ChrisBcritter

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...

I bought one but couldn't build it - the sense of humor was badly warped.

Gives me an excuse to check Deerfield tomorrow.

In the early '80s I worked at a print shop on Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, across the street from the Dodge dealer. They had a bunch of new Deloreans on the side lot, literally gathering dust, until John Z.'s scandal hit the news - then they all got shined up and put out front, where they sold pretty quickly. Nothing like a little notoriety to bring in the customers...

Great find! (turning green with envy ) What are your plans for it? You could gut a Revell Skyliner for the innards.

At this moment, the Beaver is gathering support while the Bluetits are unsuccessful. (snicker)

Sure it gets better. Four times better .

And warped body panels would be accurate as well! My former boss has this one, a '74 with an AMC 360 4bbl and about 20k miles; he says it "goes like a raped ape". Looks good in the photos, but up close it comes off as a fairly well-made kit car.

How does that song go? "Mademoiselle from Armentiers, hasn't been kist in forty years..." Seriously, I wish them success - the link shows the Renault Estafette being available in November.

Here you go, Andy! What do you think? Like I said, the rear bumper filler pan looks too long to me, but other than that pretty nice.

Just to clarify, the ones you bought that come from the '49 Ford kit are supposed to be 1961 Dodge deluxe wheelcovers. The Jo-Han '61 Dodge had them too, but the AMT ones are more accurately shaped.

Yep. They usually sell in this price range: It would be cool to see one with a full interior detail job done on it.

Nice clean build! The rear bumper panel looks a bit long; what do you think?

The AMT '57 Ford kit's Edsel wagon taillights were sort of phantoms - they were designed to fit the taller fins of the Fairlane 500, whereas the real ones were designed to fit the shorter fins of the Custom series which were used for the wagon.

Great concept! How's the fit on the headers with the shortened chassis? If you don't have a name picked out for it yet, looking at the wheelbase, how about "Squirrel"?

Not fun - I recently had to remove the steering wheel from my '64 Corvair; I had to go in from the back and that turned into two nights of work with a pick and a #80 drill to get it loose. Finally made a PE saw cut through one side of the mount and that freed it up. On the Chrysler, if you didn't have a spare steering wheel, maybe shave off most of the mounting tube from behind and make two parallel cuts on the bottom of the dash; that might be enough to free it (planning to do that on my '60 if I don't go with a custom wheel).

Also, thanks for posting the close-ups of the correct original interior. The USA Oldies 1970s reissue used an interior that was sourced from the '65 300 promo:

For the dome, I've been thinking about finding a piece of a blister pack that has the correct shape such as a quarter-sphere that can be cut down to fit.

In case it helps anyone working with an X-El (Jo-Han promo reissue) body - I'm stripping the factory burgundy paint off the '59 DeSoto; I sanded it lightly per usual and put it in the purple stuff (Zep brand from Home Depot). After four days I got what looked like lacquer checking on it, but nothing more; so I brushed on a bunch of DOT-3 brake fluid and that got things moving. There are still a few stubborn areas around the trim so I'll tackle it again later tonight.