ChrisBcritter

Will it still work on XP with Chrome? There are a ton of sites now that either give me clock errors or unsupported protocol errors, or plain old not secure warnings (like Fotki, but those I can work around). If not, what about Windows 7? Yeah, I'm a dinosaur...

The sold listings tell the story; this is the current top dollar paid:

And there's one on eBay right now, NOS: https://www.ebay.com/itm/MPC-1973-MERCURY-COUGAR-ORIGINAL-ENGINE-BAY-PARTS-NOS-KIT-7322-CIRCA-1973/233704121620

up the steam

Those are probably special effects mortar cannons; it gets blown up in this scene per IMCDb. The scene is from the movie Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.

I'd expect to see a Seville as a Greenlight diecast, if anything. Maybe they could do the Gucci special edition?

I remember their ads in Car Model magazine and got one of their catalogs; didn't they specialize in mostly European and Japanese 1/43 diecasts?

Patience won out! Been watching for a Craftsman issue of the AMT '59 Continental Mark IV. The original issues are usually gluebombs with all the custom parts attached, and are almost always convertibles with windshield issues. Besides I had one when I was little - I remember taking a knife and trying to scratch a new trunk opening on it . This one finally showed up at a reasonable price; ten of us were watching all week but luckily mine was the only bid: The original builder did a really fine job of detail painting the trim and taillights! Note the trunk lid isn't damaged in the center where it was cut from the sprue at the factory, like many are, and the hood ornament is intact, thank goodness. Always liked this dark charcoal almost-black color AMT used for the plastic - keeps it from looking quite so enormous .

Thoroughly agreed, along with the Packard Meat Wagon ambulance and LaSalle hearse.

with surprise inside

It all comes down to quality of engineering, doesn't it? Revell's '55-56 cars were intricate and pretty good representations of the real cars - if you could get everything lined up during body assembly. The Chrysler has issues with the fit of the roof and worse issues with the hood - if you line it up at the cowl, it's crooked in front. I'll get the thing tamed eventually. The later multi-piece Revell kits seemed to go together better - especially the '59 Skyliner and Vette.

Completed listing - ask if they'll do more: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Acme-Resin-Casting-Jo-Han-1960-Dodge-Phoenix-Rear-Bumper-Kit-W-Clear-Lights-/233479194857

Great old Dodge - did you go for Acme's rear bumper/backup light conversion?

The '61 Lark friction promo landed safely today; shaved off a bit of flash around the taillights and that was that. I'll fix the rear bumper later. Too bad Jo-Han only made them as kits in '62, and that the earlier promo molds didn't turn up when the USA Oldies came out.

Eh? Armadillo taxis?

Of Laramie somewhere

a tail feather

I have a complete kit I got some years ago from a model club auction; as tiny as the thing looks, I was surprised to see it scale out to 1/25 (the wheelbase, at least).

cheese and onions

Cool! Looking forward to your build(s). Before you replace the B-pillars, note that AMT messed up their measurements a bit; it looks like the door jamb should be moved back about + - 3/32": The Jo-Han '62 Olds F-85's measurements were spot-on; AMT later got the length right with the '63 Tempest.

Should be a lot easier to find the inevitable dropped parts on that rubber matting, too. Nice job!

Bad news for Round2:

Made a nice score today, and still managed to shoot myself in the foot a bit: I've never seen any Jo-Han Studebaker promo this straight before - and it wasn't getting bid up like crazy, either, so I put out a lowball-ish bid in the last few seconds and nobody sniped it. The broken-off rear bumper tip I'll mold from the front bumper, as they're the same. So how did I screw up? Well, I'd just gotten a discount code from eBay for $25.00 off on any purchase of $25.01 or more and I figured it would be at least that. My winning bid was $22.50.

Major cool! Now you can grab one of the funny car reissues, swap the roof onto the first convertible, and have one of each! (And you won't need the other set of sun visors... )

Yes, but not mine - the photo came from the eBay listing.