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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.

Well you live and learn. The fastback version is quite hideous to my eyes!

Wow! That chilling yet compassionate sneer of an Elf who knows her arrows will fly true. Love it!

Yes I've had that dream a few times too. Also, going back a few years, dreaming I was waking up next to my partner who had recently walked out the door for good. Then waking up for real. Ouch!

I have a recurring dream about finding myself at a station north of the centre of London, catching a stopping train then walking down through the City on my way home in South London. I began to get these maybe 12 years after I moved from South London to South Wales. But I do enjoy these dreams, sort of like revisiting an earlier part of my life. I have another one that our house has a load of extra rooms, and the gardens are huge, with hitherto unknown lawns and shrubs. A third one I have had a few times is all about being in a large semi-derelict institution. Sometimes I go right into the basement and emerge on a railway station platform - which then fits into the beginning of the first dream I mentioned. None of these are bad dreams but sometimes I fell a sense of loss when I wake up and none of it was true, especially with the second dream. I have had the flying dream too, sometimes it seems so real I think 'This time it really is happening' - but it never is!

Glad to hear a respected opinion from the other side! I do agree on the Midget, my sister had a red early one that was actually good fun despite my other probably irrational prejudice against MGs. We did however refer to it as the 'worlds fastest ashtray' on account of the number of fag butts it collected when they were flicked out of other much taller vehicles!

If you're over 5 foot eight forget it. They were utterly dreadful in every respect. Unless you enjoy driving whilst holding your breath for the next thing to go wrong. And why make a road car so low? Well said, Snake.

Great watercolour, thanks!

Complete with those insane/gorgeous Cromadora wheels!