Ace-Garageguy

Which I did for you. Bottom of this page from the Rivera Owners Association states that '63 was the only year the Riv had a silver engine. https://rivowners.org/features/evolution/evpt63.html

The OP asked specifically about '63 Riviera engines. Interesting that AACA members seem to think '63 Riv engines were silver. Note I'm NOT arguing, just saying it's interesting...and suggesting that further research to find a definitive answer might be in order. https://forums.aaca.org/topic/243125-silver-engine-color-for-a-1963-riviera/

The vid of the Jag XJ13 starting and working through some winding roads Matt Bacon kindly provided a link to. Biggest smile I've had in weeks.

Thank you, sir. Sometimes I almost forget why I love machines so much. But to see and hear this glorious beast doing what it was intended to do, especially after having been almost destroyed and then lovingly rebuilt, brings it all back.

I've never bought a kit I didn't intend to build, or at least pirate parts from to build something else, but reality has had a serious negative effect on my ability to accomplish much of anything not work-or-sundry-other-complicated-problem-related for a while now. My acquisitions are vastly outpacing my hobby-bench time...but they allow me to enjoy at least one part of the hobby until I get certain complex aspects of my life sorted...or until the world ends, or until I just fall off my perch.

"Surprised" considerably understated my reaction when I saw an eBay seller had voluntarily refunded part of a shipping charge that wasn't exorbitant in the first place.

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Fine little bike. Looks great. Polished metal finish on the engine is particularly nice.

Great information. Thanks. I need to hunt down the K&R XJ-6. I have a very few English kits in 1/24, only one I can recall at the moment being a C-type Jag. Monogram did some metal-body kits with well-detailed plastic innards, a Jag 120, MG TC, '56 T-bird, maybe more. They build up very well with a little extra effort, and Monogram released the same kits with styrene bodies.

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Pretty baby. Really beautiful machine and model both.

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/243125-silver-engine-color-for-a-1963-riviera/

I'm like heem.

If you really really want to print parts, fine, but you know...there are '59 Pontiac kits out there. Not cheap, but sometimes fairly reasonable if you wait. Here's one... https://www.ebay.com/itm/285419613841 There's diecast in 1/24 as well...like this Danbury Mint version for under $200. Another option would be to buy either of these, take the dimensions you need directly from the parts, or make silicone molds to cast resin parts. Then sell the model on for most likely more than you paid for it. Just a thought...

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It is hard to improve on a car that's so right the way it came (as most people who've customized first-gen T-birds have amply demonstrated), but your proportions look good so far. This will definitely be one worth watching.

Yes, true now. But it didn't used to be that way. Getting a new car was a big deal. People would get excited to see the new models when they were introduced each year, often going around to different showrooms just to gawk. Getting a license used to be a big deal too. It meant freedom. Now we have a couple generations to whom driving is largely a bother, who'd rather use Uber than deal with car ownership, prefer to get their food delivered rather than actually going somewhere, and who have zero interest in anything mechanical. Times, as I'm so often lectured, have changed.

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I've always been fascinated by the visual complexity and multitude of cars and equipment in railroad yards. When I lived in downtown Atlanta, I sometimes used to watch the action from the Marietta Street bridge over Inman Yard (above), until the bridge was demolished in 1978. I've wanted to incorporate a good sized yard in my next layout, and have been buying broken, bodged, and parts-missing freight cars for pennies for some years...mostly to fill the yards with interesting rolling stock from the late '30s and '40s to early '60s era. Most of them had missing wheelsets or trucks, and though I've swapped some around, I still ended up with a lot of cars with no wheels at all. Recently I found a sweet deal on enough Bettendorf trucks (by Tichy) for 40 cars and another group of earlier archbar trucks (also Tichy) to equip 10 more. Around the same time, I found an even sweeter deal on 12, late '40s era Pennsy 40' boxcar kits, all with different numbers. I ended up paying almost exactly what they sold for new in 1987. To sweeten the deal even more, when I opened the boxcar kits, I found each one had an extra pair of rigid Bettendorf truck frames in addition to the high-quality fully-sprung trucks (including nice wheels) the kits normally include. That's enough extra truck frames for 12 more freight cars...but they had no wheels. China and eBay to the rescue, with a bag of 48 wheelsets, enough for all the extra truck frames, brandy new, made to the RP25 standard (supposedly)...cheap. So cheap I bought 48 more, so I think I'm covered as far as getting all my sad little freight cars at least to the point where they'll roll. As most of the cars in the freight yard won't ever move much, if at all...other than getting switched around at very low speeds...high-quality metal wheelsets won't be necessary. I also snagged a pair of vintage, NIB Campbell Howe truss bridge kits, for considerably under current retail market price. These are intended to go in the mountainous part of the layout, supporting shortline trackage that will serve several mining operations. These are all wood "craftsman" kits, with steel wire tension rods and plastic molded boltheads and other detail parts. Finally, I got a really cheap powered frame intended for a '50s or so EMD SD diesel locomotive, "broken". Already fixed it, and it's a perfect fit under an SD shell I bought a while back at a flea market for $1. Now I have a heavy diesel road-switcher with a lot of pulling power for less than $15. With a little more work, she'll look like this. I'm happy.

Another great project. I also have one of these built-up, in need of restoration. What you've done so far is exemplary.

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