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• Like I need another project......... *PIC*
  • Re: Like I need another project.........but a really cool one. *NM*
• Model kits ordered on Sunday, shipped on Monday and delivered to my door in SoCal on Wednesday...
• Marty Neyrinck, I sent you an email. *NM*
• When Terry first posted "Random Stuff on my Shelf" I thought it was going to be like this: *PIC*
  • Nice collection of builds! *NM*
  • Wouldn't mind seeing better PIC up of your wife's yellow pick up... *NM*
    • OK, how's this?? *NM* *PIC*
      • Or this?? BTW, you've got a good memory!! *NM* *PIC*
      • Memories. Somestimes when I drive past the conveyor behind that fence I think, "That's where LACR used to be". *NM*
• Article and photos from Salon Rétromobile which is probably the biggest vintage and racing car show in the world. *NM* *LINK*
  • So many amazing cars! Thanks for the link *NM*
• Just stumbled over this guy's site, Some really nice work. *NM* *LINK*
  • Guess he has several videos available. Here's the 1905 Fiat Isotta Fraschini. *NM* *LINK*
• JUST WONDERING....? PIX and thanks for looking
  • Very interesting!! *NM*
• Random Stuff on My Shelf... *PICS*
  • Looking good Terry!! *NM*
  • I saw the "Golden Arrow" just last week at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, UK... *PIC*
    • fppmodels has a kit of the Bluebird CN-7 in resin--1/24. It's a big model. *NM*
  • SO,SO KOOL.... Sad story though. *NM*
  • Beautiful car. I so kick myself for not grabbing one when they were available. *NM*
• Boomer sent you an email. *NM*
  • Got it. Thanks. Goin' to DeKalb thi comin' Sunday? *NM*
    • Model show? *NM*
    • Not sure, but Wheaton for sure. *NM*
• What Mopar body style is a 1971 Duster... A, B or E? *NM*
  • Just did a Google search and looks like the 1971 Duster is an A body... *NM* *PIC*
  • Duster, Demon, and Dart are A bodies. *NM*
    • I looked up a chart because Darts are confusing depending on the year. *LINK*
      • Should have specified Darts '67 and later were A bodies. *NM*
        • '63 and later... *NM* *PIC*
    • Barracuda up to 1969 are also A body, from 1970 E body. *NM*
• Scott Liggett.....AND ALL! Must be that time of year "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World is on TV right now. So Scott. PIX hope your here to post your car.
  • A great movie for so many reasons I'm not even going to try and list them all. *NM*
    • Brief summary: Cast, Cars, Craziness! ;^) *NM*
    • One of my favorite movies as well. *NM*
  • I think that movie was restored so it's better than most of us remember if it's that version. Deathrace 2000 was restored as well for a car movie. *NM*
  • Thanks for posting your Dart Frank. Here's my Impala. BTW, when is someone going to build the 1957 Ford that Jimmy Durante drove off the cliff? "He just sailed right out there." ............... *PICS* ........
• Wheels, been awhile since I posted this one and have done some additions to it. Happy rivet counting...or is that lug nuts. *LINK* *PIC*
  • Quite a collection. Your labels are a great feature! Thanks for sharing. *NM*
  • Thanks for the great wheel reference site. *NM*
  • I've been looking to identify these wheels for a long time... The closest in your pictures are on page 24 (Ferrari Dino) and page 48 (Intermeccanica Italia)... Close but no cigar... LOL *NM* *PIC*
    • Hey lookee that... LKMD just told me they are off a Toyota 2000GT... One less thing I'm looking for... Thanks Lee... *NM* *PIC*
  • Nice collection. May I submit? **PICS**
    • Sorry, i'm going to say no - at least for right now. *NM*
• Ramchargers Dodge Challenger tribute funny car start up. *NM* *LINK*
  • Takes a while to get to the startup. A lot of tweeking things in the early part but not really wound up. Go to around 13:30+ for that. Notice the ages of the guys. No "youngsters" among them. Time is moving on for them kind of like us here. ;^) *NM*
    • Looks like the one guy is wearing ear plugs, but no ear muffs and masks. Probably like me about 20 years too late to start worrying about those things. Between motors and Marshalls still surprise myself that I can hear at all. *NM*
• That would be a good tie breaker *NM*
• OT: I had some iPhone trouble..AAARRRRGGG!
