ChrisBcritter

A photo would help here, if you can post one. I fixed a windshield frame on a '59 Edsel that had the same issue by first drilling tiny vertical holes down through the frame into the A-pillars, then cutting the top halves of the frame off of the A-pillars with a photoetch saw, drilling holes in either side of the break to insert a pin, and VERY carefully gluing it back together on a flat surface. Once that was dry I inserted pins in the holes in the A-pillars and glued the repaired top section over the pins and onto the pillars. That was the only way I could think of to fix it and get rid of the sag in the middle. Good luck.

...did somebody say movie police car?

Mine was May 15th as well - looks like my '56 Plymouth will have its interior soon, and my '61 T-bird promo will be complete. Watching the mailbox...

It came today. A bit of Dremel work and a couple of plugs in the hole to move the rear axle down 3/32", and... No more taildragger. A thorough washing and some flash removal helped too. Got a lead on the taillights as well...

I've only seen one up close - and it was the ute version; it was in L.A. in the mid-80s. Red with a flat black hood, chrome aftermarket wheels and license plates from El Salvador. Nice looking little truck; might be a good thing to do to this kit:

I guess it would be better to wait a while before ordering until all this settles down? I do need a couple hard-to-match colors (Mocha Frost - the darker early version - and Doeskin Tan) for a '57 Ford; I can keep it on the back burner for a while.

Only if you backed it all the way into the room first to get a running start at the pool. Nice model nonetheless! What's the diameter of the wheel rims?

I'll add the '32 and '40 Fords to that list (2018 and 2019 release?). It'd be cool if they made early-'60s style box art for the '53 Ford (and even better if they tooled up a bunch of vintage custom parts!).

Here you go, Bill: Back in 1988, I spotted an ad in the L.A. Times for a '61 Bel Air bubbletop at the Caddy dealer in Beverly Hills. Turned out to be a 25,000-mile metallic beige car with a six and Powerglide. That thing was near mint and drove like it too; they were asking $4,888 for it. I scraped up every dime I could and offered them my nice '66 Coupe deVille in trade - but no deal. For some reason I kept the ad; it listed the car's license number, DIS 246. About a year later, I saw an ad for a red '61 Bel Air with a 409/4-speed - license DIS 246. Out of spite I called the consignment dealer selling it; he said it was presented to them as original. I told him the car was a fake and how I knew; the guy said he was going to have a little talk with the owner...

Went to the Hobby Lobby in Paducah, KY last Thursday (we were down there for a family wedding) and picked up the '69 Corvair on the final discount rack for $9.00; oddly they also had a '70 Pontiac convertible that was marked as a store return "missing taillights" for $17.99 - never saw that happen at a HL before (I passed on it). Sunday night on eBay I got very lucky and scored this '66 Galaxie promo for only one $14.99 bid: In the words of George Carlin, "caught them cats nappin'!" First thing I'll be doing to it is fixing that taildragger stance all these '66 promos have. Is anyone building a NASCAR or custom version of the '66 kit that won't be using the stock taillights? And is the kit rear bumper same as the promo bumper?

Recent eBay sale; missing parts but you get the idea: http://www.ebay.com/itm/ITC-1-12-DUESENBERG-MODEL-PARTS-CAR-NOT-COMPLETE-USED-039-CIRCA-1960-039-S-/391551121200?hash=item5b2a43f730%3Ag%3AgYUAAOSwFdtXzJCB&nma=true&si=MY1zxLWW6WoqAJ6JTDGeoTLHVi0%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Checked the Deerfield store this afternoon - the only kit on sale was a '71 Tbird marked down to $16.79 on the regular shelf; no big gaps indicating restock yet.

Hi Sam - If you don't need the tonneau, I may have some NOS chrome bits to trade for it! Looking forward to your build thread.

I imagine the AMT Matilda Ford van didn't sell very well; the movie utterly tanked at the box office and was pulled from release. Probably AMT's worst marketing goof since The Hero? And they didn't even include a 1/25 scale boxing kangaroo!

They have disclosed some of the lost tools here and there on their forum; you do have to dig through to find the mentions because there isn't any big list. As an example, they revealed back in July that the Chevy Vega/Pontiac Astre funny car body molds are gone for good: http://www.collectormodel.com/round2-models/2906-kat-chat-lost-amt-funny-car-revealed/

There's this one by Nichimo; it's in 1/18: In 1/24-1/25? I don't think so, but you might start with an AMT Subaru Brat for part of it.

Long, long ago I had an AMT '69 Falcon - couldn't be built stock but I remember it did have a four-Weber carb and manifold setup.

I prefer the Knox Vegas Lowballers' 24 Hours of LeMons interpretation (Ken Block liked it too!): http://www.roadkill.com/lemons-team-creates-low-buck-ken-block-replica/ (Image from roadkill.com)

We could set it to music:

Depends on what I need for a project. I've had to Frankenstein several of my projects together; sometimes I'm looking for stock parts to replace damaged/missing/custom ones and sometimes I'll pick up wheels and tires to upgrade. I have a couple sellers I like that I check regularly; they have reasonable opening bids and the price goes up - or not - from there. And I'm fine buying from "breakers" - let's face it, some used parts are usually gluey due to their nature - like, say, the rear bumper, taillight lens and chrome insert on the '65 Dodge Monaco. I passed on some used ones that were too rough and got NOS parts. Wheels/wheelcovers are like that too - in many cases, used ones have tire melt, so I try to go with NOS.

That's the Collings Foundation TP-51D; they just recently got the restoration finished. It was built up from parts; the cowling with the name Toulouse Nuts came from a Mustang that was in the West Virginia Air National Guard in the 1950s. They found a photo of that plane and painted this one to match it. A bit unusual to see a Mustang in that scheme, but the Guard used Mustangs up until 1957. The real Toulouse Nuts that the cowl came from: (Photo by Locobuster via the Warbird Information Exchange)

The tires in the Piranha/Super Spy Car appear to be the same, although I'm not sure of the size of the opening: And here are the ones from the '60 Ranchero; again these look to be the compact tires (or copies of them) with larger openings. Maybe they could be sleeved to fit the wheels?

That one area with the "line" - could that be due to the way the injected plastic went into the mold (same way those molded-in-metallic kits have swirls and patchy areas)? I have a '64 Galaxie on which I painted the roof with a semi-gloss lacquer so it would craze to give it a vinyl roof effect. It worked great but there were some subtle differences in some areas - though not as pronounced as what you had happen.

Relisted and sold with a Buy It Now price of $280.00.

Just did a little measuring with some of my models, and it looks like single light setups will work fine - they will need to be filed down a bit to fit most quad lights. Headlight lens sizes vary quite a bit on kits, even when they shouldn't, so your mileage may vary...