Q: What is the best way to paint trim on the side of a car? I have a 1955 Chevy street machine, and the side trim is a problem for me to paint in a nice, even line.– Gerry MacLennan Mississauga, Ontario, CanadaKen: Hand-painting a thin, straight
... Read more » | Round 2 has once again dug through the AMT archives and has reissued a classic kit that has not been around for a while. Like the Double Dragster kit that I reviewed in a previous issue, the 1925 Model T has two complete kits in one box. There are m
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| Three deuces. Three twos. Tri-power. Whatever you call it, three two-barrel carburetors on any engine just screams out hot rod. And if those three carburetors happen to be Stromberg 97s, well, it just doesn't get any more traditional than that! The S
... Read more » | The three basics of building custom cars are chopping, channeling, and sectioning.We've shown you the basics of chopping and channeling before, but sectioning — which involves removing a horizontal slice of your model's basic body shell — is a far-mo
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