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That is the Revell 356 Speedster is. a flat mulit part body. It's fine. That goofy GT 6+ is like that too.

I know what you are getting at and I agree with that. Just seems like AMT has more than their fair share of problems and the seem to be a bit worse than any other kit that you can still get readily. I am also always up for a challenge I have taken on ROG's 250 GTO head on, I like some Heller kits but ATM kits are just annoying sometimes. I spent a long time sand fitting sanding adjusting and I still could never get the rear Starliner bumper to fit right. There was something else on that kit that nearly drove me to drinking but can't remember now. It basically all comes down to engineering. The Italeri 911 Turbo, good fit and finish, clean and crisp, not so well engineered in some areas, and completely missing the headlight buckets. I am sure some would toss the old Revell 356 speedster in the mix but I love that little kit.

I would almost have to agree with that. You can get spoiled rotten on Tamiya kits, it is rare to have problems with a Tamiya kit. I have always had some fit and finish issues with AMT kits for one reason or another. Their Nova is pretty bad, but even the newer releases which are otherwise fantastic kits like the Starliner does have some fit and finish issues.

I could do that.... what a sec... GT40 I am not even sure why I have all those GT40 kits they are the enemy

maybe we should allow GTPs since that is what Group 5 became (Group C) Ahh maybe not that would give me over 100 kit choices. I am so confused.

I know, wasn't making a big stink about it. I wish you could get that Capri for resonable. I have a set of decals for it but the kit is ggoing for a jillion dollars. Yes a 935 is a Group 5 car. Porsche made sense as alway 934 a group 4 936 a group 6. I do have a IMSA mustang what markings will fly with that. I was going to try the Zakespeed Capri ones on that maybe. That was the car I was considering. I also have plenty of 911s. Maybe a 512BB 917? Maybe I will finally have an excuse to do a Fuji GT40. Err I got too many choices.

technically it's not a Group 5 car.

I have a Group 5 something to build. Hummm which one Here is the list of qualifiers. Group 5 cars Cars homolgated by the FIA as Group 5 cars included the following: 1st Generation Abarth 1000 TC Alfa Romeo 1600 GTA BMW 2002 Ford Escort Twin Cam Mercedes Benz 300SEL Porsche 911 2nd Generation Porsche 917 (includes the Kurzheck (K), Langheck (LH), widebody shortnose 917/20) Ferrari 512M/S Lola T70 Ford GT40 Mk 1 3rd Generation Ferrari 312P Matra-Simca MS670 Mirage M6 Alfa Romeo T33TT/12 Renault Alpine A442 4th Generation Porsche 935 (includes the 935-77, 935-78 known as the Moby-Dick and the customer Kremer K3 and K4 and the JLP variation) BMW 320i Toyota Celica Turbo A22 (1st generation) Toyota Celica Turbo A45 (2nd generation) Nissan Skyline RS Silhouette Formula Nissan Nichira Impul Silvia Mazda RX-7 SA22 Nissan Bluebird SSS Turbo BMW 3.0 CSL BMW M1 Ferrari 512BB Lancia Stratos Turbo Lancia Beta Montecarlo Turbo Ferrari 512BB LM Ford Capri Turbo Ford Escort Zakspeed Lotus Europa Gr.5 Greenwood Wide-Body Corvette Yeah, the IMSA GTP cars were group C.

I could never get that stuff to work either.

I guess that's better than getting screwed.

Yeah, looks good with the clean sides and steel roof. Apperantly, however, he liked it about as much as his 70th or 75th b-day Porsche (I forget now), which was the 4 Door 928. We had some kids down the street with a bunch of SBC V8 914s must have been a cult or something.

Looks good. I should have jumped on my Brothers real 914-6 GTS, but it was in boxes and I didn't have anywhere to put it at the time

It is kind of rare underground Fujimi kit: 1/24 Porsche 911 Carrera RS 3.0 1974 Code: FUJ08209 Series: Enthusiast Discontinued

1/35 Italeri military field pack has a couple welding tanks that are just perfect for 1/25 1/24 nitrous bottles. http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/ita/ita0419.htm

I would go with the Ferrari 288 GTO.

A Ferrari that is not a Ferrari

Yeah phone wire is good for some things but a bit big for plug wires. Radio Shack 30g hookup wire look for WRAPPING WIRE is good for plue wires.

I know didn't make sense back then, still doesn't.

It would be easier, and probably cheaper to modernize an old one. the 968 they pretty much figured the 944 all out and then stopped making it.

Yup, which just ends up costing them in the long run. For example a transmisson plug that a bean counter found for 3 cents a piece in china over the 4 cents a piece japanese part ended up failing on over 2.5 million vehicles over ten year period at a warranty fix price of P&L @ $52 per failure. Saved 2.5 million at the cost of $130B.

They, that is just Ralph Lauren's Ferrari collection. exactly. He has some property here and the fence line along the road goes for well over twenty miles, it's funny becuase whoever put up the fence did it backwards according to his wife and she made them do it over - maybe 100 miles all they way around.

It kind of goes like this, but it gets more complicated all the time. Designs, and since we are mostly talking about designs here have a 25 year life now. The copyrights on intellectual property is 75 after the authors death. Trademarks are another animal... so even after the design has aged out you still need the rights to "CHEVROLET" "GOODYEAR" "DELCO" for example. Plus then there are all kinds patens on stuff they make, like transmissions, and specific componets that are GM, or FORD, etc. Then there was so many diecast companies trying to buy up exclusive rights. Used to be a 100 part kit costed a $100,000 to produce, now you have that much in lawyer expenses, royalties, fees and rights before making a single cut on a tool. So you have several hurdles to cross to put a single kit out. And if they don't want to play you have pay. Porsche (VW Group) and especailly Ferrari really put there foot down on this.

This is more my kind of garage It's one of Ralph Lauren's garages. I am sure Jerry's garage is pretty nice too. Those guys account for 3 of the existing 10 or so 550s and the Factory has 2.

They call it in the wild, which accounts for 83% of all trojans currently

I had one just before Christmas. It was bad, it seems to have wanted to create it's own partition on the HDD and operate from there. Took out Windows in the process.