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Sounds great to me. I know you guys like your TY tie-ins, so I have a suggestion. Put an exposed headlight grille option in with what you described for the GTO and you could market a "Republic of Doyle" GTO.

Just read on the other board that these have been announced today along with the Sodbuster '81 Chevy stepside 4X4. I knew the Chevy pickup was in the works but not the GTO and Camaro. Anyone else hear anything about this?

A couple more progress shots. Kelson lent me an original grille to cast a copy from. Looks better in black then bare white plastic. I also tinted the glass and glued it in with minimal glue smears over it. ? The shaker scoop and interior are just taped in place to see how it'll look.

Stuart, just to be clear, you are aware that body is a '30 or '31 model A, not a '32, right? But a model with the '32 body would still be very cool.

Yea, I seen that. No problem.

I think I can handle that Luc. ?

Ray's Kits Decals was working on a set, which would have been excellent if his past sheets are any indication. Unfortunately, his wife, Vicky had a stroke last month so all new decal development has been put on hold for the moment. He is still selling his current decals but I understand he's slowed down a bit under the circumstances.

I think this will be another big seller for Monogram/Revell. So pleased that they left the flat windshield in as I have a unused roadster body left over from a Phaeton build I did years ago. As far as what's in the box goes, I think those who build kits mostly from out of the box will be happy with it. As for those of us who build,, more "advanced" hotrods and customs,, aren't they all just boxes of parts that may or may not be used on various builds as we see fit? ?

Yes, lots of wires out there but I'd just like a good set of Kelsey-Hayes wires similar to those that came on early '30s Fords. Bent Spokes would be ideal. I did use the Revell sedan wheels on my last '29 pickup but there's just something about them that looks "off", even after I modified the centers to accept AMT '32 Ford caps. A good buddy of mine has a printer. If he can find a good file, maybe I'll get him to print a couple sets for me.

The '70 was originally the kit below, which is a completely different, separate kit then the often reissued '77.

Super sweet! ???

Neat. But you need a good friend with his own printer. These didn't cost me a cent. ? He's working on a Buick flavored custom set now for a '68 Riviera that I'll be starting on soon.

some beautiful cars there Ron. Can't say I'm impressed by the mail box air scoop though. That and newspaper box scoops are so common on rat rods that they're almost a cliche.

Missing Link was doing a resin one in 1/25.

So, I was just on the Ray's Decals site. He was working on the 1/8 set but his wife, Vicky has had a stroke so it's on hold for a while.

Blame Google and your browsing history. The ads are tailored to reflect what you've been looking at with your computer. Everyone sees different ads. I've never seen the ads you're referring too, don't even know what donkeypox is, I assume it's similar to monkeypox though Last year, I looked up the proper name for a style of Stetson hat for another member here. I've been getting ads for western hats, boots and clothing ever since, but it is falling off.

Reminds me of old Testors metallic emerald green in the little bottles.

Well deserved, Steven

Seems to work fine for me.

For those who don't know, JoHan took a shortcut and shared the entire chassis and under hood details from the Olds Toronado with the Caddy Eldorados. That's why the distributor is in the rear on the instructions and kit, it's an Olds engine, not a proper Cadillac engine. The only change they made was put CADILLAC script on the valve covers.

How about some good classic wire wheels suitable for hot rods? http://thewheelsmith.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Wireswheelred.jpg http://thewheelsmith.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/WireswheelchromeV8.jpg

Just cover it with a dab of Tamiya clear acrylic and it's gone.

Not sold in Canada but not an uncommon site around here considering they were made about an hour from where I live. The body panels were made in my tiny home town. ?

The first Stephen King story I ever read was "The Raft". At the time, my cousins and me would go swimming in Grand Lake almost every day it was nice and some when it wasn't so nice. It was about a 1/2 hour bike ride. Didn't go in the water for a while after reading that story. At the time I had a subscription to Twilight Zone Magazine and this is the issue it was in is pictured below. It was also in his anthology "Skeleton Crew" and in the second "Creepshow" movie, but the movie wasn't 1/2 as disturbing as reading the actual story.

If you can find this issue of the elCamino, it actually has 6 door handles in it. 2 on a tree just for the Elky and 4 on a tree shared with the '66 Chevelle wagon.