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I was never a big drag racing fan, other than of Jungle Jim. But, him using a Camaro that I got as a model as a gift. And later finding out about Jungle Pam. There little question why I know about him. There are others I knew/know of too. And I slight remember his Wonder Wagon above. But, he himself? I had never heard of him.

It's interesting you should bring that up. Again in my discussion on this subject with my car buddy mentioned above. I brought up the fact that I thought I had read somewhere that the setup for the convertible rear door widows were not 100% reliable. With convertibles being built in small numbers compared to the sedans, it might have been still worth the expense. Plus there where no alternatives in the case of the convertible. Where if Lincoln had built the hardtop, it may have given more problems than it was worth. And they had an alternative. The sedan.

I need fix one part of the statement above. I was talking to good car buddy this evening, about our discussion here on this subject. He agreed with everything I said, but out thing. The statement I made about Cadillac dropping all sedan models for 1971. He pointed that I had forgotten about the Sixty-Special Fleetwood Brougham. And I thought, "poop, he's right!" Cadillac only dropped the sedan from the DeVille line. The Sixty-Special series did continue on as a sedan. Sorry about that guys. I made a boo boo.

Drag racer? Indy? What?

Buick is my favorite brand of automobiles, after Cord. And Wildcat, followed by Riviera, has always been my favorite Buicks. One of my dream cars is to own a 1967 Wildcat convertible. Which has nothing to with your model here. Though the '65 Wildcat is my favorite Wildcat after '67. I searched in vain, for many years for an AMT '65 Wildcat kit I could afford. With no luck. I finally broke down and bought a beautiful resin of a '65 hardtop. I think from Missing Link. Using AMT's more common, many times reproduced '66, for everything else I need to complete the resin kit. That was how I was able to get my much desired '65. Now what to about the '67? Sad to say, AMT did not offer a Wildcat model kits for 1967, or '68. They did again in '69 and '70. The other two years of Wildcat they did not offer in model kit form was '62 and '63. Those two years AMT made kits of the Electra 225s. I assume that is because Buick themselves probably requested Electra promos from AMT those two years. Which was a lot of what determined what was made a kit or not back then.

Thank you Snake. This thread is not to make light of people dying from the pandemic. It's was started to keep us all sane. And not let the grief overtake us. For one who has fought with PTSD and depression, I find humor like this as a life saver.

Besides the a Jeep and Mercedes, here are two non-automotive models I received in the mail today. Both for my N Scale layout.

Got four more models today. Two to be seen here. Two others to be seen in "What Did You Get" none car related models, in the Off Topic Lounge area. The car related kits. One is MPC World War II Jeep reissued a couple of years ago. No big deal here. It brand new. Still wrapped in the plastic. The second model excites me a little more. It's a kit I've been wishing for Revell-Monogram would reissue for years now. Well, I've gotten tired of waiting, a found an original on eBay. (Actually I've tried buying ones in the on eBay in the past. But, always got out bid. Not this time. And I got it at a very good price.) That kit is Monogram's mid-70's Mercedes 450SL. The Mercedes came in perfect shape. Most of parts were off of their trees. But, the seller carefully packed each lose part in their own individual baggy! Everything is there, and as noted, in perfect shape. And I'm very impressed with how well the took care in sending me this kit. Wow!

All of these are great too!

Just finally got around to watching this one. That is great! Funny! I loved it.

Hitting the link above is great! A lot of cool photo of other stuff in the lakes around there. I found it very interesting. Thank you Chris.

Those must be the cars shown in the early promotional material I talked about. Sorry, but four cars does not constitute a production run by most standards. So I still stand by my statement that the last "production" based Lincolns hardtops were built as 1960 models. I'd still like to know why they chose to go with building sedans rather than hardtops in '61? Four-door hardtops were at the peak of their popularity during that time in the high end cars. Since Lincoln built the four four-door hardtops, and had the production four-door convertibles. And, the suicide door glass meeting door glass problem had been figured out. Why go with a pillared sedan instead of a hardtop? And a thin pillared sedan that basically looked like a hardtop at a glance. The four-door hardtop body style was so popular in luxury class, that Imperial gave up on the sedan after 1969. And Cadillac followed in '71. Fear of Federal rollover standards, made Cadillac go back to sedans, and drop the hardtops in 1977. But still, this was not a consideration or worry when Ford was designing the '61 Lincolns. It would be interesting to know why Ford decided to go in that direction with the '61 and later Lincolns.

Show us the contents. Let us see what's in the box!

What was fun in the old days. Which they could never get away with today. Community organizations do fund raisers, were they would place an old car on the lake ice and have people pay to guess when the car would fall through in the spring. The person who guessed the closest, would win a prize. Normally, they would clear the car of anything that could contaminate the lake. They would attach a chain to the car, so it could be pulled out later. And the car would sit on the lake in a location were people could easily see it. Then again, I've heard about thieves abandoning cars on lakes in the springtime to get rid of them. I wonder, which could this Camaro be? ? In our younger days, I had a friend burn down his ice fishing house, rather than dragging it from the lake when the time came. This something the authorities didn't exactly approve of. But, I know he wasn't the only to do it.

? Nice haul. All seven models are very cool.

There is more on the web. But, very little more. It was for found in the Forest Lake I was think it was. "Scubapony" who shot the video claim that was the second car he found in the lake that day. He says nothing about what the first car was. It sounds like the Camaro is missing it's engine. Stolen car, anyone? Beyond that, that's about all of additional facts I could find.

