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Very little to comment on here, other than to say, a very nice '59 Dodge Steven! Great job. Scott Aho

Very nice Buick. When I attend the Buick Club of America nationals, this is one of the years I do judging on. From what I can see, if your Buick was a real car, it would do quite well at any BCA meet. Scott Aho

I love Rivieras. And I love your's Lucas (even without mirrors, Harry). The only thing I was confused by, is you titled this as "1969 Buick Riviera Soft Top". To me a "soft top" is a convertible. I opened this post expecting to see a custom '69 Riv convertible. Instead I find a very, very nice '69 Riviera hardtop with a vinyl roof. I'm not a big fan of vinyl roofs. But yours looks great. Scott Aho

Very nice job Al. Love the pre-'69 Grand Prixs. Especially the '67s. The only year Pontiac offered a Grand Prix convertible. Love that front end. The regular '67 full-size Pontiacs had a great looking front end. The Grand Prix was just one step better. Again, great job Al. Mirrors or not, your model looks great. Scott Aho

Lovely! I expect to finish mine in the next week or two. Love '62 Buicks. I use to own a real '62 LeSabre. No where as nice as an Electra 225, but nice none the less. I also know somebody who presently owns a very nice fullsize '62 Wildcat, in basically the same color as you paint your kit. Again, very nice job. I like it. Scott Aho

Too many! Always have several kits in different stages. Painting seems to dictate what kits get done when. Scott Aho

As a kid I always loved building the customs with the parts that came in the box. AMT 1960's kits were great for this. I also loved show cars like the Deora, Predicta, and Tom Daniel's stuff. As an adult. Post war cars, I mainly build factory stock. Pre war Fords and such, I like street rods. Pre war classics, stock. Trucks, mainly factory stock. And I still like some of the old show rods and factory concept cars. In general, I like to build cars and trucks that could be realistically driven on the street if they were a real full size vehicles. Recently, the reissued MPC Zingers, which I never like back in the day, got me interested in building old drag cars. That lead me to picking up Tom Daniel's S'cool Bus. That and AMT's Double '25 T kit, got me interested in AMT's Double Dragster kit. Plus more. Where I'll go from here? I'm not sure. I know I'm continue mainly building factory stock renditions of cars and trucks. But, I'm interested in just about everything and plan on not closing the door on most anything. Scott Aho

Sorry to say, but I drive one of the most boring cars in the world. A great car. But, boring. I drive a 2000 Buick LeSabre Custom 4-door sedan with just under 110,000 miles on it. It still looks pretty good. Some rust is just starting to show. One of the most reliable vehicles I've ever own. Decent gas mileage. 23 mpg in town. 30 mpg on the highway. I've got very little to complain about. It's dark green with gray cloth. Nothing fancy. Just boring and nice. Scott Aho

I want the '61 Ventura and '65 Comet big time! The Satellite is high on my list too. The '54 Hudson not so much. I already have their previous coupe and convertible kits which I love. But, I've never been a big fan of the facelift Hudson did on their big cars for '54. Others have mentioned wanting station wagon models from Moebius. I'm all for this too. Also I'd like see somebody do a 1960 Chrysler 300F. Preferably in a convertible. I'd also love to see a '71 or '72 boattail Buick Riviera. Scott Aho

Very nice. I didn't know Alclad made candy color paint. Scott Aho

It's not true that all cars in any state were required to have catalytic converters. They were just required to meet emission standards for that year. If they could meet it without a converter, that was OK. Honda was also selling cars without catalytic converters at this same time. In fact they made a big point out that fact in their advertising at the time. Look up info on Honda's mid-70's CVCC motors. Scott Aho

Your right about the real Road Runner switching to the '76 Volare body, from the '75 Fury body. I'm not sure what MPC was doing here. It's was no secret early in 1975 that the '76 Road Runner would be based on the new Volare. Eventually MPC built a Volare promo. And for '77 they offered a Volare Road Runner kit. So what was MPC thinking here for '76? Scott Aho

