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Post by Brandon on Jun 14, 2011 23:00:01 GMT -6
This was the kick in the pants I needed today... I was inspired by your fender opening treatment and dug my mock up out and made an incredible amount of progress on it tonight... Thanks!
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Post by Brandon on Jun 14, 2011 16:27:34 GMT -6
Great work, Ira,the truck is on the money....
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Post by Brandon on Jun 12, 2011 0:11:46 GMT -6
Holy cow.. and I thought I was doing good to have a can of the green spray paint and a few bottles of the brush stuff....
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Post by Brandon on Jun 12, 2011 0:05:01 GMT -6
Ya know.. the first car I ever remember doing a hundred in was a little LeCar... LOl.
I was very young, probably 8, maybe and a car nut, and as such, my parents were young also, and we had this hot Italian chick who ended up living with us briefly, and she was in her early 20's I guess, and we lived in MA and she was from RI, and for some reason she took me to her parents house for the weekend one night, (and I built an orange Scout with superglue cause they didn't buy the Testors.. super nice people and awesome spaghetti sauce) and we were headed south, and rolling along, and she was going 70, and I told her to do 80, and she did, and I dared her to do 90, and she did... and I asked for 100 and she told me no... but we were whizzing along and all of a sudden she looked down and starts freaking out saying she is doing a hundred and her car will blow up... and I looked and it was pegged... we slowed down, but damn that was awesome... they only have three lug nuts. LOL.
I didn't lead a sheltered life....
I also once dated a chick when I was 16 who took my VW bug and drove the crap out of it.. turned out she raced go-karts (and won a bunch) and had a bug when she was 14... Her dad owned my favorite junk yard... garsh that was hot. "Lemme drive yer Doodle bug" she said... and I jumped in the passenger seat of my lowered '68 with dual carbs and a stinger and was impressed. She even snatched a second.... Sigh....
I digress. Back to model building... hehehe.
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Post by Brandon on Jun 11, 2011 21:45:38 GMT -6
Tom emailed me today, and he really is just the nicest guy, and very impressed with what we all did for the contest. He said he has had lots of computer troubles or he would have been a bit more active on here. I can't hold anything against anyone his age, but he REALLY got a charge out of the entries, and for things to have come full circle, and for HIM to really take a few minutes and appreciate all that has been done on this site, born from much of his imagination, is really a very, very cool thing when you think about it. I was moved, for lack of a better term. Who would of thought that a little website like this would withstand the years and eventually gather the herd together like it has? From Ira to Eldon, to Tom and Denny and even Mark Moriarty who has done so much to preserve the cars that we love... I must say I'm proud to be here. Thanks to all of you who make this a great place to kill a few online minutes in our busy lives...
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Post by Brandon on Jun 11, 2011 21:36:41 GMT -6
A little off topic, but with two boys I am always in the Hot Wheels aisle, and the new Cars stuff is out, before the June 24th movie even... unless I missed something. Anyhoo... a V8 Gremlin X carried me home from the hospital (am I telling on myself, here?) and that would explain a lot, I'm sure, but as such, I have an interest in them.. and we had another one when I was older, and I watched one do a complete 360 in front of my house one warm summer night, which would have been cool, but my dog happened to be underneath, hence the reason for the spin... and when the car came to a rest, facing the same direction it was going, the dang dog darted out from underneath and was fine.... LOL. Car load of buzzed teens, early 20 year olds... (It was a different time then..) shaken, and aopolgetic, and left with a little burnout cause I told them to do it.. hehehe... Anyways.... of all the Cars cars on the racks...I got the LAST Gremlin diecast car... they are going fast. I'm a snob and don't care about the pacer... but if you are a Gremlin fan, and like the little big eared dude on the gas cap, you better get to the stores now... B.
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Post by Brandon on May 15, 2011 17:49:33 GMT -6
White scallops or a watson-style panel job in white, a metal flaked roof, lowered, some three-bump Milner chrome reverse wheels or Astros with skinny whites and let it ride...
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Post by Brandon on May 14, 2011 0:07:12 GMT -6
You know my answer: bash the crap out of it. Muwhahahahaa!
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Post by Brandon on Apr 28, 2011 11:02:18 GMT -6
I built my kitbashed '57 from a 1/32 kit and 1/24-5th parts from my bins. The '57 had been stepped on and the roof was shattered...
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Post by Brandon on Apr 26, 2011 23:02:13 GMT -6
Didn't we have a Zingers contest once?? Or category?? Garsh there's too much crap in my brain... I built this for some contest:
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Post by Brandon on Apr 26, 2011 23:00:24 GMT -6
Wuh-Duh-Bout your own scratch built version of a DW/Zinger? The name of the contest could be the ISCCA (International Show Clown Car Association) I'd really like to try and use DW parts on something and make my own.. that would be fun.
