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Chrysler broke free and led the way from '57 with the Forward Look while Ford trudged on, excepting the Mustang, with the boxy look until the mid '60s. It took GM until the 1959 MY to break the mold on its lineup. Nothing wrong with the Studebakers. The '50-'54 models were also ahead of their time in terms of styling with elegant, sweeping lines. Even the sedans looked better than the offerings from the Big Three of that period. My opinion. I don't follow the group-think consensus of other members.

If I could, I would. A Win 10 update back in late 2019-early 2020 permanently stopped my Canon 300D from being recognized as a device on my laptop and is no longer compatible. I can't use the laptop card slot because the camera card is too big to fit the slot. That's why I copied and pasted the pics of the Imperial Crown from the item listing. I'll get a card adapter one day; right now, I have other more pressing priorities. I hope that is a satisfactory answer to your question. And no, I can't take pics with my cell phone because I don't own one. I don't need one. Re any WIPs, you missed them. I've completed a number of car kits, including five WIPs (3 in 1 thread) I posted: A heavily reworked and accurate Trumpeter 1960 Pontiac Bonneville Sports Coupe A JoHan 168 Plymouth Pursuit police car as a NYPD RMP with a redone interior and chassis using the undercarriage from a Revell '67 GTX A Lindberg 1953 Ford Victoria converted into a 1952 Club Coupe as used by the NYPD A restoration of a partially destroyed JoHan '60 Desoto Adventurer A Revell '59 Impala HT with functioning doors, hood and trunk. The body of the '60 Impala which I was working on, included in the WIP for the Bonneville and '59 Impala, is dead. The body was accidentally crushed and was FUBAR'ed beyond hope. I don't feel like laying out triple digits to grab one from ebay. A Protar Ferrari 250 GTO I've also completed others over the past two years, including the following: A resin '67 Plymouth Fury III 2Dr Hardtop w/ a Revell '67 GTX donor chassis Revell 1962 Plymoth Fury 4Dr HT, a '62 Dodge Dart 2Dr HT, all fitted with the more accurate '64 Mopar chassis and the '62 Lancer GT 2 JoHan '62 Plymouth Fury convertibles w/ Lindberg '64 Mopar donor chassis A JoHan '62 Dodge Dart convertible also with the more accurate Lindberg '64 Mopar donor chassis A JoHan '64 Cadillac DeVille with a modified Monogram '59 Eldorado chassis and accurate scratchbuilt front and rear suspension The list doesn't include three Dragon and four RFM Tiger I's, an RFM Sturmtiger w/full interior, two Meng Kingtigers w/ full interiors, a Meng Jagdpanther G1, also with full interior, a Modelcollect 1/72 B-52G Early type BUFF, an AMtech 1/72 EC-135N ARIA/ ALOTS "Snoopy", a Valom 1/72 RB-57F, a Valom 1/72 RB-45C Tornado, Airfix and Classic Airframes 1/48 B-57B Canberras completed during the past two years. I'm also working on converting a RoG 1/35 Schnellboot S-100 into an RC craft with fully functioning Lurssen Effect rudder controls. That's 26 models, plus the WIPs, in two years. Like I said, I'm not able to post pics; but, I've been pretty busy. As you can see. I'm not a one-trick pony who only builds model cars. I like to break up the monotony by delving into other genres. Doing so improves one's skills in other ares of this hobby. Say, why don't you ask the same question of the guys who regularly post pics of the multiple kits they buy at least 3-4 times a month? With the amount of items they show in the pics, they could open their own hobby shops. Their WIPs and completed models are pretty much MIA. Aren't you in the least bit interested if they fall into the Collyer Brothers accumulator or model builder categories? Oh, here's a model I posted in "Others" in "Under Glass before I was no longer unable to d/l photos to my laptop. Not a car; but, a model nonetheless.

For a change?!? I don't obtain kits of any type with the intention of stockpiling them in a closet. Don't assume because I don't post WIPs or finished projects that this infers I don't build.

Design-wise, Ford, among the Big Three, cornered the market on stodgy until the introduction of the Mustang.

Pull the needle out and hold it over an open flame for about 10-20 seconds. That will burn out any dried glue. I've done the same to unclog the needle on Testors Liquid Cement.

Picked up this minty and complete Revell 1962 Imperial Crown for what amounts to chump change ($69.99 ) Four Revell '62 Mopars down and two to go (Valiant v-200 and Chrysler Newport convertible) to complete the series.

My laptop was out last night due to a 0xc0000022 error (corrupt file(s)) after a Win 10 update. It took me six hours to repair it.

Chalk it up to the Lemming Effect, Bill.

Bro, that's not even a real word. Burroughs was high when he wrote Naked Lunch. You're not getting any points with that if we play Scrabble.

What are you saying?????

Einstein said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." It's a matter of the same shtick regurgitated by the same person using three different registered accounts yet nobody picks up on it. The same mistakes are being made by anyone replying with the same wasted advice which they posted in the other identical thread authored by the very same person using a different account. You're getting your chain yanked. Either you, in the general context, don't get it; or, you don't mind.

Who do you think you're replying to?

I've never had that problem.

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When did you decide to move from Hackensack? Didn't like White Manna sliders?

I'm being absolutely Frank from Hackensack, formerly of SW Oklahoma.

Don't indulge this guy. This is Plumcrazy Preston using another identity.

It was in the October 1974 issue. The article was written by the late, great P.J. O''Rourke and was illustrated and constructed by Alan Rose and Marc Arceneaux. Says so at the bottom of the first image. I have every stinkin' issue.

He made a cameo appearance this past Tuesday, an hour after you posted this thread. It doesn't seem like he's interested in palavering with you.

Do you mean crowdsourcing or crowdfunding? Two different things. The cost to replicate the non-standard injection molding equipment which would accept Johan molds would be prohibitively expensive. That, in itself, would put the kibosh on that idea. It's not financially viable to drop large amounts of money to build injection molding equipment which would be a one-trick pony because it would be incompatible with any other molds. That's one of the reasons other kt manufacturers wouldn't/won't touch them. Figuring out which are most popular, feasible and lucrative doesn't really matter since, in all likelihood, any that fit those parameters no longer exist. There are pitifully few complete Johan molds/toolings still in existence. Most were allegedly stolen and scrapped, for the value of the berrylium copper in them, scavenged by former employees who weren't paid when the company closed.

Have you looked at the chassis of the Round2 '64 Cutlass, among others?

It was mentioned in General Discussions some years back that Johan used injection molding equipment which wasn't compatible with the long standardized machinery used by the rest of the manufacturers. The Johan kits released by AMT, etc. were produced by Johan for re-boxing under the other companies' labels and didn't require the transfer of molds. Okey can't make use of the molds because the oddball injection molding equipment no longer exists. So, the only thing accomplished by buying up whatever remains of the Johan toolings is that the new owner will have a nice selection of doorstops.

Nope. It's 1/25, released in 1993. It was the second 1/25 kit produced by Monogram after the 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Convertible, which was released in 1992 and was the initial 1/25 scale model car kit in the Monogram lineup. Subsequent '50s GM kits by Revell/Revellogram were also 1/25 scale, including the '59 Eldorado Biarritz, '55 Bel Air Convertible and HT, the '59 and '60 Impala HT's, The '56 Delray and Nomad, the '57 Bel Air Convertible and Sedan and the '57 Black Widow.