Richard Bartrop

Like any other kitmaker, they vary. The early ones are pretty rudimentary, though all the right shapes are there. The Rambler and Toronado kits have nice engines. At the other extreme are their Classic car kits, and the Chrysler Turbine car, which are still some of the nicest car kits ever made.

It's not the first time Ford has tried to tried to make a connection between its sporty models, and its more prosaic offerings. And of course the purists howled when they added two more seats to the Thunderbird, but it turned out very well for Ford, and eventually even the purists decided that some of them weren't all that bad.

Put me down for one too! I used to think that was pretty hopeless, but having seen what ICM have been putting out lately, maybe there's a the faintest glimmer of hope. Apparently brass era cars are gaining popularity among younger collectors, so here's hoping it gets reflected in kit subjects.

Thank you, this looks very interesting. Though it does say that conversion losses are lower for batteries, so my initial point is still valid.

Please, show us your numbers.

This 1965 Tootisetoy suggests otherwise.

A good question. Honda, Hyundai and Toyota all have production fuel cell cars, but hydrogen filling stations are few and far between. Maybe if someone was wiling to invest in them the way Musk did with his Supercharger stations, that would make a difference. The other thing you have to remember is that we don't have convenient reservoirs of hydrogen we can just pump out of the ground. Currently the cheapest ay to make is from natural gas, but if you're worried about green house gas, that's a problem. You can also shoot electricity through water, but you do get losses when you do this. You also get losses when your fuel cell turns it back into electricity, and even more losses if you decide to run it in an IC engine, so you're going to be using even more electricity to run your vehicle than if you just stored it in a battery. Whatever problem with the electricity grid that people think they'll have with battery powered vehicles will be even bigger if we go the hydrogen route. On the other hand, batteries have their own limitations in charging time and energy capacity, and it's pretty obvious we can't run everything on batteries. I suppose it comes down to what tradeoffs that people are willing to accept.

And if your curious about where the Corvette would end up if they followed this idea, just take a look at a Monte Carlo.

Sorry for the misunderstanding. I'm just sayng that if you have the monogram kit, they will fit.

The wheels from the Italeri Phantom II fit prefectly in the Monogram Phantom II, and vice versa, if you want a set of wire wheels on your project

I totally agree. In fact, it's the site at the top of the page.

The Lincoln has higher profile tires than the T, so if you can combine the Lincoln tires with the Model T wheels, it should work out. Using the T spokes in the Lincoln rim might do the job.

The Beverly Hillbillies truck was built on an Oldsmobile roadster, so those wheels might be the right size. EDIT: I have a 'AMT '23 kit and the '28 Lincoln kit, and the Model T wheel is slightly larger than the Lincoln wheel, so you might be able to make it fit the Lincoln tire with a little surgery.

https://jalopnik.com/one-of-americas-first-lithium-mines-could-be-in-the-one-1847293898

Thanks for clarifying. It's good to have some input from someone who's actually there. So what is the car culture in China like? What gets a Chinese gearhead's heart racing? What makes a Chinese car modeler go, "I have GOT to get one of those!" Japanese car kits tend to be pricey here as well, and I'm told American model kits are pretty expensive in overseas markets. On the other hand, people do buy Japanese kits here, and Trumpeter does seem to do a healthy business here with its other kits. Maybe it was the subject matter. Tamiya sells racing cars and expensive exotics here. The kind of cars that get people excited, no matter what part of the world they live in. There are American cars that capture people's imagination as well, but I can seen where sixty year old plain vanilla compacts might not be it.

Both Model Land and PM Hobbycraft up here in Calgary both carry Atlantis kits, so maybe check around your area. It would be unusual if your local hobby shops didn't have their own websites.

Magnificent work!

Telling them "facts" that aren't really facts. Gotcha.

Maybe it's because New York's electical grid runs almost exclusively on natural gas, nuclear, and hydro. https://www.eia.gov/state/analysis.php?sid=NY

And how are these things mutually exclusive? If anything, exploring the rest of the universe is part of how we learn how to fix things here.

That's why the people behind 2001: A Space Odyssey thought they were being nice and conservative predicting orbiting hotels and moon colonies. It turns out space is a little harder. You can't build a spaceship in your garage, and when Lindberg flew from New York to Paris, Paris was already there.

Which is exactly what that last space race was, except it was nations waving their respective appendages, and you know what? I am just fine with that. They wave their little appendages until they fall off if it makes space more accessible. Okay, now that we've gotten the obligatory class struggle snark out of the way, why is this a big deal? Aside from it being really cool, neither Branston nor Bezos are just doing it for kicks. Both are doing this with an eye to offering commercial flights, and if either of them make money at it, you can be sure that other companies are going to want to get in on it too. Competition also means they're going to try and make it cheaper and better. And yes, if the price was right, I'd sign up in a heartbeat. Now while I wholeheartedly approve of doing things just for fun, it's not just about tourism. We've already seen that space is already very useful for so many things, and if you can make getting into space cheaper, it means you can do more with it. Projects that were once the exclusive territory of governments and large corporations can be undertaken by smaller organizations, and maybe even private citizens. Here's the first home computer. It cost as much as a Ferrari, and there are probably musical greeting cards now with more computing power. A useless toy for the rich if there ever was one. But you make it more powerful, and knock the price down, and before you know it, you have an indispensable tool, and a social revolution. It's not unreasonable to expect the easier access to space with have an impact on society as well.

It's really a numbers game. Unfortunately, Canada doesn't have the numbers, while China does. What's also skewing the the numbers is that in the States, emissions and safety regs aren't as tight for trucks as they are for passenger cars, so they are a little more profitable to build. It would be interesting to see what happens if they every harmonize the standards for both. McLaughlin-Buicks were also popular with British aristocracy who wanted an American car but who still wanted to be seen as "buying British"

It looks like they're built in China. It's actually not a bad looking machine. https://gmauthority.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2022-Buick-Regal-GS-China-Exterior-001-front-three-quarter-720x340.jpg https://gmauthority.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2022-Buick-Regal-GS-China-Exterior-002-front-three-quarter-720x480.jpg

Well according to this https://gmauthority.com/blog/2020/12/buick-set-new-sales-record-during-november-in-china/, not only are most Buick sales in China, most of those are sedans.