  • Just going to stick with my old flip phone. I don't text and I don't get a cell signal at home (no sales calls) anyway and don't feel like buying a booster that might not work to get a signal . *NM*
    • I had a MOTO flip that was great. It was tough as nails. AT&T turned it off and said I had to go 'smart'. ugh *NM*
      • Yeah, I'm with Verizon and the way they keep pushing 5G I'm afraid they're going to get me probably this year. *NM*
        • Well....
          • Thought about it, but will wait until the hammer drops. *NM*
    • I had a reliable flip phone for a long time, it was also a company phone. But anyway, I've never had to own a cell phone. They supply them for business for free from work, but I use it as a personal phone too. I just can't install apps on it but I don't care about that. *NM*
• Too bad, that was a great looking car. *NM*
  • I agree. *NM*
• Wonder if NASCAR will move an Xfinity race to Mexico City, since Fontana won't be available next year maybe even a Cup race or at least move the Clash instead of that Colosseum circle j-oke as a get out of jail card? *NM*
  • Mexico is off limits to most Corp's due to being so instable...... *NM*
    • Just wondering what they did to get Bush out of a 3 year prison term. A guy out here got popped going across the border with a couple of loose shells in the trunk and got 2 years. Of course he wasn't a "name". *NM*
  • So Wayne, you didn't like the "concert" with a "race" stuck in the middle of it? (It was pretty awful. Thank God for DVR where I could fast-forward thru all that junk.) *NM*
    • Haven't really watched either one, just saw a few 'highlight' blurbs of this years. Plus who would go to one down there, as my racing buddy said that area the bangers don't even leave your cars on blocks when they steal the wheels, just drop it in the dirt. *NM*
  • Although I tried to ignore the musical segments, I thought the race was a fun change of pace from the other tracks. I'm just a casual NASCAR watcher, though. *NM*
• What the website to look for a missing instructor sheet for a Texaco gas station *NM*
  • Drastic plastic. Or Rich/NV he all the instructions sheets lol *NM*
  • Is this the Texaco Station you're looking for...?PIC INSIDE...Click on LINK below *LINK*
  • "Trust your car to the man who wears the star, the big, bright Texaco Star!" ;^) *NM*
    • OT: Of course that was back when they were truly "Service Stations", not "convenience stores" with some self-serve gas pumps. ;^) You remember: uniformed guys, clean windshield, vaccumed floorboards, checked tire pressure, oil and filter changes, lubed suspension joints,
      • And you could fill your tank for 2 bucks! *NM*
• Was Junior Johnson's "Yello Banana" a '65 or '66 Galaxie?? *NM*
  • '66 *NM*
    • That's what I thought, but I recently came across a page from Californis Car Covers cataloge selling a diecast "Banana" that was a '65.Signed by Junior himself. Guess famous people will sign anything for money. *NM*
      • My IQ drops three points every time I log on, it seems. Possible explanation:
• Stripping AMT Lacquers - hints?
  • Did you try 91% (or stronger) isopropyl alcohol? *NM*
  • Tamiya lacquer smell reminds me of AMT...try the 91% *NM*
    • Heading to CVS soon, will score a jug and report back *NM*
    • FWIW, 91% strips Tamiya very well (does leave a light gray ghosting from their Gloss Black TS-14, however) *NM*
  • You might try Tamiya Lacquer Thinner (NOT the X20A acrylic thinner). Slow and easy works best, brush some on, wipe off & repeat until done. Work small areas. *NM*
  • Try Dot-3. *NM*
• Model Car Science magazine online....... *LINK*
  • I may have a few earlier issues - is there someone to contact? *NM*
    • There are buttons across the top of site, donate, help etc........ *NM*
      • ... and I'd know that if I paid attention! Thanks - great resource *NM*
  • Wow, "1965.01.pdf" on page 24 of 60 is my mid-engined (Corvair) dragster... AND... 1955.01 dragula.pdf has my Tony Nancy dragster with working butterflies on blower on page 24 and my scratchbuilt Crackerbox GMC on page 25... *LINK*
    • And they failed to give you credit on the rail........
