unclescott58

I'd like to see a model of the pickup truck version of the TC3. The Scamp. A friend of mine use to own one. It was a pretty nice little car/truck. In fact, from I remember of all of the Omni/Horizons, they weren't bad vehicles at all. I also had another friend who bought a new Omni GLH back in the day. In fact, we took on a trip to Dyersville, Iowa to visit the Ertl/AMT plant at the time. The thing was a blast to drive. And got very good gas mileage on that trip as well. I was impressed by the car. A bright spot when there were few to talk about. Scott

May Mutt IIs live for ever. A much better car than people give them credit for. I hope you show us more of this kit Chris. I am not a big funny car fan. But, still I'm interested in seeing more. Scott

As of yesterday I received the Lindberg/Pyro Auburn Speedster in the mail. It is no where near as bad as I expected. Other than the door opening lines being convex rather than concave, and the lack of a chrome grille, it's actually a very nice. The engine leaves a little bit to be desired too. But, everything else looks pretty good. Everything seems to fit very well together. And the kit has the overall lines of the Auburn Speedster down pat. Better than many full size Auburn Speedster replicas I've seen. It's a primitive kit by today's standards. But, with very little work it should look pretty good when finished. Much better than the old Pyro/Lindberg Cord. By the way, I was so impressed with how well Dave's Lindberg (ex Pyro) Continental turned out, that I decided to order one. Which way will this kit lay? Is it more like the Pyro Cord? Or the Pyro Auburn? Either way, like the old Pyro/Lindberg kit, with a little love it should turn out okay. I'll report on the Lincoln when it gets here. I'm actually looking forward to it. Scott

Another kit I'd buy, if Round 2 reissued it. I always thought the early versions of this car were a little ugly. I liked the looks of the later four headlamp versions wat better. Despite that, I'd love to own and build a copy of the one shown above. Scott

Two Lindberg kits waiting for me when I got home. Their 1935 Auburn Boattal Speedster and their 1/32 scale 1952 Chevy Fastback. The Auburn looks better than I expected. The Chevy was exactly as remembered it to be. Which is okay. Scott

Within the last year I built two Modelhaus Corvairs. One a 1966 Corsa convertible. The other, a 1967 Monza sport sedan (4-door hardtop). Both turned out very nice. Glad I ordered them when I did. Scott

Again I'm impressed. I'm always willing to admit when I'm wrong. And I'm wrong on the hood stop light. I should have gone to Maroon Cruisers website before saying anything. I'm glad to hear you knew of that site. It's a great one for info on Minnesota Highway/State Patrol cars. Testors Mythical Maroon? Is that an enamel or a lacquer? Scott

Beautiful Js. Scott

Funny! I like it. Scott

Proposed nuclear powered car. And only built as a scale model. One of those 1950's pie in the sky ideas. They had no idea of how to make it work. Nor did they really care. That was (is) for future scientists to figure out. And in close to 60 years, no one still has any idea of how to make it work. Scott

Silly warning labels? At the O'Riellys I work at we had a candy dispenser selling Peanut M&Ms. On the dispenser there was a warning label warning that the product contained peanuts. Really!? Peanut M&Ms contain peanuts!? And that if I have peanut allergy I should not eat them? How stupid have we become? Peanut M&Ms contain peanuts! It says that right in the name of the product! It's Peanut M&Ms. Guess what? Even without the warning label I think I can figure that one out. And if you can't........ Well, you deserve what your going to get. I'm sorry. Scott

Also at last nights meeting I picked up AMT's 1/32 Scale Stars '65 Mustang. A very nice looking kit, by the way. And for my birthday I ordered Revell's 1/72 scale "Luxury Yacht 108 ft." This kit was sold in the past as the Sunseeker Predtor 108 kit at a slightly higher price. The Revell yacht kit arrived in the mail yesterday afternoon. Scott

"Coming Classic Packard Gold Cup." I've never understood why Packard has never been well represented in model kit form. Especially Packards from mid to late 1930's. A few from the late 20's, and early 30's. But for me, Packard built some of their prettiest cars from 1934 on. Scott

Was the Mercedes 220 shown above, ever produced? I'd like that one. Scott

Very nice job. Though I don't remember Minnesota using the hood mounted stop light like the one shown on your model. Michigan yes. Minnesota I believe had a different right fender mount stop light. Still I like it. I'm also curious about the paint you used. From the photos it looks like a very good match for the Maroon color Minnesota uses on their cars. What did you use? Scott

Any pictures? Scott

Saw a Molotow Chrome paint markers demonstrate at last nights the MCCM (Model Car Club of Minnesota) meeting. I was impressed. Ordered one each of the 1mm, 2mm, and 4mm. Looking forward to playing with them. Scott

Fun to bump into threads on things like this. One doesn't see many of these once common kits built. They were always a pain to build and get to look good. So the ones built above, are very nice to see. I think these kits would have been much more popular if they had come with separate chrome parts. I remember purchasing the '52 Chevy Fastback years ago. And being very disappointed. Especially with the built in grille. Scott

I got the impression there were screws in the motorized version that held the upper and lower halves of the kit together. So you could replace the battery as needed. Scott

The above '69 Fury picture was also shown in the Auto World catalogs of time. As far as I know, the kit was never released. At least not as a '69. The only JoHan police car from that era that I know of is their '68 Fury kit. I don't know what was going on with advertising a '69. The '68 version appeared for several years before, during, and after the '69 was shown in the above ads. Scott

I built one of the old Monogram/Galaxie Long Jong dragsters a couple of years. A very simple kit that I liked a lot. Sometimes it's fun to kind of go back in time, and build some of those early kits. A cool kit of a very cool old style dragster. Scott

Why the personal attack above? I wasn't even planning on joining in on this conversation until I saw that. Scott

Living in Minnesnowta, we have 6 more months of winter coming. Ground hog. Or no ground hog. ? Scott

Dylan is from the Minnesota "Iron Range" area. That is so close to Canada, I'm not one bit surprised he can't be understood. ? Scott

Most of the Auto World plates were wrong for the year 1961. They are all correct for 1960 with the exception that they have 1961 as the year listed on them. Back in those days it was not uncommon for states to change their plates every year. Auto World designed their plates based on real 1960 license plates. But, they must not have wanted them to go out of date right away by putting the year 1961 on the plates. Again, models were seen mainly as toys for kids back then. I'm sure they figured most kids would never known that they were wrong. I know when I got my first set in the early 70's, I didn't know they wrong. I was just happy with how good the plates looked, and that they had my state of Minnesota as part of the set. Scott