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Yes, but. The interior is both generic and shallow. Very shallow? It's not really that bad to me. The upholstery pattern is not correct. But, neither is AMT's '66. When AMT tooled up their '66 Wildcat, they really only modified the bodies exterior features. The "stock" interior on the AMT '66 Wildcat is really the stock interior for a '65 Wildcat. Custom trim level. This is more correct than the Hasegawa interior, in the fact that it does depict an actual Buick interior. Now, the one area I feel the Hasegawa '66 Wildcat is better, or more accurate than the AMT kit is in the dashboard. The AMT '66 Wildcat not only has the '65 Wildcat upholstery and door panels. But the '65 dashboard too. Buick redid their dashboards on their '66 full-size Buicks. Which includes the Wildcats. The Hasegawa kit has a flat generic dashboard to go along with their generic interior. But, with the decal they give you for the dashboard, I feel it makes it look more correct than the dash used in the '66 AMT kit. A very slight plus for the Hasegawa kit. The outside of the Hasegawa kit is what is really nice about this kit. It's really no better than the AMT '66 Wildcat. But, it's no worst either. Again, it looks like a direct copy of the AMT body. Which it seems to me I've heard someplace it was. And was done at the time with AMT's permission. But, this maybe only rumor. I don't know it for a fact. It is a nice copy if it is. There are three other negatives, other than interior, to the Hasegawa kit versus the AMT version. One is the Hasegawa kit is a cubeside. No engine. Two, the Hasegawa kit has generic wheel covers, rather than Buick's beautiful five-spoke wheels, like the AMT's kit. Number three. The Hasegawa kit can be built only one way. "Stock." No custom variations. The only real reason to buy this kit, is if your a Buick or Wildcat nut, and already have at least one of the AMT kits, but want more. There is really no good reason for picking the Hasegawa Wildcat over the AMT one.

Stunning. I love it. Edsel always carried two-tones well in my opinion.

The Ford police package in 1970 was available on Galaxie 500s. Not just Customs and Custom 500s. Which is what the AMT '70 Ford Police Car tries to depict. An additional problems with side moldings to resolve, if doing this model as a Custom, Custom 500, or Galaxie 500 for that matter, there are other problems that need fixing. AMT's '70 Ford Police Car kit was modified off of their '70 Ford LTD four-door hardtop kit. Window frames were added, but the roofline is still not correct for a '70 full-size Ford four-door sedan. And then AMT did nothing to modify the interior. The interior in the kit represents a non-Brougham, plain LTD interior. No matter what, getting a truly accurate '70 Ford cop car from this kit is going to be a bit of a challenge.

Again l agree with Snake. Outside mirrors are just something to get knocked off a model. No matter how hard one try's to avoid it (I can hear Harry spinning in his grave). If the model forces you, by hole or indentation to mount a mirror, I'll then do it. Heck real cars were not even required by law in the U.S. to have a outside mirror until 1967. And then, they required on the left side only. Many cars before that were sold new without an outside mirrors. But, by 1972, that of course was a different story. A '72 Goat should have at least one left side manual chrome door mirror as standard. A single chrome remote driver's mirror, or dual sport mirrors (with the driver's side remote) were optional. And yet knowing all of this, my MPC '72 GTO does not have any outside mirrors. Nor why it's in my possession will it. I think it looks just fine with out it.

I just received this one today. All way rumored that the body is an exact copy of AMT's '66. Other than a few minor things, I believe it.

Just ordered the 30th Anniversary kit. I remember sitting in a Political Science class at the University of Minnesota, a year before the wall fell, and being told by the professor that we would never see a united Germany in our lifetime. It was a good lesson for me in many ways. Another professor I admired a lot, warned me not to put academics on too high of pedestals. They are not "gods" in their knowledge of the subject they are teaching. They just have a more educated opinions on the subjects they have studied more than the rest of us. Like I say, a good lesson that I needed to learn.

Wow! Your link above was very helpful. Using that link I found the exact 30th Anniversary Berlin Wall Trabant, with shipping for under $30.00 U.S. Heck of deal. The vendor is out of the U.K. But, the vendors on eBay for same kit at a price around $70.00, were out of Italy. So I can't complain about that. Thanks "keyser."

After seeing the prices on eBay, the hunt was short. With shipping, just a hair under $70.00! I am not adding a Trabant to my collection for that amount of money!

There is one I won't be begging for Round 2 to reissue. Sorry guys. Too toy like for me. And IMO not a good looking toy at that.

Here's my latest acquisition from eBay. No cute bathing beauty with it. But, and this is sad to say, I'm okay with that. I love beautiful women, but I don't need another scale figure of one to complicate a build of a car I like almost as much. I don't know how else to put it?

