Junkman

I remember these kits well, toy shops were full of them. But now they are all but gone. Haven't seen one in years.

My father is not a car guy at all, hence we never had anything special to drive. When I got my license, he had a Renault 16 TX exactly like this one: and my mother had a Renault 4L exactly like this one: and a Citroen H-Van for her business, exactly like this one: I would drive whatever was available to me, on weekends that was mostly the H-Van. Came in handy at all those open-air festivals.

Does this prove my point?

Excellent. I'll post this everywhere in England.

I don't have a vault. It's more like a Gringotts for model kits. The one kit I'd save if there was a deluge?

I think it sounded like this shortly after:

I didn't write anything to the contrary. I bet it will never be jumped on purpose either.

What hasn't been mentioned yet, there also was an MG TC and strictly speaking also a Jaguar XK120.

Bye bye then. Let me know when your kits are for sale.

I din't know there is a Charger left which isn't GL'ed.

Then there is this: Most people are put off since the box says it's 1:20 scale. However, it is not. And it is a direct rip-off off the Monogram kits, to the extned that many parts are interchangeable. Since the Bandai kit can be motorized, the chassis and engine is compromised. This can be easily rectified with a donor Monogram Duesie.

Sentimental old fool, you.

Well, the main thing is that you are out of the hospital. It's always better to be outside a hospital.

Wasn't there this gent from Japan, who built a 1:8 scale Milner Deuce from the revellogram atrocity? IIRC he then went on and built a Munster Koach and Dragula in the same scale.

It's always these socialist ideas that make most sense. Please count me in. Shipping to England shouldn't be expensive considering the stuff is feather light?

Workable? You bet, beautiful catch! Looking at it like this, I'd say it needs front skirts too.

Yeah, but Terry's was the big frame GS, or am I rivet counting now? Entirely btw, the 2CV is the only vehicle I could spot in the movie which is out of period, being a 1967 AZA model. A 1/18 Vespa GS would be available from Maisto.

Errr... I'm usually very reluctant to mention the 'D'-word in this forum, but I do have the Milner Deuce, Bob's 55 Chevy, Steve's 58 Chevy and the Pharaos' 51 Merc in 1:18 and find them stunningly beautiful. I also have 100mm PVC figures I once bought at Planet Hollywood in El Lay to display with them. Note: Solido made a 2CV in blue which does a good job resembling Curt's car.

MPC did it first. And yes, it wasn't accurate. They also did Milner's dragster:

I didn't know that. Can you dig up the thread?

Albeit rare, under bonnet photos of the movie cars do exist. Here is one:

Oldsmobile Rocket V8s had a very distinctive and peculiar oil filter location. It was a canister type, which was horizontally mounted towards the rear of the engine on the r.h. side, quasi as a mirror image of the starter motor: This is the part you will need on a real engine to convert it to a remote oil filter: Oldsmobile Rocket. Hardly rocket science.

Done.

You are probably right. I remember this from my Imperial restoration days. Maybe the Mopar buffs simply apply the same love for detail to the movie cars, which means, you have to replicate how botched together they actually were. Not an easy task in 1:25 and nearly impossible from what you have to work with in 1:16.

Maybe just because it is a Dodge Charger? It seems that many people grossly overhype and overrate what essentially was a cheap fashion gag without any outstanding technical features. Granted, with the right motor it went like stink, but so did all other contemporary Mopars, even the Imperials.