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The Eddie Dye roadster, which I think is the most perfect rod ever built, was broken up and the parts scattered. Last I heard, some of the bits have come back together, and it's getting a newly fabbed nose and hood. EDIT: Rodder's Journal #77 has the story..."Like so many other early hot rods, the Eddie Dye roadster lost its identity when it was updated to keep up with the times. More than half a century later, the pieces are back together again, thanks to New Jersey’s Tom and Jim Bobowski and Jimmy White of Circle City Hot Rods in Orange, California. In “A Roadster Reunited,” we tell the complete tale of the mysterious track-nosed ’29 Ford using historical photos, magazine articles and interviews with past owners—all of which nicely augment the baremetal studio feature."

I dunno...but what's the story on the shot of the Futura, apparently recently? I thought the original was terminally modded into the Batthing by Barris. If somebody's built a full-scale replica, that's one of the very few things I'd tag as "awesome".

These both look great...a lot better than I'd expected. I never paid much attention to smaller scale bike kits, as even some of the larger ones look klugey and toylike to me. The molded detail on the little chopper is really impressive, and indicative of why I was such a fan of Revell's work back in those days. Nice work, Mr. Boyd.

It was partly (in large part, really) seeing your outstanding renditions of a lot of these land yachts that got me interested in collecting some to do myself when I get the time in another year or so...and once I master BMF. Did that Merc come with the up-top, or did you modify it from something else?

Looking good so far. Nice job on the springs, getting the wheel openings round, and not going for the nose-way-high look favored by some "nostalgia" builders.

Got this issue of Lindberg's GT6. Generally awful kit, but after purchasing a built up a while back, I saw it does have definite possibilities. The built-up was missing parts, so I figgered I'd see if I could get a complete un-molested kit. The prices have been getting silly high for some reason, but persistence finally prevailed. Really...a lot of it is horrible, like the engine, the window openings, and a host of other things discussed elsewhere. And the "racing" options are pretty funny..."wheelie bars" and a (I guess) gasser-style fuel tank hanging under the front bumper. Kinda unlikely a stock-engined Triumph anything will be doing any wheelies, but better safe than sorry, eh? And of course, the Minilite wheels shown on the quite nice box illustration are nowhere to be found. Plugged a hole in my 1/25 sports cars with this issue of AMT's 289 Cobra, another one I had only a gluebomb of previously. Not a bad kit, but definitely going to need some massaging to cure the too-wide track, exceptionally heavy windshield frame, and some of the underhood details. The general proportions and lines are pretty good, but it shares the unfortunate butt-in-the-air inaccuracy of a lot of the Cobra kits out there. It's immediately obvious to anyone familiar with the cars, and makes an appearance on some of the full-scale kit-car bodies as well. Oh well. Not too hard to fix. Last, a '59 Mercury hardtop built-up. Bought it primarily because I'd never seen one before, and this one is exceptionally clean. She's missing a couple of easily duplicated parts, but she has what I need to take molds from. Frankly, I have no plans or even ideas yet for this little car, other than as maybe just a straight resto back to stock, removing mold lines and replating bumpers, etc.

Supposedly two '53's were built for evaluation by the factory. I saw a ratty, rusty one decades ago that had exceptionally well-made top frame and hardware bits, with the line of the top fabric very well integrated with the body lines...much higher quality craftsmanship, design, and engineering than the typical non-factory custom would have exhibited. The story was that the car was in fact one of the two...and judging from the professionalism of the conversion, I'd be well inclined to believe it.

Wow. Turkeys in the hall of a condo. I see 'em at the federal park sometimes, but not in this neighborhood. Just a reminder that Thanksgiving is closer than you think.

Which is exactly why I've bought several 1/24 diecasts in recent years, cars that will most likely never make it to styrene kits. And in a lot of cases, I've bought damaged or missing-parts diecast models, where building something custom or rodded was the intent.

Very nice. With all that detail and those Dzus fasteners, if shot outside in daylight, I think it would come off as very realistic. I'd always intended to build a real one, but I think I might be running out of time.

Cool. I love seeing specialty tools like you have there. Nice.

Hmmm...I'm looking at one of his on there right now, something I've been after for a long time, and it's about $60. Kinda hate to see an over 100% markup...though I'd gladly pay the guy who MADE the thing that much.

Very nice. Never ever see those Escorts over here, real or model.

I remember him pitching the '69 Series against the Orioles, still followed the Mets after I moved south from Yankeeland.

I remember that. Good info.

These Lindberg built-ups arrived today too. I've been using another one as a practice base for the Archer rivet transfers, and was just about to start one, opening the major panels and swapping in guts from the poorly proportioned Aurora/ Monogram E-type. There was a real kit-car of the D-type built on E-type guts, so it's a reasonable idea. With two ratty ones to hack up, I can keep the nice ones nice until inspiration hits...or I die.

Pretty cool. I've never seen a Loewy Stude raced anywhere but Bonneville, but after you mentioned it, I did some digging. Lotsa racing Studes out there for inspiration...

That's a thought...hmmmmmm.

Starbird was one of my sorta-heroes. I thought it must be really cool to make a living building custom cars. I had one eons ago, but it got away and I never really thought I'd get another one. This one's nicer than I'd ever expected to find, but I have no idea what I'd ever build from it...though that bubble top is calling to me...

If I said I had a plan for it, somebody would just make a comment about me never finishing anything. And anyway, I have no plan for it whatsoever. Never thought I'd find one complete and un-buggered, so I never thought too much about it. For now, it's joined the ranks of the very few kits I bought solely for nostalgia's sake to take out and look at occasionally, and let my mind go back to a much better time. Whatcha gonna do with the aqua one? It looks to be in pretty good shape.

You're doing it wrong. You're supposed to look INTO it, not AT it.

At least 98% complete, unmolested, with only minor tire burn on a couple of parts. This is a "grail" kit I've been after for years.

Just got another Testors (Italeri) CCKW water truck to do an aircraft fuel service truck.