Can-Con

Yes, it was all very odd. And is wasn't even Canadian federal government funding, it was the province of New Brunswick funding the deal. No, they were never officially sold in Canada but there are quite a few here. There were at least 3 here in Fredericton, which is the provincial capitol, alone. You're much more likely to see a Bricklin on the street here than a '50s or '60s Vette.

The "downfall" is that Malcolm Bricklin was a con man and sucked our provincial government into a deal that couldn't work in the time allotted to it. A lot of politics and back door dealings went on. Yes, there were a lot of reject body panels ,, A LOT. But you try curing fiberglass and laminating acrylic to it in an unheated warehouse in January in New Brunswick when the daytime high is about -20 C. There was no way they could meet production quotas under the conditions. Things got farther and farther behind. Eventually the whole deal just fell apart under it's own weight. But hey, at least out Premier at the time, Richard Hatfield got his free bright orange SV-1.

I also could use a set for the same kit. Unfortunately no luck on either site Jim posted. I've been looking for a couple months now and haven't found any on the net.

Didn't get anything I wanted. I kept just refreshing the page until I got tired of doing it and went on the Spotlight site and found that you had to re-enter the page. By then an hour or more had passed. I did have the chrome for a '62 Lincoln in my checkout but it went while I was searching for a couple more parts I needed.

The body panels were made in an unheated warehouse in my home town and final assembly was done an hour away. Unheated in the middle of one of the worst winters we had. People who see the cars always remark on the poor quality of the body. It's a miracle any were made at all. But they could still hold thier own with the Vettes sold at the time and I'd have one in a heartbeat.

IMC/ Lindberg Mustang II show car

My thinking exactly.

For those not familiar with the kit, here's a few shots of my mostly box stock Duster. I just added the plug wires.

I think they refer to those as "multi-media collectibles" now.

What I find off-putting is when a show is set in present day and they want someone to be driving an "old beater". The "beater" is usually a car from the '60s or '70s. I don't think someone would be so lucky as to find a car that old, 40 or 50 years, cheap and in good enough condition to be a daily driver beater. Not very often that would happen in real life. I would expect a 10 to 15 year old Civic, Focus or Impala to be a lot lore believable.

I agree, you should get right on that Bob. If I was you, I go out right now and start buying kits to review, maybe start with the Malco Gasser. Then you could see that it already has a blower in it.

Love it. I have an original '70 Cyclone kit I want to do something similar with but can't decide on a color.

Looks like I was correcting myself at the same time you were correcting me. LOL

I'm pretty sure it wasn't on the list. [ EDIT,, I found the list on Foose's website and it was indeed on the list. S.M.] But yea, I can just see all the pages of people complaining that Revell didn't do a stock '65 instead of a one-off custom even though they already have a couple.

MAN! is that ever clean ! Just beautiful.

I doubt they ever really had the Demon tooling to do anything with anyway. If they did a Demon the body and chrome shots would have to be recreated. I'm pretty sure the Demon was updated to the Duster for '72 to '75 and then updated to the Dart Sport partway through the '75 run for the '75 and '76 Dart kit, which was reissued a few years ago.

That's gonna look great !

Humm, I think I'd try scaring up an MPC rubber bumper car. The flares and spoilers are separate on those.

For me, it's just the inner fenders that would bug me. I can certainly live with a 1-piece chassis. Won many awards with them. I'd just build up the inner fenders from sheet stock. aside from the shock tower areas, it's pretty simple, flat areas. The fire wall and rad wall will look much better once the fenders are taken care of.

I just hold the body under in a sink full of water and scrub the lines out with an old toothbrush.

EVERY issue of that kit had all the same custom parts. This one is no exception, just another reissue with new decals and tires.

That's exactly how I did these.

I always thought this was a pretty poor idea. Good box art should at least highlight an image of the car or model that's in the box. This is just a confusing mish-mash of poor photoshopped images. I do get that they were trying to get across the idea that they were bringing the kit back from the dead but if you didn't know already what the Imperial looked like that image ain't gonna help you any. Is it a kit of the car in front? a kit of the car on the loader? the loader itself maybe?? The second go-around was much much better.

Justin, I'd try that Tamiya on the underside of the hood before you start painting the whole body with it. The Tamiya may have a bad reaction with the Testors enamel you already have on it and wrinkle up like a vinyl roof. That way, at least it's on the underside of the hood. If you have to, it's easy to strip the Testors off with oven cleaner and a few other things I'm sure a bunch of other people will tell you about soon. But if it works well over the existing paint , I'd just spray the blue on. Blue is a better base for a new coat of blue than the silver. Just because someone works at a hobby shop dosen't necessarily mean they know much about the products they sell.