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And Jim, if you stop in at any of these stores, please post and let us know what you think of them!

It depends on exactly where you will be in Philly (sorry, I don't know about the Wilmington scene). It's a big area and some shops are a little more out of the way. If you're heading up to Philly from Wilmington, you could probably stop in at Nicholas Smith's Toys and Hobbies. The have a nice selection of car kits, paint, a few Gofer decals & such. They also carry LOTS of slot cars, some diecasts, and the whole top floor is trains- LOTS of trains. They have some nice sci-fi and military kits. They stock Evergreen plastic. I think it's the best LHS in or near Philly (in PA) at this point (I can't speak for AAA, I have never been there- but I'll have to make a trip!). They have a few slightly older kits on the shelves, and most of the new releases. Definitely worth a stop. http://www.nicholassmithtrains.com/store/go/about-us/ Due to Covid-19, I think their hours are actually 12-5 every day except for Sunday (closed). They're about 2 minutes off of I-476. 476 is the route you would take from 95 (the ramp to I-476 from 95 is about equidistant from Wilmington to the Philly Airport) up to the western and northern suburbs of Philly (like Delaware County, Villanova, Conshohocken, King of Prussia, etc.). Off the beaten path a bit is Modellbahn Ott in Boyertown, PA. That might be a bit out of your way (about an hour west of Philly), but it's another good shop if you happen to be near there. http://modellbahnott.com/ Capelli Hobbies is still coming up on searches. If you're right downtown, they're on Walnut Street down by the (eastern) Delaware river end (311 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19106). I have not been in that store in about 25 years, so I can't say if it would be any good now. Years ago, I do remember a good selection of model cars, a lot of Foreign kits, and it being pricy. They used to have some car aftermarket stuff stashed in some drawers on the counter side of the store, but that was a LONG time ago. They also had trains, military, figures, other tings. It might be worth a peek if you're right downtown in Old City (it's not far from the Ben Franklin & Betsy Ross Houses, Independence Hall, Constitution Center), but if you're not, then you might not want to make a special trip there, expect parking to be a hassle, etc. I'd be curious to see what that store is like now, because I have no idea about this one anymore. I hear AAA Hobbies is great, but I have never been there. Depending on where you are (downtown or near the Delaware), it might not be too hard to take one of the bridges (Ben Franklin or Walt Whitman) into NJ and check out AAA.

Thank you! I know that some of the AMT kits in that series came with plastic whitewall overlays for the tires. I might even have an extra set if you need them, but check the contents of the T Bird kit- I think they came with some of the things you are looking for. I'm pretty sure that the T birds came with steel wheels, too- as I have a set of the hubcaps from one of the T Bird kits, and like the Chevys and the Mustang, they were designed to install over the steel wheels in those kits.

You might be able to come up with wheels that you could either coat with Allclad or send out to be chromed. The T Bird kit might even come with steel wheels that you could send out for chroming. I do know that the 1/16 AMT '64 Mustang and some of the '55-'57 Chevys they did come with steel wheels. I think some of the 1/16 Chevy kits came with side pipes, or something that looks like Lakes Pipes. Check the T Bird kit for spotlights, I'm not too familiar with those kits, but it does seem that that series of kits came with a few custom parts - for all I know, there might be a set in that kit. Look on eBay for 1/16 parts- sometimes, you see somebody parting out some of the AMT kits, as either they take a new one and part it out like they do with the 1/25 kits, or, they have a 1/16 kit that is started or has a crushed body, and they try to wring out some value with the parts. I look at 3D parts on Shapeways all the time...especially for 1/16 cars, as there are few options for aftermarket parts for these kits. I'm just suggesting the kit pats option because the 3D parts tend to be sort of pricey, and sometimes they are less than ideal.

I'll throw a few in here: The AMT '71 Duster Street Machine has the same basic block, heads, etc. (340 c.i. Small block Mopar) as the stock it, but the valve covers look like Mopar Magnum valve covers. They're not the later "Magnum" design, because the cover bolts are the old LA pattern and not the newer "Magnum" pattern, but if you paint them black, they have a crate-ish look to them. None of the Mopar crate engines came with the pseudo-Viper intake that that kit has, but if you use the Six Pack or 4-BBL intake from the stock kit with the Street machine valve covers, (go ahead, each stock kit comes with one of each intake!), then you have something that looks a Mopar Small Block crate engine. I'm going to use at least one of these in an upcoming build. The Revell Foose '67 Charger has valve covers that look a lot like the Mopar units used on their Hemi crate engines. The rest of the kit has a stock Hemi, but swap on a cross ram intake, or, my personal favorite, the old Jo Han single 4 BBL race intake (which looks A LOT like the old MP M-1 intake), and you have what really will look like a Mopar hemi crate engine. I know these aren't whole engines, but swap on those distinctive valve covers, paint the parts just right, and you'll have engines that will look a LOT like crate engines. I might have to do a few of these up for demonstration purposes. I still think Round 2 should create a Demon engine kit, to sell on it's own with a replica of a Demon crate.

As a huge Monty Python fan, I'll jump in here to say "that was one of Wilde's"...

