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Different. Wouldn't have thought of that.

Looks like you're off to a great start, Dan. What's the engine?

The whole bucket was sprayed with the same dark red then I taped off the door panels and console and sprayed a wet coat of clear flat on to stick down the flocking. Did another coat of spray and flocking a few minutes later. This is how I've been doing my carpets for quite a while now.

That Ferrari is a pretty nice kit. But it's not really a GTS. It's just the GTB with decals for the rear side window louvers and, IIRC, the targa top piece. Not hard to cut the top out if you want a GTS but I don't know what someone would do about the window louvers.

I'll see what I can do, Al. I'd never be able to get pics of all the cars, there's usually between 2000 and 2500 at the show.

Finished the interior. Wanted to do it in grey but the old paint kept bleeding through the primer. Happy with the dark red though. It goes well with the exterior of the truck.

Finished the interior. Wanted to do it in grey but the old paint kept bleeding through the primer. Happy with the dark red though. It goes well with the exterior of the truck.

A little late, Bill but,, My first order of chrome I did with LMKC, I sent Dale a Canada Post money order in U.S. funds. Should have been good anywhere in the States but none of his local post offices would honor it, even though it should have been %100 good. Dale sent it back and he got Paypal just so I could do business with him. I don't know if he ever did that for anyone else. Really gonna miss that guy but wish him a great retirement. He deserves it.

About 20 years ago I got a pretty good deal on a '79 Nova kit. This was long before it was reissued. The box was open and there was a pic of the contents. Description said it "looks complete" , , and it did in the pic. body, check, glass check. the rest of the parts were in there. There was a glint of chrome beneath the black plastic parts ,,check. When I got the kit everything was just as it looked in the pic. Except that glint of chrome wasn't the chrome tree but a piece of chrome metal doodad thrown in the box. One complete MPC '79 Nova kit, pristine unbuilt , no paint, missing the whole chrome tree. Oh well. complaining not worth bothering with.

Yes, original part from the '61 kit, it was never reissued

yup

It was only issued the one time as an annual so that would make it about 63/64 years old.

Yup. what he said.

Anyone else going to Moncton next weekend for the Atlantic Nationals car show? If so, maybe I'll see you there, if not, you'll be missing one of the biggest car shows in eastern Canada, probably the biggest. Remember, Main St. in Moncton will be blocked off all day for festivities and Canadian classic rock band Chilliwack will be playing the street dance that evening this year

Wouldn't matter for the new tool OBS Chevy anyway. The wheels in the new kit scale out to about 14 inch. The new wheels would fall right through the old tires. That's the 1/2 ton anyway, don't know about the Dooley, don't have one of those.

A 1/2 have Chevy engines, the rest have 4 cyl Honda engines.

I usually use lacquer thinner as a thin liquid cement and regular Gorilla brand super glue for stuff I can't use the thinner on. My favorite brand super glue was Ross brand but I haven't seen any in a few years.

Looks great Keith ?

Yup, just checked E-bay and the first 2 '78s that popped up were both a "buy it now" for $30.00 + shipping. You couldn't get a new copy of the '80 plus a conversion kit for that. But, of coarse, there's quite of a few identical ones for over 100 bucks. ? , , and one asking a "BIN" of $185.00 ??

Would you believe late '60s? Those tires were in the MPC Lotus Turbine Indy car and the Charger III show car.

We stained the outside of a regional Ford dealer in the summer of '92. I remember they had 2 Nights on the lot. I thought they were great looking trucks. But full disclosure,, it was the biggest selling Ford truck dealer in my part of Canada.

A little rub with some polishing compound [Tamiya for example] will take that right off. I do it all the time.

Last I heard, based on past release schedules and timing, early to mid next year. So about another year to shelves maybe ??

AS I like to say about my T/A, Bill , , 'No computers, no sensors,, NO PROBLEMS !"