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    Seriously, it might be interesting to compare the drag coefficient between the real car and the Lego one to see whether the more pebbly surface on the "Legatti" improves the Cd.
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    A friend's daughter had one in the mid-Eighties - a '72 notchback coupe in bright blue - very rare even then. Some local firebug later torched it.
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    by your smile
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    I sort of played with photoshop time travel for this: My mom with her friend's car in the late '40s. She remembered it as a LaSalle, but that didn't look right to me. After a whole lot of Googling I IDed it as a '38 Nash Lafayette: Turns out Mom was half right - it was named after a famous Frenchman whose name began with "La"... So I combined the two images to get a complete car; luckily the backgrounds were similar although the angle wasn't quite perfect:
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    Loved this! Good thing you had some nice clear photos to work with. (He may have been about 25 years too early to say "freaking me out", unless he did some time travel himself )
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    good for tobacconist
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    (Snake is probably wondering where I am!) This one has always been a favorite of mine: The Convair XB-46. Beautifully simple, graceful lines, but an also-ran in real life, outperformed by the B-45 Tornado (which had its own batch of problems) and the way-more-successful B-47.
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    take Pepto Bismol
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    Can't afFORD? Tough.
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    More, pleeeeeze!
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    There is a definite family resemblance: Fordson High yearbook, 1969. Meanwhile, four years earlier at Ann Arbor High: Junior looks so innocent??
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    Nice NOS '64 Continental grille arrived today: Looking forward to dotting in all those teeny tiny squares!
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    Great scores indeed, Josh! A couple things: For some reason, AMT put full-size promo tires in the '63 Nova Craftsman kit instead of the compact promo tires - thus the poor fit on the wheels. Not too hard to find the correct ones. Next, on the Tempest, I did a sort-of-tutorial on making the door window frames more accurate: Hope this helps - good luck!
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    Just checked the site - they have silver, chrome, copper, red, and white for $3.49 each in stock; black is back-ordered. https://modelexpo-online.com/search.asp?keyword=tape&sortby=0&page=5&catid=
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    Maybe the act of aerating the Molotow through the airbrush makes it dry more thoroughly?
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    In the words of Ringo Starr, "Oh My My"... so the early Vega tooling still exists? Wonder if they have enough to squeeze out a stock version, one you could stuff a 350 in to cruise Van Nuys Boulevard?
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    One Thank You, and two Danke Schoens!
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    This won't help the OP, but if it helps anyone else, this is a near-perfect match for the factory Sierra Gold on my wagon: I used it to touch up a few areas in the wheel openings and where I had to clean up flash around the taillights.
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    twist again like
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    Fotki has had some issues lately for me. Usually I can right-click the image to open it in a new tab, and I get some sort of privacy error that says go to the site (unsafe); I click on that and the picture shows up. I go back to the forum page, refresh it, and usually the pictures open and I'm good to go. (I'm still running XP so a lot of things don't work anymore, such as Kinja photos and comments on Jalopnik, and now my Flickr login.)
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    of the moose
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    Clean build of a graceful car. Well done, David!
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    Thanks everyone! Much appreciated. Now back to the '65 Nova...
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    About 20 years ago I used to have a light biue '67 Mustang fastback radio promo in very good shape (radio worked); picked it up at a flea market for $10 and sold it for $50 when I needed the money. Still have '64 and '67 T-bird radios.
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