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Post by Brandon on Apr 26, 2011 22:58:56 GMT -6
We have heard all of the excuses, though, and I'm just as bad... I've had some flat crazy situations happen around deadline time. Life is a funny thing.
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Post by Brandon on Apr 26, 2011 22:58:07 GMT -6
But... but... who uses INSTRUCTION SHEETS? My thoughts, too.. Everything I buy is for parts. I did get a kick of showing my kid how to read them, and follow the numbered steps within a step and the symbols like don't glue and cut shaded area, though...
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Post by Brandon on Apr 24, 2011 23:51:18 GMT -6
I'd have to buy something, but I'd be down...
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Post by Brandon on Apr 20, 2011 19:30:05 GMT -6
Lesseee. if my ol' noggin' is working correctly...
You had to submit two names, and in return you got two names... the decals were made by Dekal Dan?? is that right? Garsh.. how long ago WAS that?
Anyways.. somebody somewhere mailed us decals, and you built a car to fit that name.
Quite brilliant, actually... I'd never build a floral delivery car, but I was stoked to do so...
Unfortunately.. if it was in fact Dan who made the decals, he is no longer a regular.. life got in the way.. but he was a hell of a nice guy, and super talented.. I miss him....
Models are funny... especially when you have been here for ten years or more...
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Post by Brandon on Apr 19, 2011 6:13:10 GMT -6
I have three cats Thats funny. And the only time all three do the same thing at the same time for even 45 seconds is when they hear the can opener or the food back rustle...
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Post by Brandon on Apr 18, 2011 20:43:14 GMT -6
Needs a hemi and Cragars....
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Post by Brandon on Apr 18, 2011 16:57:58 GMT -6
It's usually like herding cats getting grown men to finish something on time for a deadline.. LOL.. We've only had real luck with the Fools with No Rules and the Cobweb Classic contests... the others that other people organize seem to not fare so well. I really don't know why other than time to build.
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Post by Brandon on Apr 18, 2011 16:54:50 GMT -6
Man, when WAS that?? I actually finished both of mine.. maybe I won something? I can't remember and too lazy to run a search at the moment.. I got and built: Bud's Exotic Flower Delivery and the Psycho Sidewinder:
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Post by Brandon on Apr 18, 2011 7:35:54 GMT -6
Steve, steve, Schteve......... Don't think too hard, man... It's like the Mysterion.... just enjoy the eye candy. LOL...
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Post by Brandon on Apr 17, 2011 23:01:38 GMT -6
You can scratch built part 165 pretty easily out of flat stock and make it believable. Just a thought...
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Post by Brandon on Apr 17, 2011 22:18:39 GMT -6
That is one long chain!
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Post by Brandon on Apr 16, 2011 17:46:52 GMT -6
Looks great to me! I had to pin my sidecar on with small sticks of round plastic slid into holes I bored between the mating surfaces... It IS flimsy..
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Post by Brandon on Apr 16, 2011 11:56:50 GMT -6
I was 15 here... seems like a hundred years ago... This was a limited edition '72 "Baja" Super Beetle with the rare marathon blue (I think) paint and the stripes, and a chrome cover on the shifter lever with a wooden knob.. Bought it for $100, no rust and it ran. I later found out they only made about 1,300 of them... The color was Bee-yoo-tee-full in the sunlight.
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Post by Brandon on Apr 16, 2011 11:53:22 GMT -6
I had a set of those once... very hard to come by these days, and a good looking wheel. I
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Post by Brandon on Apr 15, 2011 9:42:56 GMT -6
We should have showrod.com buttons or something.... I've missed a couple of guys at shows..
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Post by Brandon on Apr 13, 2011 11:03:24 GMT -6
www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com/We stopped here on our Goodguys Cruise to Del Mar... the plane that was posted here was donated to these guys, and the range of projects are incredible.... Guns, a lathe, cars... wow. They have a link near the bottom to check out the stuff online.
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Post by Brandon on Apr 13, 2011 6:40:57 GMT -6
Sort of reminds me of that Bugs Bunny cartoon where he is in Sherwood Forest and gets in trouble with the Sheriff of Nottingham. Little John shows up and announces..."Don't you worry, never fear, Robin Hood will soon be here". Or in Elf when he's in the mall store and yells "SANTA!!!" when the guy says santa is coming... LOL.
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Post by Brandon on Apr 8, 2011 14:54:57 GMT -6
Here's my quick photochopped goal: '70s street racer, era correct with a type 4 motor.
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Post by Brandon on Apr 6, 2011 20:09:58 GMT -6
At least you guys can drive yours... LOL. Time and money, that's all they take.
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