Mark

That A and B filler looks like the packets that came in the AMT/Ertl Customizing Series kits in the late Eighties. If so, that stuff is 30 years old, I'd be surprised if one half of the material hasn't morphed into a concrete-like state by now. As for the sink marks on the Dart body, they look to be in an area where the plastic is extremely thick, like where the radiator bulkhead meets the fender. There is a small amount of shrinkage, so where the plastic is thickest it will shrink more. It seems like it shrinks even more so when a thick area like that is adjacent to a much thinner area.

I'd suspect that "something happened to" the Buick engine and maybe other parts, and that will leave the coupe to include the Chevy engine (or perhaps something else) if it should reappear.

Instead of another "typical" Halibrand QC, how about an early one, or a different brand instead? I wouldn't mind seeing a more correct ARDUN conversion either. Not on the Model A kit(s) as they are likely fully formed, but if another such project is attempted...

The MPC trailer wasn't in the '70 Coronet; it was in the Challenger kit that year. MPC took it out of the '71 Challenger so they could put those "spoof" parts in.

The MPC Pinto kits (all stock sedan and wagons) have four-lug slotted wheels. There is only space for one set of wheels on the plated tree in those kits. But those wheels are well done, much better than those in the Convoy Chaser.

Be careful what you wish for. I recently picked up an original Convoy Chaser; the slotted wheels look like either four-lug wheels with extremely large fasteners for the center caps, or eight-lug wheels. I had one of the RC2 reissue Convoy Chaser kits, it had the same wheels, and I wrote those off thinking they were tooled by RC2.

I think the IMC/Lindberg Mustang II has them, but those don't have open slots.

I've got a pile of roadster bodies in varying condition set aside for this. The rear doors are 2" wider than the fronts. I'm looking at using two roadster passenger side doors to make each rear door, as the 1:1 passenger door was operational and the kit's door has a deeper panel line than the non-functional driver's side "door" which was merely a stamped line on the body (probably for styling continuity). The left side door didn't open because the hand brake was in the way. That wasn't a concern back then, because drivers usually entered and exited the car on the curb side. Recently I watched a Laurel and Hardy short with one of their often-seen Model Ts in it. A touring, but it had a functional driver's door! Close examination showed that it opened at an odd angle. The story included the boys needing to get in and out of the car on the drivers' side, so Hal Roach Studios' props men probably altered the car as needed. Ford didn't build a touring or roadster with a functioning drivers' door (in the USA anyway) until '26.

I picked up a '67 Corvair at NNL East earlier this year. The wheels are similar at a distance, but the spokes and center are different. The Model King reissue '69 Camaro funny car has front wheels similar to those in the Corvair.

The parts pack wheels are all the same size, while the XR-6 has smaller front wheels (it uses compact car front tires). Don't quote me, but I'm pretty certain the parts pack wheels (and XR-6 fronts) are four-lug while the XR-6 rears are five-lug.

The side glass is not in any of the reissues.

AMT made the '70 promo only. MPC picked it up from there, the '73 was the last one. Their '73 promo has RS trim and wheel covers, while the kit has oversize Z/28 emblems and five-spoke "factory mag" wheels.

A lot of people don't vote because they think it will increase the likelihood that they will be summoned to jury duty. From what I know about it, most places use DMV records and other records in addition to voter rolls, so unless you haven't got a driver's license (and I have known a lot of "adults" who don't have one) you still might get roped into that. On the other hand, there probably are a lot of people presently on voter rolls who shouldn't be there (deceased). I was getting absentee ballots for my mom three years after she passed, and she stopped voting a couple of years before that because she felt that she wasn't able to make important decisions any more. I can see where it would be, and probably is, easy to rack up "dead votes" pretty easily.

I've noticed the selection of Evergreen styrene that has turned up recently; not a big selection but things that I do use. I've got a LHS that carries it, but don't get there every week. They're also carrying some of their own products, like nylon paint brushes similar to Testors' cheap brushes (everyone I know hates those things; not me). In other areas of the store, they've got bags of 50 of those little plastic graduated cups for mixing resin.

I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Dave funded the retooling of both the plated tree AND the clear shot for the Imperial, since both were new to his reissue.

That's the AMT '65 Dynamic 88, the one that was unfortunately butchered into the Modified Stocker kit...

The AMT wagon kit was never anything but a funny car. Totally different kit from the hatchback, which was created by a (then) competing company, MPC...

I'm 99% certain that the original promos (both Pontiac and Olds) did not have interiors. The interiors that were sold with some of the kits are resin.

The last time I had a job in the city, my older brother (who once drove much of what would have been the most direct route for me) advised me against taking that route any more than absolutely necessary. "Count every three cars that you pass along the way, and figure that at least every third one isn't insured..."

The promo won't have an engine, but then again, try and find a 1:1 Vega with a stock engine to use as reference material!

There were stock Vega kits, 1971 through 1977, made when each years' car was current. No reissues in stock form. The new bodies will have elongated rear wheel openings and no windshield wiper detail, so don't look for a stock version this time around either. Check eBay, people will be dumping stock kits once these are out.

I've done it by drilling a hole in the rod (smaller diameter bit than the rod) then gradually increasing the size of the hole with bigger drills, until you get one the same diameter as the rod. It takes a little planning to figure out where to drill the hole to start with, but then again it's probably no tougher than cutting the rod and then trying to file a notch with small round files.

At one place where I used to work, I'd have to go to the DMV (short walk) and get registration/plates for new company vehicles. The lines were always long regardless of the time of day. I'd usually be in line for an hour or more. Without fail, every time, when I got close to the front of the line, some clown would walk in, head to the front of the line, and tell the person in front that "he/she just went out to their car to get something that they forgot". Having been in line for an hour or more, and not having seen that person in that time, I had no problem telling them that, along with telling the security guy too...

If I remember right, it was Roger Huntington, and the quoted figure was 144 mph in the quarter mile. That's probably the only gaffe he ever made in all of his writings over many years. He passed many years ago, but still ranks as one of the best when it comes to technical/automotive stuff.

Looks like the Turbo hood on the cop car...