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Because the Torino was altered very little compared to the other kits in the series. With the Falcon for example, you can count the number of unaltered parts on your fingers.

I wouldn't say bragging rights, just impulse purchases. I picked up a kit at the LHS on Friday. My area had some restrictions put back in place as of Saturday, the LHS is in cramped quarters...who knows if it will be an option for a while. If you have a hobby, you have to have at least a minimal amount of disposable income...otherwise you are spending the grocery/rent money on this stuff (and I'm not saying that never happens). Some guys have to have the latest set of golf clubs even though the money might be better spent on a few lessons or a few buckets of balls at the driving range. For some wives or girlfriends, it's a dress or a pair of shoes that never get worn anywhere. I figure it this way...I won't be a millionaire, but I'm always employed, always working, and am saving and setting aside for the future. If I want something like a model kit or a new tool, the cost of those things are pretty modest compared to other pasttimes like golf, season tickets for a major sports team, or other things. If I decide I want to go somewhere for a show or swap meet, or want to buy an item, I'll do it.

The Willie Borsch version came first. The Bantam Blast has twelve-spoke front wheels, different rocker covers, and possibly a different (smaller?) spoiler.

Michael's is closing out that marker. I picked one up yesterday for $2.97. Because it's a closeout item there, you can't apply a coupon to it, but I figure $3 is reasonable enough.

The WM stores here don't seem to carry those. A web search revealed two different products, Decocolor and Deco Color...which is the one to look for?

Yes, the Dukes version was the first release with the four-door body.

Why not e-mail them and get answers straight from the source? Don't include information regarding what you feel is more desirable, just ask what the product is.

I forgot the Revell (some were originally Revell-AMT) 1955-56 "annual" 1/32 scale car kits. These included Buick, Mercury, Chrysler, Ford convertible, and Continental Mark II. All of them included engines.

Mine was just over $36 from England, free shipping to USA as stated in their listing. It got here in under a week as I recall. eBay dinged me for NY sales tax, bringing the total to just under $40. I didn't know Model Empire had it when I ordered mine, but even so their price plus shipping would have topped $40. And the kit is very nice. Can't wait for the Type 2.

Will there be a US release on this kit? I got one the other day from an eBay seller in England, shipping included it was cheaper than Model Empire's price.

Monogram did a few in the Eighties...I remember a '69 or so Nova, and looked at a '69 Charger yesterday. I'm sure there were a few others. Pyro made a few back in the Sixties. They made three series of 1/32 scale car kits. There was a cheaper series that sold for 60 cents apiece, a handful of those included engine detail. They also made a series of classic cars and another series of "brass era" cars, some of those kits had engines also.

The Stingaree was last out alongside the T. Both of those, and (I believe) the Maverick, use the same chassis. I'm finishing up molding the Stingaree body into one piece, when I get the chassis painted and assembled I'll mock up the T coupe to see how much I can cut the roof.

The lower half of the dirt track body is altered quite a bit, but the roof looks to be close to stock. The only thing is whether or not the 3W lower body is wider than the 5W, as they were in '32.

Has anyone tried fitting the 3W roof from the MPC '34 Ford dirt track body onto the AMT 5W coupe? That might be a way of getting a decent 3W coupe in 1/25 scale...

The engine is pretty good (though there are better supercharged 426 Hemis out there). Chassis is strictly early Seventies AMT show rod, nothing in common with any 1:1 car. For some reason, I bought the last issue...the last thought I had on it was to chop the top and use the decals from the Round 2 reissue '25 chopped top coupe...

There's an early Three Stooges short called "Hoi Polloi". "Make it three, and you've got a wager!"

The (nicely) built Bantam looks like it has the Pontiac engine, not the Cadillac that was in the double kit. If the planned Mooneyes dragster sells well, I suspect we'll see more of the complete cars from the double kits. Maybe not all of them though, depending on which parts packs Atlantis has available. The Scarlet Screamer dragster might be a tough one, seeing as the '63 Corvette engine pack was long ago pieced into the '57 Chevy hardtop kit.

It should be easy to ID individual parts trees, as the chassis and suspension parts in the double kits are unplated. Also, the double kit bodies are molded in white as opposed to gray for the parts packs.

The main purpose of Burt Reynolds' later films (Smokey & The Bandit on) was to entertain Reynolds, Hal Needham, and their circle of friends during the making of the film. Entertaining the people who watched them was only a secondary concern.

DiCaprio does so many of those "period" movies, where period wardrobe is necessary. He ends up looking like one of those little kids who found a trunk full of old clothes in grandma's attic.

Wasn't that the one based on an L. Ron Hubbard novel? That guy wrote a bunch of stuff, I saw his name on a "Tales of Wells Fargo" episode...

For English class in either eighth grade or freshman year in high school, the class got dragged out on a field trip to see "Murder on the Orient Express". What a snooze fest that was. In ninth grade we saw the late Sixties version of "Romeo and Juliet"...the chick that played Juliet was pretty hot as I remember. As for the Ed Wood films, if you have seen any of them you absolutely must see the Tim Burton film "Ed Wood". Burton nailed all of the scenes from Wood's films. If Wood had been just a little bit better, he'd be forgotten today.

Someone who owns one or more 1:1 Hemi Challengers, and has collected every brochure, every dealer sign, every color of promotional model, and has one of everything else connected to Challengers might be the buyer this guy is looking for.

AMT made one in '66, good luck finding one though. You might try looking for a worn or damaged promo model, those often sell cheaper than a poorly built kit.

Still haven't scribed the door lines on this one...I even have the template to do it. It won't be a delivery, it will get new B-pillars slanted like a Nomad...