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Looking at your responses Mr. Eva, it looks like no matter what people say here, your going to dislike or disagree with it. I like AMT's '69 Cougar, and it's time to go on a read more productive threads here. Scott

I'd like to know more about this kit. A web search turns up very little on it. It's my understanding from others on this site, that body was taken from AMT's Astro I kit. I'm mainly interested in learning how much of the old Astro I kit was left unmolested? Scott

I hate to come off a little naive, but what kind of car is the Avenger car suppose to be? GT40 clone? And did the kit have anything to do with old British Avenger TV series? Scott

Interesting helmet the driver is wearing. Scott

Very nice to see one done. This and Dracula's Dragster were the first two model kits I ever built, with my mother's help, way back in the mid-60's. Mine looked no where near as good as yours, of course. It sure brings back fond memories see Frankie and his Fliver, and his yo-yo still hanging from his finger. Several times I've thought about buying another one. This is the first one I've seen since I built mine 50 some odd years ago. Thanks for showing it to us. Scott

Not good news. Scott

Read the reviews here, or ask other modelers here about the kits before you buy it. With the costs of making a new tool of any model, your going to find a lot of older kit subjects are based on old toolings. Most of us are okay with that. And as popular as some of these cars are, or are not, I dont expect model companies are going to put a lot of money into new dies, if the old kit is still useable and sells. Reading your comments Frank, I think your going to be real unhappy with most kits you find out there. That's a shame. Because with a little work, most turn into fairly nice reditions of the cars they represent. Scott

Oh, I'd keep the long version going. But, it would be nice to see a highlight version. Then we can go back and look at what we're more interested in later. For example I really liked looking at the first Ford you showed. The second one not as much. It would be nice to see the car in general before looking at all the detail shots. And great shots they all are. Just a lot to look through on something's that may not interest me as much. Scott

I'm not a big fan of the new Mustang's styling. But, I like it enough to have purchased Revell's Build and Play snap kit of it. Scott

I'm sorry Bill, I think the BMW i3 is just plain ugly. But, it's unique. It doesn't like another Toyota Carolla. I miss the days when you could look at a lot of cars and argue over what looked good and what did not. Most cars today are bland. The BMW i3 is not bland. It's just ugly. But not bland. Scott By the way, if you disagree with my opinion on car styling, you have no taste.

Real or not, it's a matter of taste. I think it's great if they put out these old show rods. It doesn't mean I'll be buying them. If it's based on a real car, or designed by Tom Daniel, I'm more likely to buy it. But, even that's not a guarantee. And there has been stuff out there that I'd never consider buying in the past, that I might consider today. Maybe I saw one built for the first time. Or maybe my tastes have just changed over the years. It's all okay. Bring them on. Scott

Just got the last release of the AMT/Bill Cushenbery's Silhouette. This one was still seal, new in the box. I opened the box, and thought about the old saying about trying to put 10 pounds of poop into a 5 pound box. And that's not to say what I found in the box was poop. It was the exact opposite. The kit looks great. But, how did they get all of that plastic in there? After looking at the instructions and the parts in their bags, I put everything carefully back in, and box top back on. It doesn't go all of the way back down! Again this is not a bad thing. I'm impressed. I have thought about purchasing one of these forever. I go through times when I think that this is a very cool looking car. And other times were I don't know what I was thinking, when I thought this was a very cool looking car. Despite that, I like the box art on the 2006 Nostalgic Series release of the kit. So I bit the bullet and bought one. Looking at the instructions and the parts (from what I can through their bags) and seeing built versions of the kit in the past, it looks like it should be a fairly nice kit to build. I've heard the front and rear "bumpers" can be a little tricky to put on? Beyond that, I've hear nothing else bad about building this kit. Anybody else out there have comments or warnings about assembling this kit? Scott

Pinto were not the best cars in the world. But even they didn't deserve that. Scott

1014 pics? Great detail shots for building models. But, a little too much for one sitting. How about a shorter highlight version? Scott

The only one who for the most part could make this genre of model kits work, was Tom Daniel over at Monogram in the late 60's, early 70's. There were a few by the others, but for the most part the made up "cartoon" street rods do little for me. Scott

Ah, but was it lucky or unlucky for the others around you? I was born on a Friday. But, it was the 7th of February in 1958. And knowing my mother, she would have told you, "Friday the 7th was a bad luck day!" I was not the best child in the world. But, at the same time my mother was not the nicest person in the world either. So, maybe Friday the 7th was bad luck for both of us. Scott

Oh wow! For the first time in my life I can have abs. Scott

Note that old man winter in the above photo has the general shape of a map of the state of Minnesota. What does that tell you? But, we too here in the frozen north are starting to see signs of spring. In fact, the weather forecast for the next week sounds wonderful! We may be seeing 50+ in the next few days! But.... We can still see snow in April or even May! Hopefully not this year. The last two winters have been bad. Not much snow this winter at least. But, verrry cooold. We need a break! Scott

I really like the New Yorker. To me, it looks better than the other two. It just has the right look. Fun picture. Scott

Okay, again why the Excalibur refrence? The Excalibur looks nothing like a Panther De Ville or Bugatti. Early Excaliburs look like late '20s Mercedes SSKs. Later models look like the big Benzs of the mid to late '30s. Scott

Ah, don't return it. With a little fiddling here and there it can be built into a fairly nice model. I built one a few years back. Not as much fun to build or as nice AMT's '53. And unlike AMT's '53, I'll never buy another one. But with a little work it turns out fine. Scott

This is the second mention of Excalibur in this thread. Neither of the cars show in Allen's posting here, post #1, is a Excalibur. Nor car shown in Bill's post, #6. Excaliburs have a much more Mercedes Benz look. Scott

I agree with Brian. What do you expect from 45 year old tooling? Or even more, in the case of the '64 Chev, from 51 year old molds? I've built AMT's '69 Cougar in the past. I found the kit to be okay. As okay as any other AMT kit from the same time period. I'm not the greatest modeler in the world, yet my Cougar looked pretty good when it was done. I was happy with it. Scott

No, sorry Art. The wide-bed boxes on the Studebakers came from Dodge. They were Sweepline box from the 1959 and '60 Dodge pickup. Scott

The bed was from Dodge. I too would love to see a styrene model of a Studebaker Champ pickup. Scott