That does look cool. I've never had a Trabant in my collection. Thought about it a few times. This one may push me adding one to my collection. Now I may have to do some hunting.

In today's mail, another beautiful Dinky Toys car.

In today's mail. MPC's 1/16 1963 Corvette Sting Ray. Since Round 2 refuses to reissue it, I had to buy a used one off of eBay. The second item is a Dinky Toys 1968 Thunderbird. Looks beautiful. I love those big Birds.

Being a kid who loved Halloween, monster movies, and other scary things. Here are three game I remember seeing advertised and in the Christmas catalogs that I was intrigued by. Not only never got. But, never knew anybody else who had a copy. So I never got to play any of them. The first one, the Huanted House always intrigued me the most. It just looks interesting. I'd still like to try playing today. The Green Ghost? The blob like ghost looked cool. And I think he spun around as the spinner in the game? Ka-Bala, tough to beat an evil eye for spookiness. But, from what I've read in recent years, this one sounds like it would have been the least fun. And was nothing but a lame attempt at being another Ouija board which was going though one of it's up periods of popularity at the time. Speaking of which. We did have a Ouija board in the late 60's. In retrospect I'm surprised. My mother was fairly religious. Though more so in later life. The version we had was put out by Parker Brothers. So how bad could it be? It was fun to play with to a point. Nothing bad ever happened to us, as far as we know, because of playing the game. The only "prediction" it made, which we thought was funny for some reason, was my one sister, Shari, was suppose to marry some guy named Henry. We would kid her that she would be screeching to him, "Henry... get over here!" Need to say, she never fold her "true love" Henry. And had to settle for some guy named Randy for last forty some years. So much for the Ouija board's predictions.

Looking at Sub Search closer online, I can kind of see why it never became big hit. The game board/box looked both too big and flimsy. I understand why it had to be so big. But, that also takes away one of the fun aspects of regular Battleship over other games like this. The great thing about Battleship is you didn't have to sit at the same table with your opponent. You could play it from just about anywhere. Just grab your individual Battleship board, hop in any comfy chair across the rom and you can play. Using pegs, you could even play in a moving vehicle. With Sub Search these options for playing, just are not there. But then again, that's true with most games. I'm still surprised I had never heard or seen anything of this game until earlier today. It would be fun to try playing it at least one time.

I've never seen this one before. It looks really cool. Battleship take another step forward?

I don't know how others feel about this, but I'm impressed with how up to date this car is. It's been 42 years since its introduction. It was very futuristic when it first appeared. Both in appearance and engineering. As the the years go on, I like it's looks better and better. A car well ahead of its time.

Chris/HPIGuy just did another great review on YouTube. This time the reissue of this kit. Well worth checking.

Yea, I'm familiar the Aurora Ford GT kit. I too have one. I'm wondering what it looked like with the Battle Aces of the Road decals on it? This goes true for the other Aurora kits in this series. We know what the basic kits look like. What do they look when built in series? And that's not to discount the nice job you did on yours Rex. It looks good.

And this one.

Here's a series of Aurora model kits I did not know of at the time they were originally out. Years later I found out about them, and have been kind semi lusting for them ever since. Not really enough to pursue them. But, if I could find them at right price. Maybe. Any how, I'd like to see what other know of these kits. Has any built them? Does anybody have them in their collections today? It would be great to see what they look like. Below are copies of box art from the net that I could find on the series. I assume this is it. Or were there more?

By the way, that whole Battle Aces of the Road series of models that Aurora put out were kind of cool. I would love to have a complete set today.

The top two are the ones I have.

I just had a lot of fun going back through this thread from the beginning. A lot of good stuff here. I think just about everything that could be said about Ford GT and GT40 kits in 1/24 and 1/25 scale, was said. As noted by some of my later postings here, it had a great influence over adding the Ford GTs I chose to add to my collection. And I'm pretty pleased with that collection. There are really only two more kits I'd like to add to it. One is the nearly impossible to find AMT 1/43 scale kit. And the other? The still never done as a kit, GT40 Mk III. I'm probably the only person out there that like that car. So, I still have no ecxpectations ever seeing a kit or build up of that one.

Their Mk II version is a Fujimi kit in a Revell labeled box. A curbside, like the other Fujimi Ford GT40s. But, a great kit. In boxes seen labeled as Revell/Monogram, you'll find an early prototype version of the Ford GT. This kit has a lot more details to it than the Fujimi kits. But, it was originally tooled up by Aurora back in the mid 60's. And is a typical of car kits put out by Aurora at the time. Not bad. But, really great, like the Fujimi GTs. So, there are two GT 40s out there under the Revell labeled boxes. I don't mind the Aurora based kit. I have one. But, I love the Fujimi based kit even better. And have built a couple from out of both Revell and Fujimi labeled boxes.