ChrisBcritter

Didn't the AMT '62 Tempest kit have one as well?

Now that the '53 Studebaker is back on the shelves, how about a '57-'61 Silver Hawk conversion?

Saw a very sharp '64 or so Rolls Royce Silver Cloud III (the older body with quad headlights) pulling out of a gas station at Lake Avenue and Green Bay Road in Wilmette; two-tone metallic gray over silver.

No, huh? Gas station scene in Duel. How about this one? "I'd like you to check my motor - it whistles." "I don't blame it."

That's something I noticed too; AMT left that trim as part of the grille, since it was based on the promo tool. (Thank goodness for photoetch saw blades.) Frankly I don't mind the trim being molded to the hood, if only for the fact there'd probably be fit/alignment issues if it were molded separately.

OK, thanks - yes, I'm using the '60 Ford engine from the 2 in 1 kit, but with the single four-barrel setup - my uncle got a complete sfb 406 and 4-speed from a wrecking yard and converted it to a floor shift when he put it in his '57 Fairlane 500; that's the car I'm building.

I have the Thunderbolt kit; would the transmission from that be correct behind a '62 Galaxie 406, or should I be looking elsewhere? As always, thanks for your help!

Thanks to member PARTSMARTY, I finally have the '60 Ford double kit - so now I have the engine for my uncle's '57 Fairlane. Now to figure out some 406 decals for the valve covers - and how to make it into a four-door neatly.

Or maybe you could mate it to an XKE to build the hearse from Harold and Maude?

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.