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Holy moly!! I'm lost for words, this is simply out of this world. Incredible work you have done here

Thank you very much Bruce Yes, it looks almost ready for paint but there is still some sanding to do. I got ghost lines from the rockerpanel trim and I also have some more putty and sandingwork to do on the back wall where I have added some sheet-styrene to cover the outer sides of the backwall. Lots of work is needed on this kit to make things straight and true. I think my next model should be a Tamiya kit Maybe these wheels was modeled on some 1:1 items, maybe someone knows what they are called and who made them?

Yes, very nice stuff. I found a link to this on that site: http://forums.aaca.org/topic/145354-construction-of-a-continental-mark-ii-model-scale-112/ A scratchbuild of a Continental mkII in 1:12. Many amazing details on that.

Here in Europe they sold the Chrysler Voyager with a boat motor in it. A 2,5 litre Diesel from Italian VM Motori that was originally designed to be in small boats.

Progress is slow but moving forward atleast. I have been sanding the cab, removed the trim on the rockerpanels and added the driprails above and behind the doors aswell as the upper part of the windscreenframe/rubberseal. Still some work left on this before it is ready for paint.

This is the type I'm sitting on at the moment: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40309728/

Ok, that sounds cool. What was the price for renting that?

Yes, one of the reasons for going is the heat and the sun. We had a great lucky break in the summer of 2014 and had great temperatures and sunny weather for almost a month but normally we have about 200 days a year of rain and the temperatures in summer rarely go above 20 degress C (68F) and usually is at between 10 and 15C (50 to 60F) in the summer months. I'm thinking that flying to Salt Lake city and renting a car there, going north to Teton, Idaho to look at the truck and possibly buy it and then going back to Salt Lake city, on to the I80 west and to San Fransisco and then the highway one to Los Angeles will be a nice trip I can have the truck shipped all the way, should not be a problem but would be cool to take the drive in a proper american pickup. I guess if we rent a car it would be a modern day plastic box. Maybe it would be possible to rent a convertible, we will see.

Sorry for you loss.

Thanks for the advice guys. If I am going to drive the truck or get a modern day rent-a-box is not a sure thing yet. But whatever happens it would be nice to get to see new places. Is there any thing one should look out for? I'm looking at the map and maybe turning west in Salt Lake city and going on I80 past Bonneville, that would be cool.

Ok, I have for the past year been searching for one of my childhood dreams. A mid 60s Dodge pickup. I have looked at many and found one that I think is the one I want in Teton, Idaho. A 65 D100 longbed with 318 and 4 speed manual. The shipping company that I found have the best price ship from Long Beach, California. According to googlemaps this is about 1000 miles. I'm thinking of maybe driving it there my self but still not sure. Anyway, I have talked to my wife about this and she likes the idea. We where talking of making it an adventure, a trip of a lifetime. Have been looking up our schedule and looks like the just after easter (late march/early april) will be good for us. We are talking about making a 7 or 10 day trip out of it. Maybe we can stretch it out to 14 days, not sure yet. My question is: where should we go and what should we see? Where should we stay?

I have seen some of the 60s sweptlines with yellow sixes in them but I am no expert.

Same here with me. I like a lot of oddball stuff and I have always had a thing for plain-janes (dog dish hub caps, bench seat, four door sedan, cheapest version with no frills) and wagons and pickups and that is why my collection mostly consist of that. I don't have many muscle cars or pony car kits and almost no sports cars at all. I have one Ferrari kit and a couple of Porsche kits. My latest Ebay purchase was a 1928 Praga AN made by MAC: A small truck, in todays world it would be called a pickuptruck and in the US a small one at that.

I can only join in on what the others are saying. A truly amazing looking model and I have a hard time imagining how much work has gone in to it.

Yes, that would be perfect. I got a AMTs 289 Cobra and getting a Corvette is not difficult but the Caddy is a more difficult one. In my vision it must be something like a 55 or so, not much newer than that. Other songs I can think about (and both with a Caddy) would be Hot Choclates "Heaven is in the back seat of my Cadillac". I do have the figures for it but I guess I can not post that here The other would be Johnny Cash's "One piece at a time". That would be a very large kitbashproject.

I'm interested in both versions

Cool looking bug but I doubt that it is really a wartime bug. It is probably quite old and as you say pre 53. If you have a lot of time: http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=340552&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Never done one so far but I have had the idea of doing the "Hey little Cobra" as a model. The text goes something like this: "I took my Cobra down to the track, hitched to the back of my Cadillac"

Thank you. I'm very happy with the look the wheels give it. I was a bit unusre before but now I know that I made the right choice

A mockup that gives you an idea of how this is going to look. The bed will sit higher and the cab may also sit differently since the fit is so poor on this kit it is difficult to put it in place without glueing everything.

I just checked this out and you are right. It looks like it could work very well. I only dry fitted it now so maybe some minor modification have to be done but it should not be a difficult job. The biggest issue is that the upper control arms and suspensioncrossmember is attached to the frame of the Revell kit so that have to be cut out or fabricated.

Another small update. The wheels that I have shown earlier are from the Moun't Goat Jeep kit and I also have a gluebomb MPC 1:20 Ford 4x4 van that I thought had the same wheels only in chrome. Turns out they are not the same. The Ford van wheels are deeper and since I want a chrome edge with a black center and deep wheels I will use them. I will also use the tires from it as they have already white painted letters on them. And here they are, with black painted centers:

I have two of the Mercedes SL kits (I built one and it is my avatar pic here) and I bought them within the last 5 years. I paid very little for them. But yes, would be nice to see it reissued. It needs a lot of work to be correct but the version pictures above come with the steelwheel-with-hubcaps and if one paints them properly they look realy good. The other version, the rally-car came with Barrock alloys, bootspoiler and a rollcage.

That is an idea I support. Interchangeble batteries would make the cars last for a very long time. The way it is now, you are lucky to get 8-10 years out of a battery pack an around here many batterypacks are giving up after just 3 years. If they could also agree on a standard size/shape (think AA batteries and such) then one could buy a new batterypack at service stations when ever one needs more juice and all batterypacks would be in a huge system where they would be recharged and serviced and put back in the loop. We have a system on Euro-pallets here in Europe where a company "buys" a standard size pallet and send away good on it. You will recive another pallet but it does not matter if it is the same one. Bad pallets are discarded and there is a refund system for broken/rown out ones. If one could tranfer such a system to batterypacks aswell one could make an electric car go on almost forever. That would be much better for the environment than having it they way it is now when a 5 year old car is scrapped because one part is broken.

Oh yes!! I would buy them if they did them, that's for sure