ChrisBcritter

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That Rolls...

And finally, the ones on the upper right are from the AMT '62 Mercury Meteor. You're missing the larger custom lenses that plug into the tail fins, but you have the stock lenses, plus four bullets that, oddly, aren't mentioned on the instruction sheet.

Here you go - get busy! https://www.ebay.com/itm/Danbury-Mint-1-24-1948-Buick-Roadmaster-Coupe-Nickel-Gray/264359617723?hash=item3d8d0fa4bb:g:wVkAAOSwgqRc11wW

Middle ones are both sets of the custom taillights from the AMT '63 Pontiac Bonneville.

Lower left are the stock and custom '62 Tempest taillight lenses:

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Another great idea well executed! I like how it looks as if it has a chopped top.

Very attractive build! One question: Did you glue the grille to the hood, and if so was it because if a fit issue?

Here you go - Jo-Han used the long rams for a few years in their Chrysler kits: https://www.ebay.com/itm/JO-HAN-1967-CHRYSLER-300-ORIGINAL-CROSS-RAM-ENGINE-NOS-KIT-C1467-CIRCA-1967/233258749858?hash=item364f4e0fa2:g:GeQAAOSwMT5dBXdA

Excellent choice, Mark! Let's take a closer look at some shots from the Teen Fair scene, which had some plugs for AMT: Double Dragster 1/12 scale '37 Cord display Rack of AMT lacquers, XR-6 kit, Munster Koach on the right, not sure what the bottom one is George Barris in the booth selling models, and hot rodding legend Norm Grabowski in front And this '61 Dodge Norm's beating on? It was the stunt double for the '64 Imperial (note the nameplate on the front fender) in the crash-and-burn scene in the 1964 Ann-Margret film Kitten with a Whip.

Another bit of trivia, with a personal connection: Back around 1984 or '85, Dr. Don Altfeld, the co-writer of "Little Old Lady..." came to my print shop (on Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena!) to get some copies. He told me he was reviving the Little Old Lady character as a proposal for an ad campaign... for Ford. I asked how the song would go, and he sang "Here in her garage where the kids all hang, is a brand new shiny red Ford Mustang!" Admittedly, Mopar wasn't producing any real performance cars then. His idea got some mention in the L.A. papers soon after, but nothing came of it...

Fun movie indeed! Wonder if Tommy wrote his own dialogue in the scene where he describes his roadster? Also note about 58 minutes in, Lois confesses to having left the party to take on Nita and her friends in a race, and says "I don't think they'll bother us any more." Maybe the script had a final race scene that wasn't filmed? Run time is only an hour and five minutes - maybe it went over the $19.95 budget? Also features my favorite final credit:

Very sleek job, Glen - wish I'd thought of it!

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Thanks for the heads-up re their enamels, Steve. I want to get some for a kit I have in the pipeline, but I'd better go with lacquer. Will Tamiya primer work OK with it?

Scored this a few hours ago at the LMMCC meeting: Cheep cheep cheeeeep. This one's a 10-footer; X-El body with (I think) an original kit chassis, a '60 DeSoto interior, ''58 AMT kit wheels/tires/axles with Revell '65 Impala SS wheelcovers . Definitely worth fixing. I can see an inscription inside: "Built by Ed Jentzak". So, has anyone tried putting AMT '58 Plymouth guts into one of these? Also the '60 El Camino arrived Friday, as nice as it looked in the eBay ad. Grille bar has damage from the custom piece but I have a spare. Decals are dated 11-60 so I guess it's from the second run.

Four of mine, taken 1976, 1982, 1987, and 2005: Also had a '92 Chrysler Sebring convertible but never did get a photo of it; that leaves only DeSoto on the Mopar bucket list.

I like the way you build and write, Geoff!

Thanks for posting these, Matt! Wonder why the Mercedes photographer had people hiding much of the 300 sedan's front end? And the photo staff at Olds drew a B-pillar on the 98 4-door hardtop to depict a sedan. Too bad they forgot the passenger side.

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catheter ad again!

Sometimes patience pays off. I've looked at and passed on dozens of overpriced, incomplete gluebombs, and then this turned up: No paint and ALL the stock parts are there - many of them on the trees, including the taillights which are usually missing. Of course it has a lot of holes, but plenty of original sprue to plug 'em up. Best part - got it cheeeeep; it had been up twice before for fifty with no takers, and then listed as "make offer", and I got it for half that. This was a big seller for AMT/SMP; they kept it in the line through '61 so there are still some around.

Well done! Gotta get one of these. Did Jo-Han release this as a snap kit, or only the convertible? Just for grins, try measuring the wheelbase and seeing what scale this kit really is . The actual car is 109". Hmm. Let's line them up, equal length: I think Jo-Han got the doors a little short?