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Actor/musician Jerry Reed died today at the age of 71. He best known as Cledus Snow in the 3 Smokey and the Bandit Movies. and his song from those movies "east bound and down". he is also known as Coach Red Beaulieu in 1998's the Watorboy. RIP snowman

that box art is excellent and that kit is a must buy for me because I don't have any 60 Starliners. still kicking myself for passing on them when they where $5.99 at Wal-Mart

I'll have to check that out. There's a Sears Grand locally that had the Revell Choppers (Sears Grand is a mix of Sears and KMart). also check your local Tuesday Morning. they have the Johnny Lightning AMT kits for $5.99 each.

Southern Motorsport Hobbies shows two different sheets for the same car. Robby Gordons 2007 Monster car he drove at Sears Point. Monster Energy Drink at SMH

Fujimi has a current VW GTI kit out (MKV, the 2006-2009 body style, its on my bench right now). Tamiya is the only other manufactuer that I can think of currently has a VW kit. Did'nt Revell AG have a VW Bus out recently? I know Revell's new Beetle kit if discountinued a few years ago

I still think that the wheels in the kit are the newer 18" Bullitts. i'm making a set of the older wheels out of a set of Pegasus Torque Thrusts. and the older wheels have more of a lip to them. which the Revell kit does'nt have. plus I would think revell would tool up the news ones since the upcoming 09 Bullitt kit should have the newer style wheels since the 1:1 has them older Bullitt style Torque Thrust wheels The new ones also. Revell got the year wrong. the kit from all my research represents the 07 Hertz car, not the 06 listed on the box. the rear panel is correct for an 07. its kinda hard too see is this pic but this is an 07 GT-H. you can see this car has the updated rear bumper treatment. and the new 18" Bullitt wheels.

I almost bid on there 71 Demon this week. then I remembered who they where, i'll stay away from them. i'd be better just getting one of those resin Demons from Model Roundup.

I have 3 05-09 Mustangs planned as of right now. 1 regular 09 GT (it just found it way to my bench, i'm updating the 06 kit to 09 standards). 1 Shelby GT500 (still gathering info on this car. should be on my bench once my current Fujimi VW GTI is done). and either a Shelby GT or a GT-SC. depending upon if I can get the decals (I may just make them myself). once the bullitt and KR cars are out I will build them too. I would suspect that Revell will announce the ZR1 at the Ihobby show in October? I would be shocked if Revell did'nt produce a kit of it. I'm also hoping that they announce that they are doing the 2010 Camaro kit, and 2010 Mustang kit, and a 2009 Subaru WRX STi kit for the heck of it. ( a man can dream can't he)

so i've got a few older builds I would like to redo. I used Tamiya (Primer and Color) paint on them. but 91% isopropal alchohol won't touch it. it won't remove any of it. anyone know of anything stronger that I can use that might strip this paint.

I've been in a "newer" car building mood so I havent had the need for any BMF recently. I havent bought a new sheet in prohibably 3-4 years. with the sheets that everyone is getting it looks like I won't be building anything pre-80 for a while. I havent heard anything good about BMF for the last year.

I had them all removed at the same time when I was 15. It sucked when it was done. but looking back at it I'm happy my parents decided to do it. I would not want to have them now

The Camaro should be a much better track racer then the Mustang. The Mustang still has a solid rear axle. where the Camaro has independent suspension all around (they've entered the 21st century. now all GM has to do is ditch the leaf springs in the Corvette and they'll be officially there)

I'm gonna make an attempt to make it to this show this year. last time I went was in 04. I'm going on vacation to Florida the next day so I won't have much vendor $$$. another great show is the Olde Potbelly Gang which. which is right off the Turnpike in Stanton PA on November 2nd. alot of the same people who run that one are also in the Three Rivers Auto Modelers.

here's another idea for the GT-H kit. a 2009 Mustang GT-CS (California Special). it would require some scratchbuilding the engine cover since it has the GT engine appearence package (its an option....but I havent seen one without it) You could also do the Mustang AV8R, but that would require a Supercharger for the engine, and the roof would need to be converted to have the glass roof option I'm hoping Kieth Marks steps up to the plate and offers decals for the difference veriations that can be done with the Revell GT-GT500-and GT-H kits

