Ace-Garageguy

Too bad. I'm not taking on any more customer work. Try to cope with the disappointment.

I do so love to be appreciated. I live for it, actually.

I think it's pretty self-explanatory.

Or perhaps this one? Maybe this one?

Surely you're familiar with the term "Karen" referring to a particular personality type? They're everywhere.

Yup, no "glass". My first one was molded in dark brown. I tried to brush-paint the light colored wood trim with Testors "flesh" enamel, and got it everywhere, naturally. Then tried to wash it off with thinner. Not enough thinner by far, and a much bigger mess. And on, and on. When I look back, it's kinda amazing my parents allowed me to work with tools and paint and glue at a relatively early age. Probably wouldn't find much of that today. I actually kept the poor thing for years, until it was disappeared from a mini-warehouse when I was out of the country and my useless girlfriend missed a few payments on the space...though I sent her plenty of money.

I'll need to study up on wood-graining techniques, but if I remember correctly, there are multiple threads on this site by guys who have it down.

Agreed...understated elegance:

Finally got a decent restorable one of these for reasonable money. As it was the very first car model I ever got my grubby little gloo-smearing paws on, and made a truly horrible mess of, I've been kinda wanting one to see if I can do any better 60 years on. I also love the looks of all '57 Fords The one I found was built and painted inside and out some awful baby-exhaust brown, apparently trying to look like something it wasn't, but I rolled the dice anyway. A few hours in warm oven cleaner removed every bit of paint and oddball non-solvent gloo on the test parts, so it looks like I have a nice rebuildable and unbodged kit under all the nastiness. And it came with lotsa extra vintage Revell '57 Ford bits.

Thanks for the info.

IMHO, Raymond Loewy, the Avanti designer, got it right...round headlights and all. Every subsequent "improvement" was about as aesthetically successful as this:

Actually, the head was cast iron unless it was a Cosworth. Cast iron head, alloy block...backwards from every other engine on the planet. Semi-experimental no-liner silicon-impregnated engine block, iron-sprayed pistons, all intended to achieve a lighter, simpler, cheaper assembly; not a very good idea in the long run, though I've seen well maintained Vegas that ran fine until they rusted to non-economically-repairable swiss cheese. Porsche 928 (and others) used the same Reynolds 390 or A390 aluminum/silicon block material, again linerless, and got it to work well enough...though rebuilding an alloy engine using a linerless block can be problematic. https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/830010/

"Surely you jest, sir!!"

To the best of my knowledge, you can't tell from that photo. For specific detail differences, see: https://mustangmaniac.org/64-12-coupe-260/

Speed City Resin makes one: SC-78 http://speedcityresin.com/PartsPageEngine.html (scroll halfway down page)

AMT '55 Nomad is one of the more frequently recommended ones:

Two more of these, destined to be derivatives there are no kits of: One more of each of these, again destined to be derivatives or early cars no kits exist for:

Driven by LARPers wearing chain mail made from pop-tops, with scary-skulls finger-painted on leftover bat-flu masks, carrying their moms' leaf-blowers into battle. Kinda like Seattle a while back.

Exactly. But it's a follow-the-leader thing too. Then when it all goes to hell, everybody says they were just doing what everyone else does, established procedure, and more excuse-making CYA drivel bla-bla-bla ad nauseum. Engineering case in point: there is no GOOD reason for running vehicle functions like power windows, door locks, brake lights, wipers, etc. through a "body module". It's mindless overcomplication that has the ONE possible partially redeeming feature of allowing a vehicle to self-diagnose if the "technician" simply has no clue as to how a basic 12V DC circuit works. Period. It increases the amount of wiring. It requires more chips. It does not promote the kind of long-term bulletproof reliability of secondary systems US vehicles USED to be famous for. (NOTE: ALL the systems that do NOT have microprocessor controls on ALL my old vehicles still operate; it is ONLY the processor-controlled functions that have quit). In short, it's just stupid. And everybody does it. Because everybody else does.

Hmmmmmmm...a problem I've never encountered. They call 'em "milk's favorite cookie" for what I always thought was a pretty good reason.

The molto cheaper generic ones are every bit as good...and every bit as bad for you. Why waste money paying for advertising?

Ya think?