I don't think that five foot long rubber fuel line waving in the breeze is gonna fly with the tech inspectors...but good job on the salt-weathering! (Also, the angle on the grille shell makes it look like the car needs better brakes...try putting a shorter one on to cheat the wind if that's your intent. A Model A shell or a little T one.) Cool models!
A little set-back on the Hemi... Inspired by east coast the craziness documented in "Cool Cars, Square Roll Bars"
Hey dusty knuckles, How is that book? It is on my Xmas list this year. Cool models by the way I didn't mean to highjack justin
this is my 29 ford truck , massive chop, massive bondo, with rust marks and*****. I was going to fix this up and auction it off for HAMB, but i love it, and can not part. Right now im building another choped truck, with fenders and a weird engine which will be auctioned off. Gareenteed!
I got the book as a present last year - and it is absolutely a favorite. Great photo's, though mostly b&w. The fact that the oral history written down for us is the best part - stories from races, builds, shows and clubs. Great stuff, cover to cover. Just buy it...
Another non- finished peice. This started off as a 6 pound block of clay and Formed a Cartoonish 32 Lakester. I must of been drinking when i started this..... Fubar series!!! Sorry for messed up Picture, Just took it now and its dark out...Cant get good lightin'
<font color="purple"> Pretty cool. I have the first 2 kits you showed. I'm doin the T purple candy with white seat. </font>
This is maybe interesting for you model builders. I got these two kits as a kid in 1969. The kits where sold in the local toy store here in My hometown. The clue is I grow up in communist East Germany. Now here is my question: Are these kits known in the US (tell tales say the kits where bootlegged over here from Lindberg) Did these two buckets exist in reality? Details on the kits are: scale 1:25, one is named "Jersey Bounce" the other "The Texan", made by Max Kraetzer/Leipzig. GDR. I would be happy to know more about these little kits.
rat, since you started your post with "how's this?" please allow me to express an opinion. and i'm not commenting on your abilities. obviously you're good at the modeling thing. but i recommend you look at some of the bonneville threads with pix to see the pattern that the salt makes on a car. it doesn't get evenly distributed like you've applied it. it's mostly in line with the tire tread where it gets thrown. if there are any projections on the side of a car (door hinges, door handles, body lines, etc.) the salt "misses" a spot just on the other side of the projection. and there is quite a build up on the side of those projections that are in "the line of fire" of the salt being thrown around. you won't find very much salt down the middle of the car, either on the bottom, top, front or back. like the fire wall. there wouldn't be much there. or the center of the floor pan near the driveshaft. not much there either. it looks like you didn't put as much in the middle, but there's still too much there and not enough on the sides close to the wheels. that body reveal line which is concentric around the rear wheel would have a nearly clean stripe 3-4" wide around it, but the side of the same reveal that faces the tire would be completely white. it will also be much more concentrated the closer to the tire you get. i.e., near the rear wheel the side of the car would be nearly white while the upper part of the door skin (farthest away from both wheels) would only have specs here and there. try to find the picture of sodbuster's arm which he had hanging out the right side of his car while his wife was driving. that will give you an idea of where most of the salt goes. just a thought. i'm not knockin' your car, but suggesting how the next one could be even better.
[ QUOTE ] This is maybe interesting for you model builders. I got these two kits as a kid in 1969. The kits where sold in the local toy store here in My hometown. The clue is I grow up in communist East Germany. Now here is my question: Are these kits known in the US (tell tales say the kits where bootlegged over here from Lindberg) Did these two buckets exist in reality? Details on the kits are: scale 1:25, one is named "Jersey Bounce" the other "The Texan", made by Max Kraetzer/Leipzig. GDR. I would be happy to know more about these little kits. [/ QUOTE ] <font color="purple"> I have never seen cars like these.I know threre is a model car museum here in the states, try to find them and ask what they know. </font>
First let me say, i know about the salt tracks and placement of the spray. I tryed my best , but the spray can was a little messed up. Ill try a bit better but heres something, just to let you know i "tried" And those German models: left one i never saw before, the right one i have seen but with a different cover on the box, but it looks almost the same. Rat-
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