rondo
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Post by rondo on Jul 14, 2013 8:32:26 GMT -6
By coincidence, I recently scored a Dream Rod as well. Perhaps due to not being listed by name, or maybe because of it's mouldering condition, it got little attention. It didn't come with any of the display parts but the car is mostly there.. I have a Tiger Shark around here for some of the bits. Might be able to make a real retro piece of it. First stop, the Purple Sea.
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Post by noredcamaros on Jul 14, 2013 13:22:45 GMT -6
By coincidence, I recently scored a Dream Rod as well. Perhaps due to not being listed by name, or maybe because of it's mouldering condition, it got little attention. It didn't come with any of the display parts but the car is mostly there.. I have a Tiger Shark around here for some of the bits. Might be able to make a real retro piece of it. First stop, the Purple Sea. Good for you. I saw that one on the bay when it was listed and thought about getting it but I decided not to. Yours looks a little bit better than mine, the builder used excessive amounts of testors glue on mine.
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Post by SgtDRecon on Jul 14, 2013 22:23:25 GMT -6
recently reacquired a long lost grail-----ooohh,Yeah! Go Hale !!! Go!Go!Go! I think I have seen this one sitting in the Historic Auto Attractions North of Rockford. www.historicautoattractions.com/
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Post by SgtDRecon on Jul 20, 2013 22:09:11 GMT -6
ShowCarNut, I went back to the website and noticed that they didn't have it on the floor. I do know they have other pieces that are on display and are switched around. If you look up the Tucker Torpedo web site, the owner has one of the wrecks, plus an additional engine.
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Post by rondo on Jul 25, 2013 19:40:12 GMT -6
Not strictly a Showrod score but ...it could be. Judson blowers, for those who have not been living under a rock. Thankfully, the original builder didn't seem to scrape the plating so the chrome parts detached pretty easily. The white parts however, should be in a commercial for whatever glue was used. Amazing grip. I finally gave up and razor sawed the manifolds from the heads as carefully as possible. The (rather crude) carbs should be salvageable. Did not get the drive belt in this parts lot but I can live with that. The plan is to mate the blowers with the new Revell Olds engine (background in the pic), coming up with something like Tim Boyd made a few years ago for a magazine piece. Not too sure of the engineering of the kit design but it looks pretty cool.
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Post by stilljustharley on Jul 26, 2013 3:31:46 GMT -6
Judson blowers? My Holy Grail of intakes! I don't suppose anyone knows what kit(s) those little beauties came with? Or if anyone does 'em in resin? Or if anyone has some they don't want? Please!
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Post by rondo on Jul 26, 2013 16:18:42 GMT -6
As far as I know, the AMT 64 Olds Cutlasses were the only kits which had them. DPMC has scans of the instructions for a hardtop and Tim reffered to a convertible kit in his article. This was the first year of the 330 engine, a family which eventually grew to 455 ci. I'll be putting them on the prior generation of engines so some parts would not have worked anyway. I looked around for some in resin but did not see anyone making them. If this auction had not panned out, I was going to make a set myself which would probably be better than the kit parts. But they would not be funky old vintage AMT, would they... I've been known to cast a part or two and will probably make some molds this weekend. public.fotki.com/drasticplasticsmcc/mkiba-build-under-c/amt-instructions/automotive-cars--pi/oldsmobile/amt-64-f-85-cutlass/oc64c02.html
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Post by AL on Jul 26, 2013 22:46:08 GMT -6
.. wow, . trip ?Judson blowers ?? uh, .. Rondo, i think i was living under a rock . . . . never seen these, interesting.
-AL
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Post by rondo on Jul 27, 2013 7:49:39 GMT -6
.. wow, . trip ?Judson blowers ?? uh, .. Rondo, i think i was living under a rock . . . . never seen these, interesting. -AL Naw, they are pretty obscure and obsolete. In fact it seems that the model kit application of these blowers may have been entirely imaginary. In other words, PERFECT for Showrodding!
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Post by stilljustharley on Jul 27, 2013 10:02:03 GMT -6
Thanks for the info, I remember Tim Boyd used them on a rod build up years ago but never mentioned where they came from and I've wanted a set ever since!
