ChrisBcritter

And he's smiling! (although his face looks a little more Sunfire than Superbird!)

I wonder if AMT could pull off a '51 Ford based on their dated but decently accurate '49-'50 tooling? Particularly since a Victoria hardtop and convertible could use the same body, windshield and vent windows. Maybe Revell should take a crack at this, with detail like the '49 Olds coupe and a lot of period custom goodies. Shoebox Fords have never gone out of style; about the only limiting factor would be that they weren't too famous for racing.

Very very good news. I bet everybody who has a reissue '64 Comet is tossing out their chassis and laying in a supply of new blades to cut open their hoods. I'll probably pick up a Ventura to upgrade my '61 Bonneville, and the Belvedere would be a start on the Chicago police car from the chase scene in Cooley High. (Note to AMT: maybe this would be a good time to make a '62 Grand Prix based on the Catalina tooling?)

Good job and thanks for that info - I've seen that body and wondered how well it fit up with the AMT chassis.

Even better in the sunlight - brings out all the subtle shadings and makes the chrome really stand out. I've really got to dig up a '59 one of these days.

These bring up a childhood memory. Anybody have one of those car dealer shadow-box displays that feature promo models sawn in half lengthwise and mounted? I remember seeing one with '65 Fords at the dealer my grandfather worked at.

I like the original original best, before it was remastered and much of the sound effects and all the music was replaced, although the color in the restored one looked a lot better. A friend who saw it in the theater with me put it as only a car nut can: "Before I thought the color of the Cadillac with the tiger in it was Terra Cotta - now I know it was Cranberry Firemist!" Both versions are on YouTube last I looked; it's possible by using two tabs to watch the restored print on one tab with the sound from the original on the other. Back in 1982 or '83, several damaged cars were for sale in Auto Trader and when I called, they turned out to be left over from The Junkman. To my surprise I was speaking to the man himself - H.B. Halicki. I probably sounded like a total fanboy but he was nice about it; he even offered me the opportunity to see his collection for ten bucks (he didn't usually show it to the public). Like a dumbass I never did take him up on it... I did go to his estate auction at the Pasadena Center and bought a bunch of mostly junk models; last one I have is a brown '79 El Camino promo. I also bought a soundtrack 45 of "Gone in 60 Seconds"/"Lois Lane Blues" for two bucks; wish I'd bought a dozen. Of course, I suppose we'll never know the answer to that burning question: Why was Attlee reading Playgirl magazine?

About six or seven I'm really working on at the moment - chasing parts for them and generally getting them all finished to the point where I have to start painting them.

Just so happens I have one handy (minus one bit of trim); should have said green and silver: Got it from an abandoned Villager wagon back in '73.

Slick! Are you going to make a rotating garage floor display with the Black Beauty? (Dammit, Kato, I told you to fix that thing!)

President Red and Snow White, and some of the smoothest foil work I've ever seen. Looking forward to more! (When you do the dash, the gauge faces should be light metallic green.) I built one in the late '70s - light blue with a white top and spear. Ron Merkel fell in love with it and I traded it to him for an unbuilt IMC '48 Ford convertible; he sent me a photo of it afterwards posed against a mountain/forest backdrop saying it was one of his favorites.

$22,000 for the van - and I bet you'll have a lot more trouble finding a cherry '70s custom van with 500-odd miles on it than you would finding a Shelby.

Yep - friends of mine shot video of the burial spot. This time it's an above-ground vault.

What a magnificent job! Those colors really set it off. No, it didn't; I believe the Edsel, Buick and Pontiac were the ones with the generic wheelcovers that year, and the Ford and Chevy had correct ones. Luckily the promo wheels were correct on the Pontiac and Buick; only the Edsel missed out.

Got an AMT '59 Mercury bumper/grille/headlights from eBay; the headlights are coming off to be used on my Jo-Han '59 Rambler wagon (the hooded part is a much better match to the real thing) and the grille pattern will probably go into my '59 Ranchero as a close match for a '59 Meteor unit.

Oh be still my beating heart. (actually 3 '62s and 1 '63)

Best I can suggest is build some kind of support for the car that would line up with the frame, and set it on rollers so it can be safely moved around. I'm sure if the family got it to Barrett-Jackson, the hype machine would go into overdrive and a couple rich guys would fight over it enough to give them a tidy sum to take home. Then the car would disappear into some collector's garage and B-J would go on to the next big thing.

Sent in a request for a quote yesterday; will post when I hear back.

Beautiful job! How much repair work did it need?

Maybe some resin shop could do a conversion kit for the stock/custom parts for those kits, plus create stock door panels and seat for the '40 pickup. Seems like a slam dunk.

Just leave it there and call it art, since they took down the car needle in Berwyn...

I remember the Plymouth Fire Arrow - this one's on display at the Aadlen Bros. U-Pick junkyard in Sun Valley, CA: It ended up there after it, uh... caught on fire. (photo from clunkbucket.com)

I'm surprised AMT hasn't made a '46-'48 Plymouth yet, based on the tooling for the '41. Then the resin guys would use it to make conversion kits for the Dodge, Chrysler and DeSoto.

I'd lay odds it's one of those oversized "speedsters" we've been seeing lately, made by throwing a whole lot of money at a shortened vintage firetruck chassis.

Just wish they would fix the shape of the '46 grille already; it was one of the reasons I bought the kit - and my only disappointment with it. A correct one would look great on a '40 Ford.