Junkman

Who gave you permission to model me?

Good Lord. You guys can't be left unattended for five minutes

Bertone, like other Italian coachbuilders, loved to tinker with American running gear. Here is his take on the '63 Corvette, called the Rondine:

A low line car I think may be called base model in America? I call the stereotypical late 60s early 70s muscle cars canary cars, because their paintwork reminds me of canary birds. In terms of '66 Mustangs, this means that something like this: is more to my taste, than this:

Which model, if any, was used as a base?

Well, at least over here, you are not supposed to possess the punches for VIN numbers, unless you are certified. The legislaton could be similar in some States.

Just look at my latest acquisitions in the what did you get today thread. An '84 Supra and a C31 Laurel. That should put some weight towards our point. And yes, I'd order any 80s Cutlass kit TODAY! But a naked body carved from curd soap for 100 federal reserve notes, plus postage, plus whatever her Majesty's myrmidons see fit to rip me off with on top of that? No, thanks. I'd probably get a real one for that kind of dough. I owned an 83 Regal coupe with a V8 earlier this millenium. Drove it to Romania and back several times and enjoyed every single mile. Those G-bodies were darn good cars.

You exactly got my point. Thanks for expressing it much better than I seem to be able to.

Interestingly, I find the 40s to early 50s lookalike Detroit potatoes the most uninspiring cars ever built. You can look at the 70s 80s cars any way you like, but you will have to agree, that they were still distinctive in the way, that an American car looked American, a German car looked German, a French car looked French, and a Japanese car looked Japanese. Not like today, where every car looks Chinese. Be it as it may, the only ones catering for my generation are in fact the Japanese. And with some apparent success. Unfortunately, that leaves out all the American and European cars of the time. I will put a few more of my fake box designs in the dreaming of kits thread over the next days. And I urge all of you to tell me your opinion whether I have a point, or not.

Let's not upset the oldtimers. They got the ball rolling in the first place, so we should be grateful for that. But as a forty-something, I feel left out in more aspects of life, actually. It's either the blue haired bunch, or the kiddos in need of some new shiny rubbish from China. I seem to belong to a demographic that just isn't worth bothering with, unless it is getting our tax money, that is. So, where are our cars in model kit from? Where are all those 70s 80s cars we grew up with and we drove? The oldies frown upon them because they 'have no power' (despite I'm more than willing to show their 53 Hudsons what dust is with a 78 Caprice) and the kiddos aren't intersted because they aren't new enough. An entire chapter of automotive history is completely ignored, along with the generation cherishing it. And we are so used to not being asked, we never were asked about anything, that we don't make ourselves heard. I think we should start to shout a lot louder.

A tastily done low line car does more for me than the wildest muscle canary.

Yeah, but that's made of the weird stuff that doesn't craze when you try painting it.

My generation has not grown up with video games and other forms of entertainment, still, we are too young for bloody Hudsons of all things. There were people growing up in the 70s, whether you believe it, or not.

Exactly. There never will be anything wrong with being honest. And trying to qualify a clone off as an original will always be a crime.

It's even worse with military equipment in movies. WWII Germans driving post-war American army trucks or M3 Halftracks, WWII Americans driving M38s, East Block armies driving NATO stuff, I've seen it all. Not a big expert on weaponry, but I would think it is applied inconsistently too. Continuity glitches are everywhere, sometimes just too obvious. Not only do cars change during chases, but also the attire of the occupants, weaponry, one second they are in town centre, the next in the middle of the desert, weather changes from one part of town to the next, etc., etc.

From the article: "I own 2 real Z16′s, and am the owner and editor of the Z16 website and Z16 Registry. www.z16chevelle.com . . ." All you have to do is click on it.

Aoshima did several issues of a Range Rover Vogue 4-door, all of them stock. A very good kit btw. The ESCI Range Rover is the original 2-door and came in numerous versions, the Paris/Dakar is only the latest one. It was available completely stock, as a Camel Trophy car, and as a UK police car (jam sandwich). There probably were more. All of them included RHD and LHD dashboards.

Certainly no connotations here. The TV series carried a slightly different spirit and wasn't broadcasted in Japan at all.

It would be a lot bigger if appropriate kits existed.

It won't sell.

Muhuhuhuhua!

Oh well. The world could be such a nice place... Thanks all for the kind words! For those who wonder, it doesn't take long to make those once you have your templates. The first ones took me literally hours, now I can make one in ten minutes or so. What I said before is true. I ventilate 30 years of frustration into something fun, that's my sole motivating factor. So let's all have fun with them.

Yeah, I've heard that before.

But that wouldn't yield a mid 80s Cutlass kit.

Yeah, and it's not another bloody Ferrari either.