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My parents '67 Mercury Comet 202, they bought new in the summer of 1967, came with the plastic windshield washer jug. I've seen a lot of '67 Fords with the washer bags. I can't remember seeing any with the jugs. I don't believe I've ever seen a '67 Mercury with the bag. Though I have have seen '66 Mercurys with the bag. With Fords and Mercurys coming down the same assembly lines, one would think that minor items like windshield washer containers would be the same? Though the cap on our '67 Comet washer jug also had the Mercury God of Speed head logo molded into it. Another possibility is the switch from the bag to the plastic jugs happened as the model year went on. It was and is, not unusual for car manufacturers to make changes like that during model year run. We still see that with more modern Ford products we sell parts for at my part time job at O'Reilly Auto Parts. My folks special ordered their '67 Comet early in the summer. What would be fairly late in the production run. It came with the "Sports Coupe" package that was not available until late in the run.* So, is this the reason for their car having a jug rather than a bug? * The "Sports Coupe" package was available late in the model runs for both the 1966 and '67 Mercury Comet 202 two-door sedans. Besides the normal 202 features and equipment, the Sports Coupes came with vinyl upholstery, carpeting, full wheel covers, bright window frames, and "Sports Coupe" nameplate on glove box door. It was one of those spring/summer special models many manufacturers came out with to promote more sales of cars late in the model run.

Scott Garascia did a great job on his Mustang above. But, the first thing, before see how nice his model is, distracting me, are those vent windows. Right away they jump out at me whenever I see one of these kits built. No matter how nicely done. I've seen the kit built were someone cut the vent windows out. Better. The slope of the windshield, IMO, does not looks as bad then. But, real '64 through '68 Mustangs have vent windows. So the lack of them is still distracting to me. It's a shame. If it wasn't for the that windshield slope/vent window problem, I could probably could over look most of the other issues with the kit. I do like the plain notchback Mustangs of that era. (Not as much as the convertible or fastback. But still, I like them.) So, the best version of that body style Mustang, in my collection, remains the AMT '66.

It's the second Wednesday of the month. That means Model Car Club of Minnesota meeting night. And here are a couple of kits I picked up from our local vendor who comes most month's, with the newest stuff at decent prices.

That is a commercial I like. Very creative and fun.

Did this kit sell in its last release? I think of AMT's 1/16 kits, this the one I disliked the most. The windshield and vent window look so wrong to me. I could never understand how they felt it was okay to release the kit originally, looking the way it did. The other AMT 1/16 kits I've been exposed to, looked much better. Details were not much better in AMT's 1/16 scale kits, then most of their older 1/25 scale kits. But the end results generally looked pretty good. MPC's 1/16 1963 Corvette is a much better kit (IMO), detail wise than the AMT's 1/16 kits. That kit, and AMT's 1/16 1955 Thunderbird are two kits I'm waiting for Round 2 to reissue.

Looks good. Next to the original (60's) Enterprise, I like the E next.

Very nice.

Okay, I found it. On page 3 (of course).

Good to see the Brat coming back. Disappointed that the GMC Astro is coming back without the turbine. I already have one without the turbine. Plus I have a Chevy Titan. So I'll be passing on another Astro because of the lack of the turbine.

I looked at the first page of that thread and didn't see anything on it. I guess I need to go back and look again.

I'm still wishing and waiting for Round 2 to bring the Brat back. It was a cool little truck that would be fun to have in full size or miniature scale model size. Looking at the interest here, Round 2 should consider it. I too would be interested in learning more about the AMT/Brat contest noted above. I do not remember anything about that one. It would be fun to see what people came up with for designs. Some magazine in the past must have had the results? P.S. What were "Speedtrack" racing sets? I've never heard of them.

Looks good. I naturally have not started mine yet. I love the looks of the vanships. The Vespa not so much. Just the same, did you build the Vespa too? And if you did, how did it turn out?

Very nice.

Very kool! (Or is that ghoul? ?)

I'm not a big Anime or Menga fan. But, a couple of years ago I stumbled upon a series called the Last Exile. I loved what I saw. A steampunk/dieselpunk world with these cool looking flying machines called Vanships. And coolest Vanship is the one piloted by Tatiana Wisla. The red Vanship shown on the box cover of the model I just picked up. I've been thinking about picking up this model for a while now. It's made by Hasegawa, and is in 1/72 scale. It also comes with a second airship, Fam's Vespa from the later series I've only seen parts of, Last Exile - Fam, The Silver Wing. That show, nor the the Vespa impressed me all that much. Both vehicles come with pilots and can be built in other variations than the main characters ships. But, I plan on building both in their primary "Tatiana" and "Fam" versions.

The Thing. Type 181. Another high one on my wish list.

In general, other than the new front and rear ends on the 1970's, there is little to no difference between MPC's '69 and '70 Bonneville. Having built both, I found no major problems building either one. They are both nice representations of the real cars, other than the tri-power set up. And when I built my first '69 as a kid, I didn't know it was incorrect or care. Now? I wish they came with the correct four barrel set up. But, it not a deal breaker for me. I still love the looks of those big Pontiacs. And the canoe that came with the hardtop version of MPC's '69 and '70 Bonneville, is still very cool. I wish Round 2 would reissue the '70 hardtop so we could the canoe again.

Cool!

Very nice. I like it.

Is the above available in the United States? I've only seen it in foreign on line posts, videos, or Revell of Germany ads. I've never on the shelves here.

280 SL would be high on my list. I love to see Monogram's curbside 450 SL from the late 70's come back too. But, I would like a 260 or 280 SL even more. With both tops of course.

Another new one came in the mail today. I've been wanting one of these for a couple of years now. It's Pegagus' pre-built War of the Worlds Martian. From the 1953 George Pal movie. The model comes with an extra set of arms in different pose. And a few fun accessories. Like the damaged Martian scanner, and two books. World of the Worlds and To Serve Man. Some good humor there! As you can see from the photos, it look like a very nicely done model.

Nice story Tom.

"The man in the mom-jeans is right." I'm not one who gets it? Sorry ?

With the recent addition of complete Lost in Space on Blu-Ray to my collection, I decided I need some additional Lost in Space stuff to go with it. So I purchased Polar Lights kit #5030, The Robot From Lost in Space. And Polar Lights kit #5032, Lost in Space, "Complete With One-Eyed Monster, Giant Boulders, The Robinson Family And Their Interplanetary Space Vehicle." Both are repops of the old Aurora kits from the 1960's. Which I never had at the time, but always wanted. Polar Lights repoped several old Aurora kits about 15 to 20 years ago. Few to none in recent years. I'm guessing they must not have sold very well. And now they are getting hard to find. There are several I should have gone for at the time. Like their reissue of the Chamber of Torture, Le Guillotine kit. Though that one I never actually saw on the shelves anywhere. I'm presently looking for the one with the extra "glow in the dark" figure. It's getting tough to find at a reasonable price.