Richard Bartrop

I don't know about valuable, but you don't see a lot of them around, and yes, I wish someone would make a ZIL kit to accompany it.

They do build up nice. Thanks for sharing!

The 4 rotor Wankel in the Corvette was made of of two of the 2 rotors that were supposed to go in the Monza, so maybe something could be bashed together.

i don't know about but i picked up an early edition of Jo-Han's 1931 Cadillac Sport Phaeton that was still in the shrink wrap. When I opened it, it had the gold cup in it, and the instructions were printed in blue and black instead of just black like every other Jo-Han instruction sheet I've seen. Did I build it? I'm working on it right now.

The weather's finally warm enough for painting, so I've been laying some paint on a few projects that need them. Based on a car that was owned by a Mrs. Little, who eventually donated the car back to GM. Testor's Model Master Ford Engine Red turned out to be a decent match for the "Satan Red" exterior, while the interior is Humbrol #60 Matt Scarlet. Humbol Ivory was a close enough match for the "Puritan White" wheels on the original.

MPC included a Wankel in some of its Corvette and Vega kits

Williams Bros released the Wasp radial from it's 1/32 plane kits s a separate kit, and it also released a large scale Wasp kit.

According to the link, it raced regularly at Watkins Glen during the early 50s, so it's entirely possible Harkins was familiar with it one way or another.

From back when Duesenbergs were still just old cars and not yet museum pieces. Something to think about if you're looking to do something a little different with that Monogram Doozie. The full story at http://theoldmotor.com/?p=170490

And the 1933 Continental, when the Continental engine company briefly got into the car business.

I see, so what you really wanted wanted was different model kits of the same car?

The Meteor, which was sold by Canadian Mercury dealers The Monarch, sold through Canadian Ford dealers.

All right then...

The Pontiac name was used on this car built from 1907 to 1908

1932 Frontenac 1960 Frontenac

1948 Mustang 1957 Krupp Mustang. 1965 Ford Mustang

The chopped convertible at 1:00 looks like someone put a Studebaker grille on an early Mercury. It's a nice look if you're wanting something a little different i the way on an early custom.

And the Mod Rod is still listed in Round 2's website, so not only can you pick one up at your local hobby store, Round 2 is quite willing to sell them some more. Sounds like everything is going just the way it should.

I picked up the "Mod Rod" and since Lindberg's '34 Ford pickup was on the shelves, I got one of those as well. The plan is to use the chassis and wheels from the pickup to try and duplicate John Athan's roadster.

i just picked up the AMT kit today. While Revell does make some very nice chassis parts, I think the AMT '29 roadster is a better choice for making a traditional rod because the wheel wells are the stock height, and it comes with a Deuce shell as an option.

There's one sitting in my LHS that I was planning to pick up either tomorrow or Monday

You do have to take colour photos with a grain of salt. There's always going to be some variation depending on who developed them, and whoever prepared them for printing, and of course who scanned them and prepared them for the internet. The best you can hope tp achieve is "close enough"

I was watching a British TV show, and they pronounced it "Merk"

up here in the Former British Empire, we used Imperial gallons before we went metric, so car ads featured MPG figures calculated with Imperial gallons. Ever so often you'd see various theories floated about as to why cars sold in Canada got 20% better mileage than the same one sold in the states, when all it was is that we used a 20% bigger gallon. A few US vs UK terms I haven;t seen brought up yet: convertible = drophead shocks = dampers cell phone = mobile In North America a "Merc" is a Mercury, where in England, it's a Mercedes.

If anything, you would think it would be easier with the comptuer to get it right.