ChrisBcritter

Update on the Continental: It had one '64 and one '61-63 taillight lens - '64 is smaller, in case you're scrounging . Had to glue the '64's bottom to a thick scrap of red sprue and reshape it to fit the '62 bezel. If you asked me what skill I use the most lately fixing up old AMT kits, I'd have to say "Whittling."

Great idea using the '34 wheels - one of the few things AMT got right on that kit. So how did you make your spark plug wire looms?

Now if only they can come up with a way to do chrome like this... :D

Delivered this afternoon: most of a '64 Continental. Mainly I needed the body for another '64 that turned out to be badly messed up under the three coats of black and white paint I stripped off (like "the previous paint was gouged off with a knife" messed up). This one's got some minor warp issues on the RF fender and a glue blob on the LR quarter, but has never been sanded, and will get a purple bath tonight. I'll salvage the roof from the other one to make a '65 convertible into a sedan (since the Missing Link repop didn't happen). This one's engine, taillight lenses and hood ornament will complete my '62 sedan, and the rest goes to the parts stash.

I asked specifically about these four kits and JohnG said to the best of his knowledge they are long gone. You might want to post a question on the collectormodel.com "What's a hanger shot?" page; he's been very helpful there letting us know what exists (I'd like to find out about the '69 Lincoln as well!).

My high school parking lot, Glenbrook South, '74-'75 era. Yes, we had Ralph Nader for a guest speaker. No, I don't know why my friend Pete Rosado was in drag at the Homecoming parade. In junior high, my American Lit teacher had a cherry white and green '56 Olds 88 two-door hardtop that she'd bought new; she told me her father worked for GM in the '30s and helped design the Hydramatic. Wish I'd kept in touch with her afterwards; I would have been the second owner for sure.

The IMC and Revell Beetles and the Revell Microbus and panel van were 1/25.

With optional trim and window blanks to build a Courier sedan delivery!

Oooooooooooonnnnnnnnne??? OK. '63 Country Squire. Wouldn't be too hard - AMT could just do a new body/interior/glass for the existing '63 Galaxie. (Remember the green-and-white '57 Ford Del Rio seen here earlier? That was restored by a friend of mine, Dan Weiss, who started with a badly rusted heap and over several years rebuilt it from nose to fins. It's a duplicate of the car his parents bought brand new. I've seen his album of build photos and it was a massive job, completed to perfection.)

Well, I went to the source and asked about the four kits I mentioned, plus the other Craftsman series promo tools, and got a response from JohnG: So at least if I dig up any of those kits, I won't feel bad about paying a premium for them.

There was one of these that used to show up at the World of Wheels car show in Chicago every year (early to-mid-1970s); looked identical in the roof shortening and quarter windows but was painted silver with a black vinyl top and tonneau. I recall one of the welds on the quarter windows wasn't ground down all the way. Wonder if it's the same car?

That was Fear is the Key:

It was the first day of the sale and I didn't feel much like haggling, but maybe I'll check back on them later today. I still have most of a '74 Pinto I'd just as soon trade off anyway...

On the way to dinner saw a sharp white '65 Vette convertible with the top down, the driver enjoying a rare mild summer day.

Same here - the estate sale I was at this morning had an AMT '72 Pinto for $15.00 and an Aurora Battle Aces of the Road Porsche "Messerschmidt" (sic) for $20.00. Looked inside to find both kits had been started, clumsily, and the Pinto lacked a body. When one of the sellers asked if I was interested, I explained to him just why I wasn't, and surprisingly he was apologetic about it. Guess there are a few good eggs out there.

See? This all goes back to what I've said before about giving us hobbyists some definitive information about what molds do and don't exist so we'll know what to ask for. I'd really like to see what's up with the '61 Ford convertible that was last reissued in the late sixties; ditto the '59 Buick and '62 Galaxie hardtops that were also reissued then, at the same time as cars that we do know the molds survive today ('61 Styline Galaxie coupe, '62 Buick Electra, '61 Ranchero). I do appreciate that they've given us this tidbit.

Scored these at an estate sale this morning for 50 cents each: Corgi '65 Imperial convertible (missing the golf bag), Tekno Monza GT, and Corgi James Bond Aston Martin (missing two tires and the enemy agent). Had the Imperial when I was a kid and always wanted another.

I just ran the license number of that Mustang through the CA DMV site - last passed smog testing in January: Wonder who owns it and if it's still painted this way?

Stock wheelcovers are there: Wheel backs, bucket seats and stock hood are missing. The label at the top is hard to read, but partly legible is "Poor"/"Rust all over". Anyone have an unbuilt stock F-85 with the parts on the trees that could be laid out and photographed to match this?

Just picked up some Scotch brand vinyl tape in both red and white that looks promising; let's see what the circle cutter does to it.

Sold for $178.49.

Anybody else wonder what sort of collision this was? Certainly not a single point impact. Looks like he got airborne and crashed through a whole lot of heavy tree limbs rather than hit the tree trunk. Edit: Looks like several of us were wondering the same thing. Anyway, shouldn't be too hard to check court records to ID the thief and find out how badly he was (hopefully) injured.

If the AMT molds for this are still around someplace and can be brought back to stock: ...it could be rereleased as the Old Man's car from Pawn Stars: And the same deal with the '65 Continental. Seems like a natural; something for the cast members to autograph for their fans (and the rest of us to build). By the way, if you want to be picky, the wheelcovers on the kit were not changed from '65; you'd have to get a set of Jo-Han '67-'68 Imperial wheelcovers to be correct for '66. (Could this be a first? Two TV cars from the same kit.)

As I was saying, we really need a good '34 Chevy 5-window kit: And so you can examine the details, a few more frame grabs:

Oops! I'll repost the still to the other thread. Mods please feel free to delete or merge this one.