ChrisBcritter

If a stock hood version is forthcoming, I'll wait. Would like to see a body-to-body comparison with the AMT Caliente.

Deuce Tudor? Sign me up! (I know the body isn't quite a paragon of accuracy - like every other AMT '32 Ford including the 1/32 3-window - but I missed out on it in the '70s.) '57 Fairlane again? Only if ALL the Styline parts are back (front and rear ends). Any word on when?

If you are masochistic creative enough to want to recreate the early full wheel covers: ...then here's your source. Looks like the V-6 wasn't the only tooling Jeep got from Buick: You'd just have to very carefully carve off those ten extra blades the Electra got, drill out the centers for the fronts and add the Jeepster kit centers to the rears.

Texting does evaporate sentence structure, and don't call me Shirley.

The 2007 show had a 1957 theme in honor of the buried Tulsa Belvedere; I wrote a juvenile delinquent version of "Bandstand Boogie" inspired by the old musical parodies in MAD Magazine: "CAN’T STAND 'BANDSTAND'” My voice is droppin’ Went down an octave today My zits are poppin’ Got Clearasil on my face My hair is sloppin’ Greasy kid stuff in place I’m on Bandstand (Bandstand) We’re goin’ dancin’ With lots of twistin’ and leaps We’re gonna rumble Until we fall in a heap We’re all delinquents A bunch of juvenile creeps On the Bandstand (Bandstand) So play that rock ‘n’ roll that your parents just can’t stand Robert Goulet? No way! It’s American Bandstand! When I get home I know that my hide’s gonna get tanned Too cool for school – I ditched for American Bandstand! I met a girl there She’s wearin’ satin and lace We dirty boogied It was a public disgrace Until her boyfriend He threw his fist in my face On the Bandstand (Bandstand) Fists began to fly – I was swingin’ the mike stand Look out – knocked out Dick Clark on American Bandstand So began a melee that emptied the grandstand Brenda Lee threw her shoe at me on American Bandstand They called the cops in They threw us up on the wall They slapped the cuffs on And they arrested us all And now we’re dancin’ Down at the juvenile hall Not the Bandstand (Bandstand) I called my daddy Asked him to pay off my bail He told me “Get lost! And you can rot there in jail!” And now the big guys They’re all a-grabbin’ my tail From the Bandstand (Bandstand) So jump and throw a fit on American Dance like a nitwit on American Chained up and locked I’m breakin’ rocks But what the hey – Bandstand!!!!

For many years I wrote parody songs for my car club's annual meet award show. Back in 1999 the theme was Disco and I rewrote "Disco Inferno" as "Pinto Inferno": Out for a drive My new Pinto '75 Plaid seats, vinyl roof And a Sports Accent Group I shifted to Park It jumped into reverse Backed into a dump truck Now I'm gonna need a hearse I heard somebody say Burn, baby, burn Pinto Inferno Burn, baby, burn Burn that mother down (repeat) This contraption Blew up like a chain reaction Now I've got the blues Wish I had some asbestos shoes My 8-track's melting My tires turned to dust Should've bought a Vega That's a car you can trust I heard somebody say Burn, baby, burn Pinto Inferno Burn, baby, burn Burn that mother down (repeat) Up above my head I see smoke in the air That makes me know There's a Pinto somewhere Call Ralph Nader This car's an incinerator I must've been a nut To buy a car that self-destructs I towed it home My cruisin' days are through Stuck it in the backyard Now I use it for a barbecue I heard somebody say Burn, baby, burn Pinto Inferno Burn, baby, burn Burn that mother down Burn, baby, burn Pinto Inferno Burn, baby, burn It's a lot of fun Burn, baby, burn Pinto Inferno Burn, baby, burn Cook your burgers well done!

cursing about cursive

When they announced this on FB I suggested a 3-D printed correct '75 grille/front cap as Jo-Han dropped the ball on the original promo/kit; no comments yet.

1/24 is probably a typo. The original kit number for the '56 Buick listed above was H-1230 per Motor City's list:

down the Mississippi

I'm guessing they used the '58 Buick interior for this one; it may not fit because the body was made from a promo that had the usual shrinkage issues. I'm slowly building up a '57 Roadmaster from an Argentina-made Bichi Toys Buick that was copied from an original unwarped promo and molded in styrene; the AMT promo bumpers and trim fit it very well along with that '58 interior. There are a few of them on eBay right now, surprisingly:

Retire and let my boss twist in the wind (and he would never get another cent from me after he took everything I had). Buy my partner and me a nice home somewhere with trees and space for his dogs and cats, a big model room for me, and make sure his mom is comfortable for the rest of her life and his goddaughter gets a good education. Help out my brothers' six kids as well. If I don't win, forego the above and try to get by on my Social Security benefits. Either way, I have enough models to keep building for a long time so I won't be buying more (OK, the '60 Impala wagon, but that's it... honest!).

I'd like to see a 3D printed re-creation of the old Buddy L Texaco station.

Is it a Roadmaster, or a Century? Somebody made a Century using a heavily-modified Roadmaster body with the hardtop roof from a '57 Olds and it looked pretty good.

The chopped hardtop could be brought back to stock height by using the stock '50 windshield, adding material to the bottom of the C-pillars, and shortening the length of the roof a bit. Then you could scrounge the correct dash, hubcaps, double bullet grille, bumpers and taillights from an Ideal '51 Ford convertible kit (those are the only usable parts on that kit; the rest is a misshapen mess).