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• TWO NEWS BREAKS from Auto Modeler Magazine
• .....PIF..... Set of 4 early 1970's Plymouth wheel covers. Resin. When I got them, someone painted the centers red. I just got done painting the centers with a chrome pen. First picture is of the real wheel covers. First responder gets them. .......... *PICS* .....
  • Re: .....PIF..... Set of 4 early 1970's Plymouth wheel covers. Resin. When I got them, someone painted the centers red. I just got done painting the centers with a chrome pen. First picture is of the real wheel covers. First responder gets them. .......... *PICS* .....ME? *NM*
    • OK CD, you got 'em. Email me your mailing address and I'll get them out to you. *NM*
• Nice! Love there isn’t a SBC between the fenders! *NM*
• Miscellaneous Mopar Madness *PICS*
  • Love the K&K Charger! The Grandpa one is great as well! *NM*
  • I've pushed snow with a Dodge truck, but never a Plymouth Cuda! *NM*
• Hardly. They'll figure out it should have been sooner *NM*
• Amen! *NM*
• Tasty! *NM*
• Sand the heck out of them and they're just right.
• 1963 Meteor annual question: Custom wheels look like similar year from Imperial...?
  • I believe they resemble the '61 Imperial covers. I'd bet those were interchangeable inserts in the old tools, and some were reused. I've got a '34 Ford pickup with '64 Corvette wheel covers on the chrome tree *NM*
  • Here are the ones in my kit.
    • PIC in above post *NM*
• I finally decided. Full chrome windshield surround on the Sunbeam Tiger. PICs
  • Much better. 👍 *NM*
    • Agreed! *NM*
  • That looks fantastic! *NM*
    • Thanks! *NM*
  • Re: Looking good *NM*
    • Thank you. *NM*
  • The whole car looks awesome ! *NM*
    • Thank you so very much! *NM*
• If you like rallye cars flying around corners, you'll definitely like this one. Link is to a YouTube short. Please let me know if the link worked. *NM* *LINK*
  • The link works fine for me. It's fun to see a 2CV rally car! *NM*
  • Love those little 2CV's. *PIC*
  • Cool little Citreon.... Although I must admit that your definition of flying around corners, and mine, differ greatly. 😉 *NM*
• I need sunglasses to look at that model! LOL! *NM*
  • Yes, it's setting on my desk and I have to cover my eyes.LOL! *NM*
• I finished the 68 Galaxie
  • Looks great ! *NM*
  • Nice build!! *NM*
  • Nice! *NM*
  • Sweet street racer build. *NM*
  • Cool! *NM*
  • Looks great! *NM*
  • 1968 was a good year *NM*
• New build. I really like Ford Galaxies from the 1960's. I saw this pic of a 1966 in Nightmist blue and loved it. Normally I don't like blue. But I painted mine Nightmist Blue. Since this kit is kind of crude, I just built it box stock..............*PICS*.....
  • Here are 2 engine pics that I forgot to include above. .......... *PICS* .....
  • That's really really nice! *NM*
  • Looks great Scott!! *NM*
  • Looks good! *NM*
  • Nice build. That first pic makes it look its 1:1 and not a scale build. *NM*
    • The first pic is of a 1:1 car. It's the picture I found on Google which made me really like the color. *NM*
  • Very nice, Scott.... As a teenager I worked at the local Conoco station. The guy that owned the place had several '66 Galaxies, including a black 7 liter 4 speed ragtop, that was a real handfult o drive (he let me drive it to pick up parts a couple of times). *NM*
  • Love it! *NM*
  • Sweet! I have a 67 I need to get busy on! *NM*
  • Beautiful Ford Scott... Always like 65-66's thought they were the sharpest style. *NM*
  • That is a pretty color combo *NM*
• It’s just unfair that this is so perfect. Look at the wire looms!!!! *NM*
  • Agreed *NM*
• As long as I'm at it, how 'bout the latest from David Dale.... *PICS*
  • So nice and clean *NM*
  • Nice!! *NM*
  • Very nice build ! *NM*
  • Cool! *NM*
  • You got into my white paint AGAIN!! LOL!! *NM*
  • Really nice clean build. I like the white exterior with white interior. *NM*
  • Lookin' good! *NM*
  • LOVE IT..... the whole scheme. *NM*
• Who wants to see the latest from Frank??? *PICS*
  • Beautiful. Just beautiful. Well done Frank ! *NM*
  • Sharp! *NM*
  • Neat! The tail stripe looks good on that car. *NM*
  • Great color and build!! *NM*
  • Another well done build. The rear stripe looks really great on this build. *NM*
  • Nice Vette! *NM*
  • Cool! *NM*
  • Thanks Marty for posting this for me. ****INSIDE****
• A Little Help here!...... *PIC*
  • If I remember correctly, that started out as a Switchers kit. *NM*
  • Would the be a good one to kitbash with the 'new' sedan body from AMT - and yes, 2X on Revell probably being better...but wondering just the same *NM*
  • Dave is correct. It's the MPC "Switchers" sedan/phaeton kit. The rear door and seprate side window blanks were added and it was re-leased as the "keep on truck'n '32" at least as far back as '75. So, basically the street rod suspension was pretty typical for the '70s and , ,
  • As others have stated in this thread, the kit does indeed have it's roots in the MPC Switchers 32 sedan/phaeton kit and was converted to a sedan delivery in 1975...kit *PIC*
  • Re: A Little Help here!...... Thanks for the help guys...Nice Build Marty,,,That's along the lines I'm thinking of for mine! *NM*
  • Overall, it's a pretty nice kit...
