Vince Nemanic

Randy, Stan, and Steve were all friends of mine. I have gone to every NNL West and have been involved with putting it on since 1990. A huge loss to the Bay Area modelling community.

I would guess that less than 5% of the cars ever made were issued, so this could be a LOOOONG thread. In the mid 1980s, I was photographing the cars at the Goodguys show in Pleasanton, and a man about 30 years older than me said he had seen me at the model display. He asked me if they made a model of a 1948 Hudson 4 door with the lay down seats. I told his that I read the model companies needed to sell 100,000 kits (at that time) in order to break even. He said they didn't make that many of the real car, but that HE would buy one. He got a bit mad when I told him that he just needed to line up 99,999 more kit sales.

I always thought a metal body model of a Corvette was hilarious.

I read somewhere that the flower power boxes were meant to be put under a "black light". Can anyone confirm this?

Tamiya kits build really nicely. Just saying.

I think there is a treasure trove if Round 2 follows the "business model" for the Cutlass convertible. Take a kit where the body was modified into something else and make a new body for the leftover annual parts (assuming the mold still exists). Think of a restored-to-annual-spec '63 Tempest, ' 63 Nova. '65 Falcon, '67 Comet (maybe backdated to a '66 ?), and '66 Barracuda. Then there are models like the Sweathogs Dream Machine, Harry Bradley Californian, and Hardcastle and McCormick Coyote which can be restored to a '68-'72 Grand Prix, '66-'67 Toronado, and Ford GT Mk IV, respectively. These are just some that I can think of. Any other AMT Or MPC kits you can think of along these lines?

In the early '80s my dad owned a '65 2WD Gladiator powered by the OHC six. It sat about 3 or 4 inches higher than a 4WD, and had a straight axle (and I mean absolutely straight) about 3 inches in diameter with 16 inch rims and poverty caps. Hope this info helps.

maybe the snap Dukes Charger?

Thanks, Tim!

Tim, could you test fit the grille and post a photo? If you look at my comment on the previous page, I think the grille doesn't fit. Thanks.

It seems to me that the grille fit the original body better than the new one. Compare the picture above with those on page 2.

It is the Jo Han tool for sure. I can't tell for sure from the picture, but there was an indention at the top of the headlight doors on the '66 while the '67 headlight doors were flush. The '67 was marketed by AMT.

I vaguely remember reading back in the '80s that the earliest promos ordered by GM were required to fit into a standard GM parts box. The problem was tht the box was too narrow to hold the width of an accurately-scaled 1/25 promo. so the promos were made a bit too narrow. Once people were used to the fudged proportions, the companies began to include engines, but since the chassis were too narrow, the engines were made narrow also. Companies like Monogram that never made promos just accurately scaled their bodies and parts accurately, which resulted in Monogram engines nd other parts didn't fit the 1/25 kits. I think the person who wrote that was a guy named Tim Boyd. Did I remember that right, Tim?

I have known both David & Pryor for over 30 years. I assure you that Pryor is very much with us- he did some work on a 1:1 Model A for David last year.

Maybe it IS hauling nuclear waste and was originally safety orange. LOL.

I seem to remember someone building a Polar Lights "Ghost Cuda" funny car saying that he had something like 20 to 25 hours in sanding out and polishing ejector pin marks on the inside of the body. I always wondered if he reduced the thickness of the body uniformly or introduced a lot of distortion.

It looks like a Show Rod, so it probably never goes more than 2 or 3 miles per hour if it runs at all. So steering is a moot point. The show promotors eventually made a rule requiring running engines because many or the show cars in the '60s had engines without pistons, rods, cams and other internals- just blocks, heads, cranks and external parts. They were pushed off their trailers and into the display, then pushed back onto the trailer. No messy fuel, water or oil to leak and no heat to discolor the chrome.

I remember when Boutte first posted the video. It was NOT the '59 El Camino tonneau. With the help of a friend, I discovered that it was from the AMT '63 Ford Pickup.

The tall spoiler was raced in the '70 Trans Am series. Find a picture of the The one year only Chaparral Camaro team. I think they were not allowed until the second or third race of the . I received an AMT '70 Camaro for my birthday in 1970 and crudely scratch built a tall spoiler when I built it a a TA car. I started the model on the day Bruce McLaren was killed: June 2 1970.

Greg, in the 1980s, Don Graham, the late Bruce Treadwell and I built models of these and showed them at the Beverly Hilton in '86. Don did the red Gillis car, Bruce did the blue version and I did the Chrisman version. David Dale posted a picture of Bruce's about a week ago on the Spotlight Hobbies board. in one of his "more randon models" posts.

My wife and I always pay by check or cash to local businesses. Many people don't realize that retailers pay a percentage to the banks/credit card companies whenever you use a credit or debit card. When you use a card, you are decreasing the profit for the hobby shop, (or any local business). If you appreciate your local businesses, don't use a card there.

K Mart dictated things long before Wal Mart and Hobby Lobby. They even said that the companies should have more black on the boxes because they said boys noticed black the most. Remember the MPC '67 Corvette from the '70s that was originally white on the box and then was changed to black? Or the Monogram boxes that had back on the top, not to mention the number of kits that were molded in black? K Mart ordered those things.

Snake, the reason Sexton told me that is I was lamenting another Chevy engine and said tht I got 3 of the original roadsters just for the nail head. Different strokes for different folks.

At the NNL Western Nationals, Ed Sexton told me that the coupe will have the Buick engine when it returns.

I remember reading that the pantogram machines that predated CNC machines had several reduction settings: 1 to 1,5; 1 to 2; 1 to 2.5; and maybe others. If the wooden master was made in 1/10 scale the pantogram machines would give 1/15. 1/20 and 1/25 scales or more. For 1/12 scale masters the pantogram gave 1/16, 1/24 and 1/30. For 1/8 scale masters it gave 1/12, 1/16, or 1/20. I suspect there were several other settings for the machines as I doubt the manufacturers would make two different size masters. I don't know where some of the other scales came from, but 1/43 is 'O gauge" for model railroading so that scale is to provide vehicles for train layouts. One thing that always struck me as odd is that European and Japanese manufacturers use 1/24 where their countries use metric measures while American manufacturers use 1/25 and 1/20 which don't work well with the English system of measurement.