Snake45

My thoughts exactly, Df!

It's an overall great movie, or I wouldn't have watched it 5 or 6 times. I just can't remember any specifics about the car chase. I have a VAGUE recollection of some kind of Citroen, though....

I've seen Ronin five or six times over the years, and remember the car chase as pretty darn good, but you know what? I can't remember one specific thing about it, including what kind of cars were involved. Note to self: Try to find Ronin on streaming and watch it again. I do remember The Italian Job chase. I remember thinking, "These little Fiats are doing all this with trunks full of gold? Who do they think they're fooling?" Bullitt is still the Gold Standard by which all other car chases are judged, and will be for all time.

Where did you hear this? In an old movie? A VERY old movie?

I gave you the Ha-Ha thingie for that, as there doesn't seem to be one for "Groan!"

I wouldn't be surprised at this point to see a reborn '66 Skylark (either Craftsman or full kit, or both) in the semi-near future. And if/when this happens, once again, y'all can thank ME, as I've spent a buttload of money in the last 30 years acquiring Skylark builtups, glue bombs, distressed promos, resin bodies, random parts, and dirt tracker kits. So far, I've only gotten one of them back together.

Zane Lewis, "She's Got It Goin' On."

AND will the taillight bezels now fit the cutouts in the body? They never have before, on either the Nomad or the Bel Air bodies.

From what I've seen, the ERTL 1/18 models are pretty nice. I wish they'd do them in 1/24-1/25 and priced in the $20-$30 range. I'd be a customer.

Thanks! What's "sick and wrong" about it is, the Nomad and regular station wagons are completely different in the whole rear end. Also, the Nomad is a hardtop, and I made no provision for door/window frames. I didn't realize all this when I was 14.

Here's one I "converted" to a sedan delivery(-ish) around 1969. I now know there's a lot that's just "sick and wrong" about this model, but to this day, it's one of my favorite Old Builds.

It's done, and will be on HBO very soon. I'll let you know if it's any good. I understand that Ralphie is grown now, and takes his kids to visit his childhood home, so it's not so much a remake as a sequel. I'm looking forward to it.

If you laid a bet on that, you're a winner this morning. I was surprised that a number of characters didn't get killed. I wouldn't have taken a two-dollar bet that Eugene, Jerry, Ezekiel, The Preacher, Princess, Aaron, AND Mercer would ALL still be breathing at the end. The one "significant" death did surprise me--I didn't see it coming. But the actor explained in the aftershow that they (no spoilers! ) wanted to go out that way to bring closure to the character. All in all, a fairly satisfying grand finale, I suppose.

Back in the '80s, one night I couldn't sleep, so I got up and put on the TV in the middle of the night. Got into a movie on HBO or somewhere that I realized about 10 minutes in was nothing more or less than a low-rent remake of Bullitt. It wasn't very good, but I decided to stick with it through the chase scene to see what that would be. Believe it or not, the "big chase" turned out to be a foot chase through whatever city it was. It was even less exciting than it sounds. I don't remember what happened after that. Maybe I didn't even finish it. I don't remember the name of this movie, but it had "Scorpio" or "Scorpion" in the title in some way. I've searched for it several times (google, IMDB, etc.) and have never been able to find a trace of it. Does it sound familiar to anyone?

But that's what most people liked about it. We love stories about "family"--Dallas, Sopranos, Game of Thrones, Justified, etc. etc. etc. When someone would tell me it was a "stupid zombie show," I'd respond, "It's really not about the zombies anymore. The zombies are basically just an inconvenience of life, like heavy traffic or a weak wi-fi signal. You can manage and work around them. The REAL danger is from Other People, just as it is in Real Life."

Agree on core survivors. Would like to see Jerry and Eugene make it out too, but they will probably get epic, heroic deaths.

Series finale of The Walking Dead is tonight on AMC, starts 9:00 PM Eastern time. 90 minutes. Who will live, who will get a glorious exit, who'll get what's coming to them?

Here it is:

McQueen's son and the Gas Monkey gang recreated the car, and then recreated the chase scene a couple years ago for TV. They did a pretty good job of it, too. It's probably on YouTube if you want to look for it.

Assault on Precinct 13.

I almost bought one of these a couple toy shows ago. But it was a radio...AND it had a missing right-side A-pillar...AND he wanted $100 for it. I didn't want it THAT bad, it turned out.

Once again, y'all can thank me for the AWB '65 Chevelle. (Previous wins: '64 Nova and '66 Mustang 2+2.) In 2020-21, I spent a stupid amount of $$$$ acquiring three or four glue bombs of this kit, hoping to "restore" them. After carefully examining my purchases, I decided that with a lot of work, I could probably get ONE together out of the backbirth mess, and with even more labor, MIGHT be able to make TWO. Now I'll be able to use all those parts to cobble together one chassis to "restore" the one I built in 1967 to "barn find/survivor" status, and build up a nice new one for a great "Skills Then and Now" display. I hope Round 2 restores all the Chevelle's original body emblems and trim (as the original AWB kit had). If they do, it will be possible to un-alter the wheelbase on this kit and come up with a MUCH superior '65 Chevelle body than the Revell kit's. Or, better yet, maybe they'll eventually give us a stock-bodied Craftsman-type kit. Oh joy, oh joy!