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The Green Hornet didn't make it through one full season (cancelled on March 14, 1967 after only 26 episodes) and Aurora was on the ball with a Black Beauty on the shelves in time for the premier episode.

Following Jim's directions to secure the parts, Lab Metal would work to repair it. I find it better than JB Weld.

The mechanic in a gas station near Dresden, Tennessee asked my friend Tom Riley if he checked his radio before the heater core in his '76 Cordoba started leaking.

How do you know he's not using an iCr_ap phone on a selfie stick and recording himself?

Take it to Earl Sheib.

Like Pete said, the type of undercoat is immaterial. Enamel, acrylic or lacquer all work. The Alsa urethane clear coat is a must, though. I experimented with Testors acrylic and enamel gloss clear coat, Krylon and Duplicor. All failed the durability test and the Alsa Easy Chrome didn't adhere well.

Or, the SS. Minnow.

Excellent! Definitely an interesting scratchbuild subject. Coincidentally, it was on TCM yesterday afternoon.

You're being polite, aren't you?

Cool! Say, is that a photo of "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" on the left?

At that rate, with R2 is slapping Coke logos on anything possible, Coca cola will owe R2 advertising fees. How about a Polar Lights reissue of the 1/72 Forbidden Planet C0-57D Interplanetary Cruiser with all-new Coke graphics to plaster all over the saucer? Instead of synthesizing Kansas City bourbon, the miniature Robbie the Robot in the kit could be posed next to a pallet of The Real Thing.

I guess we won't know what it looks like until Chad shows us.

If you visit the Ertl/TOMY website, you'll notice that the only scales available are 1/16, 1/32, 1/50 ad 1/64. Nothing in 1/25. The 1/16 Peterbilt stuff is nice; although, it looks similar to Bruder Professional Series toys.

That's Triple A, David. Outstanding!

R2 is keeping this one under wraps. Can't find a single box art or product image anywhere. Either it's really good or it's really bad.

ERTL acquired AMT in 1981; then, acquired MPC in 1985. Here's a rundown of ERTL history, lifted from Wikipedia. I didn't feel like transcribing the whole thing. Important Dates in Racing Champions/Ertl Company History[3] 1945 - The Ertl Company is founded by Fred Ertl, Sr., in Dubuque, Iowa. 1959 - The company moves to larger facilities in Dyersville, Iowa. 1967 - Ertl is acquired by Victor Comptometer Corporation. 1971 - Ertl acquires Carter Tru-Scale. 1973 - Ertl begins manufacturing plastic model kits. 1974 - Ertl acquires Structo Stamped Steel. 1977 - Kidde, Inc. acquires Ertl with purchase of Victor Comptometer Corp. 1981 - Ertl acquires AMT model kit company. 1985 - Ertl acquires MPC model kits. 1987 - Hanson plc purchases Kidde. Ertl acquires ESCI model kit company. 1989 - Racing Champions is founded by Bob Dods, Boyd Meyer and Peter Chung. 1990 - Ertl releases the first Precision Series farm toy replica. 1991-92 - Racing Champions obtains NASCAR license 1992 - Fred Ertl, Jr. & Robert J. Ertl retire. 1995 - Hanson plc consolidates its U.S. companies to form U.S.I. (United States Industries). 1993- Ertl begins the Wing Of Texaco die cast airplane collection 1996 - Racing Champions introduces its Mint line of non-racing vehicles. Racing Champions Corporation is formed. 1997 - Racing Champions completes its initial public stock offering (RACN on NASDAQ). 1999 - Company produces a commercial version of the Eternity puzzle 1999 - Racing Champions acquires The Ertl Company. 2000 - Ertl acquires Britains Limited 2003 - Racing Champions Ertl acquired Chicago-based Learning Curve International, Inc. 2004 - RC2 Corporation acquired Playing Mantis assets and The First Years Inc., 2008 - Tomy acquired RC2; maintains control of Ertl, Racing Champions and Johnny Lightning tooling 2008 - Auto World (a division of Round 2, LLC) signs licensing agreement to produce and market AMT, MPC, Polar Lights, and 24 and 18 scale diecast, and access to Racing Champions and Johnny Lightning tooling 2009 - Ertl celebrates 50 years in Dyersville, IA 2010 - Ertl celebrates its 65th Anniversary. Since 2008, ERTL is a division of Tomy when it acquired RC2 Corp.

I got the thinning with water from the description. I'd like to get larger quantities of the clear base coat. It works for other applications, too. I sprayed it as a gloss coat over acrylics so I could weather a Bradley IFV with enamels. Works great!

Robin Olds thought of him as being "brilliant" but thinking himself "God's gift". Hey, you gotta have big brass ones doing what he did.

Steve "Mig Killer" Ritchie's Lead Sled out of Udorn. The only USAF fighter ace of the Vietnam War.

Are you referring to the ad in SMclassiccars? It doesn't look like a cut & paste to me? Why would this car be listed in ebay anyway? Just curious.

Considering that they operate on traffic-congested streets, 225 HP was more than enough for the cops.

Heh, Popeye wore a felt pork pie So did Crazy Joe Gallo

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The detectives in NYC during the late '60s through the mid '70s all used Fury III 4DR land yachts. The tip-offs were the license plate numbers and the fact that almost every 4DR Plymouth one saw in the neighborhood was a cop car. All of the plainclothes narcmobiles and detective squad Furys had plates which had a "KV" prefix followed by four digits (KV-5691, for example). They actually rotated plates; but, you'd always see the same plate reappear on another Fury III.