Richard Bartrop

Too bad. I'm sure it's very easy, but it would be nice not having to buy another kit to do it, and the aftermarket grilles get pretty close tot he price of a kit once shipping is factored in.

Looks like the the Roadster is getting the wheels and engine from the Coupe. I wonder if it will get the Deuce grille as well?

It's not obvious, but there should be some fine print that says, "Includes resin nose" or words t that effect. People have also made noses out of hoods from later model cares. Here's one made from two '40 ford hoods.

Good for them, and yes, solar is part of the solution. However going by this http://zebu.uoregon.edu/disted/ph162/l4.html a square meter of sunlight gives you 184 watts to play with, or a little over 15 watts per square foot. Over 12 hours, a 1000 square foot roof would receive 660960 Kiiojoules of energy, or about the same number of BTU. Google gives 115000 BTU in a gallon of gas, so a day of sunshine would give you the energy equivalent of not quite 6 gallons of gas. And this is assuming perfect efficiency, which we are nowhere near acheiving. This is just fine for a household, but if you want to generate hydrogen for a filling station, whatever you collect off your roof just isn'[t going to cut it.. So yes, I would still say efficiency is an issue., Commercial electrolysis units exist, and hydrogen powered cars are already on the market, so it would be good to know if the numbers actually work.

You bring up a good point about electrolysis, and I have wondered if instead of trying to figure out how to transport and distribute hydrogen is to use the existing electrical and water networks to make hydrogen on site? Of course the obvious questions here are what would be the cost of an electrolysis unit that could generate enough hydrogen to service a day's worth of customers, and how many kilowatt-hours of electricity you wouldd need to do it.. What is the real world efficiency of the process? As ou mentioned, we already know how to deal with propane, and while hydrogen is a little trickier to deal with the solutions exst. However, enclosed parking lots usually don't allow propane vehicles to park there, so if hydrogen fueled vehicles are subject t the same restriction, that could be a problem. I know there were experiments with metal hydride way back when. What kept those from being developed any further?

I guess they'd better start making those plastic forks..

Revell's '29 Ford Pickup has one as an option, and the Model Car Garage has some resin noses.

They're banning sales of IC cars, but it doesn't say anything about banning their manufacture. I can't see them telling companies like Rolls-Royce and Jaguar that they can't sell their wares elsewhere. In any case, it's still heavy handed and unnecessary. IF elecgtric cars really do work as well as their advocates think they will, then there's no need to force people to switch. If they don't then maybe maybe they shouldn't be making the change.

I don't know, I think I could get into it.

No, you got the point exactly. Some people just have3 trouble wrapping their heads around the idea that people might like something that they don't. Maybe they just like to pretend that they speak for all of us. Yes, there are a lot of people out there who like those old AMT kits, and since the molds are already bought and paid for, even if one of them might not sell as many as a possible new kit, it's all pure profit. I think it's already been well established that injection moulds aren't cheap, so whatever your ibrilliant idea is for a new kit, it's going to have to sell a lot of them before you start seeing any profit. Guess wrong, and yu are out a lot of money. Guess wrong enough times, and you may not have a company anymore. I can't blame the kitmakers for being cautious, and kudos to the ones who do take the plunge with new kits.

For some reason, probably licensing issues, u here they swapped out Hot Rod for Red Hot Wheels, but a 1935 film about auto racing is still good.

Hot Rod Gang was entertaining, and starred a few famous rods, including the Ala Kart, and what looked like Ricky Nelson's '32 Roadster.

There is something to be said for supporting your your local hobby store. II'll deal with eBay if there's no other way, but between waiting for the mail, dodgy sellers and "shipping charges' that are three times the price of the model, I'd just as soon use my money to help keep the local stores in business.

It would probably have to be Jo-han's Cadillac V-16s. A beautifully detailed kit of a beautiful subject, they go together painlessly and the speculators ignore them so they can be had for a reasonable sum.

I just noticed that TCM is showing Hot Rod Gang and the Ghost of Drag Strip Hollow, for those of you who are into that sort of thing.

You may be on to something. It's not that far off from what Ferarri did with their FF:

The big companies played around with asymmetry too. Plymouth XNR concept car Studebaker Avanti

I'm pretty sure that having an extra awkward looking tube on the other side wouldn't have helped.

I think the closest the big companies got was the "Orbitron Blue" that Testors offered as part of their candy colour line. Anyone else wish Testors would bring back those Roth themed colours?

And this is exactly the point of all these wish list, despite how annoyed some people get over them. If enough people express their interest in a subject, then maybe one of the companies will decide. We're not going to get everything we want, but we've seen that we do get some. And a boattail Riviera? Yes, please!

I've been at this for a while, and there are a few things Round 2 has released that I'm glad I got a second chance. Not everyone has a basement packed with several lifetimes worth of kits. The way some people are talking, Round 2, Revell and all those others should just shut their doors, because there's really o point in them making any more models. Maybe they can use all that injection moulding equipment for making plastic forks, or something. That said, those kits are going to be in the $40+ range by the time they hit the shelves here, and that much for a '70s vintage kit of a Gremlin? Sorry, not happening.

Outstanding work!

I actually like the glass moulded in with the interior panels. You don't have to handle the windows, so less chance of getting fingerprints or glue on them. Of course, there's still the issue of keeping paint off them, and if you want an open window, you have some work to do.

I'd love to see more brass era stuff, andsteam wagons sounds fun. ICM deserves credit for releasing new brass stuff

Trust me, they were saying exactly the same thing about all those cars when they were new. they were also saying it about all those cool 50s and 60s cars when they were new as well. From what I can tell, this tired old refrain has been recited word for word since the days of the Model T, and yes, it does get tiresome. Cars that came out when I was born... 1958? Sorry, not really a great year for American styling, except for the Chrysler products, and AMT's already kitted the ones I want. Prewar classics are what really gets me excited, though a lot of cool stuff did come out in the 60s, but cool, exciting cars continue to be built, and if some people took a break from reciting the "everything's an appliance" speech and actually took a look atround, they might realize this too.