    • I have that issue in rather tattered condition from many readings. *NM*
  • Re: Thank you for posting this!!!! *NM*
  • Wow. Thanks for that as I was an avid MCS reader. *NM*
    • Me too.....it was even in our school library..... *NM* *PIC*
      • It was a great resource for slot cars as well. *NM*
    • I've got some issues of it, but never really saw it regularly growing up in Oklahoma and it was hit and miss in SoCal although I was sort of out of the loop there in the last few years of the 60's. *NM*
  • Re: Thanks for posting *NM*
  • CAR MODEL 1962-73 is there too, but "limited viewing"? *NM* *LINK*
    • There is also other automotive magazines and manuals there. Use their search engine. *NM*
    • I logged in with google and full mag was available.......but not download. *NM*
    • Some documents on the Internet Archive are available only via short-term "borrowing". Those are often newer publications that might fall outside of the realm of public domain. *NM* *LINK*
  • There is also this site with ALL the covers, also for LOTS of others magazines: *NM* *LINK*
  • Wow! What a history lesson. Especially the slot cars. Brings back lots of fond memories. *NM*
    • Growing up in SoCal 60 to 70 slot cars were huge!!! Hobby City on Beach had a track that went from floor to 10 feet tall!!
• For Mopar lovers. Ya or Nay? *LINK*
  • Hell(cat) Yeah! *NM*
    • Re: Hell(cat) Yeah! --- Took the words out of my mouth. *NM*
  • WAY too much fun! ;^) *NM*
  • Best of both worlds! *NM*
    • Heck yeah! *NM*
  • Cool ! Makes me wonder why Round2 did a new kit of the 4-door Charger instead of the Hellcat Challenger. *NM*
    • Probably a wider range use of the tooling. More bang for their $. *NM*
  • I'm cryin in my model glue. I WANT a 2022 ect. Mustang GT. *NM*
    • I think Revell made a post mid cycle update S550 as a snapper. *NM*
  • Yay, but I wonder what they do for rwd transmissions. *NM*
• A long time back I began trying to gather kits, resins, etc. to build a replica of each car I have had. My first car was a '61 Chevy 4 door flattop sedan and as a fan of American Graffiti who actually lived the dragging Main life style when I was in high school I thought it
• Big Bada Boom... *PICS*
  • Boy can't wait... One of my favorite movies, when it's on I watch it. *NM*
    • Should say one of the movies I will watch whenever it on. *NM*
  • That's very nice. I love that movie. Where is the split in the body because the top half would make a cool 40's style custom? *NM*
    • Below the "bumper." *NM*
  • I've never even heard of that movie, when did it come out?? *NM*
    • Came out in 1997.... If like Sci-Fi (comedy) it's a must see and when the concert starts you have to turn up the sound to listen to Diva Plavalaguna. Love that part *NM*
      • Don't forget your Multi-pass LOL *NM*
      • Frank, are you an opera buff?? *NM*
        • When riding with Frank you get to listen to such musical "gems" as Barbie Girl and Baby Got Back.... So I'm gonna go out on a limb and say, NO!!! LOL *NM*
          • CLASSICS! *NM*
            • You wouldn't ride with me, either, Marty, cause on the way (and back) to Dekalb, Wheaton, or Cedarville, "Enigma" and "Colors in Motion"! L.O.L. *NM*
              • He might prefer to ride with me, cause these days I'm stuck on Clapton. *NM*
                • Well, I might play some "Fourplay", "Love Unlimited Orch."(Barry White), some1926 Duke Ellington, or the late Josephine Baker, you never know what music I might "play", even some Montovani!! *NM*
              • Had a friend from Cali that built a lot of 1:1 street rods, he always played Leon Redbone when he was building. *NM*
                • Now that's cool. Need to dig out my Champagne Charlie album and listen to it. *NM* *LINK*
                • I have all of the late Leon Redbone CD's. "Mr. Jellyroll baker"(my favorite) *NM*
              • Haven't heard 'Colors In Motion,' have to check them out. Have you heard any of 'Future Sound of London'? *NM* *LINK*
                • Nope. Ever heard of "Dancing Fantasy" or "Blue Knights"? *NM*
                  • Nope. Assuming the "Blue Knights" you're talking about isn't the police motorcycle gang, oops, club. *NM*
• Question about scratch building headers and exhaust systems from solder…,,
  • In 1/25 scale 1 millimeter is about equal to one inch. So anywhere from 1.5mm to 3mm would be the size. *NM*
  • Try to get solid core. If you can't then what I do is drill out the resin core as much as I can. *NM*
  • Have you considered aluminum wire used for beading and jewelry as an option?. It comes in a variety of diameter or gages. It lighter than solder and no core to be concerned about. *NM*
    • I've not seen it in a diameter large enough for this application. Where did you see it, please? *NM*
      • Aluminum rods, or bar stock. They come in 3/32", 1/8", 3/16", 1/4", etc... Only problem is that they are usually hard to bend, due to being hardened. They can be made softer by annealing.
