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[Tom Geiger]

Here's some more stuff I actually own.



Every kids bad birthday nightmare! Actually I bid on this as a lot on eBay and it seems nobody else did!



Premier Ford Anglia.



Lindberg Trail blazer is actually around 1/25 scale. There actually was a 1:1.



I believe this is a Premier Caddy. It looks like something Stuart Little drove! I could use parts for this if anyone has a parts car!



Premier Corvair. Slightly off a bit! I don't know how anyone worked for Premier and had the nerve to get up and go there every day!

[Futurabat]

That '61 Falcon is definitely a suprise. Is that a four door too?

[SSNJim]

That '61 Falcon is definitely a suprise. Is that a four door too?

That was my first reaction, too. I've got a 61 Falcon 2 door. The rear driver side window is shorter, and doesn't have the vertical bar. That box certainly looks like a 4 door.

[IMSANUT]

Having spent the better part of a half a years time working in a Nuke, I'd love to get my hands on one of the Westinghouse kits.....

And I really want one of the MG A kits in 1/24th.

[Rob Hall]

Those Premier kits are rather abstract..don't think I've ever seen one in person.

[2002p51]

'69 - '73 I was in the Navy. A big black hole in modeling for me. I missed all of those wonderful Aurora 1/16th scale Hemies.

Wow, I can't believe I just read through this entire thread! It's really pretty interesting, strange and very weird at times, but always interesting.

Anyway, I had most of these Aurora kits back when they were new. They were really nice and much more precisely detailed than the Revell stuff. In addition to the two engines pictured here they offered different wheels and tires, a Pinto body, and a few other kits.

I used that injected 392 Hemi in a Revell Tony Nancy kit to build this:

[blubaja]

Nitto

[Casey]

Anyway, I had most of these Aurora kits back when they were new. They were really nice and much more precisely detailed than the Revell stuff. In addition to the two engines pictured here they offered different wheels and tires, a Pinto body, and a few other kits.

What's even more interesting to me is what Aurora never got around to offering in their Racing Scenes line, even though Tom West already did the drawings for the parts...





The 'site: http://www.straightl...org/aurora2.htm


If only...

[2002p51]

They did some of them Casey. I have those American 5 spoke front wheels (upper left) and the same rear wheels. I also have the M&H Racemaster slicks and the Goodyear front tires just above them.

[Casey]

They did some of them Casey. I have those American 5 spoke front wheels (upper left) and the same rear wheels. I also have the M&H Racemaster slicks and the Goodyear front tires just above them.

Yes, they did, and they are fantastic. I was just trying to show those which never made it. The Aurora 1/16 slicks are far superior to the Revell Goodyears (and the lone Firstone), too.

[2002p51]

Here are those Aurora 1/16 scale funny car wheels and tires:



They also did a set of these canard wings for funny cars:

[bigphoto]

I swear someone did a resin cast Golden Sahara back in the '90s...I'll have to page through some back issues and see if I can find it.

It may have been Wheats Nostalgia or TKM.

[Casey]

Meter Cheater...in an AHM branded box? I think we're seen some AMT kits in Airfix branded boxes earlier in this thread, though.

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[atenzapower]

I found a couple years a go, this rare kit in the Netherlands, and i have build it, never seen one of these kits.

[Skydime]

I don't have this but remember seeing it on Ebay awhile back

and yes,Toyota did rebadge and sell these overseas.

I badly want this kit. I have Toyota Taillights in my 2004 Cavalier.

[lordairgtar]

I don't have this but remember seeing it on Ebay awhile back

and yes,Toyota did rebadge and sell these overseas.

And the Japanese hated them.

[gtx6970]

1st I even seen or heard of this version of the Deora

[Zarana-X]

And the Japanese hated them.

I drove a 2005 Cavalier as a rental, I hated it, too.

[Rob Hall]

I drove a 2005 Cavalier as a rental, I hated it, too.

Yep..I've driven a couple Cavalier rentals years ago..nasty little car....had a Cobalt rental once, marginally better.. I try and void anything smaller than a midsize when I rent on biz trips or vacations.

[Craig Irwin]

I drove a 2005 Cavalier as a rental, I hated it, too.

I've owned 4 Cavaliers, driven hundreds of thousands of miles in them, and am looking for another to replace the one that was just totaled 2 weeks ago. (it had 190,000 miles on it, trouble free). Not exciting but good, solid, dependable transportation.