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Fun collection. Nice job. Scott

Looks great. A cool car. Scott

What Ray said. By the way, what is the body color? Scott

Come on guys. Let's not go after the 'Cuda kit again. I liked the kit and I'm tired of hearing about it by those who don't. If you don't like it fine. We know. It's been beaten into the ground. I like most of Revell's new releases. Compared to what we got back in the 50's, 60's and 70's, the new stuff we get now looks pretty good. Thank you Revell. I like your recent '70 'Cuda kit. And I'm sure I'll like your '67 Camaro kit too. Are they perfect? No. But, they are pretty darn good. Scott

Looks good. Was that built from the Revell kit? Scott

Looks good Scott. Another old favorite of mine. I still like the behaving bad kids window inserts that came with the first and most recent issue of the kit. I work as a sub in schools. And I love my job. But, sometimes I work with kids who behave like those depicted in the inserts. And it's nice to remember that kids back in the day when Tom Daniel designed that kit, when I was in 5th or 6th grade, were perceived at times to be as bad as the kids we see today. There were bad kids in my day too. (I sometimes was one of them.) and most kids today are pretty good. Despite what you hear. Scott P.S. School starts on Tuesday. I'm can't wait. I really like working with kids. Even the perceived "bad" ones.

Thanks Dale. That helps a lot. The trouble with the United States is a lot of people and the press do not look outside of the US. To many, I may even say to most, there is nothing outside of the US worth looking at. Unless it's imported here or threatens our security. Very few American know anything about the rest of the world at all. We even know little to nothing about our neighbor to the north, Canada. And few people here know much about Australian cars at all. There are very few books or magazines in this country that ever show or talk about Australian cars. I have several books. But, they are mostly books either printed in and for, or mainly sold in Australia. The more you Aussies share with us car buffs in the US the better. There were a lot of very cool cars built for the Australian market only, mainly in the 60's and 70's that would blow the minds of US car buffs today. I wonder how many American buffs know that Chrysler of Australia use to offer cars with a Hemi and six-pack in one engine package? Yes a Hemi and six-pack together! In a straight six no less. Or that there were Valiant Chargers. Falcon GT-HOs. Or Holden HSVs. And many other cool cars we know little to nothing about up here. So please tell us more. When sharing pictures, tell us what we're looking at. I may know more than most people here. But, I don't know enough and I'm always looking to learn more. Scott

I use to get orange peel like that on all of my models. And I use to get a ton of advice from other model builders on how to fix the problem. Very little of their advice worked. So how did I get rid of the problem? I quit using enamel paints and switched to lacquers. Especially for painting car bodies. I use to be a cheap SOB. I thought lacquer, especially Tamiya was too expensive. But using lacquer in the long run has turned out cheaper. I have not had to strip one model yet because of a bad lacquer paint job. With enamel I've had to strip quite a few. Recently I built a model of MPC's Space 1999 Eagle using Testors gloss white enamel. The paint came out okay. I had a second can of the same paint. So I went to paint my MPC '75 Dart Sport with that second can. First coat I got mild orange peel and air bubbles along different edges of the model. So out come the sandpaper. Off come the bubbles. Went to shoot the second coat. More and worst orange peel. Showed it to our expert model painters in our local club. All they could suggest was stripping the body and starting over again. So into the purple bath with the body. Now I need to go to a hobby store and buy some Tamiya lacquer. Should have used Tamiya lacquer in the first place. Scott

I have the old Pro-Modeler version. That incorrect body line doesn't bother me too much. The seats always have. I need to finish building the old kit. And despite my dislike of the use of the low back buckets in this kit, I will still use them in this build. They look okay. They're just more right for a '69 Torino, than a '70. If anybody asks, I'll just tell then that my Torino represents an early pre-production prototype built before the correct seats were available. I may have to buy and build a second with correct seats. Painting it a different color. Just for the fun of it. Scott

Very cool! I like it a lot. Scott

As nice as ever Jim. Another great build. Scott

Any more photos? Looks okay. But would love to see more. Scott

Very nice "T". You did a great job on it. I like it. Scott

Back to the Aussie stuff. I love cars and utes from down under. Let's see more. And for those without books on Australian cars (and even for those who do have some books), you might want to tell us what were looking at. The first series of pictures on the page before, look like two 70's Holdens and a 70's Falcon. The photo of the ute, is what a '66 or '67 Valiant Wayfair? Again these maybe common to you guys. But, to rest of the world they are uncommon and exciting. Share more with us. That goes for people from other parts of the world. Show us in the US what we may not know. Or know little of. There are a lot of cool cars out there that we do not see. Or likely to ever see here (though somebody has an early 70's Australian Falcon that sometimes shows up at car shows around here). Scott

I wonder how many people remember that Vauxhall Victors were sold in the United States from 1958 through 1962. Just as Buick dealers started carrying Opel in 1958. Pontiac dealers got Vauxhall. From my understanding, compared to the Opels, they were not very good cars and did not sell well at all. With Canada and their ties to Great Britain, Vauxhalls were more popular there. Starting in 1950 Pontiac/Buick dealers in Canada started selling Vauxhalls. In 1960, Chevrolet/Oldsmobile dealers started handling a Vauxhall model in everything but name. Through your Chevy/Olds dealers you could buy a Vauxhall called the Envoy instead. The last Envoys were sold in Canada during the 1970 model year. For 1971 Vauxhall brought in a new model called Firenza. High prices and very low quality (the Firenza got a very bad reputation as a lemon), brought low sales to this model. For the 1973 model year, GM decided it was not worth bring Firenza up to the new safety and pollution control standards for Canada. Ending a 23 year run of Vauxhalls in Canada. Scott

Ah... It now makes sense. Scott

?????? Have watching these videos of stupid people here done something to my brain? I don't understand what Mr. Stiles is saying here at all. Scott

What's the typing error you guys are referring to? Scott

As others have said, another great review Tim. I did not know about the rear quarter panel problem with original. Did of course notice the bucket seat problem. I still don't understand how they did that one originally. It really stands out. But, I'm glad to see Revell is listening and corrected these problems. Now if they could only do a '70 Mercury Cyclone GT for us. Tim, I love your reviews. They are the best. So keep them coming. Scott

Love them both! Still the best looking Ford from the 1930's in my opinion. In November the Model Car Club of Minnesota is having '36 Ford judging contest. If you were up here, you might have a good chance winning with those two. Scott

That's it. After seeing the cactus body slam, we need the cactuses to start providing themselves with signs and some kind barrier to protect themselves from idiot humans. They should also get insurance. Because you know someone is going blame the cactus for this and sue someday. Those evil stupid cactuses tempting kids like that. What's next for "cactus body slamming boy"? Kissing porcupines? I suggest licking hi-power voltage lines. What harm can come from that? Scott

That's right you did mention that in your first posting on the car. I forgot, after you posted the later message. Sorry. Scott

I too wonder if Joel ever finished this. A very nice guy. He use to be a regular member of our local model car club. Miss him and the unique models he built. Scott

Beautiful model. I wish AMT/Round 2 would reissue this kit. I'm always curious about how easy or hard is this kit to really build? Scott

Very nice. Scott