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If some people could walk on water, they'd complain about getting their feet wet.

Sorry to say I'm still waiting for someone to make a kit of one that looks "right". Yes, I used to own one so I'm very particular about it.

I am aware of those. Amazing kits but just not my thing. But this is just what I mean, some people get off on building models like that right from the box. Then there's those of us who get off on taking something like this,, and turning it into this,, , , and just because I did this doesn't mean it takes ANYTHING away from someone who wants to build strait from the box.

Personally, I think there's room for both camps. Some people like to just turn their brains off and follow the instructions and come up with a nice looking model. Some of us like to take that badly engineered kit and use our brains and creativity and come up with a nice looking model. Same destination, different road. I don't even look at building a Tamiya or Fujimi kit as the same as building an AMT or MPC any more then building a car as the same as building an airplane or tank. Different models/different skill set. ,,, and don't even get my started on building a car from a pile of unrelated parts from different kits from different manufacturers. ,well, anyone who'd do that is just nutz. 🤪

Give that man a harrumph. 👍

The actual Jeepster front bodywork is quite different from a CJ. BUT , , I have done that exact mod back in the early '80s with the MPC kits available back then and it was pretty strait forward. And it looked pretty good too. No pics from then but it's not exactly uncommon in 1/1 apparently.

Those are actually hood ornaments.

Any tariffs imposed by Canada would have nothing to do with you Al. That's NOT how tariffs work in spite of what some people believe. 🙄

Excellent. I'm very much looking forward to dropping a few of those down low over some 20s in the near future. 😁

Erik, quick question on another subject, If I may, I'm wondering about the status of the '67/'68 Chevy pickups? I hope all this wackyness that's going on hasn't killed the project. I'm very much looking forward to these.

NAFTA deal was replaced 5 years ago by the USMCA deal

No doubt you guys are correct, I wasn't there after all but the engineering of the RR also looks very similar to a lot of the MPC kits from the late '70s/early '80s such as the Pintos and Mustang IIs and front drive Mopars. The wheel mounting style has MPC written all over it, In fact, I've found that a lot of the wheel retainers and wheel backs from those kits will interchange with the RR parts. Nothing like the snap-on style of the Nova kit and '67 Chevelle released shortly after the Nova. That's why I've been suspecting the RR was in the works before the buyout. But again, You guys would know better then I would with your histories in the hobby.

Nope, he never did any.

That '68 RR was first released sometime in '89. It's not one of that generation of '90s kits. I kinda suspect it ,along with the '69 Olds 442, were the last kits developed by MPC before the Ertl buyout.