Ace-Garageguy

Wow. Wow. Man. Wow.

Yes sir, the 288 GTO is a pretty rare bird. Once kinda thought about doing a 1:1 knock-off using a 308...but that was a long long time ago.

Very nice. The photos could almost pass for a real car.

And a "shiny red" super-stock Dodge, too. Jan and Dean and the lil' ol' lady from Pasadena would be proud. Looks great.

Realtors say a lot of nonsense. My last one was a lying idiot. I asked why every room was wonky, every door opening was lozenged, and why there were multiple chalk-lines and sloping cut blocks on top of the poured basement walls. I said "looks to me like no one knew how to use a level". She said "it's an old house. Built in 1969. I think it was before levels were invented".

Looking good. Slick hinge design too.

Always a fan of frosted canted-quad, bubble-top, spaceship customs with drawer-pull grilles. Nice one.

Pretty sure the first album I bought was the Beach Boys "Little Deuce Coupe". Figures. I lost most of my vinyl over the years, but I still have a pristine Dual 1219 turntable and a 4-channel Fisher 414 tuner-amp. Now running through slightly hot-rodded Fusilier model 5 speakers.

The thing up top looks like it was styled by a talentless 8-tear old, and it's just another "look at me" piece. The original 'production' car was a homologation special, so the car could be raced with the aero enhancements. It had a purpose, and the nose and tail didn't look ridiculous on the race-car.

So if two threads on this styling joke are better than one, then THREE threads is really tops, huh?

If one thread on this silly looking thing is good, two are better, right?

I work with an internationally-known hot-rod shop here, and we're needing people to help keep up with the work backlog. We'd prefer trainees to teach them the RIGHT way to do stuff, rather than hire hackers who think they're experts. I'd think there would be a line around the block of young guys wanting to get hired, but nobody seems interested, and the few young ones we try out get discouraged almost immediately when they find out it's not a glamor job like on TV, and that to develop a skill-set takes a lot of hard, dirty work over several years.

You can achieve similar effects by shooting a fast-drying paint or primer, like lacquer, from farther away that you usually would. What you're trying to get is an exaggerated "orange-peel" texture. It takes experimentation to get just the right look you're after, and sometimes you may have to shoot a dry, pebbly primer, sand off just a little of the tops of the bumps, and then spray a flow-coat of enamel to get something that looks exactly like what's pictured.

Very nice job on fitting and filling that top. That's the one area where most builds of this and the other '36 Ford kits go awry, and usually ruin an otherwise nice model. Your work getting it to look like a one-piece molded part, and your paintwork, really set this one apart from the crowd.

Or Bing...

Nice to see this one moving forward again. Closer and closer.

Hey Tom...my brain just clicked into gear. Are you still needing a hood for the Merit Talbot Lago ? I'm almost back up and running again.

Yeah, and the real ones are heavy barges too, so be sure to use plenty of engine.

I'm sure Roger, Brett and Danno are right about a Tucker having little chance of success as a kit from a major manufacturer...poor business case, which is what the thread is about...but it MIGHT make an interesting subject for some talented and enthusiastic fella to measure carefully and digitize in hopes that the 3D printing scenario will become cheap and high-resolution enough to enable building a full-detail model, but side-stepping investment in tooling.

That's what you get when you drive a Challenger under a trailer, and then smooth over the damage with bondo without bothering to straighten the metal first.

I have to disagree. Just because a car didn't sell in the millions doesn't make it insignificant. The Tucker was killed by the competition (if you believe the story), Hollywood thought enough of it to make a feature film about it (with name talent), and it had many advanced and interesting engineering innovations like the rear-mounted, air cooled engine. I personally think it would make a fascinating model. Of course, as it shares components with virtually no other car on the planet, crossover sales or light re-tools wouldn't be possible. On the other hand, I'd pay a LOT more for a good 1/24-1/25 Tucker, and I'd buy several.

I'd REALLY like to see some 2002 and later Dodge pickups too. I think it's a great looking truck, and as it was a ground-up redesign in 2002, the later chassis and guts, i assume, are similar enough to rebody with several later iterations using the '02 tooling mostly. There were factory hot-rod versions as well.

Me three. And I'm surprised the Homeowner's Assn. hasn't shot the guy working on the Mustang at the top of Greg's post #19. Oh, I know. All the other houses are empty bank repos.

Wild. Lots of really nice work here.

Surely someone's going to think I'm brown-nosing Greg again, but i could go for a set of well-done early Mustangs too. All the racing and Shelby variants, etc. etc. And Mustangs have appeal beyond the knowledgeable car-guys. Hell...everybody either had a Mustang or knows someone who did...even 3 women i know who are as far removed from "car guy" as it's possible to be.