ChrisBcritter

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Somebody had a '40 Continental in last weekend's Rose Parade that made me do a double-take - it had '42-48 rear fenders and taillights. (photo: Pasadena Star-News)

The trailer's license plate looks German to me.

Happy New Year to every one of you from every one of me!

french fried phonebook

Chevy should have offered those bucket seats in the '58 Impala! Must have been borrowed from the '58 Bonneville.

AMT must have had various tire suppliers - I've seen plenty of '63 Ford promos and owned a few; the Falcons all seem to have tire melt on the wheels but the Galaxies don't.

Love the brand name - it reminds me of an eye chart or a bad Scrabble hand.

Do you mean Ansen Top Eliminators? Those were spoked; Sprints were slotted. Even then, Revell made the centers too large and flat: (source: http://vintagewheelcatalogs.com/ansen/)

Thanks for the response, Tim - just to be fair, here's what I did with the taillights on my AMT '65 ex-Rat Packer. Haven't done the chrome trim yet but I cast and installed the red tail and clear backup lenses:

for a celebration

dem bones, dem

tender cheeks badly

Not crazy about the "solid hunk-o-chrome" taillights (I notice AMT didn't find the separate lenses "too fiddly" for the new wagons); like with the '65 Belvedere, just another thing I'll have to mold and cast. Even putting them on the clear parts tree in one piece would have been better. Other than that, looks like an excellent kit that should render the Trumpeter offering obsolete.

Kits moved to the clearance aisle here - what's left is a couple Coke vans, one Coke '32 sedan delivery, and one snow plow truck - none of them marked down. Star Trek stuff is on an end cap, all discounted to $10 each.

It's still close . Worked pretty steadily, mostly on the '62 Chrysler Newports and casting rare parts, until the summer, when the family home in IL was sold and I packed up for the return to CA. The living arrangements here weren't quite what I expected, but everything's put away safe for my eventual retirement.

A little inspiration - this '42 Continental convertible was sold at actor Jack Palance's estate auction back in '07; it had a dual carb manifold and dual exhausts:

Or the Grinch?

The kits here were moved to a regular shelf - mostly Coke vans and Pintos left, plus the Wacky Races, trikes and Star Trek stuff.

Nova wagon on its way - may get it and the interior at the same time.

Hmm. Well, whaddaya know - it's a real address: Wonder if the decal artist lived there?

rabbbit done died

Al "He's the King" Hirt and a children's chorus (who sound oddly Australian) performing the theme from Santa Claus Conquers the Martians; the equivalent of putting a Ferrari engine in a Yugo:

And for a little more atmosphere, Hawaiian Eye's Poncie Ponce:

Officer (too) Friendly