Winter time model building thread.
Great minds think alike!!!! Here's my '64 built about 10yrs ago with the /6 4barrel, 4 wheel Brembo disc brakes, AAR Cuda exhaust +++++Yeah... done that too. Started with HO cars... then models... then RC cars.... then slots.... then 1:1 cars....then models....then slots.....back to 1:1 Cars. If it had wheels and could be made to go fast, I fooled with it. I even mounted Estes rocket engines to brass frames and shot them down the main street early on Sunday mornings. Wish I had a video camera for THAT! In my mid-teens my house was ground-zero for silliness. It was the only place me & my friends could stay up late racing cars and smoking cigarettes while listening to Frank Zappa and the Mothers. Man, those were fun times.... especially when my Father would start complaining when we ran the high-strung stuff and it would screw with the TV reception upstairs....:-D
But the modeling has been enduring..... here's some more stuff.
This is a Lindberg `64 Dodge 330. Paint is Yellow pearl w/ a tan interior. Wheels are from Pegasus.
Engine is a slant 6 w/ 3X2Bbl. Weber carbs. cast in resin from Replicas & Miniatures of Maryland. The owner, Norm Veber, is a friend of mine and I use his stuff a lot.
** BTW: Look on the passenger seat and you can see a compact disc in an open case on the seat... **
Rear seat is all speakers and amps, billet steering wheel and column, and high back bucket seats.
The undercarriage is moderately detailed. Mostly paint detailing with a few hard lines. The exhaust is aluminum tubing polished and bent. Muffler clamps are photo-etched pieces from Detail Master. The headers that split into duals are made from solder.
This car placed second in the hotly contested Street Machine class at the 1999 MASSCAR show in Massachusetts. It was a proud win considering how hard it is to place in that contest. I *think* it may have been in the Scale Auto contest annual from 1999 too. Been so long ago....
