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mrlexan wrote:Jason, do you have white letters for the drivers side?

no, i don't. when i had gotten the black ones, i didn't know what color the left side of the car was. i just figured both side would be black. but, i was wrong.

scr8p wrote:i think i'm gonna cut the sides of the chassis and the nose plate down now. the tub isn't mint anyway. i wasn't going to, but what the hell........................

It'll look more realistic than the one AE...err, Gene has...

Jason, Go to page four and look at the pics that Minicooper 35 posted, first pic at the top.

Oh, and I need white ones too. If I can find one sheet, I will take what I need and you can have the rest. Good thing they had multiple letters on one sheet.

mrlexan wrote:Jason, Go to page four and look at the pics that Minicooper 35 posted, first pic at the top.

melvin had posted those pics sometime last year. that's when i first saw the white letters. but, eventually forgot about them.

i have the auto graphics set new, what do you do mr lexan scan them and send em back? i do not want to part with mine, but i would lend it to you. i have the numbers also i bought these a while back for my replica car also.

Getting there with this one. Thanks scr8p and asso_man! for the great examples to follow. Hopefully the transmission will get finished soon. Just got two pics in before the camera batteries gave out. At the moment. I'm trying to figure out the color scheme. The red, orange, and yellow seem simple enough, but does anyone know what types of blue were available back then? The closest I've been able to get was Pactra's metallic blue, a la rattle can variety.

looking good so far, BT. i like that front tower.

in the pics on the previous page, the blue does look metallic. but the in the ad image, it looks like a solid blue. i'm planning (when i finally start to paint mine) on picking up a couple of the different blue pactra bottles and mix them around until i get the shade i feel looks the best.

The shock tower is pretty beat up where the sun don't shine, err where the camera don't focus There are three shock positions. I used the lowest one so it makes the tower look taller, like that ad you were referring to.

i'm planning (when i finally start to paint mine) on picking up a couple of the different blue pactra bottles and mix them around until i get the shade i feel looks the best

I guess I'll do the same. Let the mixing begin!

Good looking car. I love the mix of vintage an CF. Looks great.

Very nice, I think the woven graphite was not yet available at the time, just plain graphite... oh well, nevermind, anyway you (meaning us) should also drill the pan and cut the edges to have a "correct" car... keep us posted

Asso_man! wrote:I also found this on the Net, I thought it might help

I don't know anything about this car other than the last posts (I know kind of stupid to start reading at the end)

What struck me about the above picture however is the angle of th rear shock. It kinda looks as if this is a trailing arm version??? You can see the shock angles forward at the top and it also looks like the shock mount is not pointing forwrd but sidewards...

mr. ed, that's an a&l trailing arm chassis under that halsey body. you can see the fiberglass chassis peeking out on the right side.

scr8p wrote:mr. ed, that's an a&l trailing arm chassis under that halsey body. You can see the fiberglass chassis peeking out on the right side.

I thought asso-man was referring to this picture as an official one, but then saw the other picure on the page before.

Had some time this weekend to set up a trial paint scheme. Not sure if I'm happy with the colors or the design yet. That was a lot more work than I thought it would be.