        • Source for rods: Try McMaster-Carr. *NM*
      • Hobby Lobby *NM*
        • Oops. I hit post too soon. 12 gage wire measures .080", about 2" in scale. It's easy to form. JIM *NM*
  • RR... Here is my attempt at homemade solder headers. PIX and hope this helps
  • Use solid solder. The rosin (core) will leak out eventually making quite a mess. *NM*
  • 1/16" would be good for 1.5" pipes, 3/32" would be close for 2 3/8" pipes, 1/8" would be about 3 1/8". You probably won't find any other 'tween sizes. Even 3/32" could be tough to find. *NM*
  • Thanks for the help guys, I think I found the aluminum wire on Amazon :) *NM*
• Thanks guys... *NM*
• Off the bench......PICS...... *LINK*
  • Off the chart nice!! *NM*
  • Very nice David. *NM*
  • Great build sir! *NM*
  • Nice work, David. Turned out great!
  • That is SOOOO nice! Thank you for getting this done and showing us how it looks. I’m pretty excited about this one now!!! *NM*
  • Dave outstanding build. I have the earlier version Charger and after seeing yours I will have to dig it out and build it now. Just another project... *NM*
    • I've built two of the Testors Chargers and enjoyed every second of it. *NM*
  • Sweet build love the color! *NM*
  • Very nice and very cleanly done. That color gives me ideas for another project. *NM*
  • That is SOOOO nice! Thank you for getting this done and showing us how it looks. I’m pretty excited about this one now!!! *NM*
  • Nice build, glad to hear it went together so well *NM*
  • I'm not into these, David, but good modeling is good modeling, and this is a really sweet, clean build. *NM*
  • Nice kit, and nice build. Thanks for sharing! *NM*
  • Re:Good looking build,i really like them in indigo blue *NM*
  • Nice touch! *NM*
• The next project
  • I can't believe that's never been kitted in 1/24th! *NM*
    • Dennis your so right.... I seems pretty basic in styling. *NM*
      • The 1941-47 cab has already been kitted... *NM*
    • There is a resin kit of it in 1/24, Wespi, I think. Difficult to work with. Also $$$$! That's why I'm going with the scratch build in 1/25. *NM*
  • I vote for the steel cab version.....for whatever that's worth!! *NM*
  • There was a European-made resin kit of a WWII Deuce-and-a-Half in 1:24, but I don't recall what style cab it may have had. *NM*
    • I do have that resin kit and it has a steel top cab. *NM*
  • I built one of the 1/24 resin Wespe kits many years ago when it wasn't expensive (PICS)
    • Yours has the correct 6 hole wheels though, one of the bugs to work out to change them from 5 holes to 6 in what I have cast. Any thoughts? *NM*
  • Can't wait! (to see the progress). *NM*
• That was a small, straight strip of road in E.Dearborn / West side Detroit
• Thanks - this info will come in handy! I'll have a surplus set (bought the PE kit for the Fujimi, now tracking same for the TR) *NM*
• The last pic is showing the interior tub sitting on the frame, so I'm good. (PIC)
• I'm sure this has been asked a thousand times before, how do you remove decals without screwing up a paint job? Thanks. *NM*
  • Sometimes, on older builds, you can put a piece of "scotch" tape over the decal and pull to lift off decal. My 2¢ *NM*
  • Like Rich said.... First thing I'd do is to get some scotch tape . *NM*
  • You won't probably. There is always a leftover flat image of where they were. But if you need to try, I'd do it with some Solvaset to soften them up as best you can. *NM*
    • I'd be very careful with that. Decal film is basically a clear paint...