Oh... Volkswagen Thing! Never understood why this vehicle has never been offer as kit? Scott Aho

Ah... Mr. Geiger. I'm with you. As you've noted we both grew up at the same time. High School Class of '76. And the people around me were pretty much blue collar, middle class. We rode and drove in lots of so called "loser" cars. The first new car my Dad ever bought was a '61 Comet. With no options, other than heater. His second new car was a '67 Comet 202 "Sports Coupe". The Sports Coupe package gave you vinyl seats and carpeting over cheap cloth seats and vinyl floors. That car also had a heater (standard by then), a radio (!), and full wheel covers (maybe part of the Sport Coupe package?). We thought we were livin in luxury! By the way, my Mother drove the new cars. My Dad drove beaters back and forth to work. In 1971 my Dad bought one of the first Toyota Hilux pickup trucks in this part of country. When that rusted out 6 years later, he bought himself a new '77 Mustang II. Four-cylinder, automatic, radio and heater. By that time my Mother was driving a '75 Mercury Monarch they bought new two years earlier. Six-cylinder, three-on-the-tree, radio and heater. My folks were cheap. Until I wrecked the Monarch, and my Mother decided to buy a new car without my Father's input. She bought a new '80 Olds Delta 88 Holiday Coupe. Buckets, automatic, ps, pb, air, and cruise! Another "loser" car I grew up with, was a buddy of mine parent's bought a new Chevy Vega in 1971. You hear a lot of bad things about Vegas. Especially the early ones. Can't prove it by me. My buddy, "Dirty Dave" was hard on everything. He beat the living BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH out of that car. The only way he could kill it, was by getting it t-boned at intersection, totaling it. By that time the Vega was six or seven years old! So I too love the "loser" cars of the 60's and 70's. And I enjoy building models, like AMC Pacers (and Gremlins). And proudly displaying them on my selves. Scott Aho

Way to go Liam and Mike. It's more than just another '63 Vette now.

I'd buy all three, if they brought them back. Have the last reissue of the '36. It's a very nice kit. But, it would be nice if the stock and vintage custom parts were restored to each kit. Scott Aho

Mr. Geiger - Chevettes a good car everybody likes to put down. Everybody I know who had one, got great service out them. Boring and unsafictcated, but reliable cheap little cars. Had a buddy who bought a fairly new Pontiac T-1000 in the early 1980's. Had a lot of fun teasing him about his Chevette. He kept on insisting it was not a Chevette. Yeh, right. One fun fact about Chevettes, is that Pontiac sold a version in Canada before US dealers got the T-1000. Starting in 1976 they sold a Chevette called the Acadian. And their version of the Chevette Scooter was the Acadian 1 + 1. Someone at Pontiac of Canada had a great sense of humour. Back to models. The only Chevette I own is a '79 promo. You mentioned the only changes required in different year MPC Chevette models would be the hood and grille. Did MPC ever offer a 1980 or later Chevette? If so, there was a change made to the rear of real Chevettes. The easily noticeable change was the new wrap around tail lights. But also notice the small aerodynamic spoiler lip on the rear. A major change if MPC offered an accurate Chevette model. One last thing. Converting a Chevette into a '76 and later Acadian is easier than converting it into a T-1000. The difference between an Acadian and a Chevette is only nameplates and emblems. The T-1000 was trimmed out a little bit better than the Chevette. The Acadian wasn't. Scott Aho

