Mark

Don't blow your own wiper motor...

The people running the golf course can tell you what you can do on property that belongs to you? That's a new one on me...

One other thing...if the donor kit had separate windshield wipers, door handles, things like that...if those aren't included, potential buyers ought to be made aware of that. Some might not mind, others will want those parts. I have been on both sides of deals like this, having parted out a few kits and selling the bodies, and buying the leftover parts from slot car builders who used the body from a kit.

If you won't be using any of the interior parts, may as well package them with the corresponding body when you sell it.

I wouldn't premix the paint/thinner if at all possible. Sometimes you absolutely have to, when you do that it should definitely be stored in a bottle with a previously unused cap. Even then, I'd strain it before spraying it. Cleaning the airbrush is a must too. Disassemble if at all possible, otherwise spray thinner or cleaner through it until it sprays clean, with no color in the spray. Cleanliness is the main thing. Shoot for "perfect", most of the time you come up a bit short but still very good.

Might as well mention, if you are ever near South Bend you owe it to yourself to check out the Studebaker Museum. The displays do cycle in/out, when I was there they had the Brooks Stevens prototype 1967 Sceptre coupe, the Packard Predictor, the last Stude built in South Bend, and the last one built in Hamilton. The horse drawn stuff is neat too. They've got President Lincoln's carraige (not built by Studebaker), the ironwork on it is really neat. They also had items manufactured by other South Bend companies. It's definitely worth your time if you are in the area.

Loewy's people included four-doors in their workups when he was pushing for Avanti styling to be adapted to the rest of the Studebaker line. One non-running mockup was done with two-door styling on one side, four-door on the other as other manufacturers often did.

That's why I got rid of one.

That Stude is WAY too big, even for 1/24. Closer to 1/21 or 1/22 scale. Those weren't big cars.

Ertl never even started on the bullet nose Stude. It, and the '49 or '50 Olds, only got as far as pasted-together mockup boxes that were displayed at a hobby industry show. Neither drummed up enough interest, so neither got any further than that as far as Ertl was concerned.

The dragster body panels are from the AMT Double Dragster kit. The plated straight six is from the AMT '62 Falcon. When I see one of those in a parts bag, that usually becomes an excuse to buy the bag.

Hardtop has a 396. Foose version has all stock parts.

If they were convertibles to start with, they would have to be either '70 or '71.

The square bezels would denote a '64, but they were optional. Not all '64s had them. The car itself, out of the box, would be a '63 as it has the "long skinny" battery similar to those used by Buick back then. The '64 cars had a more conventional rectangular battery. As for headlight bezels, the square ones were made specifically for the Avanti, but the round ones were leftovers from either the pickup or the early Lark (I forget which), installed sideways compared to the original application. Raymond Loewy wanted quad lamps, and many of the styling workups had quads.

Camaro sales have been in the dumper since the last restyle. Why waste effort building cars few people want? Even prior to all of this, the current generation car was likely to be the last. Unless GM reinvents it as electric, that is still likely true.

The bottles at the HL I stopped at earlier today all had the Testors logo plastered across the cap...

Besides the hood scoop, the main external difference between a '66 Tempest and a '66 GTO is the taillights. Nothing out there will be anything like those, scratchbuilding is the only alternative.

Look at the bright side...he's localizing all of his "deposits" IN the box. Glass more than half full...

I'd suspect that the number of people working for the postal service is relatively low compared to the number of people employed by the postal service...

Chevrolet did that with the Z/28 when they brought it back in '77. The ads showed the two mufflers and tailpipes, but not the single converter.

I'd check into the state's labor laws, as they differ by state. I'm in New York, have been doing payroll and HR in every job I have ever held. I've never seen mandatory vacation time, ever, not even in contracts negotiated with the construction trade unions that I dealt with years ago (and again in recent years). Individual states have, in recent years, started to institute "paid leave", but again that differs by state. I'd suspect some employers are whittling down paid vacation when "paid leave" kicks in. Nothing is ever free.

I'd seriously doubt anyone is going to try to purchase whatever might be left of Jo-Han. I was set up as a vendor next to the AMT/Ertl display at Toledo for a couple of years. Their personnel were fielding all sorts of questions, including about whether or not they'd be interested in Jo-Han (seeing as how they'd acquired MPC a couple of years prior). The answers ranged from "we looked at that stuff, we can just pick the better subject matter and just do new kits ourselves", to "how many '56 Plymouth kits would we sell, especially without engines?". If anyone really wanted to scan/tweak a Jo-Han kit, they'd do it. It's not like the current owner has endless resources available to take any sort of action. There are only X number of ways to design a model car kit. Those who tried to do it differently (cough, Trumpeter, cough) haven't done so well. Who's to say another company couldn't design a new kit by copying the best, and designing the rest?

I'm not seeing where Round 2 would have to get licensing, permission, or whatever from Okey in order to tool a new kit of any subject matter previously offered by Jo-Han. Even if the parts breakdown were similar between the two.

The Eldon kits were made in Japan by Doyusha (even the first issues packaged by Eldon). Presumably they still have the ones they reissued starting in the Eighties (one was not reissued).

I have seen something like that used in certain places on large scale builds. Suspension parts on 1/8 scale cars, where a little "give" might be desirable when handling or moving the finished model.