Junkman

Oh, I should have omitted the word 'Dart'.

Not getting it. Where is my answer wrong?

There are literally thousands of liveries for these buses. I want to do at least three. Too bad that thing is so big, I can't move into yet a bigger house just now.

Really? I was still flying with the midges in 1962.

I can't remember what the movie is called, but the entire opening scene, i.e. when the opening credits are scrolling, is filmed under water. There are dozens of dead bodies with their feet cast in concrete blocks, in every stage of decompostion imaginable. If anybody out there knows the film, I'd love to know it's title.

It is explained in the book that the car was built to special order. I think this was omitted from the film.

Speed Trap - in the opening scene a Jensen Interceptor is nixed. The original Herbie movie - it starts with a figure of 8 race. What gets trashed is heart breaking. Pas de Probleme - it starts with a very tongue-in-cheek but brilliantly choreographed car chase with superb south of France Gipsy music.

I'd say any fuselage era Mopar would do actually, but the Dodges were simply the finest expressions of the look.

Tutorial, please.

Probably not the most exciting rides, but in a metropolitan area by far the most intelligent ones.

Errr.... This links to a 1980s ghetto blaster: Not entirely inappropriate for a disco-age El Camino, but stil...

Let's continue to collect suggetions until Sunday evening. I will then publish the compiled list on Monday, so everybody can look it over and select his favourites. I will not include some wild customs posted in here of which the base models are already on the list. One can always customize a stock model, but one cannot build a stock model from a pre-fab custom. Oh, and then someone should probably start compiling a truck list. The concept of being enthusiastic about a light truck is completely lost on a European, so - with regret - I can't do it. And entirely btw., if Moebius hasn't got the message regarding the '51 Studebaker yet, then it's a lost cause anyway.

But it's a model.

Wrong bus. The one in Summer Holiday was an RT.

Sure, cheers. But before it happens, we must debate, because only debate will lead to reason in the end.

Once the list is complete, sobered up and discussed and debated, i.e. finished, I will email it to the model kit companies.

We will find out what is mentioned more often than not.

We should make a separate truck list, too. That's up to the Americans though. Being European, I have no concept of the truck scene.

Keep on going. However, I will not include stuff that merely needs reissuing. We are talking new tools, or heavily modified/amended existing tools only in this list. We could make a separate reissues wish list too, if you like.

Good old hangings, huh? Too bad they went out of fashion in this part of the world, always were great crack them... If you consider using a polishing kit dry, you will be done within a few minutes. They load up very quickly and they will never really clean out again. This is how I ruined my first one. Took all of 15 minutes.

I will include all suggestions you guys make into the list in the end. I'm really looking forward what the final list will look like.

I have an extensive collection of colour charts and sales brochures. I try to make my models 'typical' for their era and use old postcards or movie stills from www.imcdb.org for inspiration. Most of my models are modelled after some movie car, not necessarily the main protagonist's, but some background car I noticed and that grew on me. Sometimes I buy sales brochures or old postcards just for a specific project and sell them on when I'm done. I have a knack for turquoises and aquas and teals, so if a car was available in that sort of colour, I usually use it on my models. I also like greens and have a 76 Caprice in lime green metallic in the works. Something like this:

I cannot tell you guys how much I enjoy this debate. And how much can be gained from it. Hence I sat down in earnest and tried to make up a sensible list of subjects which I think would appeal to a lot of people. I started with the 30s and went through each decade. I tried to incorporate what people wrote in this thread, what my gut feelings are, and spiced it with a tad of my personal taste. Let's see whether I would make a good kit industry manager or not. 1930s: Chrysler Airflow 1937 Studebaker Coupe Express, followed by coupe and sedan. 1936 GM 'turret tops' Any late 30s Packard 1940s: Tucker Torpedo 1942-48 Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon 1946 De Soto taxi 1941 Chevrolet Willys Jeepster, followed by a Station Wagon. early 1950s: Bullet Nose Studebaker 1951 Buick LeSabre show car 1950-53 Buick (for it's stunningly good looks and it gave us the side trim for our chopped 49-51 Mercurys) late 1950s: Any 'forward look' Mopar except the 58 'dere and 300C. Preferrably a 1957 DeSoto. New tool Chevy Nomad. 1957 Pontiac Bonneville. 1960s: 1969 Camaro in some obscure COPO version, most importantly with steelies and dog dishes (just kidding). Checker Cab. VW 1500 Squareback/Notchback/Fastback. VW T2 Baywindow. VW Karmann Typ 34. VW Kurierwagen Typ 181 (Thing, Tracker, whatever). 1969 Mercury X100. Jeep Wagoneer. 1970s: 1970 Chrysler 300 with separate bonnet and bootlid to allow for the Hurst version. 1971 Boattail Riv. 1974 Dodge Monaco (AND a '73! I insist!). Jeep Cherokee Chief. Plodgler Granfifthlomat. 1977-> Caprice. Ford full-sized Station Wagon (you gotta tow your gassers with something, right? Apart from that, DD anyone?). Rover P6 V8 (just kidding). 1980s: GM G-Body, preferrably an Olds, preferrably the last Hurst. Bustleback Seville. Chrysler LeBaron. 1990s: 1992-1997 Pontiac Bonneville SSE 2000s: Cadillac Sixteen concept car Chrysler Crossfire Cadillac XLR Chevrolet Malibu

Which reminds me... We need a school bus kit. And a Greyhound Scenicruiser while we are at it.

Yes, and by 1951 it was completely obsolete because Chrysler had sent King Kong to town. Yawn...