Junkman

It's metalized plastic. There are no metal parts in the kit.

What's this 'build' vs. 'assemble' thing? Huh? Huh? Are you using this in a derogative way against box stock builders? Huh? Huh? I think y'all just want to insult box stock builders. Uhum, that's all you want. This used to be such a good forum but now it is deteriorating into a place where jada...jada...leave...jada...jada...rhubarb...

I have seen them sell on Ebay knocking at the 300$ door. No kidding. And I'm not talking asking price. They were bid to those amounts.

Spot on!

Most of the noted automotive writers started writing for club magazines. And the English Karmann Club is the second largest in the world!

Chaps, I just noticed the noticeable absence of a total 70s icon. Is there a particular reason why nobody mentioned the Boattail Riviera yet?

What do you mean, sort of? You are getting published, period. There is no sort of pregnant or sort of dead either. Oh, and congrats btw. What you did with that ruddy kit is well worth being published.

Or well travelled. You can't avoid seeing Gurgels when you are in Brazil. They are surprisingly popular there.

They were made Brazil, mostly with VW underpinnings.The one Harry selected this time is the dismal swansong of the company. Gurgel built some nice beach buggys and beetle-based replicas in its days. I believe the most popular one would be the Xavante, which was a veritable VW Thing alternative.:

Unfortunately all I ever came across were badly warped.

French VW illustrator Pascal Meslet also picked up on this: Here is more of his art for all you VWophiles: http://www.escarabat.net/imatge/007.meslet.art/meslet.art1.html

Yeah, all Forward Look Chrysler Corp cars. Wouldn't that be a pip? Including the Ghia-built show cars, of course. ######. Now I woke up.

The quality of the Galaxie Chevy is unquestionable. Unfortunately the subject matter doesn't interest me the least, hence Galaxie so far didn't get any money from me. If they release a 55-57 GM car, please make mine a Buick.

It is outrageously expensive given what you get. Must be licensing fees. But it is such a must have that I will cough up the dough. Remember the Nero car from the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Wave? It was the same story. And look what those command nowadays.

Inter City trains travel at speeds in excess of 150mph. You would be hard pressed to catch up with them using an auto even on German Autobahns. Given that airports are far away from the Cities they are named after, you having to take the car or train to go to them, having to show up an hour before take-off, then take the train or hire car from the destination airport to the city you may like to visit, the trains, going from city centre to city centre, effectively beat air travel time wise on any journey up to around 700km length. Furthermore, even when considering that electricity isn't created by magic, the ecological aspect is also clearly in favour of the trains.

http://www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com/luhrs.htm

HLJ charges roughly 50$, that's with the 20% early bird discount taken off, so regular retail is in the 60$ region.

Here is what's in the box: Here is a slightly loveless buildup for a trade show: Can you tell that I'm actually looking forward to this?

HLJ is already taking 'early bird' orders.

Apparently you haven't seen a high school parking lot in recent years.

I always found the AMT 57 Chrysler very rewarding. It's well engineered, has no nasty sink marks, goes well together, and you don't have to bother with a two tone paint job.

Fujimi announced a 1/24 scale plastic kit of the Spinner from the movie "TheBlade Runner". Hopefully this will be the first of many Syd Mead designed vehicles from that film to be rendered in styrene.

Halfords.

Yeh, I know. Once owned a three litre Taurus wagon btw. Could do 130mph on a good day, with Euro-spec final drive and Euro-spec cooling system. Still relegates one to the slow lane most of the time, but I found it not too shabby. Too bad US Cars don't have (had?) a headlamp flasher.