Note to self

[hedotwo]

Super Clean and 50's promos don't mix.  At least if you forget they're in the pond for any length of time.  This one was probably in it a week ?‍♂️

[thatz4u]

50's promos do that by themselves sometime..

[Ace-Garageguy]

That's sad.

Still, it can be a wreck behind a period wrecker, or the focus of a bottom-of-a-ravine diorama.

Shame to waste it.

[von Zipper]

 and the paint is still on it (?)

[hedotwo]

It was the white I was trying to remove as the green was the mold color.  It started to lift the white by the time this happened but it would have taken longer to lift all of it.  In hindsight I should have tried ELO (not soaking in it though).  Oh well, the remainder of everything is good so maybe someday I'll find a discarded body...  preferably not a promo body.

Edited July 9, 2022 by hedotwo

[Brian Austin]

If the plastic is acetate I wouldn't soak it in any case.

[bisc63]

My first thought was, Deal's Wheels. Make it a caricature, work with it. Over-sized tires, cartoonish blower and pipes. Rear it up on the rear wheels, Snap-Draggins style. Lots of potential to create something there.

[Oldcarfan27]

How straight was it before you started?

Hard enough to find acetate promos without any warp to them. Can't figure out what can be done to preserve them at all!

My research shows that acetate actually comes from a wood pulp base and is never completely stable, thus is always prone to warping. 

I've thought about doing a conversion from a 57, using all the unique parts from a 58.

Why don't you try doing that using the parts you have left over?

[Russ]

I remember seeing a tutorial along time ago where a guy put on cotton gloves and with the VERY CAREFUL use of a heat gun pushed and proded a warped body back shape. Been a while but I think it was a Plymouth. I do remember him saying that while doing this some of the warpage  "fixed itself" with no proding needed.  When done he dunked it in ice water.

[Mark]

That material warps AND shrinks.  Most people who collect the early promos just accept that and leave them alone.  Not that all of them have any great worth, but in most cases promos are worth more when left alone.  Damage like broken pillars would be the exception.

The shrinkage makes the promos mostly worthless as sources of parts for restoration of kits.  The bumpers are often styrene, but contact with the acetate body usually leave the bumpers extremely dull.

[hedotwo]

The body is still literally like rubber...  that soft.  So, it's off to the trash.  As you said Mark the remainder of the parts I was able to save are styrene and I removed them prior to the super clean bath.  So at least I have something to work with in the future.