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29/12/2022 8:34 pm
This is Ertl's very nice 1/18 version of the 1966 Chevrolet Nova SS. Here, it is in a pale yellow shade.
29/12/2022 9:30 pm
I used that model as the basis of my Jungle Jim Liberman funny car.
30/12/2022 12:30 am
Always love to see this one; it's great! You did nice work here my friend. In short, "You nailed it!"
30/12/2022 2:45 am
As opposed to you 'railed it'... Lol
That Nova looks GREAT !!
30/12/2022 11:02 am
@marty-johnson Interesting use of a Torqueflite transmission in a Chevy. Great model!
30/12/2022 11:52 am
I always loved that shade of yellow used on the 60s GM cars.
30/12/2022 1:45 pm
A very cool Firebird. A friend had one very similar.
30/12/2022 1:48 pm
A very cool Firebird. A friend had one very similar.
I had a mint '67 in light metallic blue but unfortunately it had a Powerglide trans, which I found kind of boring.
30/12/2022 2:43 pm
@jack-dodds When I got out of the Army in '71, I scraped up a couple of hundred bucks for a '64 Chevy Biscayne tudor poster with 6 cylinder and Powerglide for a daily 80 mi round trip commuting. The lag and huge gear differential between Low and Drive would leave me dead in the water with a semi barreling up my tail while desperately trying to accelerate to highway speed. The damned Powerglide put my life in danger on a daily basis.
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30/12/2022 2:47 pm
A very cool Firebird. A friend had one very similar.
I had a mint '67 in light metallic blue but unfortunately it had a Powerglide trans, which I found kind of boring.
That's the opposite of my friend's car. His family owned a repair/machine shop so his 400 H.O. was bored out, 4 speed (as I recall) with a 140 or 160 speedometer. With 3 of us in the car we buried that speedo one day on the expressway. That was (still, to this day) the fastest I've ever traveled in a car.
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01/01/2023 11:32 am
@marty-johnson Interesting use of a Torqueflite transmission in a Chevy. Great model!
Wow! An Art Carr Torqueflite! I'd forgotten all about that!