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Gee, Rob you're going to miss the possibility of 120 degree temperatures!

Sorry, but they need to be in 1/25 scale so they fit with most of the other available.

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Dieseldawg142, its the old Golden Rule: He who has the gold, makes the rules....or buys the ones that make the rules.

Jhedir6, Thanks!! Thought I'd tried that site earlier, probably too early...for me. And hey I did get some work done on rebuilding the steering wheel on the Heller Renault 4CV today.

Wow, it takes me that long to get the box open. And thanks to noisy neighbor going to work and pack of hungry cats actually got the computer onto Radio Le Mans in time to catch the aftermath of the Toyota shunt on lap 2. Only freebie video I can find is on Fordperformance. com They're streaming their in-car cameras and from the garage. Beats nothing. No tv, no cable except internet. Its almost nap time, so need to herd the cats in.

Never saw an episode of that show: think that was the time period I was going to college and working nights or working 2 jobs trying to catch up from college. Of course from the ads and few clips I've seen, wouldn't have watched it anyway.

Trying to get going on this again. Have done some work.

"IMHO an American car which would/could fly in Europe, besides the classic Mustang, I think would be a '60s (think Boss Hog) up to '80s Cadillac Deville and maybe a mid '70s Eldo. convert too... Revell has the best hand of cards to find out...since they are present both in NA and the EU" Yuck! Sorry to hear that, those would be on my list of don't want to see. Not sure what you mean by Boss Hog. Maybe some variations of the V16 Cadillac would be nice and would like to see a early brass Cadillac, but not anything much after 1939. And I'm just tired of Mustangs.

Excellent!!! May I some day finish one of mine even close to yours.

Don't know if I'll ever get around to trying this, but has anybody done the 'sun test'. Since they're ink, I would worry about the effect of UV light on them. The quickie test for that for pigments is to paint a piece and tape it to a window that gets a lot of sun with half covered and see what it looks like it a couple of weeks.

Will second on that interior, nice.

That's 6am here. Even for Le Mans I don't get up that early.

Thanks for the reminder, sort of snuck up on me. Since I'll be hiding inside with temps heading up to they're saying maybe 120 by Monday.

Not a big time race car modelers, but guess I could be consider a niche market modeler. Long time 57 Ford fan so did get a couple of the Revell 57s. The only other "mainstream" models is a couple of Mobeius Hudsons. Everything else over the last few years has been Heller, Belkits, ICM, Similar, Ebbro and a few miscellaneous Revell of Germany and Tamiya kits which I guess are semi-mainstream for American modelers. Was just wondering since American antique and classics seem to still be popular in Japan and Europe if enough sales could be done there to make it worthwhile for something like Revellogram just doing a couple of body variations on their classic kits. For example, a 41 or 42 sedan on their 41 Lincoln, or a different body on the Packard. Know it will probably never happen, but still keep faint hope for a stock 32 Ford from Revell like maybe with a B-400 body.

Not just today, but this has been an exceptional one for all the phishing e-mails I'm getting from claiming to be Amazon, Google, FedEx and ones I've never even heard of, let alone use. Since I don't really do much with mail order or any social media except for a couple of forums and my filter catches most and junks them. Trying to think, if I really started getting bunches after I joined this board, or not. Anybody else getting them?

Don't think I've used one since they were banned in high school in 1964 I think.

Their Escort kit is one that I have. Just wondering how they're selling in Europe and Asia since there seems to be the attitude from some American companies that only items that will be big selling mainstream items here in the US are the only kits financially worth doing. Although Moebius seems to be putting a knife into that somewhat. Roundabout I guess what I'm asking is if there is something that may be a bit of a marginal seller in the US if it would be successful in Europe or Asia or both would it be financially viable. Or don't they have enough of a sales network to place a kit overseas.

You're probably right about only 3 Stroker kit, but think their surfer (Hot Curl?) kits were numbered in the same series. I remember there being 2 (maybe 3) of those.

Wonder how kits like this one are selling worldwide? Figure in the US most people have never heard of an Opel Manta, a lot probably don't even know Opel. I have a couple of the Belkits models and they look really good. Maybe I'll actually finish one some day.

Was just getting around this morning to reading an article in Sunday's NY Times about the number of deaths at The Isle of Man races. I may be crazy, but pavement motorcycle racers are completely insane.

Oh man, again! Besides providing this forum and web site, when a magazine does get out in my opinion its about equivalent to 3 issues of Scale Auto at least for things I find interesting. Even if they barely do anything with cars anymore I still get Fine Scale over Scale Auto for providing modeling information.

Correction and additional information. Anymore am careful with the Wyss book, since it was a really early book on Cobras and he was a real Shelby fan boy meaning that over the years more information has surfaced and from other sources. Was going through a couple of more books from England: AC Cobra by Brian Laban and AC (Shelby) Cobra by E. Wilson McComb. The first car was put together at Shelby with the metalwork on the body done by California Metal Shaping. It was build up on a chassis from a wrecked 260 car and had started pretty much as a side project for Pete Brock and Ken Miles. The 2nd car was finished in England but was the first Italian build body. When the coachbuilder there started on it they only had some drawings and the frame. As an aside they were a company that deTomaso used and he referred Shelby to them. The first chassis they bodied had one of the body hoops put on wrong at Shelby and was 1 inch plus higher then it was supposed to be. The Italians just adjusted the roof to fit assuming it was a running change on the chassis. So when Remington got there it was pretty completed so even with trying to 'fix' it, it still was taller. So it was the high roof one which worked out since Gurney was going to be driving it and he could barely fit in the regular roof car. For that reason, it became his assigned car. Even though 3 different coachbuilders did bodies they were working off of a body buck. And as Bill has said, they would be some fractional variances, but not 3 or 4 inch differences. Lot of changes were made during the racing life, but they were more with scoops, vents, etc. not the basic body shell. The Laban book is really interesting since its told from the AC Cars standpoint and would say the author is not a Shelby fan boy. Has some good photos and information on the coupe that AC build and later versions build by AC for the GB and Euro market.

Looked up a bit of info on building the coupes. In the Wallace Wyss book "Shelby's Wildlife", the first was build in the Shelby shop. Then according to Phil Remington, that 'at least 2 were build in Italy and at least 2 were build in England'. He (Remington) further said he was send to Italy to supervise and that the cars were never right and parts had to be constantly reworked. That the roofs never did come out the same and the 2 cars being build at that time were always a few mph slower. The second coupe was build in England and was the one debuted at Le Mans with Gurney and Bondurant driving. According to the Michael Shoen (who owned the coupe that Bob Peeples measured) book 'The Cobra-Ferrari Wars' the car hadn't turned a wheel under power until it was in France. The first car from what I've heard had a slightly more vertical windshield which made the roof a bit higher. Then as both books commented as soon as the cars got on the track, modifications were started, different scoops, etc,. Seen one photo with slight wheel well flares added to it towards the end of the season. Guess I need to reread both books and a couple of others I have (wished I had the Daytona Coupe book, 100 bucks when new and heard as much as a 1000 dollars being asked for it now). If nothing else to figure out were #6 was build. Think it was in the Shelby shops, but no verification.

Had to look that one up also. Interesting, led me to another article: https://psmag.com/social-justice/confident-idiots-92793 that discusses some of the subsets of the original propositions. Sort of long, but a lot to think about.