Snake45

Exactly. We don't even know if he's moving. He might just be looking around trying to find his headlights.

Gary, my impression of you is that you're a good enough modeler that with a pair of these new kits and a Rat Packer and your spare parts box, you can build at least two of anything you really want to make. Or do I have you confused with someone else?

I can absolutely guarantee you that our elected masters aren't going to travel around in driverless podules. They'll just demand it of us "sheeple." "When in the course of human events...."

I heard him too. I'm glad I won't be alive in such a bleak and joyless world.

Yeah, I have one bottle that went that way--after a couple years. I kept poking a hole in the skin on top and using what was underneath and finally not long ago got tired of that and started a new bottle.

No, actually I don't know what you mean. I haven't bought any in a while so I haven't seen the yellow color you're talking about, just the amber that I've seen for 20 or more years. I can imagine it mixing with an undercoat of, say, Testor Chrome Silver, which is why I always use it over a basecoat of yellow or orange, depending on the effect I want.

There ya go. I've got a Green-Go Duster I'm gonna TRY to build OOB one of these days, but if pooches get screwed, I'll just strip it down and paint it as regular.

If that's a metallic color, I'd say Pontiac Engine Blue would be pretty darn close. BTW, my first '69 Camaro was close to that color. I think Chevy called it Glacier Blue that year. I never did care for it, and eventually had the car painted a '78 Chevy dark metallic gray.

I've been using TSA for more than 20 years and I've never seen any I'd call "orange." I'd call all of it amber. I put it OVER orange or yellow paint, depending on the look of the real car I'm going for. Yes, there are different shades of "amber" in 1:1.

Agree completely. I've seen a few--a VERY few--first-gen Falcons and Chevy IIs that were run as gassers back in the day, but for the most part, they made their mark in drag racing history as altered wheelbase (and altered everything-else) first-gen "funny cars." Long may they roar!

There were few "rules" for the first-gen funny cars you (and I) love so much. No two were alike. Some were cobbled together out of basically stock stuff. Others were sitting on full-on race frames. I like the way they're doing the gasser kit. It lets us "take it from there" and build it in any number of way-cool ways. It's MUCH more versatile than the Rat Packer.

Then just move the wheels forward, the way the did on the real ones, and you're pretty much there. BTW, I vividly recall a blown, straight-axled bright orange first-gen Chevy II in one of the east coast rags in the late '60s or very early '70s. It wasn't a drag gasser, it was a "street freak," and it looked very much like the prototype "gasser" model shown above.

It should, theoretically, pop right on the Pro Street chassis of the AMT '66, for those who still like Pro Streets.

In cars, only 1/25-1/24. Although I have a handful of 1/32 picked up randomly along the way. And of course my old HO slot cars, which I wish I could find. In airplanes, mainly 1/48, but also dabble in 1/72 and old "box scale" kits.

Really?

That would require another whole body, and since it's AWB, another whole chassis too. But it shouldn't be TOO difficult to kitbash, if we can figure out how to do the pre-'65 2DS roof.

It rolled into another dimension.

I've seen it before--on the box ends of the '69 annual. Always cool to see Don Greer box art, though. http://public.fotki.com/drasticplasticsmcc/mkiba-build-under-c/amt-instructions/automotive-cars--pi/chevrolet/1961-1970/amt-1969-chevy-flee/cci09032008600003.html

Thank you, Tim, for sharing this information about these wonderful new Chevy II kits, which don't bore me at all, and which I'm probably going to buy several of over the years, even if they have to be delivered to me by truck.

Kinda cool! Looks like something from an old Vaughn Bode "Junk Waffel" comic from the '70s!

The way the right one's sitting a little up, I'm thinking maybe they're separate parts. In which case you can lose them yourself. Everybody happy!

I can't think of a "big rig" they could do that wouldn't bore the snot out of me. This is the car section. If I'm not mistaken, there's a truck section on this board too for your interests. And I happen to like the Chevy IIs. I'll be buying at least one of each, and probably multiples if they're halfway decent at all.

I once lost the steering wheel of a '68 Mustang. I found it about 6 months later in the hinge of the door of the microwave. No, I have absolutely no idea.

You will find the part--about 20 minutes after someone takes pity on you and sends you one from a mint, unbuilt kit. If the kit's still in production, you will find the part about 20 minutes after you get home from going out to buy a new one. The only other thing you can do is forget about it, and drive on with some other project. Then, lose a part from THAT. While looking for the second part, you will magically find the first. But not the second, until you lose a third. And so on. The Styrene Gods demand their sacrifice, and must be appeased! Do not ask me how I know these things.

I have never heard, seen, or noticed that, but I just did some googling and it looks like you're right! Looks to me like the side windows are the same, but the backlight doesn't curve around to the sides on the '65, but is almost flat. I wonder if the backlight from the hardtop--which does seem to have some wraparound--could be fit into the sedan body to make an earlier 2DS?