gasserfreak Posted January 17, 2009 Posted January 17, 2009 I really liked this car in blue. I think everyone has built one of these, but its a great little kit!
RJWood Posted January 18, 2009 Posted January 18, 2009 Nice job, and it does look good in blue. I have the kit, but havent built it yet. hope it looks half as good as yours when I get to it and I will be satisfied.
mageckman Posted January 18, 2009 Posted January 18, 2009 That looks very good. Is it the newer Revell willys kit or the older one?
gasserfreak Posted January 18, 2009 Author Posted January 18, 2009 That looks very good. Is it the newer Revell willys kit or the older one? thanks for the comments! its the newer kit I think, fit is really nice, but the rear suspension is a little finicky. also there is soooo much chrome in there! I think I stripped about 1/2 the parts that were supposed to be chrome... how many race cars had chrome headers?
flatheadgary Posted January 19, 2009 Posted January 19, 2009 ha! i can tell you for a fact, it did not have chrome headers. i worked with a guy who knew them well. when they went to the hemi motor, he got all the olds stuff. he then got in a bind and sold me an olds motor that he had built and all the blower stuff. he tried to sell me the headers, but i couldn't use them on the '53 ford vicky gasser i was building at the time. they were white painted.
gasserfreak Posted January 19, 2009 Author Posted January 19, 2009 ha! i can tell you for a fact, it did not have chrome headers. i worked with a guy who knew them well. when they went to the hemi motor, he got all the olds stuff. he then got in a bind and sold me an olds motor that he had built and all the blower stuff. he tried to sell me the headers, but i couldn't use them on the '53 ford vicky gasser i was building at the time. they were white painted. thats a great story! so you owned one of the old SWC olds motors? sweet! I know a guy that had a 41 willys gasser with a hemi in the late 60s. any pictures of your old vicky gasser? mid-50s fords make great gassers, esp the 55-56 cars. I think I saw the white headers on the hemi in a jalopyjournal link or something....
flatheadgary Posted January 19, 2009 Posted January 19, 2009 (edited) gasserfreak, i just went through a h**L of a learning curve trying to send you some pics. if you got time to go through the album fine, but if you just want to see the ford, go down to about an inch from the bottom. it's flat black. oh yea, great build!! i used to love to go down to LIONS and watch them tow this in, but first, they would be all lined up at the gate and you could just walk up and down, looking at them and talking to them. MAN, that was great. now i am going to date myself a little. i seem to remember most of these guys used to have them on tow bars in line too. you know back in the early '60's, you could get away with towing a non registered race car on the street to the track. this was los angeles too. hahaha Edited January 19, 2009 by flatheadgary
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