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Post by johnny on Mar 5, 2015 20:10:29 GMT -5
Ah! A nice clean stock build. Wait I see some slapper bars. Tried to sneak them in on us hey. You can't sneak that past me! (messing with you). Shes a head turner!! great job! They were in the kit so I added them. I remembered a kids a couple blocks over got one with the L79 Option and the dealer had added the slapper bars and a few other goodies to the car before displaying it in the showroom! The kids dad gave it to him for Graduation!
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Post by johnny on Mar 4, 2015 15:49:46 GMT -5
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Post by johnny on Feb 24, 2015 23:12:46 GMT -5
Actually look better in the picture. The blue like all the wrangler cars I have done (have 2 T-Birds) is too dark and doesn't match the numbers. Same with the yellow around the front of the roof on the Monte Carlo. Also wound up with some silvering on the decals. Didn't look like that when I put the bodies in the box after decaling them years back. Maybe wasn't completely dried???
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Post by johnny on Feb 24, 2015 18:52:42 GMT -5
Two more that were long time waiting to be finished!
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Post by johnny on Feb 13, 2015 19:07:07 GMT -5
LOL I see your point and you are correct!LOL
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Post by johnny on Feb 12, 2015 12:25:21 GMT -5
It's for real. Just the delivery is a bit obscured! LOL Look up net neutrality and Obama and decide for yourself.
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Post by johnny on Feb 8, 2015 12:55:52 GMT -5
That's a beauty!
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Post by johnny on Feb 1, 2015 16:07:30 GMT -5
John, that has the look of what guys were putting on the street back in the late 60's early 70's! There were Novas, Chevy II's, Falcons, Chevelles and all the tri 5 Chevys and a few oddballs like Ramblers and Studebaker Lark Daytonas. Since they were no longer on the race circuit (usually dad's old drag car) they were raising them more for fatter tires as well as that "look"!LOL
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Post by johnny on Jan 31, 2015 18:11:24 GMT -5
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Post by johnny on Jan 7, 2015 17:14:53 GMT -5
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Post by johnny on Jan 4, 2015 9:19:20 GMT -5
Nice build, looking good! Most people don't know how challenging building one of those kits is!
I used to build those kits when I was a kid! I just picked up The Spirit Of St Louis kit in a trade. Also have a Stearman that I started about 10 years ago that I just brought back out. Mine will be just display, most likely will be hanging down in the wife's sister's hobby shop when done!
I designed and built a radio controlled plane back in 1968. Was really expensive for the radio equipment back then. Was flying it out on a field near the strip pits when the wind blew it out across some high lines and I lost control. Last I saw it was headed straight north with a full tank of fuel! We searched every day for a week and never found it.
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Post by johnny on Dec 5, 2014 22:43:26 GMT -5
That is just too cool!!!
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Post by johnny on Nov 29, 2014 22:33:46 GMT -5
The back window was broken so I was going to make one out of acetate sheet. But I remembered a similar car running here locally in the mid 70's and he had removed the rear glass because it was so dang heavy!(and not required)
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Post by johnny on Nov 29, 2014 0:30:51 GMT -5
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Post by johnny on Nov 1, 2014 8:54:57 GMT -5
Beautiful car!!! So many never verify that what they build as a gasser really meets the specs. I know as a kid a gasser to me was a car jacked up a mile in the air with an outlandishly big bad engine. Guess that is the mental picture most kids had and add to that the cars that some gearheads were running on the street that resembled gassers. Although some actually were retired gassers that were outfitted (barely) enough to make them street legal!
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