Junkman

It'll take more than one day, but you should start today.

Link?

That is just too cool.

"We must make war on him, because he is a threat to peace."

Working windscreen wipers.

I knew someone was going to suggest this. Didn't think it's you.

I think (not 100% sure) the only change they ever did to the dashboard was shove the toggle switches further to the right and in exchange the knobs closer to the driver to meet some federal mandate. Safety, you know.

The tonneau cover? Mine didn't have it, but all I've seen were black. Mine didn't have any top, hard or soft. I know that 427 Cobras were available with at least one other interior colour than black - tan. Only the seats and door cards were tan, the rest was as black as in the black interiors. BTW, I changed the pic for one that resembles the one I had even closer. It gives you the correct impressin of the material they used for the dashboard and it shows the areas of body paint being visible around the doors. Also note the European Ford turn signal switch. Good old Lucas...

Unfortunately I had to sell it in 1989. Or maybe not so unfortunately when I think of it. There could still be photos somewhere, I'll see if I find them. But this picture shows an interior which is exactly like the one in my car: Minus Mr. Shelby's signature on the glovebox lid though.

The dash is covered with black everflex. There is black carpet on the unpainted aluminium floor and the door cards are black with black pockets. Everything else inside is painted a not quite flat black. This is what it was like in my unrestored 1966 427SC. I don't know whether the street cars were a little better appointed.

IIRC the AMT 49 Ford Coupe came with an optional Cadillac engine. You could probably also use the Revell parts pack Cadillac engine.

Wasn't that RaMoM cart based on the pieces in the '61 AMT kits? IIRC, each '61 kit contained some parts for a kart and if you had them all, you could build it.

For me Moebius always was the pseudonym of noted French comic artist Jean Giraud, until a plastic kit company in America recently started to use it. Hence I pronounce it the French way out of old habit. The French 'oe' sound has - afaik - no equivalent in English and I don't know an English word that contains it (but that doesn't mean a lot). If you know how to pronounce the French word for heart - coeur - you know the sound. I'm not 100% sure, but I think Coeur d'Alene is still pronounced this French way by it's inhabitants.

To avoid any confusion with Mercury or the British Daimler brand, the Germans developed a unique way how to pronounce "Mercedes". They say "Benz".

Or This always worked.. Or Let me handle this... Or Trust me... Or Don't worry... Or Oops... Or Me first... Or Not a problem... Or Oh no... Or I've got a plan... Or They can't see us... Or I'll open it... Or That's easy... Or Run... Or I'll cover you... Or We are friends... Or Easy now...

You know how often you actually use your fingernail(s) while working on model cars. Like pressing down bare metal foil, scraping off that tiny bit of excess glue or putty, press down on a piece of sandpaper while sanding a tight spot, the like. Well, my fingernails are usually too short for this kind of stuff, so I got me a pack of ten artificial fingernails from the beauty section in the supermarket for a quid or so. They also can be filed to any shape you need.

That's not important. Drinking beer is important. (The Junkman)

The first production car available with an electronic fuel injection was - as we all know - the 1958 Chrysler 300 D. However, electronic fuel injection did exist earlier - on some 1940s aircraft engines. Alfa Romeo tested one of the very first electric injection systems (Caproni-Fuscaldo) in an Alfa-Romeo 6C2500 with "Ala spessa" body in the 1940 Mille Miglia. The engine had six electrically operated injectors which were fed by a semi-high pressure circulating fuel pump system. Mechanical fuel injection was first used by Bosch in 1912 and was well established in the 1930s for airplane engines. Almost all German WWII fighters were fuel injected, as were later versions of the Wright R-3350 used in the B-29 Superfortress. The first mechanical Bosch fuel injection for production cars became available on the 1952 Goliath GP700 and Gutbrod Superior 600. It became standard equipment on the Mercedes 300SL, the first commercially available car ever which wasn't available without fuel injection. So whoever thinks fuel injection is too modern, should probably also do away with seat belts.

OK, let's try Esci now.

Unfortunately it is not so easy. This newly announced Revell issue I cannot find anywhere yet. Since it is advertised with the old IMAI box art, I suspect it is the 1:20 scale IMAI reissue, which always has been falsely labelled as a 1:24 scale kit. I do have an original IMAI 1:20 scale (labelled as 1:24 scale) kit, so there is no need for me to run the risk of buying the Aoshima issue, just to find out it's again the 1:20 scale IMAI kit in disguise. For the record, Revell AG has issued the Taxi numerous times over the past few decades, with various box art, always labelled 1:24 scale, and it was always the 1:20 scale IMAI kit inside. I'm happy with my accurate 1:24 Welly diecast.

Say errrr-tal.

It's this ugly duckling sort of liking. More like in pittying it. If you manage to look past all this festooning, they probably were darn good cars.

At least it's not a '57 Chevy or '69 Camaro.

What would those 'other surprises' be?

There is now. A pretty intense one, too: