Snake45

Phil Dunphy, is that you?

What he said. Accurate representation of the car, builds a nice shelf model, but if you want it detailed to today's standards, you'll have to do some work.

Same here.

I like the concept of the bubbletop. Hate the idea of actually living with one, though. I saw that Riv in one of the recent hot rod rags. Sorry, but it looks worse than stock. It's very hard to improve on the styling of a '66-'67 Riviera.

To me now, that's a Paul Shaffer song. He plays it every time Dolly Parton comes out on Letterman. And I laugh every time. (Or I did before I gave up watching Letterman in disgust in early 2009).

Workin' at the car wash, baby! Forget who sang it. Rolls Royce, or Rose Royce, or some name like that?

No, but light can go through a body and show where you've painted the inside of it black and where you haven't, if the plastic isn't opaque enough.

Oh for cryin' out loud we give up, just tell us already, so we can all get on with our lives.

Okay, who's gonna build a model of the thing?

I think if I ever see this kit again on the shelf or at a swap meet, I'll pick it up.

Any classic Shelby stuff in it, or is it all new stuff?

Beatles, Norweigan Wood.

No, but Sgt. Pepper has a reference to the Albert Hall in Day in the Life, IIRC.

What are you trying to achieve? Are you trying to gloss the black, or flatten it more, or protect the flatness, or what exactly?

"Oh all right, honey, you can make ONE 'hot rod' change to the car."

I apologize for posting the pics of my gluebomb '70. For some reason I thought the thread OP asked to see CorvairJim's. Didn't realize it was someone else. I didn't mean to step on or hijack this thread. Sorry.

Um, no. I've studied that scene very carefully, almost frame by frame. It's seen to lose three, after which it still has at least two. What happens is that you see the same scene repeated from at least two different cameras at different times--you see it lose the same hubcap twice.

Oh yeah, and every gun that gets cocked sounds like a Single Action Colt. Even Glocks.

McCarney & Wings, but I can't recall the song title.

This was in the scene of the takeoffs from the practice strip at Eglin in Florida. The squeal happens when the airplane starts moving, like a car taking off. I put it in the same category as the sound of gun brass hitting the ground on grass, or dirt, or even indoors on carpet. Or from a revolver, ferpissake, as I saw in at least one episode of Walking Dead. Please!

I'm building an old MPC '69 Camaro that's molded in black. I'm not even gonna paint the chassis or interior (except the carpet, which will get flat black).

VERY sharp (no pun intended)! I love the color! What's that paint again?

Worst tire squeal sound I've ever heard was in the movie Pearl Harbor, when the "Jimmy Doolittle" B-25s squeal the tires when they start their takeoff roll. B-25s had powered wheels? I think not.

I don't think I have a '66 Olds showroom brochure (I DO have '67) but I doubt that power brakes were standard at that time. PS and PB were still extra-cost options on most cars back then. Disk brakes were pretty rare too. They were available on Corvette in '66 but I think they didn't show up on most other Chevies and GM products until '67, and then only on the front.

I'm not Jim but I too have a gluebomb original AMT annual '70 I bought off eBay a couple years back. This is what it looked like when I got it. I now have it disassembled and the paint stripped. The plan is to paint it Classic Copper or something close, with black vinyl top. I'm also working on rebuilding an original MPC '72 SS396 that will be either Spring Green or whatever the '72 dark green was called (the part being played by Model Master '69 Fathom Green). It's stripped too and almost ready for paint. Perhaps this will be the year I get struck by a fit of industry and drag both of them across the finish line.