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Got the complete collection Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies. All 14 films. 12 restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archives. The six I've watched so far (includeing one that not did not need to be restored) all look and sound great. I also have the complete collection of Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes on order. Should be getting that in next few days. Scott

Replaced a power window mechanism in the left rear door of my 2000 LeSabre. Watched a video first on YouTube on how to do it. That helped a lot. The total job maybe took a little more than than 30 minutes start to finish. Cleaning up the residue from the duct tape I used to hold the window closed over the last few months took longer than that to clean off. It was a perfect day to do the job. Not to hot. Not to cool. Got it done, so I can go back to driving with all of the windows down. I love to do that at this time of the year, before the weather gets too hot. Scott

I'm with Dave Van on this one. Seeing the photos above now have me thinking about adding this kit to my collect. Unlike Mr. Van, I'll be building mine stock. By the way Mr. Metzner, I like that green. What paint is that? Scott

Dave, you'll be getting more of my money soon, looking at those pictures. A great looking Pontiac. Scott

One of my all time favorite kits. I do wish Round 2 would reissue this kit in way that it could be built as "showroom" stock '63 Vette. Scott

Wow! Looks good. And left hand drive, I see. Scott

'89 was the big change for Thunderbird to IRS and other things. The '87 and '88 was basically a restyled body on the '83 - '86 chassis (actually the chassis goes back to 1980 on T-bird). The interior and dashboards were still very simular, if not identical, to the year before. In fact I've got a friend who gets quite perturbed when the conversation comes up about Motor Trend awarding their Car of the Year Award to the '87 Thunderbird. He drove an '83 for years and loved it. But, thought the restyled Bird of '87 too minor of a change to be considered a new car for Motor Trend's award. I'm not sure I disagree. Even though I really like the '87 and '88 T-birds. Scott

The building part is just fine. The only real problem with the kit, and this goes back to the origin issue back in 1966, is the interior. The kit has the the 1965 interior and dash, rather than the correct '66 style. AMT did not see a need to tool up a new or correct interior for the kit back in the day. Other than that, it's like any other kit tooled from that time period. It builds well, but is very low on detail on things like the chassis. Typical of other AMT annual kits of the time. Scott

For me the 919 dash shown above is too much and not very pretty. It takes more than a lot of stuff to give me entertainment and enjoyment in what I'm looking at. Part of what I love about the late 50's cars are the dashboard and fins. In either case neither may serve much function, but they are interesting to look at. Bob Spedding mentioned Chevy's high beam indicator shaped like their bow tie logo. I also like the Pontiac ones that are shaped like the profile of Chief Pontiac used in Pontiac's logos into the late 50's. I would who else did high beam, or other dash warning lights shaped like their logos? Scott

So when are you inviting me over for a nice trout dinner? Scott

I'd like to see a non Hurst version of this kit with a correct 4-4-2 grille. Lovely kit, other than the grille. Make mine a regular 4-4-2 convertible. Until then, I wait on picking one up. Scott

Like anything put out by humans, I'm sure it's not 100% accurate. But, it's as good or better than anything else I've seen out there. Scott

Another great review Tim. I don't need another '68 Roadrunner, but I'm tempted to pick one up just for the box art. Looking at the rest of your review, I don't see enough issues with AMT's kit that would make me pass on it, if I was looking to build a '68 Roadrunner. All the "flaws" are so minor, I never noticed them until they were pointed out. And no one at my local model car club ever pointed them out, or complained about them. It looks like a pretty good kit of '68 Roadrunner to me. Scott

I think your correct on it being Budd. Budd built a few different bodies for Ford, including the '55, '56, '57 Thunderbirds. Despite it being built by Budd, I'd be willing to bet the C-series, like the 2-seat birds, were designed by Ford in house. Scott

The Directory of Model Car Kits by Bill Coulter and Bob Shelton is a pretty good source. They published several of these guides. I two different editions of The Directory of Model Car Kits, American Manufacturers Only, with Price Guide, 1/24-1/25 Scale. They measure about 8 1/2 by 11 inches. An inch or so in thickness. Soft cover, spiral bound. I don't know if they're still be published or not. I would check Amazon or eBay for. Scott

