Ace-Garageguy

Wish they'd put as much thought into making the timing belt on the PT cruiser accessible to mere humans.

Haz ta doo wit wat ta doo wit da leftover bitz frum da Trumpeter kit, if youse use da chassee under a Mushtang. It kinda spun off the rails after I suggested in post 5 that the Trumpeter body could make a nice gasser on a simple rectangular tube frame, if you used the Trumpeter uniboby underparts for your Mustang.

Speaking of bizarre...hows about a turbine-powered bike?? http://www.build-threads.com/build-threads/jet-powered-land-speed-motorbike/

Agreed. But I still say, bizarro doesn't have to be fugly. Here's a turbine-powered rod from '61 running a turbine of similar power output to the OP....

Power was out here Saturday for a few hours due to high winds. Then my phone/internet provider's lines went down later. Geez...cold (my house is under renovation, kinda breezy inside and electric-heated) and cut off from the world. No wonder the girls don't come around any more. Time to get some fossil-fuel-burning backup heat source, methinks.

Yup...that poor little Pontiac thing probably helped to drive a few nails in the Poncho's coffin, too. Looks like it was designed by someone who didn't really ever notice what cars looked like...a woman, maybe? (Quick...somebody call the PC police !!!) Far as the pink AMX goes...yeah, I'd take it and be happy. Even if I had to leave it pink.

Yes. Lotsa guys use that combo. No problems.

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/07/25/boeing-powered-t-bucket-2/

Somebody must be cloning those women and distributing them all over the country. They're everywhere. Come to think of it, I see a lot of women driving Jukes too. A smiling frog. How cute.

Correct. The "7/8 scale" thing was myth. Nascar had templates back then too. From the article Greg posted: In truth, if Smokey’s Chevelle were a true 7/8 size, it would be almost 10 inches narrower and more than two feet shorter than a full-scale version. The wheelbase would be only 100 inches; the track 50 inches. The car would be Vega-sized, not Chevelle-sized, and the scam would be obvious in a rainstorm at midnight. But Yunick WAS a genius with car prep and trick mods.

Yeah, great color scheme on that car. Really brings out the lines. Aggressive, but still subtle. Nize.

Cool little bucket. Very nice. Good to see some torsion-bar suspension on a hot-rod for an interesting change too. And great use of the Touch-N-Flow tube.

Clean build, slick paint and foil work. And I really like the color blend. It reminds me of some of the colorized CFD airflow simulations. Pretty cool.

Great concept. I really like "alternate reality" ideas.

By "regular" Testors I assume you mean the ones that say "spray enamel" on the label. In that case, brake fluid or purple goo or oven cleaner should work fine to strip it. If you're using Testors "Model Master" line products that say "lacquer" on the label, stripping may be a little more difficult. There is an entire thread devoted to paint stripping here: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=83153 Whatever you do, DO NOT use any hardware or big-box store "paint stripper". It WILL RUIN your model.

Two questions. 1) What year was the stock frame requirement dropped? The '67 NHRA season allowed the Malco Gasser Mustang to compete as a gas-class car, built on the old Willys frame, modified and stretched. 2) I'm not understanding what was "so called" about FX. If I recall correctly, it was a specific class for "factory experimental" cars. Granted the rules were few, but there WERE rules stating the car could only be built from major parts available from the manufacturer (parts could be swapped between model lines, which is how Mickey Thompson got away with a solid rear axle and a 389 in an early Tempest shell).

Maybe on a generic rectangular tube frame, which I think would have been class-legal in 1965 or thereabouts...recall that the Malco Gasser Mustang was built on Montgomery's old '33 Willys gasser frame...

The invasion stripes would imply the aircraft took part in the D-Day operations of June 1944...but I thought the Mk 22 came later than that (being basically a bubble-canopy Mk 21, which saw very little service in the Second World War). Are the invasion stripes for a tribute paint scheme, I wonder?

I've been wondering that too. How much did the chassis really change later in to the '60s, and how similar is, say, a '65 Falcon? Would the Trumpeter Falcon chassis be close enough? After all, the Mustang was built on the Falcon platform.

Cool. Can I borrow a million?

There's a Franklin Mint 1/24 diecast. Kinda pricey to cut up though.

Here ya' go. If you can't read it on the board, save in on your hard drive and open it in your photo viewer. The resolution is high enough to read it just fine with a little magnification.

It kinda depends on your definition of "girl" I guess. I used to know a beautiful woman who drove a lipstick-red '57 T-bird, one who drove a 450SL Merc, one who drove a series 3 E-type convertible, and one who drove a 289 4-speed '66 Mustang. Not your typical "girls". These days, I see a lot of women driving these... ...How boring. I kinda like this though...

For some odd reason, I can only take 1/32 scale seriously for aircraft models. I just don't think I could get up the steam to do a custom in so small a scale. BUT...you say there's a resin body? 1/25 maybe?

Very nice. Another one of my all-time favorite warbirds. Gorgeous, sexy airplanes.