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Post by gmckid on Jan 5, 2008 16:37:49 GMT -5
I just finished this yesterday. This kit is a piece of junk, the fenders are warped and there is flash everywhere and not just a little but excessive amounts. Anyways i made it work and here is the result. Horns and front bumper have been removed to reduce weight but i drilled holes for where the horns would have been. Its near stock apearing on the outside under the hood though there is a souped up flatty for getting away from the law. i opened up the roof insert to display the interior which features a bottle of booze and a necker knob for the stearing wheel. In the trunk there is a shipment being delivered. I still havetn found a licence plate decal that will fit the bracket yet. rear Thanks for looking
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Post by primersfiner on Jan 5, 2008 17:04:04 GMT -5
holly crap thats cool what ya use for the booze?
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Post by Duane on Jan 5, 2008 18:01:41 GMT -5
beautul work !!!!
don't stop at just one Shine Runner !!! i have some info for the next one that you build. Shine Runners would build covered tanks and hide them everywhere on their Runner. they always tried to make these builds look stock to fool the (guvmint agents) depressions on each side of their trunks and long metal tanks up under their floorboards(just anyplace they could hide one)to carry shine. they also built these under the backseats. they would then design some kind of release.
when they were deliverin a load and if the agents were too close, the Runner could trigger the release and empty the shine on the road and not be caught(Shine DOESN'T have an odor to it).
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Post by flathead51 on Jan 5, 2008 20:29:57 GMT -5
I love it!!! Killer look! Nice subtle weathering.
Where did you get the necker knob?
I've been planning a shine runner for a while... a 40 ford sedan. Thanks for the added info Duane!
I got a bunch of those booze bottles in the beverly hillbillys kit. I bought an extra kit just for extra bottles.
I remember reading somewhere that the shine runners gave birth to Nascar!
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Post by gmckid on Jan 5, 2008 21:02:41 GMT -5
Thank you guys and thank you duane for the added info. I was originally going to do a hidden tank under the trunk with a false floor but after reading an article on hot rods website i wasnt sure if it would be accurate . Now im going to have to find another kit to make a shine runner. Now that i think of it i believe the shoebox in the movie thunder road had a tank like that. Flathead51 the necker knop is just the top of a small shifter knob cut off and glued to the steering wheel. Your right too a lot of the early legends in nascar were also shine runners.
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Post by thumper on Jan 5, 2008 22:28:03 GMT -5
Yes........there were many "tankers" in operation in these parts.....I know the location of a couple ( 40 Ford coupe & 37 Chevy sedan ) Some even ran 22 ply aircraft tires so they couldn't be shot out and many reinforced the wheels by welding disc harrow blades on the inside of the wheels to stand up under the extra weight broadsliding on the old dirt roads. Most runners were painted flat colors like black or dark green so they would "disappear " at night with the lights off. (Don't ask how I should know all this ......It comes from my raisins )
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Post by Duane on Jan 5, 2008 23:14:18 GMT -5
yep Hugh, got my knowledge from the same place. my granpa was a Shiner. you KNOW where these cars ARE they aren't in museums are they? are they for sale? of all the information i've read, seen, watched etc about Shine Cars, there was only one that was painted white(or any other lighter color)the Shiner who owned the car(a '39 Ford 4dr)wanted the agents to think it was his Sunday-Go-To-Meetin car. yep kid, they had containers built in every conceivable place in their Shine Cars. yep FH, the Shine Runners would get together to "test" their cars agin one another. Junior Johnson was a Shiner and did some prison time because of it(twice, i think). N.A.S.C.A.R. was started in '49.
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Post by thumper on Jan 6, 2008 2:24:40 GMT -5
Duane, they are not in museums and definately not for sale. In fact.....these guys deny their exsistance swearing they have no idea what your talking about.( I went to high school with their boys and have ridden in the 40 Ford) You don't even breathe the word "camera" around them so there is no way to get pictures. If they don't know ya and like ya.........you won't make it past their mailbox.
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Post by geezerman on Jan 6, 2008 6:30:49 GMT -5
Great concept there. kid. I like the 'Continental kit' left on. I think mahap one day I'd like to try a shine runner, Sigh, so much to do - so little time!!!
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Post by Duane on Jan 6, 2008 9:57:04 GMT -5
i kinda figured that Hugh but, i HAD to ask anyway.
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Post by HotRodTom on Jan 7, 2008 23:32:44 GMT -5
I spent some time down in yer neck of the woods, Thumper, when I was stationed at Benning. Got to play around with some of the local dirt track boys, and see what they had in their back 40 for fun. Quite a few "non-existant" cars around. Lotsa fun, but don't tell NO-ONE! Them boys KNOW how to set a car up to turn on dirt! I was a proud crew cheif on a car at East Alabama Motor Speedway. I have also been thinkin of doin a "runner". Just can't seem to find a '36 Chevy humpback or sedan. Maybe I can use a '37.
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Post by certribe on Jan 8, 2008 18:03:07 GMT -5
Very cool build, I remember reading somewhere years ago about some of the adaptations they would use, truck springs, so loaded they wouldn't aooear so heavy, etc...I still think this summer we should have a shine build.
Charles
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Post by thumper on Jan 8, 2008 19:32:01 GMT -5
I agree Charles..........sometime later in the year we need to do it !
Oh yeah...and Kid.......nice work on the 34 I have heard some of those 34's were pretty well warped up. Ya did good !
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Post by gmckid on Jan 8, 2008 21:21:05 GMT -5
Thanks everyone. I agree that we should have a shine runner build later on seeing as i dont have any kits to start another now haha. It seems as though there is definately enough interest to get a few entrys.
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Post by primersfiner on Jan 8, 2008 21:57:29 GMT -5
id go for it
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