Wow- that was a peach to start, and you really enhanced it's beauty! Just the right touch right there!!!

Tim- I love this build. It’s right there with my tastes as well. The 340 would have been a great engine choice- I owned a slightly modified ‘74 360 ‘Cuda and I can tell you that it didn’t take much to make that car into a beast! Here’s a pic of a car that I shot back in the very early ‘90’s. Your build really reminds me of this car. I found it on the street in Philadelphia that day. I was very excited to see something like this on the street and in decent condition at the time, and I just happened to have a 35mm camera with some film in it in my car (which was a ‘71 Satellite Sebring Plus) that day.

If you're there all day getting yelled at because the pics don't turn out, it's your own fault!

We have a winner! Not my first choice of what I would want, but I still might need to get one.

Reminds me of the time the mail carrier at my old house crammed a package in to my mailbox- they would put them in from a common door at the back, which opened wide. The individual door on my own mailbox didn't open as wide. I had to take a pocket knife out to the mailbox to cut the box up from the inside just to get it and it's contents out. That was fun.

IIRC the Superfly had a full roof like the annual Grand Prix, while the Dream machine had a targa-style cutout roof - the roof was molded that way, it wasn't something the builder cut out. I think also the Super Fly came with side exhausts, while the Dream Machine didn't. If Round 2 has this tool, they could do one run as a "Neoclassical 70's Luxury Custom", with new box cover artwork, etc. That would be a low-effort-maybe-high-reward offering for Round 2. I'd prefer they mold the full roof and include the side pipes like the SuperFly, though.

Man, they ought to bring one or two of those back. Round 2 has the Mongoose License, I wonder if they could do a McEwen English Leather Corvette from one of those? And perhaps a "name" Omni? I wonder what's up with those Omni bodies though. I don't remember the kit bodies looking quite like that...

That is NICE!!!

If you do a flat bed, maybe you can build a load of parts to haul to a Mopar show (hoods, quarter panels, engines, etc.).

Looking GREAT! I snapped this one at the Mopar Nats in 2017:

Here’s when it was at Carlisle in 2016.

Here is my homage to these cars...I couldn’t scratchbuild a 4 door ‘66 Coronet body (I would love to have one, my family had one of those cars when I was little, although not a Hemi!), and I didn’t want to try to modify a ‘67 Plymouth body. I used the next best thing. No ‘68 B body 4 door Hemis were built to my knowledge, but if they were, they might have looked like this...

I know of a white one, a red one, and this one- I saw the gold car for sale at Carlisle in the early 2000's. The Garlits car was supposedly built for the FBI as a test car. One of the others (I think the red one) was special ordered new by a Mr. Floyd Cline, because he wanted a 4 door with dual quads for towing. There was an article in Mopar Action magazine back in the early 90's on both the red and white cars. Their rarity was known even back then. In '66, when the Street Hemi was released, that engine presumably could have been ordered in any B-body body style or trim level. I think I read that there might be a 4-door '66 Plymouth in Europe somewhere.

That's an ambitious project. I like what you did with that Challenger Diamante concept! Call me crazy, but I don't see much Viper in the Charger RT concept. To me, the drop of the front fenders and the shape of the nose look a little more like a Firebird- that drop is what you want to capture, and the Viper nose . Maybe keep the Viper as-is since you didn't cut it up yet, and start looking for an early 2000's Firebird kit? Or perhaps a newer Revell Ferrari California.

Yikes. Maybe draw the paint out of a can, let the metallic settle into a jar, separate and airbrush? I could have sworn I read about a way to do this...

On that Vega chrome tree, it looks like there's a blower set up, as well as some of the stock 4 cyl engine parts. Maybe some of the other "Street Funny" and stock parts will be there, too? I might have to do me a Street Funny...

Maybe match the shade and then don't shake the can? Maybe the metallic will not mix with the rest of the paint, and you'll get a non-metallic color when you spray. You would have to play with it a bit. I agree that the metallic for this color wouldn't show up on a model, based on how miniscule the metallic flakes are in 1:1.

I have seen Chargers and Road Runners with wings, but never Superbirds and Daytonas without. Just my opinion, I think you need a big wing- any big wing. Even if it's homemade. Maybe get a spare wing from the MPC '74 Road Runner? It's not technically correct, but it could stand in for a "prototype" wing on a "test car"... The stock wings do pop up on eBay when people part these out sometimes. Or you might need an AMT '68 Road Runner or '70 Coronet body for the front clip. You could use a '68-'70 Charger, but those fenders will mismatch a bit at the doors. Maybe wait a little bit until the right parts car comes up for Frankenstein parts... ...or maybe build it as an in-progress driver, missing the wing and maybe the nose cone. Headlights just hanging in space

Maybe swap an AMT/MPC '70 Coronet nose on it? Super Bee coming, Road Runner going... In my old neighborhood, there was a junkyard where they had a Corporation Blue '72 Demon 340 sitting there for years. At least- it was the back 1/2 of a Demon...upon further inspection, they swapped a '72 Duster nose onto it. I know that eventually that car got bought. I met the kid that bought it. He had it in primer, with a '72 Dodge nose back on it.