    • What if a feller would put the MPC/R2 '29 Roadster Pickup/Woody body onnit to make a kinda hiboy? *NM*
      • Frame is quite narrow. It works for those kits, but I wouldn't necessarily use that frame as swap material *NM*
• I'd like to thank everyone for the comments on my '36 Sedan. Man, that body was a handful. LOL. *NM*
• Very cool! Thanks! *NM*
• No comment... *NM*
• I had a Dodge dealer in Alexis, IL that would take vehicles he didn't sell in a year, and parke them next to the farm he had on his farm.
  • There was a Chevy dealer in the Midwest that did the same thing. Those cars sat in a field and were auctioned off a few years ago...
  • Sounds similar to Lambrecht Chevrolet in Pierce, Nebraska. He would take his old inventory, and store it in an open field. He even did that to his trade-ins. Entire collection was sold off in 2012 or so.
    • When I was car shopping in 1979, one AMC dealer had a new '77 Gremlin. I might have been interested, had it not been a four-cylinder car (those had a VW/Audi engine which were junk) *NM*
      • There were a lot of those places before the great purges of the '90s-on
        • One of my brothers bought a new 2000 Ford Lightning in 2002. Still has it! *NM*
          • There was a Ford dealer in central Texas a few yearsd ago, that lost its franchise after Ford decided that the previous franchise owner 'lacked authority' to sell it... *LINK*
• What's a good hi-build primer?
  • Dupli-color has a number of 'filler' primers I like.
    • DupliColor is probably the best, though their "filler" primer is more like their regular primer used to be. The "high build" is like old "filler primer". Cheapen it, then revive the old stuff at a higher price with a different name! *NM*
      • See? I thought it was just me imagining this *NM*
  • Agreed. Duplicolor primer is good stuff. *NM*
  • Thanks Guys, I just picked some up. *NM*
• That's got to be an Indy car or F1 - the rivet detail at the bottom should be a tell. BTW, super creative build, I really like it *NM*
  • Definitely one of the larger scale open wheel cars, I agree Bob. *NM*
• My next-door neighbor restored one for his daughter in the early '70s...
  • Cool story. Those heaters in European cars leave a lot to be desired. I took a new 72 Vega to Germany and the heater core went out. The mechanic didn't want to order one so he replaced it with one from an Opel and we froze until we got one shipped in. *NM*
• Got the latest Auto Modeler magazine today. Another great issue. Several board members have their contest builds shown. *NM*
  • ME TOO!!!! Thanks Scott and team *NM*
  • David, what is the issue number and date and what is on the cover please? Thanks. *NM*
    • April/May issue #11 *NM*
  • Mine arrived yesterday. I opened it up and couldn't put it down!... *NM*
  • AM #11 arrived in central Indiana today, Much quicker delivery than #10 that arrived 37 days after it was mailed. *NM*
• I saw something very similar to that today at the local antique mall, I only glanced at it, had snap on tool logos on the box, Are those the same things? *NM*
  • Snap-on one will be diecast; they did a bunch of it *NM*
• I made one years ago from a clear plastic packaging around a small liightbulb and cut to fit my needs *NM*
  • Re: Thanks Bill I though about that *NM*
  • It might be possible to make one from flat stock...cut the hole first, then use a piece of paper to make the template *NM*
• Well I've finished the Jungle Jim Vega, lifes a drag so I've started the Revell Tony Nancy Revelliner.......doing the frame......what a PITA , nice detail but oh so fiddlely.......lol. *NM*