Junkman

Nope. That's called "8 cylinders with supercharger". It used to be cutting edge technology around 1925.

Great link, thanks for that! Hey, 65 Marlin and 66 Toro in the pipeline and maybe I can convince them to cast me a 67 Eldo body (OOP unfortunately) so I can finally restore my Jo-Han glue bomb. Looks like I'm becoming a repeat customer.

Well, the new ZR1 can outperform a Fiorano in every aspect, except for the alcantara headliner, should someone care for such stuff. However, for Fiorano money, I can buy two ZR1s, have one of them shipped to Monaco and make a year's holiday there. So the Corvette value paradigm still stands as far as I'm concerned. Re. the Mustang: I couldn't care less what rear axle is in it and why and I quite like the Mustang as it is. I just found it amusing when I read the term "cutting edge technology" in an article about a Mustang. That's a bit like finding the term "sophisticated creature comfort" in an article about a Super Seven. Isn't exactly the Mustang an island of refreshingly congenial old-fashionedness in a sea of technology gone overboard for no apparent reason? I'd buy a 'stang just for that if I was in the money for one. And speaking of Mustangs and Super Sevens. I'd like the engine of the former in the latter.

Oh, and a 1:24 C-310, of course.

Right. Now all that's missing is the wagon.

Is that the one Jochen Rindt had an untimely demise with?

My father once bought one when my sister and I were still little. We became seasick the moment it was in motion. Thanks god it usually broke down shortly afterwards, having spilled one of it's numerous fluids across an Autobahn. That gave us some opportunity to recover (pun intended). I still love it to bits and I have quite a few DS models. When I was in the income group to buy a car in this price range, they were already long out of production, hence I bought two new Citroen CXes in succession, both behaved in a similar fashion as my father's DS did.

I'm still on the lookout for a suitable Winter car.

Yeah, that'll get you into the OT straight away.

Granted. But it's hardly cutting edge technology.

I explain it to you: - 9 puts for seven greens this morning. - There were free drinks after the lunch in the club. - The new apprentice nurse had to be -errr- taken care of. - A complaint had to be dictated to the secretary regarding the long delivery times of new Rolls Royces. - The secretary who took the dictate had to be -errr- taken care of. - This called for another round of liquid refreshments from the office bar. And whooshbonk, it was 3pm...

I like that. How did it feel?

Monday, Tuesday and Friday he has to play golf? Why did I study physics and not medicine...

I do. And if it was for me, you could pack me another 650hp and another 600lb/ft in it, I wouldn't complain. However, what amuses me much more is this: "SVT keeps the Shelby GT500 on the cutting edge of technology" Yes, with a solid rear axle for example :D

Well, one thing I'd probably change is install a steering system that is somehow bolted to the car and not shaking around in mid air from 30mph upwards. Bloody rubbish this is.

Sounds rather unhealthy. The best of luck, m8!

Get out yer Proxxon and start crackin. There is only one way to find out.

Absolutely! Until then, we have to alter the Gunze/Mr. Hobby oval window. Or whack out the division bar of the Revell and make a 1:16 Inch Pincher out of it.

It belongs into the Revell 29 roadster pick up with the track nose, no?

Needs a Good Old Blues Brothers Boys Band in scale...

The London bus.

Not for me, no.

Eh?

Without any hesitation.

For me it pretty much depends on what I'm building. I use music to get me in the mood of the subject. So if I -let's say- build a Mercedes 540K, I listen to Max Raabe und das Palast Orchester, Marlene Dietrich, etc. If I build an old Heller, I listen to Edith Piaf, Charles Trenet, Yves Montand, etc. If I build a classic American, I listen to Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, etc. If I build a Fifties car, I listen to Dion & The Belmonts, Flash Cadillac, etc. If I build a Pick Up or Truck, I listen to Alan Jackson, The Dillards, etc. and so on... Looking forward to building the London Bus, because I'll listen to Ashton Gardner & Dyke, some ancient Fleetwood Mac and the Honky Tinkers.