Brian Austin

In the late '70s or early '80s my family toured the Framingham, MA GM plant. Today the property is home to a vehicle auction company.

From Horseless Vehicles And Automobiles by Gardner D. Hiscox, a 1901 volume still in circulation at a local library. (Ignore upper diagram on p.228 and all of p.231.)

From a Shop Manual I purchased at a swap meet.

Two recent articles: https://driving.ca/chevrolet/auto-news/news/millennials-are-doing-the-opposite-of-killing-the-classic-car-industry-survey https://www.forbes.com/wheels/features/millennials-vintage-car-collecting/

I've read from time to time of a supposed renewed interest in brass-era cars.

With the various 1:1 fiberglass Cobra kit cars produced over the years, I'm a little disappointed there aren't Aceca replicas generally available. A while ago I started a 1:24 Aceca kitbash based around Monogram's 427 Cobra, far from a stock version.

A while ago I did find a Cuban site or so, but don't recall the name. I shall check out the one you suggest. Thanks. MercadoLibre (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, etc.) and MercadoLivre (Brazil) along with arcar.org are my main references, though others come up in image searches. The Fosiles Mecanicos blog, apparently based in Argentina but occasionally covers Uruguayan subjects is a fun place to browse. http://fosilesmecanicos2.blogspot.com/ Russian/Eastern European sites can be fascinating as well. :-)

OK, I guess I missed the commemorative angle to this release. And yes, I do recall some shortcomings with the Hasegawa kit. I recall getting it on markdown so it was a fairly good deal at the time (and as I said, it was reboxed by Revell). The new Revell kit almost looks fiddly with all the fine details. They look great, though I'm still holding out for the T2 that has been promised.

Nope!

I regularly trawl South American automotive sales sites, and there's a lot of tired old iron out there. Lots of patina and just plain rust-through. :-)

Interesting two-tone body paint, some missing trim and a little rust... http://www.retrovisiones.com/2011/09/442-dias-442-clasicos/

I wonder how well that custom grille fits the Revell kit.

I like 'em all...well, up to '64 or so... :-)

Interestingly these are multi-piece, while Hasegawa VWs are have one-piece bodies, and at least one was issued as a Revell US release.

Interesting selection of releases. The VW camper looks to be a fun subject.

CIBIE lights are cool. Did any of the period custom cars sport yellow-lensed Euro headlights (i.e. French)? Also it's interesting to find rectangular headlights on cars built in foreign markets, but derived from US models, such as Argentina's Ford Falcons. Here is a '78 facelift Falcon. The prior styling cycle sported quad round headlights in square bezels.

I haven't been in a B&N for a very long time now, but I recall being rather disappointed in the selection of automotive books at the time.

Neither do much for me. :-P (I was always more into Prog rock) :-D

No worse than the '70s. :-p

It's an American film. Probably just a coachbuilt body.

I think I'm more partial to AC's Aceca myself. :-)

I have the ITC Jaguar coupe and wonder if there would ever be a market for that series of largish-scaled sports car kits. Those were nothing particularly special in terms of detail or accuracy, though they did offer some interesting subjects. As far as the other kits mentioned, perhaps a polite email to Glencoe might be in order.

Same age bracket as model car builders, right? ? I have enjoyed the build threads on the SA board. I've done web searches for build pictures of a particular random kit from time to time that I'm interested in purchasing and those often show me what's in the kit. Once the forum is flushed down the drain I'll miss the pics. (Though to be fair, threads with pictures bearing the heavy Photobucket watermark aren't nearly as useful).

They do have some neat small-scale car kits.

Don't forget Palmer, Pyro and Lindberg. ITC (Ideal) tooling wound up with Glencoe. Much of Lindberg and Pyro tooling wound up with Round2. And remember the Matchbox line of 1:32 scale kits? That tooling went to Revell. Related to this discussion, promo diecast banks originally produced by Banthrico had been reissued from time to time by Cutting Edge Industries, so some of that tooling might still exist, and the tooling for PMC (Product Miniature Corp) plastic promos has been rumored to have still existed.