T measure and scale things correctly, they're taking our money and giving us shitt in return. I'M EXPECTED TO DO MY WORK CORRECTLY. AND WHAT I MAKE HAS TO FUNCTION, TOO. I DON'T GET TO MAKE EXCUSES. I EXPECT WORK I PAY FOR TO BE CORRECT TOO. NOT PERFECT. JUST REASONABLY ACCURATE. I haven't "dismissed" anything. Maybe you need remedial reading comprehension, eh? I've said SEVERAL times much of this proposed kit looks GREAT, and I'll buy multiples just to get the good bits. Did you miss that part? But day after day after day, I have to re-engineer, re-design, and re-work expensive REAL parts made by well-paid "professionals" that don't fit or function without modification. I'm sick to death of wiping the collective asses of people who just don't try hard enough. I don't need to have to re-work half of the parts in every model kit just to get them to the point they SHOULD have been in the first place.

Great car, Brad. The Olds-in-Ford was pretty popular back in the dim recesses of time. Made a nice fast car with more power stock than a fairly radical flathead, but lots more streetable...as I'm sure you know. Cool car, definitely.

For anyone contemplating hanging shelving on a drywall surface...get yourself a cheap electronic stud-finder. Use it correctly, and you'll avoid any problems associated with screws simply pulling out of the sheetrock. LONGER screws simply have no effect if what you're screwing into is soft and brittle...like sheetrock. A stud-finder allows you to locate studs accurately, and the 1/2 inch nominal thickness of most sheetrock means you'll only need a screw a couple of inches long, at most, to give you 1.5 inches of purchase into the stud, and to do the job correctly. The little plastic "anchor" inserts that supposedly "reinforce" holes in sheetrock are pretty much useless too. They WILL pull out if moderately overloaded. Moly bolts are better, and expand behind the sheetrock face, but still only distribute the loads into a relatively small area in a relatively weak material. Toggle bolts are better still, as they make a larger footprint on the weak drywall.

Tell you what, Tom ol' buddy...your appraisal of me is about as accurate as your incorrect identification of the grille-shell on the car you described for us all so eloquently. Come to think of it, if you can't tell the difference between a '32 grille shell and ANY model-A shell, it's no surprise you're among the most vocal defenders of the kit companies that keep turning out stuff that's just flat wrong. Everything now makes sense. No wonder they love you so dearly. And also come to think of it, we're lucky you're in 'event coordination' or whatever it is you do in the "pharmaceutical industry". If you were in the labs, with your approach to understanding and imparting accurate information, there'd be a lot more dead guinea pigs.

OK, let me put it this way. If you shell out $25 or $30 US for a model car kit, what percentage of the parts in the box do you have a reasonable right to expect to be pretty close to accurate? While the blower issue is not a deal-breaker on this kit, if it's off as badly as it looks like it may be, it certainly won't be the first time a problem like this could have been avoided by breaking out the ol' measuring tape BEFORE the tools were cut. You can get a reasonably accurate Chinese-made tape measure for about $5, and it would only take about 10 minutes of work to use it and record the numbers, and e-mail those numbers to a tool-designer in Chinaland (including converting the numbers to metric, or grains-of-rice laid end to end). This is surely well within the cost constraints of even the most frugal new-kit development budget.

Yeah, I never answer those if I'm reasonably sure I'm not calling myself.

Just the thing to get my vegan friend for Christmas...a full dozen.

Look again. It's a chopped '32 grille shell. OMG !!! Was that stalking??

Pathetic.

Stalk you Tom? Really? You might want to talk to someone about that perception. I did indeed post a "pot stirring" quote on another thread after your post, because by your own admission, you'd missed the remarks earlier in the thread (which were tame as tame can be...unless you consider sarcastic banter to be "fireworks"), didn't have any idea what the exchange was or what it was about, but you just HAD to say something negative to try to get something going again. My "pot stirring" post was entirely relevant, and appropriate. And I've questioned your pontificating on subjects I happen to know something about...like your statement that the cost of interpreting kit instructions into various languages was "very expensive". I just happen to know the actual cost per page ($50 to $80...chicken feed pocket change for just about any real business) because I use a service that does it...and called you on it. Not the first time I've called you on something factual...and you've failed to defend or explain your seemingly erroneous statements. So rather than answering a challenge about facts, or answer my perfectly civil question about how this board "could be so much more" posted above, you accuse me of stalking you. It must be wonderful to be you,Tom. Apparently you know everything about models and international business, you know everyone in the model business, they all come quietly to you praising you for being such a hero defending the hobby but they aren't comfortable posting here, you are always right, and if you're not, it's because somebody is stalking you. Have a nice day.

Seems pretty good to me. Lots of factual knowledge available for free, freely given by many people who actually know what they're talking about. How much more could it be? I'm truly curious.

Yes sir. I agree entirely.

At least you always know exactly where they are. Must save a lot of time...

For a more modern look, a takeoff on an updated AlaKart nose might be interesting... Or Plymouth Prowler headlights...

Round headlights just kinda go with the '32 Ford, but size and exact placement make all the difference. Here are some illustrations... https://www.google.com/search?q=32+ford+headlights&espv=2&biw=1600&bih=731&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=OZqEVaXIHIq2sAWDlIHADA&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg#tbm=isch&q=custom+32+ford+render

Oh yeah. Put a correct S.C.o.T, in it, or a well-done Latham, and I'll buy a case just to get the blowers. Put in a really well-done Halibrand QC too while you're at it, and I'll buy 2 cases.

Dang ! Such a simple solution !! Why didn't I think of that ???

Lotta cars built in this town at other shops musta been done to that SOP. We get to fix some of 'em. Sure woulda been cheaper to just hire guys who do it right in the first place, 'stead of savin' all that money havin' it done wrong first by chimps, and then paying us to un-do the buggery.

Ever even SEEN a real blower? There's a bolting flange that runs around the entire bottom. If " you sand a Millimetre or two off the bottom", it's the same as milling 1 or 2 INCHES off the bottom of a real blower housing. The bolt flange disappears, and you have a useless blob of scrap aluminum (or plastic, in scale).

Here's a full width tail light as you suggest. Some round ones sunk into the rear apron... Here are some little curved slitty ones... An unusual headlight design... An AMT kit offered this headlight option...

I never really mean anyone any disrespect...seriously...unless somebody else starts throwing feces first. Anyway, I didn't realize there was any drama going in this thread. I just thought it was a little good-natured ribbing. C'mon guys...we're big boys. My personal motto:

Was that sarcasm? I'm never really sure anymore. Must be an age thing.

Well, it won't be in this year's Christmas stocking then. Course, the engine-less Superformance "exact" clone is only a buck and a quarter...but that's still too rich for me these days.