ChrisBcritter

Pyro '48 Continental. I had built the Auburn Speedster first and didn't think the Continental would be so bad. Wrong, wrong, wrong... The tires had tread like a Jeep, the only correct hubcap was on the spare, grille molded inside out so all the openings were flush instead of sunken, engine barely looked like an engine, let alone a flathead V-12, front fender seams were huge and the fenders themselves too square... worst part is the molds are still around for this clunker, so nobody's ever bothered to do a good one - and with so few classics being molded any more, I doubt anyone ever will. Plus the Monogram '41 is too big to kitbash with it.

Yep.

Not too hard: "Well, I declare. If the clergy around here's gonna start stealin' everybody's automobiles..." (Hint: Mopar convertible.) Harder: "Can you drive a car? Then you can drive a tank." "But mine's automatic!" (Hint: Sean Connery - but not a Bond film) Toughie? "This short really rides sweet, man - now I know why everybody digs Cadillacs!" (Hint: Future Sweathog.)

Has anyone tried to use this stuff to remove wear marks on chrome parts, and will it blend in?

I'll be there. I can bring a couple of Hubley Model As (phaeton & Victoria), a started Monogram Ice T builder, and a '72 Torino race car (plus parts of a stock snap kit), if anybody's interested.

Now he tells me - and I left a nice builtup behind in California. I recall the tires were hollow rubber and were a bit loose on the rims; they'd also start going flat if I didn't roll it around now and then.

A little food for thought: Mild top chop, quarter windows closed up a little, top pie-cut at the B pillar and tapered a little towards the front. Does that help a bit?

Should the Minors be listed under Morris? The AMT Tiger is 1/25.

I thought I recognized those wheels on the trailer as being from the IMC kits. I wouldn't mind having one of their '65 Plymouths again. Very obscure kit, but two showed up on eBay this past week - Premier's 1/24th scale English Ford Prefect 100E: It would need a lot of whittling to correct, especially around the windshield and side windows, but it would be a great alternative body for a gasser! Anyone here have one?

If a curbside kit was produced and you wanted to detail it, I remember Checkers used '56 Ford front suspension, so the AMT kit would get you started.

Nice! Hope we see a build thread. I got a complete NOS rear bumper and taillight setup for my Monaco last weekend; of course it showed up after I'd put a bunch of effort into patching the damaged one I had - but this looks way better:

Should've read my horoscope this morning.

Would those places be a good source for clear red styrene? Say about 1/8 thick for carving taillight lenses.

MY must be "model year"...

I hate being attacked by giant Mercurys...

I think that may be foamcore.

Great kits; I'm building one as a hobby-class modified stocker with a small-block. Wish Revell had made the flat hood sooner; it would have saved a bunch of work cutting out and filling in that bubble! One other thing it's good for: if you cut out the window frames they're a close fit to convert a '63 Galaxie notchback promo to a two-door sedan.

Did Checker buy up Studebaker's wheelcover dies? They look like the fullsize ones from early '60s Larks. I wonder if a good curbside snap kit would be a better way to go with Checker. (A little less money to tool up?)

Lead? Some of the tutorials I see on YouTube refer to it as graphite.

Newspaper clipping I saved when I was a kid. I'd like to find the original AP photo...

Made it to the estate sale after all, but of course most of the models were gone. Got the dregs - an unbuilt AMT '63 Impala (up for trade), a junker '41 Continental (missing hood, top, spare tire, rear bumper and one whitewall insert) and about half of an unbuilt '59 Caddy convertible (body, chrome, interior, engine and top). The Caddy finally answered my question as to whether it will kitbash with the Jo-Han '60 Fleetwood - yes and no. Width and height are identical, but the '59's wheelbase is about 1/4" longer . Wheelbase on the Jo-Han chassis is 5" or 125" full scale; the real car is 130". I think it'll be easier to shorten the Monogram chassis than it would be to lengthen the '60 body (although some of you guys could pull it off perfectly, I'm sure...).

I'd really like to see someone kitbash (or a resin conversion for) a '59 Chrysler 300; surprised it hasn't been done already.

Found out too late - I can't make it to this sale so I'll pass it along to anyone in the area. Address: 2124 Parkside Drive, Park Ridge, IL 60068 http://www.estatesales.net/estate-sales/IL/Park-Ridge/60068/725955 There's definitely some good stuff:

Got a sealed '51 Chevy fastback from one of blzzzfn's Saturday night auctionfests; threw out a low bid and got it a bit below retail.

I have one other clear (airplane) model: Glencoe's reissue of the old Strombecker Republic Seabee (the windows were molded into the fuselage): (Image from britmodeller.com forum member Swordfish Fairey) Trouble is there's no interior; you have to either scratchbuild the whole interior or paint over the windows. I'll probably build the interior on mine as the rest is pretty simple.