ChrisBcritter

I've got hampers of laundry and my diet pill is wearing off!

Goodies indeed! Is the green Continental a '62 or a '63?

Nice to see an old Lindberg getting some serious detail! Seems like that cutter would be excellent for making stick-on vinyl whitewalls, as well as paint masks - have you done that?

^^^And I bet even then, the suspension was much beefier than the American version. He went through a couple sets of tires, as the different-colored wheels from shot to shot indicate.

From the aforementioned George Klass site: I triple-dog-dare somebody to build a model of this: I guess nobody made a '54 Ford 'glass front end? (and yes, it's a Skyliner or at least 3/4 of one.)

You're gonna need a bigger hammer.

You're close: Villa Riviera. It was used in the James Darren movie For Those Who Think Young; images from IMCDb: Recognize the taillights? '57 Rambler front parking/signal lights, upside down:

Even worse - after the original car disappeared (last seen in a children's school playground in Japan) somebody cut up another vintage Imperial to build a replica.

Yep - this one, to be exact: P-51H serial 44-64164 - spent its career with NACA and the CA Air National Guard.

Picked up this neat little tool with a coupon at Michael's: Looks like it'll come in very handy for fine, close grinding work where the Dremel is too big. It has a good amount of torque for something that runs on 3 volts; the info I've found says it runs at 15,000 RPM. Downside is it uses 3/32" bits (held by a set screw) instead of standard 1/8". I may see if I can run it on 1.5 volts and try to make some sort of adapter to use tiny drill bits.

Might be a good idea to scribe between the grille bars to deepen them before grinding through the back - that would make the piece a bit stronger.

This one, because there's no other way on Earth a major company would make a kit of a 1921 Oldsmobile. Too bad they didn't make it a 3-in-1 with a stock touring body and rear fenders.

I remember seeing the Coronado on another thread; and my response was basically or words to that effect. The Owens is new to me; looks like something you could tow behind your AMT '60 Starliner, while the Coronado would look so fine behind a '59 Imperial. Just need trailers...

Somehow I knew as a kid to avoid anything Revell made; just seeing all the working features on the box art made me shy away - same with IMC's stern warning on their boxes: "ADVANCED KIT - NOT FOR BEGINNERS". So God only knows why I tried to tackle this: For some reason I don't remember much detail about it, other than it being very fiddly. I do recall it had working headlights but not taillights, and (IIRC) working suspension. I probably should have quit early and saved it for thirty or forty years and sold it on.

...which are sitting in the bed of a '60 El Camino... (turning green with envy again)

Why? "Clockwork Orange/Eating Chevy and beating Mopar/Since 1957" isn't that hard to figure out... of course what little Portuguese I know is mainly based on my Spanish, so I may miss a nuance or two.

First gen Bronco? Hooray!! You know what this means? Now, at last, we'll finally have standard full wheel covers for the 1966 Galaxie!

Got a Monogram '55 Chevy engine today; stock but should be a nice upgrade for the AMT '55 Nomad.

More to the point, I wonder what crazy prices they'll bid up to. The estate sale seller blzzzfn on eBay recently had a lot of four Modelhaus Lincoln Continental hood ornaments listed with an opening bid of $5.00; they bid up to $21.50. Anyone can list a kit with a huge opening bid and then die of old age waiting for someone to take the bait; you don't learn much about the market from that.

Truly the end of an era. Hope the bits I ordered in mid-May will be here by Thanksgiving or Christmas - I didn't order any chrome parts so that should help.

The Eegah! car was a stripped-down and shortened 1939 Plymouth; you'd probably have an easier time using the AMT '41 Plymouth coupe kit (except for the brain rot you'd suffer from watching the movie ). At least there's not too much body there to modify!

Charlie, you might want to contact them directly just in case; see if they still have the mold for it to make one last run (I could use two of them if they do). Can't hurt to ask, especially now.

I bet the folks at Barrett-Jackson are bummed out they're not selling it - particularly since Carroll used to show up at the Scottsdale auction with one car or another to sell nearly every year, usually for one of his charities.

Best you can hope for is a second final discount; if you're patient sometimes they'll do that. I went by the Deerfield store and made some quick notes: '71 T-bird and Honda Trail - $16.79 '34 Ford pickup - $10.19 (soooo tempted) '69 Corvair, '66 Mustang F/C, Lil' Hot Dogger, '58 Vette, '62 Vette gasser, '79 Trans Am, '70 Chevelle - $14.99 '23 T Van - $14.39 '77 GMC wrecker - $16.19 '51 Bel Air - $13.19 '41 Ford custom woody - $17.39 Dukes of Hazzard snap-kit General Lee - $13.79 AMT slicks, Racemaster and Blue Streak - $5.99

Back in the '70s I bought an unbuilt '65 at one of the Old Town Escorts swap meets. Did a nice clean job building it - except for painting it light metallic blue with Dupli-Color lacquer. I sold or traded it to another builder a couple years afterward. So if someone out there owns a clean but thoroughly crazed builtup '65 Fairlane, you have my sincere apologies...