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I just took a quick look through the '77 and '78 brochures, pretty well all the light pickups have white walls. White letter for the sportier models and 4X4s. The only black wall tires I'm seeing are on 3/4 ton and heavier work trucks. Remember, it was pretty hard to find a car or light duty pickup tire that didn't have a whitewall back in the '70s. Even the very cheapest vehicles came with them standard.

Man, that's gotta hurt !!

Casey, I think you need another cup of coffee, buddy. Those are the "recall wheels" right there on the left side of the chrome tree and the white stripes are there below the black ones.

Are you looking into making the Astorian, Niko?

One kit I'd like to have another crack at was the 1/12 Otaki Mustang Mach1 A birthday present from my father when I was 6 or 7. Being the version with the electric motor in the engine block and working lights, it was way beyond me at the time. I see them come up on the bay occasionally but I can't justify the price. Last one I seen on there a couple weeks ago was twice what I paid for my 1/1 Trans Am. It's been reissued a few times by Arii and Doyousha but without the lights and motor, just not the same.

The look of the headlights can be improved a lot by simply putting in bigger lights. I made the openings larger with a round file and made new surrounds with thin sheet plastic. Then you just need the right size headlight lenses and reflectors . Still a bit too wide apart but much better, I think.

Cool that you collect radios. I have one, but it's a good one. [not my pic but mine is in as good of shape or a bit better]

Man ! I'm lovv'n that. Looks like more than a little 1st gen Eldorado in that design.

Kinds had the same thing happen with my '69 Riviera. Just got the car around Christmas and it was cold! Couldn't get much heat. The following spring I found that the cable going from the controls to the door that controls if you get heat or cold had kinked. Moved fine at the controls but only opened the heat door about an inch. That was a cold ride on a -30 night.

Mike, I used to work at an auto glass shop, I know how it works. ,, and yes, I have had lots of rocks hit my windshields.

Actually, I do that all the time Snake. Always have and I've been driving for over 35 years now, never had that happen. What kind of car was it? Must have had one heak of a heater.

Actually Bill, those "wrong" drawings are from the carblueprints site also.

That's fine. I suspect he could have said it in a better way like you did Bill. But, anyway, as they say "Live and learn".

Sorry I posted. Just trying to be helpful, I'll try to remember not to do it again.

I've not tried it but I do know the AMT kit is considerably narrower than the Revell kit. One for an AMT '68 Elcamino might fit better. It looks closer to the width of the Revell kit.

That's all new, from a master made from scratch. This guy does incredible work but I hope you have deep pockets if you want to buy one of his kits. I'd love to have one of his 308GT4 s but it's way out of my price range.. Here's a link. http://smp24modelcars.blog.fc2.com/

Is this the same guy as "Race Motor Replicas" ?

No, it's for the AMT '69 Chevelles. When I did the tail lights 14 or 15 years ago, there was no thoughts of Revell ever doing a Chevelle. There will be a '68 conversion kit coming, I'll be doing the parts but I'm having a problem getting the new Revell kit here in Canada. If I ordered one from the States, with shipping and exchange rate on the bucks plus maybe taxes and duty, I'm looking at over $65.00 CDN or more. I'm gonna have to wait. Mike tells me there's no hurry.

I'll play along Snake. Now that I have a work area set up. Gonna finish up my '67 Bonneville first. Then if I have enough time, I'm gonna finish up my '69 Beaumont hardtop. Started it about 10 years ago, last time I worked on it was about 5.

This is basically where it stalled out in April when the flood hit. I moved it up on a high shelf to be safe and lifted the table I was working on by putting a 5 gal. pail under each leg. Everything was high and dry, and safe, I thought. Tail light lens must have fallen out when I put the body on the high shelf. Anyway, Thanks to Steven G. I can try to finish it up. Started working on the engine tonight. Cut the heads off and reattached them straighter. Dug out all the parts I'll need to finish up the engine. First time I put glue to plastic in about 9 months. I see the green counter top won't be much good for taking pictures on. LOL

Very nice. Up until just before Modelhaus closed shop, I couldn't afford one of thier full kits. I was doing a bit better when they closed , I tried to score one of these '61s but I was too late. AH, maybe someday I'll get lucky.

Most likely the Blackbird. The annual is on the shelves right now as the '79. IIRC, the Blackbird mold was created in response to the overwhelming sales of the '77 "special edition" issue of the annual. To keep the Blackbird on the shelves and be able to keep updating the annual tool, another separate tool was cut.

Cool! Makes me want to build one now too. Man, those old AMT flame decals really bring back memories .

The MPC '73 and '74 Charger annuals had that.