If the moulds do get made and there's a spare set going, please do let me know.
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Post by Starry Eyes on Jul 27, 2013 12:39:18 GMT -6
Thanks for the info, I remember Tim Boyd used them on a rod build up years ago but never mentioned where they came from and I've wanted a set ever since! If the moulds do get made and there's a spare set going, please do let me know. I'll gladly cast them if someone wants to send me a set ...
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Post by rondo on Jul 27, 2013 14:08:12 GMT -6
The blower (only one is really good enough) is in it's box waiting for the pink goo. I'm trying to get the carbs and manifolds rehabbed before mixing the rubber though.
I've seen a couple of unused sets go through ebay but that has to be rare.
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Post by AL on Jul 27, 2013 22:32:37 GMT -6
... ahh, "entirely imaginary" --that kinda explains that one. --thanks, AL
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Post by stilljustharley on Jul 29, 2013 4:35:26 GMT -6
Plenty of applications for VWs, Corvairs and straight 4s but a quick web trawl would suggest they weren't a popular fit for OHV V8s - as Rondo says, that makes 'em perfect Show Rod material!
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Post by rondo on Jul 29, 2013 7:18:28 GMT -6
Poured the molds yesterday. Well, apparently I let about 3/4 gallon of mold rubber sit around too long. It was pretty thick coming out of the bucket and seemed to set way too fast. I vacuumed the mold and a good bit of air came out...hopefully all of it. Will find out in 5 hours. It's not what you'd call a pretty mold. More like a bowl of mashed potatoes than a glass smooth surface. Fingers crossed and patiently waiting. I built the 3 blower parts into a solid unit for casting, replaced the razor sawed manifold flanges with styrene and filled some substantial glue damage on the carb elbows (the 2 elbows and the distributor were joined into a single unit with an equal amount of tube glue). Not quite like pristine parts but they should be quite serviceable. Edit: OK, tried the mold and not surprisingly it has some bubbles. The rubber was too thick to let them go. I got a few decent parts from it but couldn't pressure cast because of the bubbles in the mold, so there are pinholes in most of the parts. I have already belabored this thread so I will start a new discussion when I can make first rate parts.
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Post by Starry Eyes on Jul 30, 2013 15:40:13 GMT -6
nabbed this 1/10th scale guy on eBay .. now I can spiff ole "Big Daddy" up and set him next to my Parma 1/10th Hemi ! insert code here
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Post by old school modeler on Jul 30, 2013 15:42:53 GMT -6
Garlits came with an engine, companion to the MPC similar Shirley Muldowney w/engine kit, they probably had plans to do more of them but these two were the only ones.
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Post by Starry Eyes on Jul 30, 2013 15:47:01 GMT -6
Garlits came with an engine, companion to the MPC similar Shirley Muldowney w/engine kit. yep.. correct you are old buddy.. however I never wanted to spend the moola for a minty kit just to build .. I figured what the heck .. Both the Parma and the Big Daddy are 1/10th ... works for me !
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Post by Starry Eyes on Jul 30, 2013 15:50:20 GMT -6
I also nailed down my "Hot Curl" figure.. the truck is missing a few things but I've got a complete truck courtesy of Joe D ... now I can build this one and mark it off my bucket list ..
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Post by Count Dragula on Jul 30, 2013 16:17:58 GMT -6
Got this "Boss A Bone" Tom Daniel builder for $20 shipped to me....it's missing a few things,but the important things unique to this kit are all there! (seats,exaust,rollbar,front bumper,and the complete engine)....Just missing the scuba gear,but I already have that somewhere here in my stash!Great starting point for me on a resto job! Did this thing have a rear bumper? ?If so,it's missing as well as the center wheel chrome "spinners" .I plan on nabbing the spinners from an Orange Hauler....they look very similar to what came on this originally. Todd
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2013 16:30:27 GMT -6
No rear bumper.. If I'd had a few more bucks in my Pay-Pal, That would have been here! Congrats my friend! Bill I got this one last week, w/ box and instructions. And Saturday I won the Big Drag! Attachments:
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Post by Starry Eyes on Jul 30, 2013 16:44:43 GMT -6
No rear bumper.. If I'd had a few more bucks in my Pay-Pal, That would have been here! Congrats my friend! Bill I got this one last week, w/ box and instructions. And Saturday I won the Big Drag! now there's a couple of real nice prizes right there Bill!
