Jim B Posted February 15, 2020 Posted February 15, 2020 Why this car is automatic. It's systematic. It's hydromantic. Why it's Greased Lightning! Remember the story about this car from the movie. The car is a 1948 Ford Deluxe convertible that was purchased by Kenickie in the summer of 1957 as a real junker. Then the car was modified by the T-Birds in the Shop Class at Rydell High. Now, in talking to a friend of mine who is an auto mechanic, he said that a modification like this probably couldn't be done by a HS Shop Class in a semester in the real world; buy hey, since when has Hollywood ever been in the real world. It was a pleasurable build, and I think it came out alright.
Jim B Posted February 15, 2020 Author Posted February 15, 2020 Oh, no! It's that rainy day in Southern California!
spencer1984 Posted February 16, 2020 Posted February 16, 2020 Looks good, nicely done! I have one of these in the stash, seeing this makes me want to break it out (not that I don't already have too many projects on the bench...)
Jim B Posted February 16, 2020 Author Posted February 16, 2020 Thanks, Bill. Hoping to bring it to the Utica Show in March.
Jim B Posted February 17, 2020 Author Posted February 17, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, spencer1984 said: Which show is that? It's the Spring Thaw Model Show. Sunday March 29th, from 9-3, at the Willowvale Fire Co, 3459 Oneida St., Chadwicks, NY. https://daveski25.wixsite.com/springthawmodelshow Edited February 17, 2020 by Jim B
spencer1984 Posted February 17, 2020 Posted February 17, 2020 4 hours ago, Jim B said: It's the Spring Thaw Model Show. Sunday March 29th, from 9-3, at the Willowvale Fire Co, 3459 Oneida St., Chadwicks, NY. https://daveski25.wixsite.com/springthawmodelshow Thanks for the info, I didn't know about that one. The next show on my radar was the NNL East, it's about the same distance from me as Oneida.
Jim B Posted February 17, 2020 Author Posted February 17, 2020 Thanks, Larry. Bill, there's a show in Oneida? The only other shows I go to in CNY was SyrCON in October & the Fulton show in November.
spencer1984 Posted February 18, 2020 Posted February 18, 2020 21 hours ago, Jim B said: Bill, there's a show in Oneida? No, that was me having a brain fart. NNL East in Wayne, NJ is about the same distance from me as the show you mentioned in Chadwicks, but for some reason my brain got caught on "Oneida St" and typed that as the city instead. That said, thanks to the magic of New York's bizzaro road system, the city of Oneida is about the same 2-hour drive for me as both other cities mentioned. ?
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