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The chopped up steering wheel in the real truck was from a '66 Toronado. It still has the Olds Rocket on the horn button!

Just went back to the Drastic Plastic model instruction site myself. And looked at all of the 1963 - 1967 AMT Corvette kits they had instructions for. All of the '63 - '67 AMT Corvette kits, except one, had the buckets seats molded into the interior bucket. Including the '63 and '64 convertibles. The one with seperate seats? The '65 AMT Corvette convertible. They do not have the instructions for the '66 or '67 convertible. But, I'm willing to bet that those more than likely have the seperate buckets seats too. Interesting that the coupes, from what I could see stayed with bucket seats molded into the interior bucket. I also find it interesting that when AMT brought back the '63 convertible, they went back to the interior with the seats molded in the interior bucket.

Sorry Snake, go to the Drastic Plastic web site and look at the instructions for AMT's '63 Corvettes. I can not find one with seperate seats. Now other years I don't know. But, we were talking about 1963, and from what I can see and have seen all of AMT's '63 Vettes have seats molded into the interior bucket.

The forecast for Sunday calls for a high temperature here of -7 degrees Fahrenheit! That's the high! Will the hell never end?

Why breed fish your not going to eat? Breed some Walleye or Northerns. ?

Now you tell me this Snake. I was wondering what I was doing wrong. ?

Both of AMT's 63's, the coupe and the convertible, have the seats molded into the interior bucket.

This explains why they've been ignoring their older website.

Read the other recent '63 Corvette reviews here. It will give you a idea about how the 1/25th scale AMT and Revell compare to each other. As note above there was never a 1/25th scale MPC '63 Corvette. They a very nice 1/16th scale one though.

How bad did they ruin the molds doing this? Is there enough there for Round 2 to easily restore this kit back to the Astro showcar?

Just ordered mine from a vender on eBay. I'm still hoping somebody will do a review of this kit.

Oh and Richard Matheson, the writer of Dual, is one of the greatest writers of all time. Famous for stories like I am Legend, and the Incredible Shrinking Man, amongst others. Wrote a lot of early the Twilight Zone episodes. By the way, do not judge I am Legend by Will Smith movie. Read the original story. It's much, much better. Or see the Vincent Price movie version, Last Man On Earth. A low budget film, but captures the feel of the original story pretty well.

The scene in Chuck's cafe? I saw the movie when it was originally on TV. And I thought the cafe science was in it? It's been 45 years, so I could be wrong on that one.

Ah... Cute.

I too think that's brilliant. ?

Good question!

You got me to buy set. At that price it was tough to pass.

Harry I think they really only killed off the Plymouth nameplate. Not the Plymouth line/type of cars. It was always been my understanding that the "P" in Chrysler's PT Cruise originally stood for Plymouth. But, as vehicle neared production, they decided to killed off the Plymouth badge. After all the Chrysler name meant something in Europe. Plymouth did not. And Chrysler was looking at selling the PT Cruiser and other vehicles in Europe. Notice, about that time the Plymouth Prowler became the Chrysler Prowler. I feel they moved the Chrysler name more downmarket to fill in for Plymouth. So is Plymouth really dead? Or they now just called Chrysler? And are the true Chrysler type of vehicle dead, within Chrysler?

???? Pecking order in GM was Chevrolet at the bottom. Division number 1. Pontiac is next, with its division number as 2. Followed by Oldsmobile at #3. Buick's division number is 4. Cadillac's is 6. Number 5? LaSalle. These division numbers go back to 1936. Alfred P. Sloan believed in a car priced for every purse. He laid this order out in the 1920's. Before that, several GM lines over lapped. Competing with each other in some cases. Sloan is the one who straighted this out. There was still some overlapping. But, in general you moved up in price from Chevrolet to Pontiac (and Oakland). Your next step us was Oldsmobile. Then to Buick. The next step was LaSalle. And finialy Cadillac. There were a few missteps along the way. With the success of Oakland's companion make Pontiac. And Cadillac's LaSalle. They gave Buick the Marquette. And Oldsmobile the Viking. Both makes were designed to fill a perceived gap between Oldsmobile and Buick. They both failed. Pontiac stole Oakland's market away. And in 1941 the LaSalle was made into the lower priced Cadillac Series 61. So Olds was never seen as an "entry-level Cadillac, somewhere between Buick and Caddy." Things again got a little blurry between the lines starting in the 1960's. Olds and Buick aiming at the same basic market with similar cars. But, from the 1920's through the 1950's at least. Buick always stood between Cadillac and Oldsmobile.

A lovely car. The more I see it, the more I like it. The name means nothing to me. Bring it out as Riviera. It looks like a modern interpretation of what a Riviera should be.

Wow! Your right. Read the bit on the new box about the Alexander bros. building the truck. No mention of a Dodge A-100 there. Just a 1965 Compact Pickup. Interesting. If I was Chrysler I would have let them keep the Dodge references. After all it's a cool truck. And a cool part of Dodge's history.

What snap kit? And a 12V71 from what kit?

Should be the new Riviera.

I'm not saying this to be smart a**. But, I bet Dave reads the comments on Moebuis truck kits in the truck section. The F-100 kits have been reviewed there. That would be a good place to ask the above questions. I too would like to know the answers to them.

Thanks Christian. Though I'm having troubles getting my iPod to download all of the photos. I'll have to try looking at it again, later.