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Other than the L88, that setup was not use with any other engine. And how many L88s were built that year? Was it 8? Or 20? I can't remember without looking it up. And I'm too lazy to do that right now. ?

That's a ugly car. Build it!

I've always felt that airbags were a useless feature in general. If you properly wear your seatbelt/shoulder harness you shouldn't really need an airbag. I remember when GM first offered them on some of their cars back in the mid 70's. If you ordered the airbag option, they took away your shoulder harnesses. And only gave you the lap belts up front. The main idea of the airbag was for people who were uncomfortable or unwilling to use their shoulder harnesses. And back in the day, there were plenty of those people. Today, the law requires me to wear my seatbelt/shoulder harness. I do have mixed feels about the government tell me I have to do it. But, I've been an advocate for seatbelt usage, and have been using them since our first family car, my folks new at the time '67 a Mercury Comet, came with them. So why am I required to have dangerous and expensive airbags in my car? (My 2000 Buick LeSabre has four of them.)

There is another thread here thanking/talking about Round 2's great service at providing replacement parts when needed. And Round 2 does indeed do a very good job. No question about it. I needed one very little replacement part from Revell recently. All I needed was the little propeller that goes on the Deal's Wheels Go-Mad Nomad's surfboard. They not only kindly sent me the propeller. But with it, a very nice hat pin celebrating the 50th anniversary of the '57 Chevy. True, that anniversary was already 9 years ago. But, still I think it was very nice of them to send me the pin with my requested part. The pin's theme goes great with the kit. (For those who don't know, the Go-Mad Nomad is a caricature of a '57 Chevy Nomad wagon.) In a related note. Recently I needed another propeller. In this case for my AMT Hindenburg. Round 2 too did an outstanding job of getting me the replacement part. So, thank you Revell. And thank you Round 2. Your customer service departments both do a great job.

Anything past the Js? Wow what a list. Some good. Many bad. Several repeats. Tough to get through.

I got my Original Art Series '29 Model A Roadster kit today at a local hobby shop. I am very please with what found in the box. My plans are to build one car as the Mod Rod with fenders. The other the Vintage Racing version without fenders. As excited as I am about Revell's '29 and '30 Model As, which I also purchased, I'm more excited by this AMT kit. The new stuff is great. But, in someways my heart is struck more by the old stuff.

My understanding this scoop was fake in every way. No cowl induction like on some later Chevys, including Corvette. It's strictly a styling thing on the '67s. Fake or not, it still looks great.

You know the old saying, "Those who can, do. Those who can't teach." One of these days I'll have to figure out how use a photo site. And how to post photo from it.

And is there then a kit of his car? Or decals to covert a kit into his car?

I'm disappointed. I thought the Automotive Acronyms would have gotten a better response. And we would see more added to the list. I know there are more out there.

Joe you must remember nothing really happens out side NYC. We live a very basic existence out here. Its pretty primitive. I too have never heard Violets candy or gum.

What was the car Auto World's Oscar Koveleski use to race in the early 70's? Wasn't that a Can-Am car? And was that ever offered as a model kit?

As I noted in my last posting here, I went a head and bought a 1/24 Monogram '65 off eBay just now. It's morning, and my pay check is in the bank.

If I do it Snake, I'll buy the '65 with the big block hood, and the big block under the hood. I already looked on eBay. I think I'll be buying one tomarrow morning after my pay check hits the bank. By the way, and I don't know why, but I really do not like the idea of putting a big block hood on a small block car. The small block cars are cool in there own right. And I like the smooth, small block hood, of '65, '66, and '67 on the small block cars. A good reason to buy Mongram's 1/8 scale Corvette if it's rereleased. That and it has the standard wheel covers. (Again, I like the aluminum wheels better. But, I like the wheel covers too.) For me it's a bit of heresy to put a big block hood on a small block car.

