RickR

Randy is an EPIC shooter, has a great backstory as well, even married the swimsuit model from the cover of the '87 Swimsuit issue of Hot Rod. Tough duty...

Those are not my favorites of the era, but they can be great-looking car with proper rolling stock. A friend of mine in college had a beige hardtop Satellite, sitting tall on 15" Chrome reverse wheels and blackwalls. He let me drive it ONCE, long story. I hope the Moebius kit is as good as the Chryslers and the Pontiac!

I wrote for 'real car' magazines- often doing articles about models- before I got 'politicked out' when the publishing industry and everything else crashed in '09, and stayed in touch with some of my industry contacts who also got bounced. So when I heard that Ace Photographer Randy Lorentzen had started a new online book, I had to check it out. RODDING REVOLUTIONS is just a flat-out EPIC piece of work. The photography is PERFECT, the articles are detailed and precise without losing the necessary 'enthusiast' mindset or vocabulary. Want to see the fuel lines for a new-style 8-stack injection system for a Chevy Big Block? Check the first issue. Want to see the welding seams on Richard Petty's '71 Road Runner? Issue two, along with volumes more great articles. I have an article coming up in a future issue, a veritable biography of the most important Pontiac on the Planet! Check it out at www.RODDINGREVOLUTIONS.com

Nicely rendered! I'm doing a Revell '40 Standard, that gives me some ideas...

Well done!

Yeah, Bill, I have encountered the 'issues' with that kit. Your ideas on the wheels look great! Both my parents and my grandparents had '61 Catalinas, and Wangers drag raced one for the Royal Pontiac team. I'm doing one 'to spec' for Jim. He told me that one of the tricks that some of the Royal Bobcat cars had was red paint in between the fins of the 8-lug wheels. I may try that on his.

Been away for a long time, have been looking forward to the info and crosstalk here at the MCM site. I'm Rick Rothermel, lifelong modeler currently in Melbourne, Florida after 30 years, 2 months and 11 days in Southern California. There, I lucked out and was able to get 'real involved' with the hobby. I wrote the model columns for Rod & Custom magazine for four years, did articles for Car Modeler, then for Muscle Car Review, Custom Classic Trucks and a few other titles, promoted and co-promoted numerous model car shows in SoCal and even pout a few shows on TV when I worked as a Field Producer for Discovery Channels' WILD ABOUT WHEELS from '89 to '92, before car shows on TV had BUDGETS.. I build mostly street rods and musclecars, have built cars for other friends, am currently in the early stages of a built-to-spec '61 Ventura from Moebius Models for Pontiac advertising legend Jim Wangers. The new kits are truly amazing. How far we've come in recent years in this hobby (again and again!)

I think they'd be missing a bet not offering an AVIS RENT-A-CAR version for the Torino. That's the most popular use for them when they were new. If they want to do TV cars, how about the Dart GTS or the Cudas from MANNIX? They have the base material.