Fat Brian

Some kinds of model railroad grass looks like fine hair and would probably make a shag carpet effect.

I've had this happen a few times will small time shippers, even as recently as last week. My wife ordered some things just after Thanksgiving and once it shipped we watched the tracking, it went from New Jersey to Virginia then to North Carolina, then back to Virginia, then back to North Carolina, then to Virginia again where it stopped updating for almost a week. Now well outside of the delivery window we contacted the store, they were out of some of the things she ordered so we got a partial refund and what was still available resent. Then one day last week her original package shows up on the porch looking like they kicked it from Jersey to Charlotte.

That looks like a 60s model, in the 70s they got big squarish turn signals more on the outer corner of the fender and bigger taillights.

Ok, I found a couple of things from the stash too. The seats from the 79 Pinto fit perfectly but they're not exactly racy but are more cushioned. Also the weird seats from the Surf Wagon might be shaped into something interesting.

Yeah, that's hard to justify for just the seats, I really don't need the rest of it.

Thank you for the measurements, those are exactly the right width. Is that pack still around is us it hard to come by now?

Thank you Bill for all the real world experience, that's going to help me a lot with this build. The passenger compartment is 38mm wide and the transmission tunnel is 7mm wide so I've got 15mm on each side to work with for the seats. The reason I wanted to replace the stock seat pads in this build is that it's getting prepped for off road racing. I would like a little more padding for the several thousand miles of this event. The Fujimi seats look like they might do the trick if they were lowered a bit.

I need two racing seats small enough to fit in Tamiya's Lotus Super 7. They'd probably be a similar size to something that would fit in a Model A or 32 Ford. Ideally something relatively modern but without a lot of crazy bolsters like a NASCAR seat.

You're best bet is to make one from two of the 3408s in the Revell Kenworth long nose kits, the flat top, wrecker, and dump truck all have one. You can also usually find a kit breaker selling just the engine on ebay.

That would be insane, you probably couldn't keep it going in a straight line but it would be fun while it lasted.

This us what the current packaging looks like, I was able to order it through Walmart around here.

I had to finish it, it was too fun once I got going to let it languish in the box.

I picked up a Tamiya Lotus Super 7 for this run, kind of inspired by James May's Caterham from the Grand Tour's Madagascar episode. I'm going to lift it a bit and run the other pairs of tires from the beetle. I'd like to find a twin cam 1600 Lotus engine too.

Here's my entry for 1981, it's technically a 79 but the first face lift for the Fox body was wasn't until 1983 so the 79-82 cars look pretty much the same. The plan is to use the Capri fenders from the red Revell body to make a widebody kit for the silver MPC body and then throw that on the chassis from the drag version of the 90 Revell notchback kit. I'm going to use the kit engine with a centrifugal supercharger for a little extra oomph and maybe a T56 six speed if I can spare one.

Engines usually tilt back a bit like in your picture. It helps with driveline angles, the smaller the angle in a universal joint the smoother it operates.

I might be in, I had fun with my bug from the last one.

Yes, as long as the bodystyle was available in a given year its good even if the specific year on the kit doesn't match. This is great for newer cars where they ran the same body basically unchanged for several years in a row.

Yep, all these are curbside. For a unique swap check out the Clearly Scale 1UZ resin kits, they have a few supercharged versions of a Toyota v8 that should have been available in these trucks from the factory.

This picture is courtesy of Tim Boyd, the kit will hopefully be out next year.

You've also got trucks, Broncos, and Blazers/Jimmy's from all of the Big Three available with a little kit bashing for the GMC truck.

The MPC Fiero kits have a 2.8 liter v6.

The Johan Boss 429 engines are the best in 1/25 scale, none of the AMT versions I've seen much to speak about. If you don't care about a stock intake or transmission you can find them in the Mustang and Pinto funny cars. The whole engine can be found in the 72 Torino stock car kits. The Revell 70 Torino kits with their SCJ motor could supply some of the missing stock looking parts though they wouldn't be identical to the Boss parts.

Keep an eye on ebay, builtups and partial kits come up every so often.

Thank you, really the wing on your car looks totally normal for cars over here. I see cars with race style wings like that every day so it would completely blend in. The color helps too, I had a hard time picking a color but love how the Tamiya gunmetal looks on it, it makes it kind of stealthy. The foil helped too, it was kind of bland without the foil on the upper wing extension piece.

Regular Testors thinner on a Q-tip will remove it, be very careful depending on what type of paint you used.