ChrisBcritter

Losing my vision would be one of my worst nightmares. Got my fingers crossed for you. How do you sleep on your back and have your face down, though?

(screech/honk) Oh, I guess "R" means "reverse"?

Hairspray (1988).

Not one of those cheap new things made of chromium and spit; an Isotta-Fraschini. Have you ever heard of Isotta-Fraschini? All handmade. Cost me $28,000.

You have reduced me to beggary, kidnapped my husband, and murdered my aged mother - but beware! Don't go too far!

We're the ones with the Imperial, and we're in last place?

We're running a circus, not a charm school! Come on, Oscar®, let's you and me get drunk!

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.