Fat Brian

I've bought single items out of a package from them before. I bought some stock Torino bumpers and hoods out of a conversion kit.

I'll bite for this, I have several kits that would be perfect for this type of build.

And they are by far the most useful part of the kit.

All of those are great, yeah, just as long as it looks dumpy and home built it should fit the bill.

This is an interesting idea.

That's why I bought one but there's nothing useful but the wheels and exhaust tips.

Those are very good, I love that body style of Camaro.

At least some of them are curbside, I made that mistake on the 2012 kit.

I've been thinking about a build that would be appropriate for the 24 hours of Lemons races and figured it might make an interesting community build. Basically the rules are the car must be obtained for under $500. There is an unlimited safety budget and all cars must have at least a six point roll cage, racing seat and harness, and a fuel cell. There is a tech inspection process to confirm the cars safety and access penalty laps for cars that have been modified beyond the spirit of the rules, this is supposed to be a cheap build. For the purposes of this build I would say just be able to come up with a reasonable explanation for the mods you've made, the story of the build is a part of the project. Subject matter is pretty open, there are classes for RWD, FWD, V8, 4 cyl, essentially any configuration. If this gets any traction we'll pin down a start and end date and maybe a judging criteria.

I was thinking about buying another Mack but for that price they can keep it.

The second season ends around June 1981.

Tim posted in another section its supposed to be early 2021. Someone else posted the box art builds.

The kits I buy fall into two categories, things I actually want to build and donor kits to supply parts that aren't in the first group of kits. The box art doesn't really matter though I do prefer pictures of the actual kit at least somewhere on the box. Brand doesn't really matter either, most builds on my shelf have parts from several kits from all the brands in them. This is why I like options, the more parts I have to work with or use elsewhere the better. I have many builds where they plan is to replace a promo style chassis with a full detail one from a more modern kit. My favorite part of modeling is building, sitting down with parts or a pile of Evergreen and making something. If I could outsource the painting and finishing of the body to someone else for a reasonable price I would consider it. I'm getting better at it but it's more of a chore than the construction side. As for my top seven cars they would have to be: 69 Hemi Roadrunner 68 Shelby GT500KR Mustang with a SOHC 427 70 Cutlass Supreme 455 Ferrari 430 80 Camaro full restmod with modern Corvette suspension and LS 427 90 Suburban 4x4 3500 with modded Cummins 12v 78 F-350 4x4 with Detroit 4-71 and 2 1/2 ton Rockwell axles

You're correct Tom, it's the early 2000s kit with the custom parts and up top.

If they're willing to make special runs of kits for Ollie's maybe we need to tell them what we want.

I've seen the one done by The Parts Box, does anyone make a McCullough style flathead supercharger?

Be careful with Krylon paints, some like the Fusion line can eat plastic.

The paint I remember was made by Plastikote, I haven't seen it in over a decade and have never found anything quite like it.

Yep, there were a few years where the the chrome wheels and fender flares from the first Bigfoot kit were included in the USA-1 kit.

Someone on ebay used to sell a Rollin' Thunder sticker set for the Lunchbox but I haven't looked at it recently. Yeah, you'd have to drive carefully if you did a super fancy body.

The Lunchbox is based on a real monster truck and I've always wanted to build one as the real thing. I'm afraid if I ever go down the RC rabbit hole ill never go back to models.

AMT has wheels similar to those but not exactly the same.

I haven't noticed a difference in the regular Chrome, those stickers started after they took some heat for the ultra bight line.

The ultra bright was the stuff they problems with years ago, I've stuck to the regular chrome since.

It will be available at the usual websites, Tower hobbies, ebay, Amazon most likely. If you have a local shop they can order it for you as well.