ChrisBcritter

Fine machine - just needs a trunkload of Mason jars full of white lightning!

Try and find or copy the ones from the Monogram '55 Ford panel truck - IIRC they're the same part in 1/1.

FF to 1:46:15 and you'll see where the "Fix the cigarette lighter" gag in The Blues Brothers came from.

Weren't the Doyusha (later Hasegawa) '65/'66 American cars copies of American promo bodies with generic chassis/wheels/interiors? Then there's the Korris Kars, which were krude kopies of 1/25 Jo-Han, AMT and PMC promos (Anyone know if there was a connection between Korris and PMC?). One of those was a '64 Ford which actually copied the AMT custom parts for the front and rear ends!

Could be; note that the Fireball 500 (at least the latest issue) has a stray slant-6 intake manifold on one of its trees.

'63 Falcon convertible '63 Comet convertible '59 Buick hardtop '59 Pontiac hardtop '64 Corvair coupe (And as long as I'm wishing, I'd love to see the PMC molds for the '59 Ford wagon and Ranchero turn up...)

Don't forget their little promo film Happy Journey: You could argue for calling the Tucker the American Tatra...

It's a '60 - the big difference is the '60 kits were four-door sedans and the '61s were two-door hardtops (I have a '61).

You'd think with all the work they put into the decals, they'd at least TRY to get the license plates correct. Both have wrong fonts, the holes are off and the earlier plate doesn't even have the state name in the right place. So: Copy, reduce (1/4" x 1/2" each) and print. The '56 plate will take a bit longer; hang on...

Even the repo guys can be dumbasses - B of A once sent a repossessor after an Aston Martin Vantage at a place I was housesitting; the idiot was driving a regular Chevy half-ton wrecker like you'd see at a service station. Way to protect your investment, guys. (I just played dumb and BSed the fool that I didn't have access to the thoroughly locked garage, so he left and eventually the owner negotiated a payoff and kept the car.)

Forty years ago in Motor Trend, Mike Lamm correctly predicted that the Daytonas and Superbirds would be "tomorrow's Auburn Speedsters" as to collectibility, although he was a bit off in predicting that there would be a lot of replicas built from conversion kits. Say what? Please tell me you have a photo of that setup. I can't even imagine how that would look.

Wow! The grille may be Nash, but the rest likely isn't - this is one of those homemade sports cars that folks built in the '50s from cut-down Detroit iron. What are their plans for it? Did you take any more photos?

Hope this will help: I have a reissue promo '66 Chevy pickup with the fullsize bed; here are the measurements (click to enlarge): The box measurements are including the tail panel since it's molded in. Good luck with it! ETA: The model's 5 1/16" wheelbase scales up to 126.5625" - very close to the 127" listed in the '60 brochure.

Did the Pharoahs just initiate a new member, or were Wally and Eddie screwing around with Lumpy again?

That '60 is a stunner (as usual), Steven! There was a '60 body shell on eBay recently which was very rough but had an intact roof; that roof looks much more accurate compared to the one on the AMT/SMP annuals of the time. Would have used it for my '59 Bonneville but it went for too much. I also have a '61 88 four-door hardtop in real good shape for an eventual build.

It's a rare treat indeed to see one of these big 88s - especially when you've done such a sharp job on it! What cement did you use to attach the styrene kit parts to the Cycolac promo body?

Just for comparison, here's a Jo-Han '60 Caddy vs. a Monogram '59 Eldorado: Pretty close, it seems. Length, however... '59 and '60 Fleetwood/Eldorado have the same wheelbase, but sadly Jo-Han was forced to fit an existing promo box, so they took out a little bit here and and a little bit there so it wouldn't be too obvious.

How about a scan of the image? Now I'm intrigued.

Why bother radiusing the rear wheelwells? They could have run cruiser skirts at that height...

Or he could have cut through the spring shackle bolt even quicker. (He probably didn't think Johnny was smart enough to come up with that... )

I wonder if Galaxie LTD might try doing a series of '41 Chevys next, based on the '48 tooling? They'd have a head start on everyone else.

Sweet! Is it molded in blue and does it have the soft rubber (not vinyl) tires?

And while we're at it, "Twist and Shout" sounded way different in its original version as well (The Top Notes, 1961): Produced by Phil Spector, of all people. The songwriters weren't crazy about this version and were eager for the Isley Brothers to do a better job...

A favorite of mine - Al Kooper had intended "This Diamond Ring" as a soul number and (except for the money) wasn't too crazy about what Gary Lewis and the Playboys did with it. Sammy Ambrose did a soul version but Jimmy Radcliffe did it first:

Just got a set of stock wheels (and tires) from the AMT Opel GT; with some work I'll make them look like vintage four-lug Cragar mags for my '61 Comet.