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Looks good. The only thing I'd mention is that the subframe rails are part of the body structure and ought to be body colour. I see a lot of people painting them black as if they were a GM F body or similar. The K-member was a separate piece and that should be black.

Winningest and funnest, both of which I heard yesterday.

In that case we're the same. I just keep reading recently about what people (from the US) are going to buy with the money "from their tax return". Clearly, they are using the term incorrectly.

US tax return - getting money back from the government*, UK tax return - having to fork out thousands to the government * at least that's how it seems from reading forum posts where US taxpayers seem to expect to get money back in January. US "winningest", UK most successful US "funnest", UK most fun I still struggle to believe people really use those words.

Heated rear window - the old Skoda joke:ttps://www.leaseyournextcar.com/blog/why-does-skoda-octavia-have-heated-rear-window Having lived all my life in England and also having rebuilt a couple of engines, I've never seen or heard of a Woodruff key referred to as anything else.... The rest of your list looks good, apart from the Allen bolt - that's still an Allen bolt. A US set screw is a UK grub screw.

Indeed they are different. I'm talking colloquially - to the man in the street, in the UK, they're hubcaps.

Wheel Cover - Wheel Embellisher I'm nearly 50 and I've never heard anyone use the term "wheel embellisher". The old metal ones were always hubcaps; new plastic things are called wheel trims. Never heard any normal person use the word backlight either - it's rear window, or rear screen.

Yes, my '80s Revell 'Black Magic' Pete 359 has perished tyres and a Revell Germany rebox of the Italeri container trailer I bought in 1984 also has rotted rubber.

All these were bought 20 - 30 years ago. Hardly any shops over here sell kits these days: Monogram '70 Boss 429 from a Do It All DIY store. ERTL COE & conv. Transtars and an MPC El Diablo from the back room of a bicycle shop. Jo-Han Mustang Funny Car from the gift shop at a preserved steam railway. I think it was the only car kit in a shop that understandably stocked a lot of model train stuff. Revell '60 Corvette from Tandy (Radio Shack).

Yeah, there's no way you're going to get Milliput to work with a silicone mould, You need a low viscosity polyurethane resin. That Blu-Stuff looks pretty expensive too - I use EA Silicones, a 1kg kit comes in around £20.

Tyres look to me like the AMT ones Mark mentioned. Modelhaus replicated them as their T110.

That's more like it. 14" or 15" wheels, max.

+1.

Brief glimpse of Dave Strickler at 1:45 here: No roll bar, not even a full harness. Racing in shorts, too...

I seem to recall an article in SAE, but that was probably 20+ years ago. Here's how it's done in real life - the key points are to cut out the whole rear window intact and lay it down, and to make sure you don't have the front lower than the rear (which Revell got horribly wrong): http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/tech-chopping-a-49-50-merc-the-barry-mazza-way.168831/

Nope.

For the first 40 years of my life, I only ever heard "Porsh". I thought Clarkson was putting it on when he started saying "porsh-er". Still, for years, Nestle was pronounced the same as the verb, now we're told it's "nes-lay".

I can help you with that one: wust-er-sheer, with emphasis on the first syllable.

As a born & bred Brit, that's news to me.

Did this not happen with Danbury Mint? If you offshore to China in the name of saving money - you made your bed, you have to lie in it.

I think you're barking up the wrong tree there,,, those don't go "up and back" like boat headers. It sounds like the OP is referring to cast Max Wedge manifolds.

That was a Roots type, bearing a resemblance to a S.Co.T. /Italmeccanica blower. It does have sidedraught carbs though. The Jo-Han '70 Eldorado has a Latham, IIRC.

Plastic rod and a candle. It doesn't get much easier than that.

That's the one I have. The bumper is too wide, to my eye... as a result it's remained untouched in the box for years.

My '70 GTO is the 1980s reissue. I wasn't aware the body had been modified from the first issue.