Snake45

Local toy show scores: Absolutely perfect '67 Bonneville promo. Well, perfect except for completely missing A-frames and vent window frames and broken windshield. I can fix all that, so I considered it well worth the asking price of $20 and didn't even try to dicker. Same guy had something I'd never seen before, '69 Firebird 400 convertible promo, molded in orange. Also in near perfect shape except for one missing wheel and tire. Rally II wheels aren't a problem but the tires were of a kind I'd never seen before, so I'd have had to replace all four, which would mean replacing the other wheels as well. Asking price was $50. I hesitated and with no further prompting the guy dropped the price to $40. I'm not a fan of '69 Firebirds nor of convertibles in general (I have several copies of the reissued hardtop kit, and an original annual), so I let it pass. Probably should have grabbed it at that price just for swap fodder. Oh well. Got something else I'd never seen before, a '67 Chevelle diecast in 1/25-ish. WIX. The roof's a little funky in shape but otherwise it looks pretty good, about like a B-grade Welly or Maisto. Had to have it since it's black. I've stumbled into quite a collection of black diecast Chevies: '55, '57, '62, '63 Corvette, '64 Nova, TWO different '65 Chevelles and a '65 El Camino, '66 Nova, '67 Impala, '68 Chevelle, '68 El Camino, and '69 Camaro. And now this '67 Chevelle. The only ones I've gone out of my way to get were the '64 Nova and the '67 Impala (Supernatural). The rest have just sort of followed me home. I should take a picture of all of them together sometime.

Those were exactly the first two things I thought of, too! (Actually I thought '62 Impala, but very similar.)

They both have strong aromas, but whatever you do, NEVER MIX THE TWO or it will be the last thing you ever smell!

So will common household ammonia, though of course it doesn't touch the underlying varnish.

And before anyone asks "What's the deal with the one goofy tailfin?", that's almost certainly a Collins 37R-2 antenna for radio communications with aircraft.

Making headway on the Mako Shark. The interior is now out and cleaned up--not doing anything further with it. I glued the front end on solid. If you've ever built one of these things, you know that the front end doesn't fit very well. I glued it solid, which took more work than you'd think--had to make and then custom-fit some tabs to lock the upper sides of the fenders to the lowers. Not perfect but it'll do. I think I have the eBay glue bomb donor chassis to where I can put wheels on it. Next step will be to give it a squirt of rattlecan black. I've run a black wash into the low areas of the finned wheels, next will be to scrape the black off the high spots of the fins. Was pleased to find that the glue bomb came with its original MPC hollow Firestone tires, which were quite groundbreaking in their day. (MPC would sell them to you for 50c a set [the typical model car sold for $2]--I wish I'd invested about $10 in those at the time!) I couldn't get one wheel off its axle without risking major breakage to the fragile rear suspension, which I already had to do some repairs/regluing to. And I'm semi-declaring this original IMC VW Beetle for completion. I got THIS far with it sometime in the 1968-70 timeframe and then never finished it for whatever reason. Over the years I've hauled it out at least a half-dozen times intending to finish it, and something always makes me stick it back in the box pretty quickly. The last time was about three or four months ago. Got it out, spotted a piece of dirt over the door, and went to scrape it off with my fingernail, only to have a large chunk of the paint (long-extinct AMT Burnt Orange Metallic) flake off! Okay, I've learned that the trick to completing a job like this is to forget all about "perfection" and just treat it like one of my Toy Show Glue Bomb finds of somebody else's that I'm just trying to "rescue." Maybe THIS time I'll GITTER DONE! (I wonder if Testor Firey Orange is an acceptable paint match?)

McQueen at his best (as good as Bullitt, if not better). Great heist story. Great love story (much better than that other one she was in!). And one of the very best gun movies of all time. But I don't think of it as a "car movie." Yeah, a couple of car action/chase sequences, but I can't think of a single car from the whole movie that made me say, "Wow, I gotta build a model of THAT!"

Got another minor one. On the last paragraph on p. 151 (which continues on p. 152), you're talking about Shark-era (1968-82) Corvettes, but the term "C2" is used three times. The next paragraph correctly calls them C3, and then repeats the C2 error twice. BTW, I never knew--or noticed back in the day--that convertible annual kits would appear on the shelves before the hardtop kits. Interesting!

I barrel-rolled a '61 VW while wearing a lap belt only, and the only injury I got that day was a cut on my finger when I pulled one of the dented-in fenders away from the tire before I drove it home.

Last of the "Greatest Generation" presidents. All since have been Baby Boomers.

Saw the Welly Capri again this morning. Still didn't buy it, but I did notice that it's marked 1/24 Scale on the chassis and seems to be. Color of the one I've been seeing is sort of Richard Petty Blue. If I see one in dark metallic green (like the one a friend drove in high school), I'll probably have to buy it.

Dan, you're in. I'll add your name at the next update (whenever we have several new things to report). Today's December 1. You have 31 days to finish your GITTER DONE project, everyone!

Which kit is this? Due to the very prominent side trim moldings, I'm thinking the AMT '59-'60.

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Yah I know. I tried to score another front bumper/headlights on Final Sale Day but they were all gone. I did get a rear bumper. Just took a look at it and offhand I don't see any difference between it and the reissue kit part. Maybe the molding is a little crisper, or something.

You did about as well as can be done with that old crock, my friend! Missing Link doesn't show it on their website now. Modelhaus made it but of course they're gone. Hopefully someone will pick this up sometime soon.

Seems to be several different cars at several different times. I believe the original first version would have chromed bumpers, white rear cove, and CLEAR headlights. Any of these old race cars is a "moving target." For a 100% accurate model, you have to take a page from the Model Airplane World book and model it as it looked on some particular day.

Time for a status update: Richard Bartrop: '29 Ford Disconovaman: '55 Nomad. SECOND COMPLETION! GOTTER DONE! Moving on to Monster Blazer. 89AKurt: '50 Chevy truck Jantrix: '37 Ford (?) rod Snake45: Get Smart Sunbeam Alpine and '40 Ford coupe, maybe Mako Shark Lordmodelbuilder: '64 Chevy Blazer Eric Macleod: Deusenberg. THIRD COMPLETION! GOTTER DONE! Scale Asylum: '64 Dodge 330 Junkyard Jeff: '41 Chevy truck FordF-100: '67 LeMans Vintageford: '49 Ford shelved, looking for new project Magicmustang: Tommy Ivo double Buick rail. FIRST COMPLETION! GOTTER DONE! Foxer: AA/Comp rail GerN: '32 Ford Superbird McMonte: '70 GSX Mod3lLover: '60 (?) Corvette

More possible. Apparently there are 16-17K auto accidents in the US every day. Are 2K of these (let's say one out of eight) serious enough to have been life-threatening? Possble, I suppose. https://www.quora.com/How-many-car-accidents-are-there-in-the-USA-per-day On an interesting side note, I know a police officer who's been spared from death three times in car crashes not by seat belts, but by the body armor he was wearing.

Ironically, I believe these are chemically similar to Drano--a drain cleaner!

Millions of lives every day?

I knew they used some Camaros for this (and of course the '68 El Caminos) but never knew they also had Mustangs.

I'll bet Death Race 2000 and Cherry 2000 are somewhere on your list. Hey, how about the Cuda in the Phantasm movies?

I agree.