Snake45

Very nice indeed! Well done and model on!

Was this written up in The Other Magazine some years ago? I was going through some back issues last month and saw it--or one someone built that was very similar. Beautiful work!

Absolutely fabulous work, Gary! You are a Glue Bomb Hero!

It's automatic.

Of those three, I'd take Elizabeth Banks. Not only easy to look at, but she seems like a hella lot of fun. Fun is important. (Isn't that why we're on this model car board?) Has anyone mentioned Scarlet Johanssen yet?

She's a cutie! Didn't recognize the name, so I had to Wiki her. I'm sure I must have seen her in things in the '60s and '70s but never knew her name.

I think I've seen one or two Moebius kits at my HL, but if so, they weren't things I was interested in. Have never seen any Pegasus stuff there.

Yes, nice, but I do believe you have the left main landing gear on backwards.

Magnificent! I have its twin or near-twin in the stash, it might be missing the rear bumper but I just received repros from Modelhaus so no biggie there. Mine has a couple deep scratches in the paint on the roof, though I think the rest of the paint is in good shape. I haven't decided whether to black vinyl top the roof and leave the rest of it alone, or go ahead and strip it and rebuild it "my way." Good luck with yours, it looks like a great project!

Just think, in only a couple more years we'll be saying things like, "I remember when people would walk down the street looking where they were going, not at their phones," and "Back in my day, if you saw someone talking out loud to no one in public, you knew you had a crazy person on your hands." BTW, I know what newsreels are, but I don't think I ever saw one "live" at a movie. But I do remember when every movie began not with a bunch of commercials, but with one or two hilarious Warner Brothers cartoons. The hardest I ever saw my Dad laugh in his life was at a Speedy Gonzales cartoon at a movie. I don't remember what the movie was, but I remember Speedy really tickled Dad.

I once tried to thin Poly-S paint with lacquer thinner and it turned it to Jello instantly.

Revell/Monogram does a '70.5 which is the same basic car, but you'll have to modify/update to '73 details to your own satisfaction. I have a 1/24 diecast '73 Trans Am (or so it says on the chassis) that's not bad for an inexpensive diecast. No maker marked, but I bought it at Walmart a few years ago.

I had an aunt and uncle who gave me a Lifesaver "book" for Christmas every year. Remember those? Sunday comics? I still get two Sunday papers with full color comics sections. Though of the strips you mentioned, only Prince Valiant is in either of them.

I remembered 16.

Maybe you missed the part where I said I COULD do that, but it would take me more time and effort than the common new body is worth to me. It ain't like I'm chopping up the last Revell '65 Impala in the world. I also have an unbuilt AMT '65 Impala with a ruined roof. Good chance this Revell roof could end up on that one. So it's money well spent IMHO.

Bought a Revell Foose '65 Impala JUST to cut out the wheel openings and graft them into an AMT '66 Impala dirt tracker body to return it to stock-ish condition. I hate to waste a perfect body for this, and there are at least two other ways I could have restored the '66 wheel openings, but with a 40% off HL coupon, the price of the new '65 makes it not worth the considerable time and effort the scratching job would take me. And I'm sure the '65 will yield up all sorts of other useful goodies besides. Who knows, I might even decide to use its frame, engine, and/or interior with the AMT '66 body. Revell '65 Impalas are common; AMT '66s, not so much.

No, all the '67 caps are the same, and they're flatter than the '68+ caps (and without the ribs mentioned above). Now what's really interesting is that in all the '67 Chevy showroom brochures, when the Rally Wheels are shown (often to illustrate "disc brakes"), the wheels themselves are black, not argent as commonly seen. I don't recall ever seeing a set of real black '67 Rally Wheels back in the day, and I don't think I've ever seen them on a restored car, either. Did Chevy change the spec on the color between the time the literature was shot/printed and intro time in September '66? I don't know. I've only ever seen black Rally Wheels on ONE real car, a '67 427 Vette coupe on Fast N Loud. It was a genuine survivor, almost a barn find (but in a little better shape) but hadn't been driven in many years. It had black wheels. Did it come with them, or had someone painted them black somewhere along the way? I have no idea, though the car seemed very original in just about every other area, IIRC.

Agree completely. Hard to get more "girl next door" than Laura Prepon ("Hot Donna") of That '70s show, or Kaylee from Firefly/Serenity. (Is her name Jewel Straight, or something like that?)

True, but they're not especially rare these days, and can be found in the AMT and Revell '67 Chevelles, the AMT '67 Z/28, and the Revell '67 Corvette coupe. In real life, those caps were also used by Buick on the '67 GS 340 (with a Buick emblem in the center, of course). Maybe other Buicks too, but I can't recall ever seeing them on anything else.

I believe it. On the MTV special about the final days of Warren Zevon, he quoted some old German philosopher who said "When we buy books, we think we are buying the time to read them."

Very interesting, very good work. What scale is this?

Clear? Taillight red?

Boy, those newfangled blower scoops is fugly. Whatever happened to the refined, tasteful Enderle 3-holers?

I had a similar problem lately. I had to drill the stub out of the wheel, and then make a new stub from Evergreen styrene rod. I just happened to have the right diameter on hand. If I hadn't, I'd have just filed and sanded a piece of sprue to the right diameter.

No, go for the royal blue of their '60s-'70s boxes.