Fat Brian

That last one also may help with maintaining social distance.

Since the Parks part is aluminum you could probably gently deepen the fins by rolling it across a table top with a razor blade pressed into the bottom of each line.

I missed it the first time too and I'm very frustrated they chose to bring the roadster back for a third time before bringing the coupe back again. I was thinking of boycotting this issue of the roadster but it's the only way to get the small block and it has both sets of wheels so it's a parts box stuffer.

Wow, that looks very good. I could use a couple of those.

The coupe version is supposed to be coming later this year with the Buick engine from the first roadster version. If you want the small block Chevy engine you'll need to get it in the current roadster release.

Nothing about getting the clear lights on the GT would be easy, if you don't mind the scale I'd go with the Monogram GT kit. If you must stay with 1/25 the easiest thing to do is swap the front fascia but you'll still need to fill the grille area and put on the GT front skirt. Fortunately the hoods seem like a direct replacement which is good because they are shaped differently in the area where the front of the hood goes between the headlights. The body side mouldings are slightly different as well.

Yikes, this will require a front bumper transplant and a hood swap. I'll dig them out when I get home and see how close they are.

My understanding of Day 2 has always been mods made while the car was relatively new, primarily of a bolt on nature. I don't think an engine or transmission swap or a massive tub job qualifies. It's not that you can't do some of those things quickly but you wouldn't normally do it to a new car. That's more of a you just inherited grandma's grocery getter and you and a couple buddies drop in a v8 in a weekend over a few cases of brew kind of situation.

Yep, that's the issue I've got now. Someone said the angle of the front fascia is incorrect so it will be interesting to see if the Revell parts interchange.

I'm not upset, I'm actually getting a lot done now that I can stay home in the evenings. I'm indoorsy anyway so this is right up my alley.

I'm down for one of these. I need to drag out the older issue I've got and the Revell 90 and see if the Revell headlights fit the MPC kit.

I work for a natural gas utility so I'm right there with you. They're changing some of the ways we do things but I don't think it could ever get to a point where I don't have to go in. I'm fortunate I guess, I'm our only income so if I got sent home we'd be in a bad situation.

If you planned it correctly and cut the tooling all at once you could have kits for years from the same mold.

I've been looking into ways to make his life miserable today. I'm reporting him to every consumer advocacy group in Nashville and a local reporter who works the consumer fraud beat. There's no way I'm the only person he's done this to.

I use water based paint for window, the cleanup when you mess it up is much easier.

We just need an all new kit of this generation. This kit is rough by any standard and the popularity of these trucks could support a new tool, especially if it included options for long bed, short bed, step side, and 4x4 along with various years and custom options.

I think he thought after I drove that far sunk cost fallacy would kick in and I'd buy it even though it was worse than he let on. The thing is, it was practically the same car I've already got and he knew that. I have a pearl white 98 SC300 with a tan interior, the car was a black on black 98 SC400. The black interior is very rare in these cars and the 98+ 400s have a 5spd auto instead of the 4spd auto in mine, and the 400 is a v8 where mine is a straight six. My car has been maintained well and everything works though so why would I downgrade to a busted up car?

Friday I drove 8 hours to look at a car that looked to be in very nice shape and had been described as "perfect" by the salesman. The first problem was a large spot of flaking paint on the bumper cover that had been carefully concealed in the pictures. As we're walking to the car he pipes up that the passenger door handle doesn't work and that the power antenna has been broken off. I decide to take it out to see if it drives better than it looks, it does not. The brakes are spongy, the rotors are warped, the transmission shifts are mushy, and theres an odd feeling of resistance while drive like all the tries are pointed in a slightly different direction. When I get back I tell the guy I'm not taking the car because he hid all the stuff wrong with it, he told me I was supposed to be able tell this stuff from the pictures and he wasn't responsible to tell me anything over the phone. He also keep the deposit I'd put on the car. If I was a younger man he'd be in the hospital right now.

If I recall correctly the fix is behind the rear wheel wells in the lower body crease. I don't know for sure if the green car has the photoetch, I can look tomorrow.

But use the body from the green kit because I don't think Cobra version has been reissued since they fixed the rear quarter panels.

That is really hit or miss for removing Duplicolor. It will work for the primer but isn't so good for the paint. Did you use any primer under the paint?

That's interesting Joe, I'm not sure of the white car is a donor for the Shelby or if they're both getting restored. He works on and sells all kinds of stuff, there was a mint British racing green MG out there too.

I'm not saying I don't like the Caddy, just that I can appreciate it and newer stuff. There is room in my heart to love a lot of different cars.

Are you asking rhetorically or looking for a factual answer? The few kits I've built for people I charged double the cost of the kit and supplies for a basic assembling of the kit from the parts in the box. Aftermarket stuff and scratch building or heavy modification was charged extra depending on what exactly was wanted and how long it took. You're not going to make a living that way (I wasn't expecting too) and I honestly got sick of it for how little I was getting out of it. I'm sure I was making pennies an hour, I never gathered the numbers to find out.

I was driving by a local shop where I bought my Lexus that does restoration work earlier today a was able to a picture that I think sums up the state of things in the classic car game. You can see the top of a purple Roadrunner on the right and the car they're pulling out of the shop. To the left just out of frame was a 73/74 Barracuda, 69 Firebird, and a 69 442. In the middle of all these classics they were just starting on the blue Shelby Daytona. People are starting to spend money on newer cars and build different things and hopefully the aftermarket will respond with parts like it has in the past.