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I love it, well done - but why doesn't the headlight point down the road??

Aww cm'on Bill - don't beat around the bush.☺️

Good job! The front axle set-up is a bit of an improvement on the original! Hope this occupational therapy will help your index finger heal better.

Don't you find posts about toilet paper and other related stuff interesting? I know I don't! Who gives a sh...!

Well it seems that the highways policy here in Britain is to schedule the work to cause maximum disruption, as well as to cordon off as many traffic lanes as possible then do nothing for months - and even when work starts, it is stretched out for the maximum possible time - I often see miles of road mending equipment (as I crawl nose to tail down the one remaining open lane on a 3-lane motorway) with no road workers anywhere in sight. Your idea is too sensible and potentially effective to find favour with the powers that be. ?

Not in place of toilet paper I hope!

I found this. Wonder what happened next. Your build of it is great!

Cos I'm on da pan An I'm da man...

BTW Snake - I like the song idea, I imagine it done by Dr Hook (and the medicine show)!

Toilet paper is pretty useful but not needed. When I was travelling in India and Nepal there were places I went where there was none, it was customary to eat with your right hand and wash with your left - if you ate with your left people would be shocked. Washing is cleaner than wiping, once you get your head around it.

Lovely job. The interior is first class.

Sorry Jesse - I reckon I had a sense of humour failure! Glad there are people like you who care, all is not lost!

To me. 'Buy it Now' means Dealer, not really in the spirit of eBay where ordinary people buy and sell and both sides win. Nothing wrong with dealers - and maybe a lot of 'Buy it Now' ads are not placed by dealers anyway so I could be totally wrong and unfairly prejudiced - but I avoid 'Buy it Now'. Maybe this thread is my chance to get a bit better educated! Thanks Mike.

An evocative interpretation of the only car to come out of Japan that I'd be interested in having a drive in! I love the exhausts. I built one of these out of the box as a kid, you were right to change the wheels and tyres!

Almost gave up on this one but perseverance and wild guesswork got me there in the end! Nice one Mike!

Nor me! I was so confident...

Excellent - I missed the doors at first but now I see it as a car built on a (fairly) limited budget that was a lot of fun! Thanks.

I'm such a purist. I prefer the original fake grille, it's more aerodynamic. Just don't like the graphics. The whole original Orange Crate is a great design and, like you, I'm glad it's back.

I'd be quite happy to have it in my workshop. There's always the next meet. Interesting bit of info tho', thanks.

I think you miss the point and so did the people at Revell who were guilty of that!

It happened in our little village in Wales a while back. There was a tiny old church (decommissioned but with a historic building preservation order) that the new owner (property developer) wanted to pull down to build a big new place. One day a big JCB happened to 'accidentally' crash into it, making it structurally unsound. So the developer was able to go ahead. The council did nothing. Some dirty money changed hands behind the scenes... So often profit and corruption destroy beauty and history.

Really great result given the front end issues you mentioned - maybe Monogram had hired an ex-Palmer designer who got to do that part!

That ain't the 'crate, man! ?

How can you build an Orange Crate that is not orange?

It did. I managed to get the 2 clear plastic (vinyl?) fuel lines and the plug leads to stay in place with a bit too much polystyrene cement - and I got the flimsy chrome body supports to do what they were supposed to - but sadly it all began to come apart after a while. I was in my early 'teens but this model / this car above all others is pretty dear to me. I painted the grill flat black inside the orange shell 'cos I hated the transfer (decal) that was supposed to go there. Mine had no transfers in fact.