Hey! I know that lake. Before I went to do what I've been doing for a living for the last 13 years, I use to work for Whitaker Buick GMC in Forest Lake, MN. In fact I was just up there a week ago Friday, visiting with my old boss Steve Whitaker. Forest Lake is a nice little town just north of the Twin Cities right off of I-35. An outer fringe suburb of the Twin Cities today. The downtown of Forest Lake sits right on Forest Lake itself. A beautiful little downtown on a beautiful, good size, lake. I hate to say it, but I'm a little disappointed with the video. At first it was interesting. But, nine minutes just swimming around the same car got a little boring. It would been more interesting if maybe they gave us five or six minutes of swiming, and a few minutes out of water telling us what they found. Plus I would have loved to see more of the car's license plate. Were they able to rub off enough stuff to see year the plate was? When did it go in the lake? Where is this in the lake? And is it still there? If pulled, were the authorities able to tell us more be hide the story of this car and how it got there? Argh! There is so much more I want to know! Going to have to go to web to do some investigating to see if I can find out more. I don't know if I should curse at you, or thank you, Scott. It's frustrating not to know more. But, it's so interesting, I guess I lean more to thanking you for posting this. Thanks Scott.

Again, thank you for sharing these. One needs to be careful following a '62 Mercury or a '61 Dodge Polara. Both cars were said to " torpedo tube" style taillights! (Know. Bad humor. I'm sorry. I can't help myself.)

Who is/was Supershoe? I've never heard of him.

I love these reviews. Keep them coming. I don't why, but what stood out for me in looking at the instructions, was parking meter. Cool. I want one. I love Tbirds. Of the this generation, '63 is my favorite. Would love to find the convertible with the Sports Roadster tonneau cover. I do have a '63 promo hardtop. It's odd in that has no fender skirts (or fender shields as Ford called them), and the Sports Roadster emblem on the front fender. Like I say. A little odd.

Not on a '65 Lincoln. The sedans had a "B" pillar. The convertibles did not. In fact, I've never understood why Lincoln didn't build their solid roof four-doors as hardtops at the time. Without the pillar, the convertibles rear door window drops a bit automatically when the door was open. And, goes back up when the door is closed, to seal with the front door glass. Tricky, but needed with Lincoln's suicide door set up without a center pillar. But, since they could do it with the convertible, I don't understand why didn't they do it with the solid roof four-doors. The engineering was obviously worked out. When the new generation Lincoln body was first shown in 1961, which the '65 Lincoln is based on, they showed a four-door hardtop version in early promotional photos. But, that's the only solid roof four-door Lincoln of that generation I know of that would be considered a true hardtop. In fact the last production four-door Lincoln hardtops, period, were built for the 1960 model run. Based on a totally different car. Oh. And don't let Ford bambooze you. Starting in 1971, on the upper end full-size Fords and full-size Mercurys, they started offering something they called a pillared hardtop. It was really a sedan without door frames around the glass. But, drop the side windows, there was still a "B" pillar there. Just like on the 1961 on up Lincolns. Yet, Lincoln did refer to this style on their cars as a "sedan." They did not use the parlance of calling it a "pillared" hardtop. As a side note. In the full-size Ford line in 1971, they offered a four-door sedan with window frames. Their "pillared" four-door hardtop. And true hardtops in two and four doors. For 1971, the full-size Mercurys did not offer the sedans with window frames. The full-size Mercurys were offered only in the "pillared" hardtop and hardtop body styles starting in 1971. By 1973 the full-size framed window sedans were dropped from the Ford line. Even the "low priced" full-size Ford were now "pillered" hardtops. The full frame windowed sedans, reappearing in both full-size Ford and Mercurys again in 1979. The true four-door hardtops, were discontinued by Ford and Mercury in 1976. Side note number two. For the real nit pickers. In 1971 and '72 Ford and Mercury wagons had full frame doors. But, starting in 1973, though 1978, they were all of the "pillar" hardtop style. Though as far I know, I don't believe Ford or Mercury ever referred to these as "pillared" hardtop wagons. Okay I think that's it for now?

I've had some weird dreams lately, where I'm driving very strange, very little, cars. Things could just be barely considered cars. Sometimes driving to and through areas that are barely accessible on foot, much less by car. Very odd dreams, indeed. Last night, things got a little odder dealing with this basic theme. I was driving without a car. I was sitting on nothing. My hands out, steering with a steering wheel that was not there! I was passing people, in cars, in the left lane. Getting odd and disgusting looks from the people I was passing. At one point a Lamborghini Contach almost pulled out in front of me. But, then the drive saw me, and let me pass. Which even in my dream I thought was a little odd. I wonder what this and other recent driving dreams are all about? There is nothing bad in them. In fact I seem to be enjoying myself.

Another addition to my Walther N scale collection of building. This one is Jim's Repair Shop. But, it comes with signs to put in to other uses. In this case I built it as Angie's Diner. I love the menu listing in the right front window. Naturally great prices by today's standards. I also like the thermometer I placed by the rear door. It's way too big for the scale. It would be at least 5 feet high in real life. But, living in a state like Minnesota (or is that Minnesnowta?), where it can get a little nippy. I couldn't resist using it.

Great stuff. Pre-decorated? I'm going to have to keep my open for them then. Paint camouflage, heck painting in general, can be such a pain. So I don't mind, in fact, I like it a lot, well, pre-painted kits.

Yea, I've seen his videos too. Their is another thread here, linking to one of his other videos. These are very good too. But, the focus is more on the history of the companies, rather than just models themselves. And they do talk about kits other than cars. Which is okay with me. They are very good videos, and I recommend them.