Junkman

Bob Hoskins' ('George') Jaguar MKII from Mona Lisa

The Ford A Roadster from Papermoon 50 Ford Convertible and 49 Mercury from Rebel Without A Cause Bullit's GF/wife's Porsche 356 Speedster he drove after his Mustang was knackered 59 Cadillac, 51 Mercury, 71 Riviera, 71 Cadillac from Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 59 Cadillac Superior Hearse and Jaguar E-Type Hearse from Harold and Maude the Minis from The Italian Job the 62 Imperial Convertible, 62 Dodge, 62 Plymouths, 57-58 Plymouth Savoy taxis from It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world Captain/Major Anthony "Tony" Nelson's GTO from I Dream Of Jeannie

Aoshima (or Fujimi?) Ultra Seven TDFPO-1 - a mutilated 57-59 Imperial

OK, this is what we have so far: my mother the car hogans heroes jeep sonny and chers mustangs get smarts sunbeam tiger green hornets black beauty dark shadows barnabas collins hearse ironsides van General Lee KITT from Knight Rider KITT from Knight Rider 2000 Kenworth truck from Movin On Dodge Ambulance from Cannonball Run 70 Challenger from Vanishing Point GMC van from the A-Team The Monkeemobile Daisy's Jeep Daisy's Plymouth Cooter's tow truck Roscoe's patrol car GMC General truck and trailer from Knight Rider (Monogram 1/32 snap kit)Corvette from the A-Team The Batmobile (for now representing all 'Batman' related kits, which need to be listed individually) City Chevrolet Chevy Lumina stock car from Days of Thunder Hardee's Chevy Lumina stock car from Days of Thunder Mello Yellow Lumina from Days of Thunder American Graffiti 32 coupe milners front engine dragster Chrysler Turbine Car that stared in the 1964 movie The Lively Set "Convoy" Mack truck "C.H.i.P"s Dodge "C.H.i.P"s Kawasaki American Graffitti '55 Chevy Fast&Furious kits offered by AMT like the Supras, Eclipse, Charger, 350Z, Evolution, Mustang and Monte Carlo Aoshima and Fujimi have both offered kits of cars from Initial D and Over Rev Smokey and the Bandit Trans Am Charlie's Angels Van Polar Lights Mach V kits Mad Max Ford Falcon Incredible Hulk van CSI New York Hummer ZZtop Eliminator '33 Ford coupe Magnum P.I. Ferrari Hardcastle&McCormick Coyote "Stingray" Corvette "Herbie" VW Beetle Fall Guy GMC truck "Riptide" Corvette Dick Tracy '36 Ford "Untouchables" set including a Model A coupe and a Rolls Royce Phantom II T.J Hooker Dodge Monaco - "Dukes" police car - Joker's goon car - Gotham City police car Munster Koach and Drag-u-la Ed "Kookie" Burns Rod (Grabowski (spelling?) Rod) "Back to the Future" DeLorean Baywatch Toyota Fireball 500 MPC Cannonball Run Malibu stock car MPC Cannonball Run Dodge Ambulance Rescue 911 ambulance Rescue 911 Taurus AMT and PL Ghostbusters Ecto-1 Robocop Taurus "New Monkeemobile" Monogram '87 Mustang GT convertible B.J. and the Bear semi and trailer "Matilda" van Beverly Hillbillles truck Fred Flintstone's car Man from U.N.C.L.E. Car Tombraider Jeep Mannix Roadster Volkswagen Van from the helicopter service from Magnum Top Gun GPZ 900 R good guys taxi patrol 3 jeep diorama swat team van 1/32 Elvira's 58 t-bird Richie Valens 58 t-bird Jurassic Park Explorer Simon & Simon Camaro T street rod from 77 Sunset Strip Corvette from 77 Sunset Strip "Welcome Back Kotter - SweatHogs Dream Machine" James Bond Aston Martins James Bond Toyota 2000 GTs Purdey's TR7 from The New Avengers Gambit's XJS from The New Avengers Seibu Keisatsu series by Aoshima, a Nissan Patrol with a tank trailer and several undercover police Skylines and Gazelles The Cyber Formula race cars WAVE Nemo's car from the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Bandai 1/20 Dekotoras from Japanese trucker series Aurora Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Austin Powers' Shaguar Felicity Shagwell's Corvette XXX's gto Monkee Mobile as The Fonz's car corvette from the movie corvette summer a few more come to mind: 1951(?) Mercury Wagon from the Mod Squad Mork And Mindy Jeep IMAI Rolls-Royce FAB1 IMAI Captain Scarlet's car IMAI Joe 90's car IMAI SHADO mobile IMAI Spectrum SPV Moebius Moon Bus Moebius LIS Chariot All the MPC 1/32 Star Wars kits All the MPC 1/32 Dukes kits Come on guys (and gals) this list is nowhere near complete yet! At least two Laurel and Hardy Ford Ts

Columbo's Peugeot 403 convertible Goldfinger's Rolls-Royce Phantom III All the Les Dunham customs from "Live And Let Die"

