Ace-Garageguy

You might want to read it again. What it actually says is "the mold that made these 1/25 promos was later converted into a model kit tool, the same tool that made this kit you are about to build". There are several major differences between the "promo" and the kit derived from it. For instance, the actual promo had the windshield frame, hood, and headlight rims molded into the body shell as one piece. The underside of the actual promo is the typical stamped metal, friction-motor job. EDIT: The ORIGINAL AMT "Styling" kit was in fact almost the promo offered as a kit, but it is an entirely different animal from the kit you have. It included the one-piece body (the windshield frame is broken in the photo below), a stamped metal chassis, and the promo's cast metal bumpers. It was also molded in light green, as well as the red shown below. https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/amt-ford-thunderbird-styling-kit-25-1899416906

Modelers working with wet cool clay would enjoy it more today than those of us who are welding.

"Here, There, and Everywhere" was one of the Beatles' more romantic songs.

Predator UAV's wings have been occasionally carefully blueprinted by hand, glider-style, in experiments to enhance performance.

Wild cats sometimes don't take to humans even if you get them as kittens.

Or at least store 'em upside down, so in theory only the propellant will leak and you can still decant the rest to airbrush (seein' as how it always seems to be the bottom of the cans that leak...).

Cool score. Guess I need to check the one near me...

Check out that cool shine-runner long-rear-shackle stance. My old man bought a new '63 two-door to commute from our home on the Jersey shore into NYC every day. Great little car, 3-on-the-tree. But my mother refused to even ride in it. Traded it in '65 on a 289 autobox Mustang that she hated too.

Young people often think they know everything (I was one) without having experienced the reality of much of anything.

Is OBO the same as OOB?

Netflix is something I'd never spend a nickel on.

"Bernie's" is one of those lead-in words that could get me in trouble here if I were to follow on with the first thought that comes to mind.

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"Encore" sounds like "on corps", which sounds different from "on corpse".

Thanks for your interest and comment.

"Everytime" isn't a word.

Exactly. My '62 Super 7 had a Cosworth-prepared pushrod Ford 1340 "Kent" engine with two Weber 40s. The car weighed less than 900 pounds dry and made probably 110 HP. It was pretty zippy.

The "big" 220 Offy typically drives a magneto off of the front cover, but a really competent engineer/machinist/fabricator could certainly devise a way to drive an alternator and make up brackets and pulleys for same. With advances in ignition systems over the decades, a mag wouldn't be required on a street engine, but I'd keep it just for the look. The engines in the Indy "roadsters" were typically started with an external starter that engaged the forward end of the crankshaft, but there's no reason a ring gear couldn't be fitted to the flywheel (Offy may have already done it anyway) to use a conventional starter, freeing up the nose of the crank to drive accessories. Any trans can also be adapted to pretty much any engine in the time-honored traditional ways too. Some of the specifics I'd have to research thoroughly, but there's nothing much that can't be done if you want to do it bad enough and can pay the freight.

Milder cam timing and big side-draft Weber carbs (or electronic fuel injection) should handle the normally aspirated engines quite nicely, and the same approach (milder cams, electronic engine management or street carburetion) would work with turbocharged Offys. The racing cam timing won't really idle well and makes little power at lower revs, and the racing mechanical fuel injection was pretty much wide-open-throttle, usually with zero provision for idling too (think Hilborn mechanical injection)...and one reason for the constant throttle "blipping" in those days. Though Hilborn injection can be made streetable (and was by tuning wizards in the wayback by providing additional idle and part-throttle metering circuits) it's not your basic shade-tree chimp job. Milder cam timing would kill some top end power, but could also considerably beef up the available power at low and mid-range RPM. The "big" Offy in the '50s was in the neighborhood of 220-270 cubic inches, so 250-300 usable street horsepower should be easily attainable unblown. Consider the lowly smallblock Chevy was making one horsepower per cubic inch at the time, without the benefit of the Offy's technical sophistication. 250-300 horsepower doesn't sound like much today, but believe me, 250 in an 1800 pound car is well beyond "exhilarating".

It's getting to the point I just don't want to fly commercial anymore. Both Boeing and Airbus have recently discovered they've built planes using "titanium" with faked documentation from a certain "offshore" supplier. The material, when tested, passes some of its required performance metrics and fails others. Inspiring, isn't it? EDIT: This resonates with a situation some years back when the aviation community was awash with substandard hardware and fasteners, also all with faked documentation to make them appear legit, and traced back to the same part of the world. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/growing-threat-counterfeit-aircraft-parts-aviation-safety-reddy

And I'm pretty sure every time, the new owners made it "better", which in Kraft's SOP means "engineer as much cost and flavor out of everything we make so it will appeal to the standard 8-year old's level of culinary sophistication". I really liked the Shelby seasonings first time I tried it decades ago. Last time...meh, and never again.

Sticker shock hits me pretty much daily now on just about everything, for at least the last couple years.

I'm listening to a lot of various flavors of "vaporwave" lately. All these tracks are good n' funky through decent big speakers, loud...

And a chili "kit" which is still sold. https://carrollshelbyschili.com/history

Maybe I'll have time to drag this one across the line: de-tuned Offy powered, 6-speed manual box, fabricated front independent suspension, rear Jag MkX or XJ, etc. I did the first mockup way back in 2012.