Russell C

Stuck in "the widebody '80s era" guy that I am, that description sounds vaguely familiar. My gradeschool science teacher had a stock '78 or '79 Camaro brand new, coolest car in the teacher parking lot. The other MPC '80 Camaro is the Night Prowler, sorta similar to what you are describing. They sometimes pop up reasonably affordable on eBay as built-ups. The flares are add-ons, it looks like. I've been tempted to get one of those and de-tune it a bit to look more like the Koenig Specials Mercedes boulevard bruiser, where better looking wheels and tires than what's in the kit would really help the look of the Night Prowler.

If it had a vertical bar in the center bottom, it would be Andrew Toms Car Sales in the UK .... but the oval would also have to be a round circle. I tried making a total contrast image for Google to do a lens image search of that upload, can't come up with anything useful. When it's upside down, one search result is Antler Advertising Services, also in the UK, but also with a round circle. Might be nothing more than a one-off logo somebody came up with long ago that looked sorta nifty ... and maybe it's meant to be vertically oriented?

I'm voting for the retouched '57 T-bird guesses, where GM did something funny to the windshield by adding a vertical bar to it, and maybe plunked in a '57 Chevy headlight bezel shape. The tell-tale for the T-bird might be right where its front bumper is beginning to be hidden.

'80s guy that I am, I always favored the Group 5 widebody look, and in a quick internet search for 'phantom' images, I came across this one 1:1 custom: https://chevroletforum.com/articles/group-5-racing-inspired-1972-chevy-c10-is-a-truly-next-level-build/

Is it just my faulty old eyes, or does that median resemble a potential Dukes of Hazzard launch ramp for fast downhill folks?

MPC Switchers '32 roadster arrived in the mail today, I was the single bid eBay winner on this decently put-together original build (judging from its interior dust). The kit is a current reissue, but I figured if nobody else put a bid on it, the final price including shipping would be a lot lower than buying the kit retail somewhere. My gamble worked out. I need its chrome plated grille for one of my stalled roadster projects, but from the looks of it, the headers will work fine for my arched caricature dragster project, plus I can use the highback seats for some or other street rod project, along with the valve covers, chrome oil pan and wheels/tires.

Spotted this on my bike ride - somebody drove their pickup through foul weather to fetch this Camaro, with its dusty-from-sitting-in-storage roof?

Scored this Polar Lights "Manglia" buildup from one of the vendors at the Desert Scale Classic contest/swap meet in Phoenix. Objective is to apply the wheels and bits of chassis / parachute on the warped Fairlane promo I got off eBay last fall. Just need to get one of those double-stacked blowers from a Zinger kit and some kind of Ed Roth Fink-style driver with the right arm out the passenger window on a shifter. If my thumb in these photos is a usable scale measuring device, it looks like I'll have to add a bit of meat to the front tires …

Survived the drive across town to north Phoenix for the Desert Scale Classic contest/swap meet. Much like any other big city (and some small towns!), it's travel-at-your-own-peril these days. Nice to see old friends again, and there was many great quality entries there.

Good question. My Preview photo altering program is a little primitive, but sometimes I can trick it into doing color variations I want ....

Had no clue. Man, that car begs to be sectioned, and for larger diameter wheels.

Could. Not. Resist. . . . . fixing his rearward visibility problem.

Including the abominations in proportions done by the Palmer kits? I've seen them on eBay in various colors - red / black / yellow / different shades of green ....

Years back I saw this Tom Sehloff Packard/Airstream cast iron toy creation (the man made those kinds of things for a while), so I thought I'd see if I could come up with something similar in 1/24th scale. Greenlight Models puts out a reasonably affordable diecast 24th scale 16 foot Airstream Bambi trailer, and the Lindberg '31 Bugatti Royale kits still seem to be around in plentiful form … but at the rate I'm going, I think I'll never find the time to take this idea past my photo composite stage.

Welcome! Are you aware of the International Model Car Builders' Museum in nearby Sandy?

Flyin' Dodges - not always restricted to The Dukes of Hazzard!

Somebody with better memory than me might be able to chime in on this, but I know I read somewhere that while the Red Baron kit is 1:24 scale, the World War I Mercedes-Benz aircraft engine in it is actually significantly undersized in relation to what a 24th scale replica would be.

Got links showing that? If I have it right, that's a basic elemental copyright violation - you capture an image, it's yours, without the necessity of getting an official copyright or putting the little c-circle mark on it. But of course, better legal minds than mine can offer better info on it all, https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html

Juh ....eeze! https://blitzway.com/hervin_portfolio/afterlife-ecto-01/

Too bad I have such poor math / fingers counting skills ... for a brief few moments there, I thought I was looking at a flat 14.

Huh. The JDM version of the Plymouth Arrow. Didn't know anybody made a kit of that.

Tempted to drop parts of the page below into my Corel drawing program so I can print out the red Ambassador, and then see if it is beyond my skill level these days to assemble it. I can vouch firsthand that paper models aren't always child's play to put together. The Bluesmobile I did many years back really was a fiddley kit - borrowing KCSlammer's Fotki photo of it here. (had to also build my own award trophy for it out of a McDonalds burger box, which was actually easier to do!)

Not something you run across everyday in the eBay Vintage Model Cars section: https://www.ebay.com/itm/266717238942 . Would be entertaining to get nice flat scans of the original to do paper printout reproductions to put together. Since eBay auction links are short-lived, here's a permanently saved Archive link to at least have a minimal look at what the seller had: https://web.archive.org/web/20240313192938/https://www.ebay.com/itm/266717238942

Junkyard boss to employee: "See all that piled up in the corner over there? Do something with it." Days later, employee: "How's dis?" Boss: "I meant, get rid of it all!"

I could only watch 13 of the first 23 minutes. Poor Cougar. I can just imagine an owner of such a thing allowing a son to take it out for a drive, who calls in 10 minutes later to say "Dad, I did a Dukes of Hazard style jump over the railroad tracks - just a little jump! - and, well .... the car broke into maybe 16 or more pieces ........"