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You win the internet today with that one Mark!

Gotta speak the language to get answers sometimes! Believe me, I have been looking! Every Target, Shop Rite, Wal Mart I have been to. My range is about 1/2 hour west of Philly, and most of Southern & Central NJ. I have been looking every time I have been in one of those stores. They all seemed to have stopped stocking it about 2 years ago. I'm sure it's the regional bottler (in this case, likely the Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling Company) who decides what they produce and stock. At least I know what the "Northern Mello Yello Border" is now, thanks to you! I'm going to be in Morristown, NJ this weekend, so I'm going to try there, but the last time I was up near Parsippany for the NNL East (the year before last), I did hit a local Shop Rite and got nada. Man- that hits home. I grew up in Roxborough- the next neighborhood over from Manayunk. I went to grade school in Manayunk, walked down those hills in the morning, up those hills in the afternoon. I beached my '71 Satellite in a foot of snow on Leverington Avenue one night, because there was no route home that didn't involve some kind of severe incline. If you have ever been to Manayunk, you know what I'm talking about! I still get there from time to time. It's become hip and gentrified over the past 30 years or so. Roxborough and Manayunk was really like a small town unto itself back then. Odds are, I knew your ex-girlfriend's family, or knew of them- I think there were only 30 or so families there back then Everybody knew everybody there back in the day. Not quite like it used to be. Different, not necessarily worse now, but not the same community it once was. I work with somebody who was born and raised in Brooklyn. Older gent, great guy, smart. My best friend at work. I mentioned D'allesandro's Steaks (in Roxborough) once- he knew about them (and loved them!), as his wife (girlfriend at the time) was from just outside Philly and went to Philadelphia College of Textiles & Sciences. They would hit Delly's back in the day and he remembered that place after a career that spanned 40 years, 4 states, 3 countries. So...if you're ever in Philly and want a Cheesesteak, you heard it here first. Skip Pat's, forget Geno's - go to D'allesandro's. Anyway, so this post has something to do with Coca Cola- yes- I prefer Coke, but I wish they (the makers of Coca Cola and Mello Yello are the same) would make Mello Yello more widely available.

Round 2 probably has to attach something to this tooling to justify it...remember that they had just released this snap kit as the General Lee, and then- the flag controversy, they lost or gave up the license to DoH merch, etc...so I think they were counting on keeping this item in their lineup for quite some time. It's not a bad kit, really pretty good for a promo-style build. I might get a Coke version because of the red molded body. I'm just mildly bent that they opted for the '72 style grille inserts, like the DoH Lees have had in the box since 1979, rather than correct '69 style items. I can't knock the marketing tie-in, because if it sells kits, then that benefits me, too. Round 2 has to do what they have to do. Regarding the 1:1 car...well, if the owner is fortunate enough to have one of these cars, and has the money to customize it like that, and it's not too tough to reverse...then...good for him. I will admit to being mildly jealous. ;) BTW- can anybody here tell me where I can get Mello Yellow soda (or pop, if that's what you call it ) anywhere near eastern Pennsylvania? While we are on the topic of soft drinks, I'll ask. We only have it here in Freestyle machines, and at Arby's Restaurants. I would like to buy it in bottles or cans, and Mello Yello seems to have fled my area few years ago...

Here's one... https://www.ebay.com/itm/2003-Getty-Dodge-Ram-1500-Quad-Cab-Pickup-1-25/274016569673?hash=item3fcca90949:g:JTAAAOSwgBZdhAxF

Bash it! I think the first Color Me Gone car was a '63 Plymouth as shown, so I'm not sure it would be considered a "Phantom". It would be a unique build, as I don't think I have ever seen a '63 Built up as Color Me Gone car.

!!!! Never noticed that before!!!

It looks like something Fred Flintstone would have made. I love it!

Thank you! I have one of those 1/16 kits, and it looks pretty good to me (although I will readily admit that '34 Fords are not my forte). The Street Rod stuff that comes with it, although perhaps dated, still looks pretty impressive.

