PumaT
07-22-2008, 04:00 PM
Hi. Since I’m a new poster here, I thought that I might briefly introduce myself and, if this is the appropriate forum, ask a question about identifying a couple of bodies.
I got my first T-Jet set as a young teen (with a little calculation, you can guess how old I am now!). The old set has been pulled out a few times in the last 40+ years, as my kids grew up. But, I only began collecting old T-Jets about a year ago, just as a little side hobby. Actually, “collecting” would be a stretch; it’s really more like “accumulating”. I’ve been buying junkyard lots of parts and bodies and having fun just putting all the pieces together to make functional, although not exceptional, complete cars. Most of the bodies are not very good. I strip off old paint, repair broken mounting posts, smooth out horribly butchered well wells, etc. The chassis are usually not much better but, with a little cleaning, maybe a bit of epoxy here and there, a few new springs and the like, I’ve been able to get most everything running – some pretty good – others not so much. I currently have about 300running T-Jets and about 60 AFX’s, JL’s, AW’s, etc. pancake style cars. I’m not much into the inline stuff. The non-T-Jets just showed up in the junk piles so, it made sense to throw them together, too.
I’ve been reading these boards recently, trying to learn what I can. Frankly, most of you folks are way beyond what I’m doing. However, I’ve been able to pick up quite a few pointers that have helped rebuilding and tuning these little monsters. For that, I would like to thank you all.
Now that I’ve bored you to tears with my accumulating (my wife calls it a compulsion), I have a couple of bodies, I cannot identify. I was wondering if anyone out there could help me? I’ve posted the two pics – hope it worked.
I know the blue one is a Ford GT – just don’t know who makes it or where it came from. It looks almost new and in perfect condition so, I doubt it was made by Aurora; probably a reproduction by someone. The red one is much older and faded but, I just can’t identify it. Can someone help? Thanks.
I got my first T-Jet set as a young teen (with a little calculation, you can guess how old I am now!). The old set has been pulled out a few times in the last 40+ years, as my kids grew up. But, I only began collecting old T-Jets about a year ago, just as a little side hobby. Actually, “collecting” would be a stretch; it’s really more like “accumulating”. I’ve been buying junkyard lots of parts and bodies and having fun just putting all the pieces together to make functional, although not exceptional, complete cars. Most of the bodies are not very good. I strip off old paint, repair broken mounting posts, smooth out horribly butchered well wells, etc. The chassis are usually not much better but, with a little cleaning, maybe a bit of epoxy here and there, a few new springs and the like, I’ve been able to get most everything running – some pretty good – others not so much. I currently have about 300running T-Jets and about 60 AFX’s, JL’s, AW’s, etc. pancake style cars. I’m not much into the inline stuff. The non-T-Jets just showed up in the junk piles so, it made sense to throw them together, too.
I’ve been reading these boards recently, trying to learn what I can. Frankly, most of you folks are way beyond what I’m doing. However, I’ve been able to pick up quite a few pointers that have helped rebuilding and tuning these little monsters. For that, I would like to thank you all.
Now that I’ve bored you to tears with my accumulating (my wife calls it a compulsion), I have a couple of bodies, I cannot identify. I was wondering if anyone out there could help me? I’ve posted the two pics – hope it worked.
I know the blue one is a Ford GT – just don’t know who makes it or where it came from. It looks almost new and in perfect condition so, I doubt it was made by Aurora; probably a reproduction by someone. The red one is much older and faded but, I just can’t identify it. Can someone help? Thanks.