In general, most every kit I buy, I buy with the intent to build. There are three though, I bought without the thought of ever building them. One is Revell's '67 Corvette roadster that came in the tin collectors box. Two, Round 2s 1/32 '66 Batmobile, also in a tin collectors box. I've have both of these kits in other forms. So I bought then just to always have them. The third kit is an odd one. I bought it strictly because of the box art. I have almost no interest in ever building the kit. And that is Minicraft's 1/200 scale Spruce Goose, with Pan American markings. The Pan Am Hercules Clipper Universe. The box art looks like a Pan Am travel poster from the late 40's. It shows the famous beach at Oahu, Hawaii. Diamond Head in the background. A beautiful Hawaiian girl in the foreground offering you a lai. And above it, passing in front of the sun, a huge Hughes' Hercules flying boat in Pan Am colors. I'm ready to go right now..... Well, for sure in Febuary. And in photos I've found on line of the model built? It looks great built! I've built a plane or two over the years. I've have other craft/vehicles in Pan Am markings. For its still my favorite airline. I also have other Pan Am stuff waiting to be built. But, for what ever reason, I just have no interest in building this one. I can not tell you why?

The Revell '67s are by far the nicest of the C2 kits in 1/25 IMO. The Revell '63s are wonderful too. The old AMT kits are still look good overall. Since I've never had, or even seen the Monogram '65, in either scale, I have to wait to pass judgement on it. Other than Snake's fixed version, the roof of the 1/24 does look odd on the box art. I still may buy one. I like the '65/'66 big block hood. Not as much as the 67's. But I still like it. That is one vendor's website indicating Mongram's big 1/8 scale '65 is suppose to be coming back on in 2016? I've found no one else confirming this. I hope it's true. I may buy one. I like what I've seen of it in others builds, and in the instructions over at Drastic Plastic's site. If they bring it back, I'd like them to do a Round 2 style packaging. Bring it back to what you got with the original back in '65. Blue plastic, the instructions, the catalog. The whole bit. Again, I've never seen Monogram's 1/12 scale '67. I am surprised to see that Monogram has done 3 C2s in 3 different scales. As noted, I love the '67 in big block roadster form. Don't know why, but the coupe doesn't work for me as well. Though I do have the Revell '67 coupe in waiting. At the same time, I curious about Monogram's 1/12 scale kit. I really wish Round 2 would reissue AMT's 1/32 scale '63 split window. (That and the '60 T-bird.) Again, after the '67 big block roadster, I love the '63 coupe in pecking order of my favorite Corvettes. C2 or any other generation. I will build just about any '63 coupe kit out there. I love the split window. I hope Round 2 did well enough with the AMT 1/32 scale Avanti and Ranchero to justify bring back the Vette and Bird. Speaking of C2 Vettes in model form. As a kid I had a '65 Cox gas power one. 1/16 scale I beleive. My dad put it together. Using no paint. Just assembling it for me. Still, it looked great in its red molded plastic. We never got around to firing it up a running it. It just sat a shelve in my bedroom with a small can of Cox fuel, next to my other finished models for years. Where it disappeared to when I left home? Who knows? A few years back, a friend gave me a '67 Cox Vette as a gift. Because he knew how much I loved that first Cox Vette I had. Also, the first three models I built with my mother's help back in 1964 or '65, were Aurora's Frankenstein's Fliver and Dracula's Dragster, and a ME-262 jet. The fourth kit I remember working on with my dad. I'm not 100% sure, but I think it may have been MPC's '65 Sting Ray coupe. The box art looks right. But that was so long ago, and would have been about seven years old at the time. One last C2 story. I still remember the first '63 Sting Ray I ever saw. One morning after watching Romper Room on TV, the next show was a game show. I remember almost nothing about that show. Other than at one point they showed the new Corvette Sting Ray. Even as a young kid I loved cars. But this car was more special than anything I had seen before. It was very sleek looking. And it had no headlights! Then they turned the headlights on. The buckets rolled over exposing the headlamps! They shut them off. The headlamps rolled back, disappearing! I was blown out of my 5 year old stockings. This was amazing! Plus the car had that weird rear window. I fell in love. And 53 years later, I'm still in love.

