Snake45

Very sad news. He was a hero of mine for a while growing up. Loved his attitude and writing style. He'll be fondly remembered.

Got mine this morning at Hobby Lobby for $19.07 out the door (with 40% off coupon).

I've been having fun lately trying to get these goofs off-script. Even asking them a question like "Where are you calling from?" or "What do you do for a living?" (in the case of those wanting money for a "charity") seems to completely blow the fuses on their 2-watt brains. It's as if you suddenly started speaking a foreign language. And I'm talking about the AMERICAN callers! Here's another line that brings the show to a sudden and entertaining halt: "According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, you're a racist hate group. Why are you bothering me?"

That scoop's not bad at all. The one you have on there is MUCH bigger, or at least looks so. If you could find something about this size, it would look great.

Different and interesting!

A 21st-Century Switcher! I like it! Your blower scoop is just WAY too big, though. What is that, from some 1/20 scale kit? JADA diecast? Whatever it is, I hate it.

Yup, an "air tool" compressor with a tank. The tank only takes a couple minutes to fill, and then you can turn it off and run on the tank alone for a LONG time. You don't even need to let it keep cycling on and off. And mine's no louder than the little "airbrush compressor" I used before. I've often said that the day I bought that compressor was the single happiest day of my adult modeling life.

My Campbell-Hausfeld from Walmart is still going strong after 15 years. And last time I checked, they're now priced lower than I paid in 2002, and it was a bargain then.

Just checked my original '69 kits. The Wildcat had the wide hollow tires, as did the Riviera, and the Impala, Corvette, Camaro, Mustang, and the Chevy Truck, but the Ford Galaxie did not. On some of the boxes, the tires are billed as "Goodyear Blue Streaks." On others, they're "stock car specials." I don't recall two different wide hollow vinyl tires that year so I assume these were the same tires. Here's the tires I mean, on the '66 Skylark I built around 1969.

You are correct, and DP confirms it. Maybe the Riviera, too, but the DP site doesn't have the instructions or box sides on that one. But I can check my original kit tonight, if I get the time. I built my '66 Skylark around 1969, and I used the engine from the '69 Wildcat, the Keystom Klassic Kustomags from the '69 Riv, and the hollow Goodyears and slicks from some '69 AMT kit, though I couldn't say exactly which one.

I think we have a winner.... http://public.fotki.com/drasticplasticsmcc/mkiba-build-under-c/amt-instructions/automotive-cars--pi/lincoln/amt-1967-lincoln-co/64272007.html

The '69 Corvette had them, as did the Camaro and the Mustang Mach 1. I'd have sworn the Chevelle, El Camino, and Cougar had them too, but a check of Drastic Plastic shows that I have "misremembered" this. Interesting, because I built my Chevelle, Camino, and Cougar with them, so I must have got them out of something else.

Didn't have time to dig out my original boxes/instruction sheets, but I did check a couple of '69s on the Drastic Plastic site. I'd completely forgotten about it but apparently AMT did include the Firestone Supremes in the '69s along with the hollow Goodyears. The built one on the DP site (apparently an original) has red/white Supremes. Mine must have had those, too, as I'm pretty sure the ONLY red/blues I've ever owned came in my '67 Camaro. As to the hollow Goodyears, I've never thought of them as "NASCAR tires." The '69 boxes and instruction sheets call them "stock car special" tires. AMT wasn't really promoting "NASCAR options" in the '69s (as they were in say '64-'66), and I always just thought of them as wide street tires. You're right about them being in the Manx, though. I forget whether the original Manx kit had four of them or just two.

The emblem looks very Lincoln-y, so my WAG would be some sort of AMT Continental. Now as to what exact year, I have no idea. Maybe Ron H or Steven G would have a better idea.

The Revell Shelby was 1/25 and the Mono Boss 9 was 1/24, so the tooling per se isn't the same, but it sure looks like the same design/engineering/masters were used for both.

I'm with you. IMHO it's a flawed execution of what could be an interesting concept.

I've posted pics of the two side by side here before. Unfortunately, they got washed away in The Great Botophucket Flush a few months ago.

There's more to it than that. (As MPC failed to notice back in 1969.)

If that's real, those would make challenging targets for a scoped .22 rifle at 50 yards. Or better yet, 100!

No, but the original '67 Camaro did. Probably several other AMT '67s, too. The first-issue '69 Chevelle had hollow Goodyears, and some nice wide slicks, too. IIRC they were Goodyear on one side and M&H on the other, and had grooves on the tread almost like an old LP record. The Goodyears weren't quite as big as the hollow vinyl L60s AMT put in a lot of kits from the '90s on. I still have a few models that have these tires on them.

The model shown on the box of the "AMT" Ferrari 250 SWB was NOT made from the kit in the box. At least one issue of the '68 Z/28 did not have the nice Goodyear tires on the box, just the skinny little one.

As late as the early 2000s I was getting some of them for under $6 at Walmart.

Very nice indeed! You obviously put a lot of research and work into this. Well done and model on!

Don't do it. Oh, sure, you get to help run the world, but they NEVER leave you alone with calls and emails to "upgrade" to Life membership, then Patron, then Endowment, Platinum, Diamond, and on and on and on. AND they want you to host "parties" in your house to sell soap, toothpaste, herbs, and all that. They're ALMOST worse than AARP.

I do something similar. I lay a coat on all door/panel lines, and on all sharp edges or creases, and then a second coat in these areas, and only then will I open up the nozzle and start laying paint on large areas.