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Much, MUCH better! Well done and model on!

I like this a lot! You really captured the "feel" of the old Altereds.

I seem to recall seeing something similar in Car Craft magazine's "Street Freaks" section in the late '60s or early '70s. Very cool!

Cars, 1/24-25 for the same reasons cited by everyone else. Airplanes, my preferred scale is 1/48 but I also do a fair amount of 1/72 and even odd "box scale" antique kits. Availability of subject matter and/or nostalgia are the relevant factors.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Not so. The regular 375-hp L78 had cast iron heads. IIRC, the aluminum heads were their own option, L89. The L78 did have the aluminum intake manifold, though.

I don't think that one qualifies for this thread...everybody always knew that one was a cover of an oldie. And a decade later, a way hot Australian named Kylie Minogue had a hit with it again.

It was a hit down here too in the early '90s. Just heard it on one of the classic rock stations yesterday.

Monkey Man, Stones. Or was it Stone Man by the Monkees? :lol:

I've often wondered the same thing.

Very VERY interesting! I'd never heard that before, and it's my favorite Elvis song, (But then I am one of the few people who prefer White Leather Elvis to Black Leather Elvis.) Thanks for posting this!

I mentioned that one back on page 1. It was an even bigger hit in the early 2000s for 10,000 Maniacs (or their girl singer, solo). There were bootlegs of Bruce doing it live but no "official" version from him was available until it appeared on his box set in the early/mid '80s. One of his very best songs IMHO. To this day I can't believe he didn't put it on Darkness on the Edge of Town.

I use that too on occasion. For example, it worked great on the rocker trim of this cheap diecast Buick GSX. Great improvement for a few pennies and a few minutes' work.

Well, they're not in the showroom brochures because they were a mid-year introduction as a "Road Runner fighter." I don't recall reading much if anything about them in the hot rod press of the time, either. Like the COPOs, they were a very low-key deal, but available if you knew who/how to ask. Come to think of it, '68-'69 2-door 300s of ANY power were pretty rare. I doubt I've seen a dozen of them in all these years. Apparently those wanting a 2-door moved on up to the Malibu, and those wanting a cheap Chevelle also wanted too many doors on it.

Yup. One obvious example is the Badman's 396 graphic/stripe was first seen on sketches for a '62 Chevy.

Yeah, I knew I'd seen an article on them recently. FWIW, the 375-hp engine (L78, right?), isn't shown in any of the '69 showroom brochures. Nor, IIRC, in the '67 or '68 either, in Chevelle, Nova, or Camaro. But it was definitely available (except of course in '67 Nova).

Dave Edmunds "From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)" was written by Springsteen. Once you know that, it absolutely sounds like a Springsteen song. I've been unable to find Springsteen actually doing it anywhere, even on youtube.

Can't believe I misssed that! It was my favorite song for about two weeks back in, what, 1965?

See here: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=93494

I'm planning to build one of those. I'd never heard that the top engine was the 325 hp version. I could swear I've seen restored ones with the 375.

Well, "funnycars" was already taken.

I guess everyone knows Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower and The Byrds Hey Tambourine Man are by Bob Dylan, right? Because the Night--a hit for a couple people--was written by Bruce Springsteen. Of course Linda Ronstadt's Poor Poor Pitiful Me was by Warren Zevon.

The Beat Goes On, Mr. & Mrs. Bono.

I wouldn't "wash" or highlight the panel lines at all. This is a technique that is starting to fall out of favor in Model Airplane World, as in most cases it WAY overemphasizes the lines and gives a very unrealistic look. Just drive on and don't give it another thought.

Tom Daniel did a LOT of sketches in early/mid-'60s R&Cs. Some of it was quite nice, too, unlike the goofymobiles he designed for Monogram a decade later.