And more from Car Crazy. Excu-u-u-u-u-se Me Actual excuses for auto accidents, taken from insurance-company records: "Coming home I drove into the wrong house and collided with a tree I don't have." "The other car collided with mine without giving warning of its intentions." "I thought the window was down, but I found out it was up, when I put my head through it." "I collided with a stationary truck coming the other way." "A truck backed through my windshield into my wife's face." "A pedestrian hit me and went under my car." "The guy was all over the road. I had to swerve several times before I hit him." "I pulled away from the side of the road, glanced at my mother-in-law, and headed over the embankment." "In an attempt to kill a fly, I drove into a telephone pole." "As I reached an intersection, a hedge sprang up, obscuring my vision, and I did not see the other car." "I had been driving for 40 years when I fell asleep at the wheel and had an accident." "I was on my way to the doctor with rear-end trouble when my universal joint gave way causing me to have an accident." "As I approached the intersection, a sign suddenly appeared in a place where no stop sign had ever appeared before." "To avoid hitting the bumper of the car in front, I struck the pedestrian." "The indirect cause of the accident was a little guy in a small car with a big mouth." "I was sure the old fellow would never make it to the other side of the road when I struck him." "I was thrown from my car as it left the road. I was later found in the ditch by some stray cows." "The telephone pole was approaching. I was attempting to swerve out of its way, when it struck the front end." "I saw a slow-moving, sad-faced old gentleman as be bounced off the roof of my car."

Beautiful!

Nice to see. The first one I ever seen built.

I use maybe a half dozen different glues. Depending on the need. Sometimes the good old Testors glue in the tube is still the best one to use. But, I use Testors Model Master liquid glue more than any other.

More from the book Car Crazy. Some Bumper Stickers We Like As long as there are tests there will be prayer in school. Ask first if the animal wants to be killed. Bad spellers of the world untie. Hang up and drive! Happiness is the ball in the fairway. Honk once if you're Jesus, twice if you're Elvis. Honk if you're Jesus, otherwise shut up! I fear no weevil. I like cats, they taste just like chicken. I brake for hallucinations. I'd rather be right than P.C. If you do own the road, I'd like to talk to you about these potholes. If you've got a problem ask a teenager while they're still young enough to know it all. Life is like a box of chocolates: full of nuts. Mean people suck. My other car is a Zamboni. My karma just ran over your dogma. My other bumper sticker is funny. My reality check bounced. To err is human; to really screw up you need a computer. Visualize whirled peas. Who needs Santa? I've got Grandma. Wow! I could've had a V8! You can't hug your kids with nuclear arms. Okay, some were not that funny. Some seem a little dated. But, that makes sense since the book was published in 1996. As noted twenty years ago now. Here is one I have on the bumper of my Buick: "Let me get this straight, your Honda has 1.8 liters. And my Mountain Dew has 2?"

Whoops. I should have read the link Snake posted before I asked the question about painting the Sting Ray red for the movie. It states right in there, that's why it was done.

Okay, that makes sense. Plus I knew that the Sting Ray was painted red at some point. Was the movie the reason for that, I wonder? I know that was the reason for painting the Lincoln Futura red. So it showed up better on film, in the the movie It Started With a Kiss.

Again, thanks Snake. You always seem to provide good information. Now you've got me thinking. Despite the problems you describe with the 1/24 scale Monogram '65, I may have to pick one up, just to have it. Now, who has had their hands on the big 1/8 scale '65?

Come on guys! With all of bad news out there this summer, we can use more humour to lighten up the mood and help keep our sanity. Give us more joke. Even if they need to be explained to me. Or they are just plain bad. All I ask is keep them clean and don't be gross or truly mean. Speaking of mean. Mean Automotive Acronyms Audi - Accelerates Under Demonic Influence BMW - Big Money Waster; Bought My Wife; Bumbling Mechanical Wretch Buick - Big Ugly Import Car Killer Chevrolet - Can Hear Every Valve Rattle On Long Extended Trips; Cracked Heads, Every Valve's Rotten, Oil Leaks Every Time Dodge - Dead On Day Guarantee Expires; Drips Oil, Drops Grease Everywhere Edsel - Every Day Something Else Leaks Fiat - Failure In Automotive Technology; Fix It Again, Tony Ford - Fix Or Repair Daily; Found On Road Dead; Fast Only Rolling Downhill GM - General Maintenance GMC - Generaly Mediocre Cars Honda - Had One Never Did Again Hyundai - How You Understand Nothing's Drivable And Inexpensive Jeep - Just Eats Every Part MG - Money Guzzler Pinto - Put In Nickel To Operate Saab - Swedish Automobile-Always Broken VW - Virtually Worthless The above list comes from a book called Car Crazy, by Dean Danphinnis and Peter Gareffu. Published twenty years ago now. It has some other humous and interesting I'll share more of in the near future. And their are more Automotive Acronyms out there. So of which are appropriate to share here. But, if you know of some more, I hope you'll share them.