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Just fabulous work. I always thought those Chargers looked great in orange, especially without numbers on the doors.

Masking tape.

Looks great Raoul.

Except , of corse for the largest mass sighting in the country with thousands of people reporting seeing a huge "V" shaped ufo on March 13 of '97.

Na, It's just whoever came up with that and posted it on facebook has no grasp on geography. Even a dumb Canuck like me knows Mount Rushmore is several hundred miles from the border. It could be taken as mildly insulting if it didn't say more to the ignorance of whoever made it up than the insult it was meant as.

Pegasus Michelin Pilot tires on a set of "T"s that I cut the spokes out of and replaced with a set of centers I mastered and cast myself.

I'm not on the book but I did get an e-mail from "harrypri" last week. , , Deleted without opening.

Closest ones I can think of are in the Monogram '64 GTO and '80s Monte Carlo SS, but those are 1/24 and supposed to represent the aluminum ones, not the stamped steel ones like in your pic. I think the ones that were in the MPC '69 Barracuda might be still in there but for some reason, those are 6 lug.

No. A "blue moon" is simply the second of when there's 2 full moons in one month. This month there was a full moon on the 2nd and there will be another on the 31st. The one on the 31st will be the "blue moon".

Ah yes, a simple kit that looks great when finished properly. They weren't all built in grey with red, just seems that way. , , , and yes Ian, black with tan is very do-able.

Beautiful !!

Did a bit more on this one. Was thinking I wanted to add some more color but decided against it and just foiled it and added the glass.

I second this, but use the full polishing kit from 3200 grit on down. I almost always "tint" my glass with Tamiya clears and polish it out using this exact method. Never had any problem with putting the black band on after. Thing is, true "polish" does not add anything onto the surface. Think of it more like super fine sanding, which is exactly what it is. Wax is just that, wax and does nothing to get rid of the scratches, it just covers them. Same with Future, which most people call "polish" , which it definitely is not. It's just a thinned acrylic clearcoat. Dave's right about it filling small scratches and smoothing over them but if they're any size at all you should use a polishing kit and get rid of them properly.

Yea, with a damaged box and no instructions, it's probably not worth that much. Those would have been the unique things that would have made it worth something.

What I like best about this one is you did your homework and but the wiper motor where the wiper motor goes and the "Beep Beep" horn where it's supposed to go and not followed the incorrect instructions on the instruction sheet.

I've never seen one of those before, I'd say that's one rare kit. You probably should have bought it if the box and associated paper was in good condition, No telling how much that would have gone for on e-bay. IIRC, at that time Revell wanted to distance itself from Roth because of his association with the Hells Angels so they renamed and reboxed all the Roth kits without his name or any references to him on them.

Yea, I remember that one. There was a guy on another message board years ago who claimed it was his. [that he built it] He also claimed he owned an "Alternomad" and a blown pro-street Willys among other hi-buck street rod type stuff but always said " he sold it recently and didn't have any more pictures of it" and couldn't give any details when anyone asked about them. Anyway, he claimed he owned that unique build of the RR. I remembered seeing it on the showrod site [and the bit about it being sold on e-bay] because he posted the exact same pics directly off the site. I didn't directly call him out on the BS but I did ask how he did the uniforms, etc. ,,, no response. He stopped posting on that site shortly after.

Thanks Erik. They sure look pretty close, missing the rivet detail around the rim and the centers are not recessed like the ones in my pics but again, pretty close. I'd LOVE to have a set of those. They'd be just the thing for a retro '80s pro-touring build.

pic from the net,,

My boss loved his GMC Safari vans. Last one we had in the company was one he bought new before I started working for him on 2000. He passed it down to one of the workers 6 or 7 years ago. By the time we got rid of it, it had almost 500,000 KM on it. [right around 300,000 miles] It probably would have went another couple years but the guy that had it drove it into the ground. No maintenance except oil changes and whatever the bare minimum was to go through inspection for as long as he used it. I don't even remember him ever cleaning it. My '99 Saturn had over 350K on it before it died. But I don't believe there are any really "bad" car makers anymore but every one has built thier share of bad cars. If someone has a good car, you never hear about it but if the car won't start ,, just once ,, everyone on facebook knows about it and then every car that company makes is junk.

Another shot.

Ok. I checked e-bay too and found one with a bit bigger pic of the chrome tree. The wheels look like Jongbloed Series 214 from what I can see. Those are some serious racing wheels. One of the first aftermarket wheels available in + sizes for bigger tires and used on some of the more serious early pro-touring cars back in the early '80s before "pro-touring" was even a word.

Casey, could you please post a closeup of those 6 spoke wheels? I think I know what they might be.

Testors Hugger Orange looks pretty close to me. I'm doing a Datsun pickup in it right now.