Time for me to put my two cents in on Pacers. First I love just about any car that is perceived as loser. I love cars like Edsels, Corvairs, and Marlins. Vegas and Mustang IIs. You get the idea. Second, though I've never own a Pacer. I remember when the real car came out. And I loved it. Third, I have a bachelor of science degree in automotive history. So I sometimes know what I'm talking about when it come to cars. I want to address the redesign of the front end on the 1978 Pacers. It's a myth that AMC did that hood and grille to accommodate the V8. As noted by John Shoe (1972coronet), Randall AMC in Arizona was putting 401s in Pacers with the original nose on them. How could a dealer do it, but the factory could not? I've heard people say the bigger grille was need to accommodate the radiator to cool the V8. Again, how was Randall AMC doing it with the small grille? In Arizona no less. The real reason for the redesign? Poor sales. Pacer sales dropped like a stone after the first year. A big reason for lack of sales? One word, Styling! Look at what was selling. Cars with formal standup grilles and hood ornaments on top of that. Two things Pacer didn't have. People who liked Pacer's quirky styling bought them the first year out. Most others were buy things like Ford Granadas, which also appeared for the '75 model year (6 months ahead of Pacer), and sold well for several years after. The trouble is the more formal grille on the Pacer did not make it look any better. On to the MPC model of the '78 Pacer. Take a look at the grille in that kit. Then take a look at the grille on a real '78 Pacer. The grilles texture is all wrong. Makes one wonder if they designed the kit's front end on some fuzzy photos they had of upcoming Pacer redesign. Also it's promoted as a "Pacer X". AMC dropped the "X" package for the '78 Pacer. At the time I'm sure MPC was aiming their kits at the youth market, and they felt the details of the grille and Pacer X would not be noticed by those building these kits. As you can see, I've noticed. Do I really care? Yes and no. It would have been nice to have those details right. But at the same time I've picked up the reissue. And I am delighted to have a model of a Pacer. I would like it if they back dated the Pacer back to the '75 through '77 front end. And I would like a kit of a '77 Pacer station wagon that could be built showroom stock. Last, the guy who did the Pacer model marriage proposal shown on the uTube link in an earlier post. Did it work? And if it did, you need to hang on to that girl. Scott Aho

Yesterday, I got the kit itself to start my Hang 10 Dart. A couple of comments are needed. First, the body and chassis has a bit of flash. Second, I was surprised to see that there were enough parts in the kit to build two complete figures. One driving. One standing. From reading the side of box, I though I could only build one or the other. Normally I could care less about these figures in model car kits. But, right away I like the looks of this guy. He looks correct for a guy who would be driving a new '75 Dart Sport. The clothes, the hair, the shoes all look right. I'm so impressed with this figure, I do plan on for sure using the seated figure in this build. I like that his lower torso and legs seated fit against the firewall perfectly. I have to use him. What to do with the standing figure? From the waist up, he is exactly the same as the seated figure. Reminds me of the Wrigley's Double Mint gum commercials from the same time period. You know the ones with different Double Mint Twins? Most had cute twin girls. But, I believe there were one or two commercials with male twins in them? So I need build them exactly the same. The second one standing, basically looking in. A pretty nice kit overall. Other than the figures, it's exactly what I expect from a MPC kit from this time period. I kind of wish it came with a correct time period set of female Double Mint twins. But, the guys are OK. Maybe I set the standing character fondly looking at the MPC Pacer. Rather than with his brother, looking at the Dodge. Scott Aho

To quote o-man, "WOW"! I'm blown away. Very nice! Scott Aho

Like everybody else has said, nice work Tulio. I too like seeing these cars built stock. I like street rods. For modified '32s one can not beat Revell's kits. But, for stock. Give me an old AMT kit. Despite their age, you have proven how nice they can be built up. The one AMT '32 I don't have is the Vicky. I hope Round 2 considers reissuing that kit sometime in the near future. Scott Aho

I too have had the fun of having to steer a '67 Toronado without the assist of the power steering pump. On my way to the 100 Anniversary Olds meet in Lansing a few years back. Those big front wheel drive E-bodies are a handful (or is that armful?) without assist. Scott Aho

Very nice job Steve. And welcome. I hope to see more of your work. Scott Aho

If it was a snap kit. Which it does not look like it is me. The snap kit is the Ford truck next to it. But, if it was. With the state of technology today in snap kits, I'd still buy one. Looking at photos of the kit under the the "Revell 3rd Quarter Release" postings. The kit looks great! Scott Aho