Ace-Garageguy

If you look very carefully at the photo, you'll notice the hood is not molded as one piece with the body shell.

Here's some more about various hobby woods... https://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/9320-choices-other-than-boxwood-or-swiss-pear/

Similar, sorta. Boxwood is a little harder and holds sharp corners better. It's preferred by some modelers because of these characteristics.

You don't really believe people actually read the instructions to anything do you?

Frankly, you could make something equally effective (or probably far better) using cardboard or Masonite, and saving most of the $100. Having a paint booth isn't a guarantee of dust-free paint jobs anyway. The primary purpose of a booth in modeling is to collect the fumes and paint dust before they enter the modeling room, and expel them outside (preferably after having been filtered to remove particulates ans some of the volatile components). Getting a dust-free finish is more about careful prep, de-dusting oneself and one's immediate environment prior to painting, and thinking through the entire process. But to each his own.

I don't build model car dioramas, but I started building detailed model railroad buildings in the late 1950s, and was pretty good at it by the late 1960s. There are two primary woods used for models, balsa and basswood. Balsa is softer, more open-grained. Basswood is harder, more close-grained (so it usually looks better as scale lumber). You can cut your own strips, planks, any dimensional lumber from sheets, or buy commercially prepared strip-wood. Just bear in mind what scale you're working in. For example, a 2X4 in 1/24 scale will measure .083" X 0.166". A 2X4 in 1/87 (HO scale) will measure .023" X .046".

Good looking little car. Congratulations on owning something so very unusual.

Most excellent. I wholeheartedly approve of the non-PC packaging photo too.

I'm only mildly irked. Not even irked, exactly. Just disappointed that I can't do as much yard work (without feeling like I've been beaten by a gang of thugs with baseball bats afterwards) as I could a few years back. Time to take working out a little more seriously.

Thanks for the heads-up, Bernard. I be needin sum.

Cats make remarkably good foot-warmers on those long, lonely winter nights. Yup, he's a happy cat curled up in front of the thing.

It's been covered before.

Welp, I guess I'll have to get myself one for Christmas. Pretty cool. Looks like a fine piece of work.

How about one of the very rare twin P&W J-58 powered Mach 3 Chevy trucks?

Yeah. The beer dynasty guy.

Also---according to the current owner of what is apparently the last one (the rest were crushed) the car was delivered in Ford's dark metallic blue (for that model year), and the outside was painted the USAF blue...but all interior surfaces and jambs are still the OEM Ford metallic blue.

Here's an underhood shot...so the second line on the door otter be 88B 9971

Well bugger. I downloaded it to my own drive and blew it up, but I can't make out the smaller two lines of text (though somebody with a de-pixelating app otter be able to). Sorry. I tried.

NICE !!! This is the kind of stuff that's the real value of user contributions. Thanks.

Yeah, because of Snakes point, I don't agonize too much over disposal. And I'm kinda on the obsessively "green" side about many things. Sodium hydroxide is the active ingredient, and it's used in a wide variety of products that are routinely dumped in the drain...like soap and detergent. I tend to use mine as long as it will work, occasionally filtering out the paint flakes and chunks (which I'll allow to dry, or just pour in an old paint can that I take to the proper facility when it's eventually full...which takes a LONG time). If the filtered, exhausted product is diluted with a lot of water, I really don't see a problem with pouring it into the sewer. After all, it IS drain cleaner, and you're not going to be disposing of industrial quantities. BUT: You really SHOULD keep it in a sealed container for re-use as long as possible. AND WEAR EYE PROTECTION AND GLOVES

I always used to get a chuckle back in the '80s seeing little Dodge D-50s running around Dobbins. They were, of course, built by the same Mitsubishi company that built Japanese military aircraft in WW II. I wonder if anyone involved with that particular procurement contract was even aware of the irony.

^^^ Hey ma...lookit that cop trying to pull an airplane over !!!

I remember when the AF painted a lot of their stuff that color. Never saw anything that shiny though.

Here's some more vintage speed parts. Some T, some A, and some flathead and later, but all fascinating if you're into old go-fast. https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2015/09/09/speed-parts-spotters-guide/