      • That's pretty much what I did. *NM*
• I'm thinking the only thing his old car and his new car share is the Buick emblem. So I wouldn't connect the two. That's just me. *NM*
• I GUESS DONE.... PIX and thanks for looking
  • She sure is pretty. Is that a factory color? *NM*
    • I would not image it is.... Just picked a random Dupli-color *NM*
  • I love it!! *NM*
  • That's so cool, and the color is very close to the AMT metallic green that was available in '62! (I have an original '62 Impala ragtop I painted that color still in my collection.) *NM*
  • One other thing, Frank. I have the stock wheels (hubcaps) for that Mercury if you want them just reply to my post. Mike Thacker, aka Zeke *NM*
    • Yes Mike/Zeke I would I'm keeping all the parts I gather with the car in the show case. Thanks I'll send you my address. *NM*
  • Oooh, I like that Merc Frank, '62 ragtop, sweet build! *NM*
    • I wish the interior was more detailed with separate door cards etc.... yes I know old tooling and who now a days is going to retool it. *NM*
  • Re:Looking good *NM*
  • That's one we don't often see. Nice job. *NM*
  • Thanks for sharing. That is one sweet build. *NM*
  • I would say so Frank! *NM*
• I stilfl used flickr.com and it's free. I think that they charge once one exceeds a given storage size. You could probably get around it by having multiple accounts. *NM*
  • My "free" limit was reached long ago. I'd have to delete what I have saved to make anymore storage available. *NM*
• Thanks for posting the link. What a story! *NM*
• I have a can of Testors Dark Bronze Met. How close is it to Turbine Car bronze? *NM*
  • pretty close...PIX
    • That is very nice. Thanks for sharing. *NM*
    • Would love to see this finished - looks killer so far *NM*
• Congratulations! That's some sharp negotiating. But your old car, with $700 in repairs, plus another $5000 recommended, plus cat. conv. going, at only 94K miles, would discourage me from buying another Buick. *NM*
  • What would make a cat. converter go bad? *NM*
    • I copied this...
    • Re: What would make a cat. converter go bad? My son in law is a Mr.Goodwrench, when the service engine light came on he did a scan, it was the converter and many people would just unhook and rehook the
• I have a stalled Chevelle project using an AMT NASCAR chassis. Fits really well except that I had to adjust the wheelbase slighty when I radiused the wheel arches (Chevelle had an inch longer wb than Nova). *PIC*
  • Wooo! That thing is mean as a two day hangover! *NM*
• We still have a couple of vendor tables available. *NM*
• One of the Mopar magazines had an article on two '66 four-door Hemi Coronets. Both were from the same general area, both were ordered by the original owners...
  • I remember reading a rumour that the Pettys had a Hemi wagon, but don't recall it ever being substantiated.
    • Might have had more in the trunk than on the trailer, iffya get my drift. #luke57 *NM*
      • LOL *NM*
• That's good. I thought that looked a little awkward. You sure have an ambitious program lined up.Keep us posted! *NM*
• I'm glad that things have improved in that regard. I can't attest to the quality of his parts as I never received them. ;-) *NM*
• Those look like the ones, Steve. Thanks! *NM*
• Bitchen ride!... Knowing the dealership sales ropes really helps at purchase time, doesn't it. *NM*
• AFAIK the 2 wires that go to the front of the engine are going to each throttle body and are the accelerator or throttle cables, the short ones going to each intake/injector port are fuel lines.....I think........but I could be wrong.....lol. *NM*