Check out the plate on the front of the "Lanborghini"...it's an old Plymouth promo (used in print ads, etc.) plate!!!

Just curious- how accurate (to body shape, I guess, as it's not stock) is Revell's 1/16 '34 Street Rod?

THAT. IS. GORGEOUS.

I think that was part cost-savings, part current automotive trend. In the late 70's / early 80's, for a hot minute, it was "cool" to black out chrome trim on cars. I think some of the factory stock VW's had blacked-out everything for a little bit, and the 1978 Aspen & Volare Super Coupes come to mind with blacked out bumpers & grilles as well. Some 1:1 street machines (they weren't called "Muscle Cars" yet- they were just old Hot Rods at the time) were getting blacked out bumpers & grilles because it was cheaper and easier to spray bomb them black then to get them rechromed (or find nicer ones). Painting everything body color (the "monochrome" look) wasn't to arise for another several years, coincidentally when these cars started entering the "complete body re-do" part of their life cycles. I remember at the time (I was about 10 years old?) my Dad handing me a rattle can of flat black so that I could spray bomb the bumpers from a friend's pickup one afternoon. They had taken them off and laid them down in a parking lot on top of a piece of cardboard so that they could be painted. I think I did an OK job, but then again, I don't think either of them were very picky.

Look for a diecast Getty Gasoline or Ace Hardware promo...they did a nice quad cab Dodge Pickup diecast in approx. 1/25 scale. There may have been other variants offered, but those two are the ones I know off the top of my head. I'm not sure of the exact year of the pickup, but I think that's close to the one you're looking for. They're usually not terribly expensive when you find them on eBay.

That is a really cool "Time Capsule" build! Never change a thing on that one!!!

Oh- YOU'RE that guy, huh? ;) Actually, I bought quite a few '72 Road Runner grilles, bumpers, valences & taillights the last time around. & I got a '64 Custom Sports Special, which I'm really happy about.

Quite forgivable! How many of us have been able allowed to work on a Gen 2 Hemi???

My favorite projects are replicas of real cars- that is, cars that exist or existed in 1:1, as they existed. Movie cars, friends' cars, cars from my neighborhood growing up. One thing I want to get built soon is a '74 Road Runner that I went to look at many years ago but did not buy. It was a 318 / TF (yes, the 318 was standard that year!) with a bench seat, column shift, oxidized red paint, no stripes, Rallye wheels with no trim rings, A/C, and manual steering. An undercover Hot (warm) Rod. I decided that the manual steering would have been too much (driving a 4,000 lb car with manual steering, with fat tires up front was no fun at all, it turns out!). I should have bought it, sucked it up, and converted it to power steering. If I'm building something as a 'hypothetical" car, that is, something as I want to build it, but not using a 1:1 car as a pattern, then I do try to research them as much as I can. I go to as many car shows as I can, & take pictures of cars on the street. I tend to build them in colors that I have seen them in, or that a particular car is often seen in. I can admire and appreciate wild customs, made up and fanciful things, but I tend to like to build things I have seen or experienced. I want to try my hand at building a garage diorama, complete with spare parts on the shelves. Hemi & Six Pack intakes & carb assemblies, lying there, slightly grungy. Wheels and tires here and there. A short block under a bench. Weird speed parts that have no business in anybody's garage (everybody has at least one orphan part in their garage). None of it pristine. That's how I have seen things like that in other peoples' garages. Or maybe build a scene that shows a small corner of a swap meet.

