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Looking through my vast array of un-built model cars (2) I noticed one of the versions the '40 Ford Coupe could be built was with either a blower for the engine or <span style="font-weight: bold">triple Strombergs</span> yet. There in the box, on the unmolested chrome trim plastic parts, was a little bitty set of trips. Cool, I thought. Who woulda thunk they used Strombergs in the day for hot rod parts. I do know they were used on Harleys as standard equipment years ago. Were Stromberg carbs always around?
 
Dunno about always, but a good long time. Not Zenith-Strombergs though, they came along in the 60s as an alternative to SU.
 
TR6BILL said:
Who woulda thunk they used Strombergs in the day for hot rod parts. I do know they were used on Harleys as standard equipment years ago. Were Stromberg carbs always around?
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Dude, the ol' Stromberg 97 was *THE* carb to have. About the equivelent to and American's Weber. The more the better. Some V8's had up to six of 'em. Standard fare on all flatheads from the factory IIRC. Dad will be along shortly to confirm or not.

Not the same critters you had on the 6 though. Downdraft two barrels that only had one opening on the top but two throttle butterflies.

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Back inthe day you'd look at that and say "BRaaaaaaa!!!!", but I believe they predate that.
 
Lots of guys in the Flathead circle figured out years later that 4 of the 97's was too much. Went to three, and boosted top end and time trap.
97's were replaced in production after WWII, with Chandler-Groves/Holley/Ford 2100's, and that is not the same 2100 made later by Motorcraft.
You could jet the snot out of 97's, and most folks did.

If that's the same AMT kits I built dozens of as a kid, it had the parts to make a 39 or a 40.
Trouble was, sticking a 39 grill, headlamps, bonnet and taillamps on the body didn't quite cut it. Had to remember to put the floor shift in the 39, column on the 40, and the wipers were a problem.
39 last year for hanging wipers, and the windscreen could be cranked out at the bottom, 40 first for upright wipers, windscreen fixed.

Actually has a 40 Coupe in my shop many years ago, 327, PowerSlide, and it had hanging wipers, the owner kept trying to say it was a very rare early 1940 using 1939 leftover parts.
Yeah, right, so you whacked a bowtie into it.
 
TR6BILL said:
Looking through my vast array of un-built model cars (2) I noticed one of the versions the '40 Ford Coupe could be built was with either a blower for the engine or <span style="font-weight: bold">triple Strombergs</span> yet. There in the box, on the unmolested chrome trim plastic parts, was a little bitty set of trips. Cool, I thought. Who woulda thunk they used Strombergs in the day for hot rod parts. I do know they were used on Harleys as standard equipment years ago. Were Stromberg carbs always around?
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You've got some catching up to do! <grin> This was the wall in my office in March 2008....it has been added to somewhat over the past three years.

Fun to see all of the neat accessories that were made available in the 50's and 60's models.

Trivia...the code on the box flaps usually had a number such as 1287-249

The 1287 was the manufacturer's kit number...the 249 was the suggested retail. (I worked in a hobby shoppe from 1968 to 1972)
 

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When we were poor, really poor, we (my mother, my three sisters and I) lived in a shabby apartment off of Buena Vista in North Hollywood, Ca. The year was 1959. I was all of 13 and slept on an old army cot. I got a job next to the apartment at a day care center, watering her trees and picking Dandelions from the grass (dicondra, actually). She paid me all of $10 a week, of which I would give my mom $8 and keep the rest. We needed it for food. Times were tough. Every Saturday I would take my 2 bucks and walk all the way down to Magnolia Blvd to a model shop (remember those?) and buy a new AMT car every week. AMT helped me keep my sanity. I keep the '40 Ford as a reminder of those days, 52 years ago. I will never build it, keep it in the box, unmolested, knowing there will always be a tomorrow.....


Everybody has a story.
 
I've got a closet of unbuilt kits from the '60's & '70's.
If someone gives me a lot of money for them,then I'll sell them.
These are all original issue kits.Reminder of a simpler time.

- Doug
 
All my unbuilt kits are still at the store and gonna stay there.
 
Built one model once w/ dad, his old '57 210. The only thing we really did together IIRC.
 
AngliaGT said:
kellysguy said:
All my unbuilt kits are still at the store and gonna stay there.
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????? - I don't get it - please explain.

- Doug
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I presume it means he doesn't build models and has no interest in doing so - don't ask Billy to explain anything, it just encourages him - :devilgrin: - BTW my most recent kit is in the garage - 1:1 scale, my favourite!
 
JPSmit said:
don't ask Billy to explain anything, it just encourages him -
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Or, as we like to say, "Be careful what you pray for!"
 
JPSmit said:
AngliaGT said:
kellysguy said:
All my unbuilt kits are still at the store and gonna stay there.
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????? - I don't get it - please explain.

- Doug
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I presume it means he doesn't build models and has no interest in doing so - don't ask Billy to explain anything, it just encourages him - :devilgrin: - BTW my most recent kit is in the garage - 1:1 scale, my favourite!
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It's funny how you and Ben aways know where I'm comming from. I guess that makes you guys P and V.P of my five member fan club here.


Mickey Richaud said:
JPSmit said:
don't ask Billy to explain anything, it just encourages him -
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Or, as we like to say, "Be careful what you pray for!"
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:lol:

That's just too funny.
 
So Doug, whatcha got?? I might pay some $$$ for some vintage plastic that floats my boat. I have around 600 kits, some built, some not... Mixture of autos of all sorts, and piston engine aircraft. I currently get 1 or 2 done a year, but building has been more prolific in the past.
 
AngliaGT said:
Jesse,

I've got pictures that I can email.

- Doug
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Please post them here. I'd like to see. I can appreciate, just don't have the pacience required to build.
 
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