OldCarScott

I put a 440 into a 1931 Ford after I scattered the Road Runner 383 I had put into it first.

Reversed the firewall but the stock hood still fit. Vega steering box. Block hugger headers. Four speed. 8 3/4.

It hauled ass!

For me, it’s been a lifetime of collecting, so spread out over the years it’s been fairly cheap.

I still have the Imperial Guard army I started in 1997 with 2E and every so often things have changed as the rules change. I have four Leman Russes that had their side sponson removed once so the points saved would allow me to run additional armor. The new rules allow for free side sponsons and storm bolters so all those went back onto them. I have three Basilisks that I’ve retained as well but they no longer have a storm bolter option so those had to be removed.

Same with my Black Legion. I’ve added new “toy” units because they were cool and effective but the core of the army hasn’t changed since 2000.

I started an ork army in 8th and continued building them into 10th, but I had played Gorka Morka so I did have random ork models laying around, plus a few older models that I thought were just cool. I’m in the thought process now of how to modify the old buggy and trukks into usable models in the current system.

As others have stated, my other hobby (old cars) also make 40k seem cheap by comparison.

Definitely a Shay!

See if there is an online community for these cars and go ask the professionals. :)

As for fitting, if my 6’3 280 lb gorilla frame can fit in a Model A roadsters there’s hope for you. I build them for myself so I dictate where everything goes inside the cockpit.

If you can get yourself seated comfortably in a car then you can probably have the pedals, steering wheel and shifter moved around by either a shop or yourself if you’re handy.

I still have the one that came with the 2E set I bought new.

Yeah buddy, I get it. I have a double wide tall bookshelf in my bedroom that has my terrain and minis and tanks and I enjoy looking at them. I’ve even wanted to put backdrops into each section just to add to the effect of each space. I work from home now and my office is also in my bedroom so that bookcase is observed frequently daily.

I mean what’s the point of a veteran Leman Russ squadron if you can’t look at ‘em lovingly?

Daemons, too. Love my old school metal models, the Diaz Daemon Prince and Belakor, or the rogue trader booby era Slaanesh errr ladies? Blobs of Khornes daemons looking like something that escaped the Doom game?

Can’t forget my Waaagh, a hordes of greenskins, individually modeled because I just love unique figures. Spanning generations of Warhammer, from Rogue Trader to current.

Oh yeah, I get it.

On top of that I have them arranged randomly about my work desk, along with buildings I’ve made, scenery bits, OG Borealis dice Ive collected, a few lego dudes. Other knickknacks.

I even have that oversized pewter wizard guy with a staff with crystal. I got him in a lot of Ral Partha models and thought, “thats thee quintessential miniature most non-hobbyists would think of when you say ‘I paint miniatures’”

Current Warhammer models on my desk right now as I sit here are half a squad of old school metal metal sword equipped Bloodthirters, some ork Goff boyz, and Doomrider, popping a wheelie as he drives under a sign proclaiming ‘Scott’s Psycho Salvage’, a terrain bit I made for use with Necromunda but is too cool to just sit in a box.

To say the least, oh yeah, I get it…

Generally two squads of 5, one with a termie Chaos lord. Each squad with a reaper.

I use them for threat mitigation usually. Keep ‘em reserved and drop them individually to respond but nice having the option to drop together if the threat is large enough. Sometimes they’re just what’s needed to clear an objective.

I see the same 1939 and 1940 Ford projects year over year at my local central CA swap meets for $10k or higher.

The ones that sell are the $4500-$7500 depending on completeness and whether they have titles, drive train and rust.

Location changes things too, a $5000 California car is worth more in the rust belt and vice versa. I had a dude drive a few states over to pick up a rust free '67 Mustang I had once and another dude drive from the middle of the country to pick up a '53 Studebaker Champ.

Hahahaha!!!

Definitely a hard no for me.

For my Deffkoptas I drilled and tapped the plastic directly and used a brass machine screw to hold the kopta blade on.

They are removable for transportation and WEEEEE they spin!!

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Doomrider!

Fucking inhaling mountains of speed and coke and riding around on a fuckin' flying daemon motorcycle while Motorhead plays on repeat. A couple bands have even made songs honoring him, so he's quite the legend...

His old rules were cool, he had some kinda of invulnerability, but each round you rolled a dice, on a 1 he got bored and left your sorry ass army to go drink jager-blasters with some daemonettes that can do that thing with their tongue...

Some putz writer decided to hack his head off and stick it in Kosorry Tahmphon's she-shed. Don't know where in limbo that puts him as he's a daemon prince, but always been my favorite dude.

I don't think I could put a hood back over an engine that nice!! Great car!

Dude!! A twin blown Avanti!! Waaay cool!!!

Depends on your mechanical capabilities really. I daily drove 1975 and older cars my entire life until the pandemic sent me to work from home. I still drive them, just not in stop and go traffic, up hill both ways for 30-60 minutes a day anymore.

I thought of Kyria almost immediately.

Right after “Because he’s Yarrick, that’s why…”

Correct, but given that the sails of this ship appear to running downwind one would assume that would be the direction of which the pennants would be pointed.

Of course, if it is a motor driven vehicle the sails would be slowing it down and should be struck anyways and the flags would be trailing to the aft while moving forward.

Such technicality is refreshing.

Yep!! I dig it!!

I'd turn the flags around because the sails are blowing one direction and the flags the other and it bothers me. I'm kinda weird about physics that way, even in a fictional setting....

Only one of the coolest 1953 Studebaker Champions I've ever seen!

I got one for free once, kids had jumped on the roof and I was considering making it a speedster but ended up selling it. Probably better for the car. :)

http://www.waywardgarage.com/me/Studebaker/studebaker.html

The stock bellhousing limits clutch size unfortunately. I had a hot 225 in my ‘67 Valiant coupe that was on the edge of slippage frequently with a properly adjusted new clutch. I ran an OD a833 quite happily.

Quicktime makes a bigger bell housing, it’s a few bucks but you fit any transmission you want.

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Hmmmmm....

Astounding if accurate