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The Carrera striping is a real nice touch. I like it a lot.

I like the giant dead spider on the static model of Ricky's above. I hope he did not get the driver before he died.

Nice. I too like the side curtains.

As others before me have said, "very nice." I like the general vintage look to build.

No link?

As you know, I love these peaks your giving us, to what's inside the box. Again, thank you.

I see it's got the wire wheels and tonneau cover to build the Sports Roadster version. It's only missing the badges. Very cool. Thanks again Robert.

I like the TR8 shooting brake idea. I think the sketches you made Geoff look great. Go for it. I'd love to see when your done.

Finally got the Mercedes 450SL. Still wish Revell would consider reissuing the entire series.

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.