ChrisBcritter

As previously mentioned by others: Duel American Graffiti & the sequel It's a Mad etc. World Gone in 60 Seconds Christmas Vacation Animal House Airplane! And adding some favorites of my own: Crazy Mama Cuba Fires on the Plain Cell 2455, Death Row Intimacy (no, it's not X-rated - but Jackie deShannon has a couple great scenes as a very talkative hooker) Beach Blanket Bingo Ekipaj (The Crew - Russian "Airport" movie) The Crowded Sky Air Force Marnie Goldfinger Ginger e Fred A Star is Born (1954 version) The Giant Gila Monster Ed Wood Cooley High The Taking of Beverly Hills Mistah (Filipino war movie) Ski Party Some Like it Hot Dillinger (1973 version) Captain from Castile Touch of Evil Tora! Tora! Tora! Car Wash Heißer Sommer (Hot Summer, East German beach party movie musical) Smash-up on Interstate 5 Scavenger Hunt Back to the Future Grand Theft Auto The Great Race Flight of the Phoenix (1965 version) What's Up, Tiger Lily? I Wanna Hold Your Hand Used Cars Bonnie and Clyde Fate Is the Hunter The Birds Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid and many more...

ITC '40 Mercury. Thank goodness they're incredibly tough to find or I'd have a bunch of them, instead of the one that I've been gathering bits and pieces and researching photos to try and make a good decent passable finished model out of it.

Nothing that hasn't been done before - AP story from 9-23-71. Other stories said he'd saved for five years to buy the car:

Think I found the owner... (Pulikali festival, Kerala, India.)

I'm probably the exception here, then - I knew George's son Brett through our car club, and he invited me over to Kustom City in North Hollywood. He took me on a tour of the place (the Munsters' Koach was there) and introduced me to his father, who gave me some autographed photos of the custom sharknose Graham he'd recently done - free. I told him I was especially a big fan of the cars he and Sam built early on, which he seemed to appreciate more. Maybe things are different when he's at shows and has a big audience?

OK, I just measured the AMT Bonneville - wheelbase is 125 mm which translates to 123.0315", and the overall length is +/- 221 mm, which equals 217.51975" (I don't have calipers and my ruler is only 6" so there's a margin of error of a millimeter or two) so it looks like both are about right.

Where I used to live in Yucca Valley was home to several of the locations from It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, including a gas station (now a 7-11) two blocks from my house; the spot where Ethel Merman drops the Jeep keys down her cleavage is now a Wal-mart parking lot (like so many other old landmarks nowadays!).

Hmm. Let's see - this might be easier: "Fill it with Ethyl." "If Ethyl don't mind."

"When my boss sees these figures, he's gonna have a stroke." Used Cars.

It's similar to the Barris-built "Wild Kat" custom that was destroyed in the 1958 shop fire: http://www.kustomrama.com/index.php?title=Wild_Kat

Not quite perfect at the C-pillar, but nearly there. Even if this were left as is, it would still be way easier to fix than the '62 Bel Air.

Let's compare.

Oh well. Guess I can still bash one together from the damaged '64 I have and a '65 convertible, but one of your bodies would have been way better.

Yep - As I recall it was about three feet long. I got one 35 years ago for my Pearl Harbor home movie project but never built it. I just may get the Blazer and the '37 Chevy; maybe even the Corvair. Fun fact re the '37 Chevy: the AMT '49 Mercury's flathead V-8 is a perfect drop-in fit if you want to surprise a few Stovebolt fans.

That must mean they did a very good job indeed! Three pieces... Now does this mean the front half of the wheel is a rim with eight lugs around it, and the back half of the rim is molded together with the brake drum? It sounds like the way the custom wheels for the AMT '32 Ford Tudor from the double kit were molded.

Got a '72 Chevy pickup chassis from a fellow I met at the DuPage show last weekend - going to kitbash it with my '67 to get the dual exhausts. You can tell the second exhaust was added to the tooling later - the second muffler doesn't quite match.

Kevin, if you're still checking this thread, what's happening with the '65 Continental sedan body? (sorry for the hijack)

Two surprises today, both on car carriers. First, going south on I-94 near the Lake Forest oasis, was a semi pulling a full load of Buicks - all late '60s/early '70s full size, in nice shape. Someone moving a collection, or rentals for a period movie? Second, a carrier passed in front of me on Buckley Road at the Navy hospital. On top was a scruffy but complete late '50s gray Porsche 356 coupe, and on the bottom was a BRG Triumph TR-4 that was seriously rusted, to the point that it had broken at the door jambs. Wonder how they intended to get that off the trailer...

I don't have a shot of the King T, but here's the package it came in:

I've got most of the double kit; the '32 sedan body shell is dead stock other than a couple tiny locator pins for the rear fenders - you can flick 'em off with a fingernail. I'm thinking of putting a different body on that chassis - maybe swapping it for a '32 Victoria shell or one from the AMT '34 Ford three-window (great excuse to customize it to hide the errors!). The Willys is missing the chassis and a few other bits, but there's enough to fix up a gluebomb if I ever get to it.

Here's their store locator; looks like I'd have to go to Indiana. http://www.olliesbargainoutlet.com/storeLocator/stores.aspx

If the body's as bad as it looks, here's a challenge - cut it up and build it as Chuck Porter's Chevy-powered "300-SLS" special (the last S stood for "scrap" - it was built from a wrecked Gullwing): http://www.mercedes300sls-porter.de/images/Alte%20Bilder/Corvette%20Engine%204,6%20L.JPG Add the engine from the 1/12 '57 Chevy and you're on your way. Much more info here: http://www.tamsoldracecarsite.net/BobEdmison.html

No, this was back in 2007. This was one of his two properties; besides the cars there was lots of Western and Italian furniture and memorabilia plus a lot of his artwork.

^^^ This '42 Continental was my favorite car there. If I ever tackled the Pyro kit again, I'd convert it to this one - that grille is much cleaner than the '48. Note the dual carbs and exhausts (Google "1942 Continental Palance" for better views of the engine). I begged my boss to buy this; it went for around $15 grand (it's now at a dealer in the same condition with a $42,995 price tag), but he already had a '47 Continental coupe. Instead, he bought this: '52 Rolls Royce Silver Wraith SWB Park Ward saloon. Runs but needs a valve job and the clutch rebuilt; bigger problem: the missing fender skirts are going to have to be built from scratch, probably. Even if a set turned up (ha ha) they might not fit considering they were mostly handbuilt and hand-fitted. Hey, I told him to buy the Lincoln... Nice lines, though, especially the rear end - looks a lot less stodgy than the coachbuilt Wraiths.