Mark

The Juke isn't designed to look beautiful (and in that it succeeds), it's designed to stand out (and it succeeds there too). Every one a potential buyer sees is free advertising. If you don't like it, Nissan probably couldn't care less what you think because you aren't going to buy one anyway. They can afford to use a polarizing design because it's a niche vehicle; they'll sell every one they can build to the small segment of the populace that decides they like it. My nephew used to sell Nissans, he told me the Juke sold very well.

I've had State Farm since 1982 for my vehicles, since 2003 for my house. I had a burglary on Christmas Eve, my claim was processed quickly with no problems. On the heels of that, in early January, I had to use the "road service" part of my vehicle policy to have my truck towed to the dealer. I didn't even follow the correct procedure on that one, but again they paid, no problems. I've had several windshields and one hatchback glass replaced over the years too.

Didn't see any primer, but found two tall cans of clear lacquer, one can of gloss white, and one of GM Arctic White.

Should have gone through your own insurance company, particularly if the name of the other guy's company begins with "A"...

AMT also made a '60 Galaxie four-door hardtop promo.

Some Corvairs had four carburetors, fed air by an "X" shaped network of tubes that was topped with a single round air cleaner.

The engine is adapted to a Ford transmission (which in 1:1 wouldn't hold up behind that engine, but that's another story). The adapter would relocate the starter to the passenger side so it wouldn't come into conflict with the steering box. Early Oldsmobile engines also have the starter on the left side, and the Olds engine to Ford transmission adapter relocates the starter to the right side.

The Revell lowrider is the ex-Monogram 1/24 scale hardtop, so the custom parts from the earlier Monogram kit will fit. The Revell two-door sedan was never issued as a lowrider.

Nobody has pointed out the completely rigid rear suspension (ladder bars are attached to the frame at both ends, with no room for movement). That said, the original Street Fighter and Quicksilver are both cool, the Bad Actor just a bit less so. I wish they'd done the reissue Street Fighter decals in the right color, though. I'd like to graft the custom touches (side pipes, front and rear treatment, rear wheel flares) onto a Monogram '60 Impala hardtop...

"Must've been sold" = "it sold too cheap this time..." I'd watch his listings for a while, to see if it mysteriously turns up. Not that I'd deal with him after the first go-round. I had that happen a couple of times; next time around it sold for less...

I was in two HL stores last week and didn't see any. They reset the stock twice a year, the spring reset hasn't happened yet. If they intend to carry them, they'll probably have them next month...

The slotted wheels shown on the Street Machine box art aren't included in that kit...mine has the stock wheels from the annual kit. The Boss 429 engine in that issue is the one that AMT used in their Pinto annual kits, '71 through '75. After the '75 annual came the Mini Muscle Car which had the turbo setup for the stock engine; the 429 never resurfaced in the Pinto kit after that. If you look closely at the built custom Cougar on the Swingin' Sixties/Countdown Series box, you can see the more rounded rear wheel flares left over from the funny car issue. The box art car was probably built from a test shot, done before the wheel openings were changed back to stock in the body tooling.

I agree, it's very well done. Only complaint is, they did the Indy 500 Pace Car markings as stickers instead of decals (or instead of doing one with the markings applied).

The Dyno Don kit has Cragar Super Trick wheels, and the body has the hatch door. The engine may have (incorrect) Windsor valve covers. Gapp & Roush kit has Motor Wheel Fly front wheels (only MPC kit to ever have them). Rear wheels are Motor Wheel Spyders (no kit I know of ever had Fly rear wheels). The G&R kit has a sedan body with a trunk lid. It has Cleveland engine valve covers, though otherwise the engine is the same as in the Dyno Don kit.

The four-door '67 Impala is probably from a TV show called Supernatural. Someone mentioned it to me the other day, I'd never heard of it before. The car was a regular Impala four-door hardtop, black, with (if I remember right) Torque-Thrust II copy wheels on it.

I've got a Premier Lark sedan kit...like the pickup, it's smaller than 1/25 scale, just enough to be maddening.

Absolutely recommend the Revell Torino. Chassis fits great, the Torino has separate door handles and side markers that can be used on the Cyclone body. If you get the Model King reissue Cyclone, it will have stock wheels (on the plated tree) and stock '70 and '71 Spoiler decals, none of which are in the current reissue.

I'll second the Torino. I've got one of these started, and have seen a finished one. The chassis fits practically like it was made for the Cyclone, fits extremely well when you consider that the two kits were created thirty years apart by competing companies. You'll have to cut the engine compartment side panels from the Torino body (it's not a bad idea to fit the firewall first).

#4 is the optional "gasser" hood from the MPC '74 Challenger. It might be in the '73 also. It wasn't in the pro stock kit (there was only one Challenger, the Dick Landy car, which had a different hood). #1 taillight is probably from the same Challenger kit, but is the same '72 through '74.

Aren't the Banthrico items slush-cast as opposed to die-cast? (I don't collect early promos so I've never had one.) Slush-cast, whether resin or metal, gives you inconsistent thickness which would make cutting out the windows an exercise in frustration.

The Ford and Chevy pickups used different trailers. The Ford's single axle trailer was sized to fit Trophy Series cars, the Chevy's trailer was bigger and had two axles. Full size, late model cars could fit on it. Most of the racing team trailers are based on the Chevy pickup trailer. It was sold separately in the early Sixties too. If there is a box for the separate trailer (other than a mailing box) I'm not aware of one, or what it looked like.

You guys are getting killed on the exchange rate lately. In my job, every so often I deposit Canadian cash at the bank. I hadn't done that in a few months; when I looked up the exchange rate a couple of weeks ago, I was shocked. Locally, we get a fair amount of Canadian shoppers at the malls...not as many lately though...

http://www.mustangandfords.com/how-to/engine/mump-1303-how-to-build-429-super-cobra-jet/ I'll assume these guys know what they are talking about. My older brother was a mechanic all his adult life, so he knew a Q-Jet from a Holley or an Autolite carb.

Some of the 429 engines came with a Quadrajet. Years ago, my brother and I were looking at a couple of '70 or '71 Torino Cobras that were for sale. The same guy was selling both. One of them had a Quadrajet, the other had a Holley or Autolite, whatever most Fords used at the time. If I remember right, the Super CJ 429 had the Quad on it. It also had a transmission cooler in front of the radiator (both cars were automatics). It went the other way, too: some GTO Judges came with three-speed manual transmissions supplied by Ford. Pontiac wanted to offer the Judge with a three-speed stick, apparently GM didn't make one strong enough at the time, and they didn't anticipate building enough cars with the three-speed to go to the trouble of engineering a better one...so they bought the Ford units.

The Busby dragster actually only made a few passes down a drag strip (something like a half dozen or so from what I have read). He bought the engines for cheap because of a rule change that was thought would make them ineffective. When the rule change was rescinded, he had people offering him stupid money for them, so he sold them at a huge profit...