I would like to see an El Camino like the one on the cover built. It looks like it's part Impala, part LeSabre. Maybe mix the custom parts with an MPC '70 Bonneville and an MPC '76 Caprice? I don't need another project, but maybe somebody else would like to take a crack at that. You're welcome. ;) Also, this reminds me of the Lindberg Box Situation they had for their old 1/32 "Dodge Charger" kits. A green '73-'74-ish Charger was shown on the box, but to my knowledge, they never did a 1/32 kit of that car. Those kits always came with a 1/32 '71-'72-ish Plymouth Barracuda in the box. I say '71-'72-ish, because while most of it looks like a '72 Barracuda with a flat hood, it has quad headlamps, like a '71. They reissued it in the 1990's, along with this El Camino (and both '90's boxes represented the correct makes & models, IIRC). Has anybody EVER found a 1/32 Lindberg '73-'74 Charger anywhere? I know they did a decent '75 (Cordoba-style) 1/32 kit, but I have never actually seen a '73-'74, like the box art showed. My guess is that the actual model never existed. I think the origin of that Lindberg Barracuda grille design was from sketches seen in Hot Rod Magazine back then- I remember seeing a "coming next year" feature for the upcoming '72 cars- there was a sketch of a '72 Barracuda with quad headlamps in it. Maybe that was the plan Chrysler had for the Barracuda until they went opted for dual headlamps in '72? Perhaps Chrysler put that out to Lindberg somehow, and then changed the plan after the kit was tooled up. It might have been last minute cost cutting for a car that wasn't exactly a sales blockbuster. That article also mentioned that the top engine option for the Challenger and Barracuda would be the 400 cube engine, but we all know the biggest engine you could actually get in an E-Body in '72 was the 340.

Looks great! I can almost smell the diesel from the SEPTA Bus that used to go by the house I grew up in on Green Lane in Philly...

Many exciting cars, true- and many Plain Janes of today will actually give the average muscle car a run for the money now (sad, or maybe not- but true)! But, the Hellcats are Top Dogs in today's Performance World. They are truly Kit-worthy.

I have to agree with that, and I slightly resemble that remark. I definitely missed out on these as well. First and foremost, I wish Mr. Clearly Scale (not joking, his name escapes me right now) the best of health, as I understand his health problems were/are serious.

I might just start a new topic: "we need a Hellcat!!!" Even just for the engine. If Round 2 were to do it (they are capable of doing new tooling after all), this would be a great opportunity. They could develop a full detail kit, and also, spin the engine tool off as a separate product- a parts pack, that would come with a 1/25 replica of a Demon Crate, as well as a replica crate for a "Hellephant" engine. I'll bet they would sell tons of those parts packs, for all of us crazies who want to put a Hellcat/ Hellephant engine into something different. I know I would buy a few!!! I have said it here first: a Hellcat Demon plastic kit with provisions for the single seat option, the extra tires & wheels, and actual scale Demon Crate would be Boss. Also, it must be mentioned: a full detail 2015-2020 Challenger tool could have so many variants: Scat Pack, SRT, R/T, Demon, Widebody, Drag Pack. Multiple hood options, wheels, custom parts. Go to Carlisle or the Mopar Nats some time, it's evident that these cars are quickly taking over as the "it" car at car shows. You probably have almost as many new Challengers and Chargers at a given show now than you do vintage muscle cars these days.

Funny you mention the Grand National. I remember when that car was out, there was no model of it for some time while the 1:1 car was being built. For awhile it was really one of those "why don't they do a model of one?" cars, much like the Hellcat is today. IIRC, Revell-Monogram came out with their GN kit about a year or so after 1:1 GN production stopped. Then again, it only took Revell about 25 years to do a Mustang LX 5.0, which was the "Saturday Night Special" (i.e.- cheap, effective and plentiful!) of American performance cars back then...

There seem to be some shots of 1:1 '69-'70 K&K Chargers out there...if you're looking for info on what colors to paint the various components, you could probably use pics of the undersides of the earlier cars as a guide.

Agree with all of the above! And- the argument has been made in the past when this comes up that without newer subject matter (meaning: more modern, or representing a decent selection of currently available cars in 1:1), the potential to engage newer modelers is reduced. The occasional Corvette or Mustang just won't do it.