I have a book put out by Toyota talking about the cars in their museum. One of the cars there is a reproduction of Toyota AA. They could not find an original, so they decided built a new one using the original blueprints. They do have an original AB in their colletion. But back to the AA. Toyota openly admits the chassis and engine are copies of the contemporary Chevrolet of the time. And the body design was copied from the Chrysler Airflow. Scott

Got Revell's last issue of their SnapTite '77 Monte Carlo. The one molded in red, with factory rally wheels. Now to come up with a good color scheme. I'm thinking a blue with an overall white interior with blue accents (dash, carpet, package shelf). Scott

As noted, the correct decals with the little roadrunner cartoon logos are available from Keith Marks too. And his decals are very good. Scott

I'm surprised you guys have not commented on the comments made in the video about autonomous driving vehicles. Taking the ability away from humans to need to drive their cars and trucks. It sounded to me that if they can make the autonomous car 100% foolproof, they then expect it will be made illegal for us foolish humans to drive a car. We are too dangerous to be allowed to drive. A machine can and will do it better. This all may be true, but I hope I'm gone by that time. I love to drive. Having control over my car. Something about the way they're talk about the autonomous driving car unsettles me. I may be wrong about my feeling of discomfort in this idea. I have no fear of the technology not working right. I'm sure it will. But, is this really what we want in the long run? Scott

What do you guys do about sun visors then? Scott

The weirdest kit I ever saw and wish I had the money to buy it at the time, was in the late 70's. A local model shop had a Japanese model kit of a boom box. It was much smaller than a regular boom box, but had at least one working speaker which you could plug into a music source.... like a real boom box, and play music through it. That ranks right up where with the only thing I've ever been tempted to take from a motel. This one motel I stayed at had ashtrays with a no smoking symbol printed on the bottom of them! ?????? Who comes up with these ideas? Scott

If it does, good news. Scott

For me the best dash board should also look good and be entertaining. This is the part of the car I'm going to look at most of time if I own and drive a car. The Porsche 911 has a great dashboard. No question about it. And, there are other dashboards out there that do not do as good of a job as passing on info like the 911s. But, are still pleasing. And sometimes to other people that may be in "the prettiest or flashiest or most artful." It's like pizza. To me it is almost the perfect food. Bread, meat, dairy, and vegetables all in one tasty package. But tacos also meet those same requirements. And I like tacos too. Just not as much as pizza. Or steak, shrimp, chicken, and on and on. It's still all okay. The Porsche 911 dash is both good looking and informative. It's just not my favorite. And I'm okay with the fact that it is your favorite. But, the rest of us can like other things too. That makes it neither right or wrong. It just keeps life interesting. Though you know your idiot if you don't agree with my choices. Scott

I brought this up in another thread in another section on this site, but I thought it might be more appropriate here. And it deals with using resin windshield frames. I'm planning on converting AMT's latest '69 Corvair hardtop into a convertible. To do this I ordered a '66 Corvair convertible windshield frame from Modelhaus. Has anybody here ever done this? And how tough or easy of a job is it with their windshield frames? I've purchased lots of Modelhuas stuff in the past, so I know they put out quality goods. But, I really do not know what part of, or how much of the windshield frame one gets. So I have no idea of how or where it attaches to body. Or how one permanently attaches it to the body. So any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Scott

Thanks Mike. That was the other set of tires from them that I wondering about. After reading and thinking about your above comment on them, I decided to go over the their site and order a set. So that's what I just did. Problem solved. Thanks for yours and everybody else's help on this. By they way, a couple of days ago I also ordered the '66 Corvair convertible windshield frame from them. So I can convert my latest '69 to a convertible. Has anybody else ever used this part from them, and know what you get and how you install it? I'm also thinking I may have to order a '66 partial Corvair 4-door hardtop kit from them next. Man, I love those Corvairs. Scott