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Update, sort of: All the cartons with models seem to have survived the move OK - thank you Bekins - but it'll be a while before I get them opened as storage space in my new place is at a premium. Good luck with your move, Pierre!

and Chester Cheetah

You're doing real well on this Imperial, David! Trust me, that grille fit issue has been there since the beginning - I have an original issue kit that needed the same surgery. Then there's getting the roof to line up with the vent windows...

Thank you, Tim! Looking forward to getting it and redrilling the front axle holes about 2mm ahead

Checked Yucca Valley's Walmart; no kits there. Bit of a kit famine here compared to Northbrook; only one Walmart here and the three nearest Hobby Lobbys are 60-mile round trips.

have Caliph fix

I was just now watching an episode of Forensic Files; the investigation featured the use of a rubber product called Mikrosil for taking impressions of the murder weapon (knife blade). The product was a reddish-brown goo in a tube; it was able to take very fine details. Not cheap at $30.55 per tube but might be useful for some applications. https://www.csiforensic.com/m7/%233-0100--mikrosil.html Oddly, this strongly resembles a product sold by Bare-Metal a long time ago - Tom Piagari had a tube of the stuff that he used to take impressions of Cadillac emblems for me and he said he'd had it for a long time. It was also reddish-brown but was one-part rather than two-part.

In Space, starring

Some vintage images from the estate of Otto Sauseng, a German emigre who came to the USA postwar and became an engineer for Hughes Aircraft. These were dated July and November 1965: I didn't go there until '89 or '90 when my younger brother came out to play in the college student Dixieland band; he got some tickets for me and since my late BFF Eddie was a huge Disneyland fan, we went there and had a great time - Small World and all. I never was a huge fan of the place, to be honest, but I did go once more several years later when another friend whose partner worked in payroll for Disney got us in.

Flo, please... go. Hmm. No Hemi display engine this time? Not that I mind, if it was a choice of that or the trailer.

Not much difference between removing that amount of flash and cleaning up a seam.

Yep - interesting kits with issues here and there. I've scrounged two '34 Ford coupes and the motorized T coupe as future projects.

I wonder if the box and instructions will only refer to the second engine as a "392" rather than "Chrysler" or Hemi" until they get the Mopar licensing?

No, not Palmer problems. Maybe Aurora problems...

Spam and Spam

One I forgot: Password. I enjoyed it when I was a little kid in the 1960s, and the old shows hold up now. Plenty of the recordings have survived (a lot of shows haven't!) and are on YouTube.

Calling out "eroF"!

Bringing back the Polara name would be cool, at least. Monaco does have more of a racing connection, but Dodge only put that name on luxury cars.

I'm in the middle of moving back to California now - ended up using various methods to pack 100-150 builtups, promos, and Franklin/Danbury cars. Many went into 1-gallon freezer bags, then into cartons with corrugated cardboard glass dividers. The more delicate/unfinished ones were bagged, with separate bags for loose parts, then put into individual heavy cardboard boxes which went into the big cartons along with the unbuilt kits. Wish me luck - they're enroute now and there's some real hot weather coming...

Rich, there's a little difference where the hood tucks under to meet the grille, but it should be thick enough to modify. The hood should split along the front edge and the bottom part should be mounted above the grille. I did that on my '64.

Planning ahead for when this kit arrives - just ordered up an original '63 issue NOS interior bucket, rear seat and dash from eBay to get the better detail. They fit the new body just fine!

1960 Imperial, definitely. What wheelcovers are in your '60 kit?

the highest mountain

Thanks Tim! Yes, a bit of newspaper digging revealed the show was held Thanksgiving weekend of 1975. I don't think this was exactly a "win" - probably more of a "participation award" . But nice to get a little recognition.

...taste like rabbit.