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Post by AL on Jul 30, 2013 23:35:46 GMT -6
KILLER Scores guy's .....
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Post by barten on Aug 1, 2013 2:55:46 GMT -6
Chuck you have the coolest toys! ! ! ! ! ! Thanks for posting!
GB barten
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Post by A.J. on Aug 1, 2013 10:42:02 GMT -6
Garlits came with an engine, companion to the MPC similar Shirley Muldowney w/engine kit. yep.. correct you are old buddy.. however I never wanted to spend the moola for a minty kit just to build .. I figured what the heck .. Both the Parma and the Big Daddy are 1/10th ... works for me ! Hey Chuck, I've often wondered if the Parma kit was actually the MPC kit. Do you have any pictures of the Parma handy? I wouldn't think that Parma would have tooled it just to have a 1/10th Hemi but maybe. I think the Aurora Racers engines aren't the same in scale? Even if they were, I believe they were much more detailed than the MPC engine.
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Post by Starry Eyes on Aug 1, 2013 18:56:37 GMT -6
yep.. correct you are old buddy.. however I never wanted to spend the moola for a minty kit just to build .. I figured what the heck .. Both the Parma and the Big Daddy are 1/10th ... works for me ! Hey Chuck, I've often wondered if the Parma kit was actually the MPC kit. Do you have any pictures of the Parma handy? I wouldn't think that Parma would have tooled it just to have a 1/10th Hemi but maybe. I think the Aurora Racers engines aren't the same in scale? Even if they were, I believe they were much more detailed than the MPC engine. I'll see if I can dig it out AJ and snap some photos .. I thought the same thing as to why Parma would retool something that was already available ... ,
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Post by Starry Eyes on Aug 1, 2013 20:21:14 GMT -6
yep.. correct you are old buddy.. however I never wanted to spend the moola for a minty kit just to build .. I figured what the heck .. Both the Parma and the Big Daddy are 1/10th ... works for me ! Hey Chuck, I've often wondered if the Parma kit was actually the MPC kit. Do you have any pictures of the Parma handy? I wouldn't think that Parma would have tooled it just to have a 1/10th Hemi but maybe. I think the Aurora Racers engines aren't the same in scale? Even if they were, I believe they were much more detailed than the MPC engine. Here ya do AJ !.... looks like I'm missing a cylinder head .. (DANG IT !) ..
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Post by ira on Aug 2, 2013 8:27:56 GMT -6
Good Morning Chuck!I have an extra cylinder head for the Hemi. Let me know if you need any other parts I'll send them out to you...
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Post by Starry Eyes on Aug 2, 2013 8:41:37 GMT -6
Oh man!!! I'm excited !!! I will set down tonight and do an inventory .. You're awesome..., yes now I can move this up on my building list. !!
All the best - Chuck
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Post by A.J. on Aug 2, 2013 9:38:47 GMT -6
Very cool Chuck, that worked out well for ya. After looking at the pictures I can definitely say with about 99% certainty that it looks like the MPC Hemi kit. The only thing I'm not sure of is that the Garlits kit came with this very dummied down front engine dragster as the display base for the hemi rather than the little round base that is shown with the Parma kit. I do believe that the Muldowney kit came with that though so who knows. Was the Muldowney kit a Hemi as well? I have both of them but haven't had either out for a long time.
Ok, I just studied a couple pictures on eBay of the Garlits and the Muldowney kits and it appears that the Parma is the Muldowney engine. I don't think there is a lot of different in the two but what I can see is the blower hat and the fuel injection on the Garlits is different than the Muldowney. Most everything else looks the same from the blower housing down. The headers are different as well. Garlits appears to be an engine he used on a front engine dragster which would explain the zingeresque body for the engine to sit on when built. Muldowney's engine looks like it may have been in a funny car. Would have been about the same era as the Road Runner she raced maybe? Anyway, just thought I'd add some observations.
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