when I was younger I got most of my kits at Wal-Mart, Hills (later Ames) and KMart (BTW. all there kits are currently on clearence, I guess there dropping kits again). I also got alot of kits at KB Toys. the one in my local mall (LONG closed), stocked everything. including Tamiya kits. I remember getting a Tamiya 300ZX kit there. I don't remember any local Grocery Stores having kits. There a small family owned hardware store near me that still stocks some kits. but not much. going to the Hobby shop was a rare occurance. and I never really got the full LHS expierience until I got my licence and started driving out to them myself. by the time I was born (September 1984). it was'nt a big thing anymore when new cars came out. alot of the dealers around me are all closed. Brant Oldsmobile closed in the late 80's. There was a Pontiac, Dodge, and an American Motors (who's sign is still there today) dealer right up the road which closed long before I was born (all three buildings are still there. The Pontiac dealers VFW, which will be town down soon to make way for a Wallgreen's, and the Dodge dealer is an Arcade Game store (Pinball and such), and the American motors dealer is a rug store) about 4 miles away there was another Dodge dealer that closed. a Ford dealer that closed in 2006. and another American Motors dealer that closed in the late 80's.

Need to bring back an old thread to post that some good progress has been made on the car. here's a vid. They need to replace the chassis from what I understand. its too rusty to support the weight of the heavy Plymouth. they also say they can get the engine running by the end of the year The buried car....1 year later

looks good Styro. I'm thinking about doing the same conversion. you've given me inspiration. looks good.

Excellent as usual Marc. you know there's a Hot Wheels 69 Coronet that looks just like that.

that modelhaus 72 LTD looks awesome (there pics over at SH). The Missing Link also has there 71 4dr on Ebay. which also looks good. but a little too $$ for me right now

I got the GT-H today. (Hobby shop I rarely go to had them for only $12.99. which i'm guessing was a miss price, but I did'nt say anything ) body is the same as the GT500, different hood, only difference is the stock engine from the GT kit. same interior with incorrect manual transmission. only underhood changes are the strut brace. the cold air intake with seperate filter cone (nice touch Revell). I agree with what Bob said about the wheels. they appear to be the correct size but the tires are too tall. and the car sits too low. a quick trip to the tire parts box should remedy that. decals are nice with very bright gold stripes. and all the correct Hertz logo's. another issue with it is a little one. box lists it as an 06, but the wheels place it as an 07. The 07 Hertz cars got the new wheels, here's the difference, 06 07, which are the wheels that are in the kit I'm not building this as a Hertz GT-H though. mine will be an 08 Shelby GT. 08 is the only year there making these. there pretty much the same car as the GT-H, only these came with a manual transmission, and a different hood. here's the Shelby GT

I drove a Dodge Avenger (The original two door kind) with an auto stick and found it rather boring. The car still pretty much shifts for you There are still a few cars out there that are manual only. My dad just bought an 08 Honda CIvic SI. and the only transmission is the 6sp manual, no auto even available. The Mustang GT500 is also available only with a 6speed manual.

The new 70 1/25 scale kit is lightyears ahead of the 80's vintage 70 1/24 scale kit. If they can fix the slab sidedness of the die cast kit then the new Revell 1/25 70 Challenger will be by far the best Challenger kit out there.

I just noticed that too. I thought the late August release date for the 09 Challenger was a bit early for typical Revell time frames. January seems a bit more suitable for Revell. just as long as the kit is out before the 2010 Challengers (if Chrysler is still around then) are in 1:1 showrooms I'm guessing Revell needed to do more work to the 1970 Challenger tool before it got released. hopefully fix the "slab sided" appearance that kit has.

very true. I've just started my search for a new car, and one of my must is a manual transmission. I've never owned an auto in my short life (I've had 3 cars...all sticks). and I don't plan on switching to auto's until I physically can't drive them anymore. I looked at a G5 a few weeks ago and they only had 2 manual cars on the lot. neither I liked (one white one silver, too plain looking for me), the GT's they had on the lot where auto's. I wouldn't even consider an auto right now.

I need some help identifying this truck, and finding out if there is anything close in scale (Plastic or Resin). this picture is from the late 50's early 60's in downtown Pittsburgh, in the Strip District to be exact. The truck you see is adding ice to the box cars which cooled food. This was my Grandfather's business. and this was one of there trucks. My moms been asking me for years to build a replica of one. but she just found a good picture of it. I know this project will require ALOT of scratchbuilding but its a very important project to me. Here's the best picture of the truck I have This is the whole picture. This is Smallman street in the strip district in Pittsburgh. most of the buildings you see in this picture are still there. The Strip District was big wth wholesalers back then and it still is today, except they aren't using trains that much anymore (all the tracks in this picture are long gone), My Grandfather passed in the mid 70's, long before I was born so I never met him. but this is a keepsake I want to build for my mom so she has something to remember him by. also if anyone has any good reference pictures of similer trucks that would be much appreciated.