1963-76 Rover P6 Renault 16 (exists only in 1/20 scale) Ford of Europe Granada MKII (had fourteen of them (!)) Opel Admiral B Opel Rekord C Mercedes-Benz W108 Mercedes-Benz W116 Mercedes-Benz 300 "Adenauer" W186, W188, and W189 Maserati Ghibli Iso Grifo Fiat 1500 Fiat 2300 Fiat 850 Spider Fiat 130 saloon Fiat 130 coupe Jensen Interceptor 1963 Lagonda Rapide Jaguar MK10 1978 Chevrolet Caprice Classic four door sedan 1978 Ford Thunderbird 1976 Mercury Grand Marquis 1961 Imperial Crown Southampton

AMT '51 Bel Air convertible - The Hunter - Ralph 'Papa' Thorson's car

R U saying a Reliant Robin is no real car?

The Jo-Han Heavenly Hearse, the Fujimi Daihatsu Midget, the Munster Koach/Dragula pack...

I may have overlooked them, but did we already mention the James Bond Aston Martins and the Toyota 2000 GT? Also, Purdey's TR7 and Gambit's XJS from The New Avengers. Then there is the Seibu Keisatsu series by Aoshima, a Nissan Patrol with a tank trailer and several undercover police Skylines and Gazelles. The Cyber Formula race cars, the WAVE Nemo's car from the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the Bandai 1/20 Dekotoras from this Japanese trucker series, the Aurora Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I also suggest to open two new threads: - Kits which CAN be built into TV/Movie cars/trucks - TV/Movie cars/trucks which SHOULD be kitted

Are you absolutely positive you spoke to Chrome Tech USA? I'm dealing with Bob Shebilske for almost three decades now and I neither find him not personable, nor is he a middle man, and he is anything but adversed to plating resin parts. In fact, he is an avid and accomplished car modeler himself. I have yet to experience a lost part or anything I wasn't completely satisfied with.

They sell here for roughly half that money.

Errr...you've been in this hobby for a while.

Generaly I'm not a fan of them, but that thing shouts DONK.

Those people at the cash registers must think I'm either a total lunatic, or a suicide bomber. Today I bought at the DIY: A tin of plastikote chrome effect spray, a tin of blackboard paint, a box of steel wool, two round 9mm wood rods, two 2-Litre bottles of thick bleach, flints, a sheet of 4mm plywood, and a bag with 32 Swarovski 5mm crystal beads in jonquil, which were on sale for 35p. I was wearing sunglasses and my black suit for work. Hey, I can explain it all, constable...

Re-shelling a car is common practice in motorsport, hence also in historic motorsport. I completely agree with you and find it dubious as to the originality of a car. In my opinion, if a car is re-shelled, it took on the identity of the car the shell of which was used. Hardcore collectors will not settle for re-shelled cars. They are purely for people who want to drive their cars and drive them hard, or in competition. I once re-shelled a Escort MK1 RS 2000, which was totalled in a rally. Now, the RS 2000 shell is different from the regular Escort shell from the cowl forward. I used a regular 1300 shell, and grafted on a factory fresh front clip of an RS 2000. Technically, the shell was then authentic for an RS 2000, but I retained the chassis number and registration of the 1300 and hence made no secret out of the fact, that the car was a modified 1300 resembling a RS 2000. I could have grafted in the chassis number of the RS 2000 and claimed it is genuine and nobody would have been able to prove me wrong. People with lesser ethics would have done just that. The car was bought by a guy who then again prepared it for motorsport, which in this case is perfectly acceptable imo.

I use a cigarette lighter to burn it off. Whatever is left afterwards can be wiped of with a Kleenex.

All 51 Chevy frames I ever had were warped. They need to be straightened. Dennis Doty described a procedure in his book for model builder beginners about 30 years ago. You tie them bent the opposite way thay are warped (makes sense?) onto a board of wood and apply heat. He used a lamp, I a hairdryer. Then you let it cool downand untie it. It will be straight.

Green metallic with green metalflake, all from the rattle can:

It is easy to fake European cars, since they weren't "painted by numbers". The only documented number always was the chassis number and this is easy to fake. I give you an example. You find a rotten Jag MKII 3.8. You then buy a 2.4, fit it with a 3.8, switch the chassis number over from the rotten 3.8 and hey presto. If done properly, nobody can prove what you did. In the same fashion, a BMW 1602 becomes a 2002tii, a Triumph Dolomite a Dolomite Sprint, a Fiat 131 a Supermirafiori, a Capri 1600 a 2600 RS, and so on, and so forth. I'm not saying this is the rule, but it has been done. These are extreme examples. It is yet easier to fit an executive interior into a basic Zodiac, a base Cortina becomes a GXL, a Granada GL a Ghia X, you get the picture. Ironically, quite a few collectors now flock to the base models, since it became quite obvious that their survival rate is much lower than the one of the glitzier models. A trend which isn't lost on me either. Owning a well optioned Rover P6 3500 V8, I carefully eyed over a plane jane, no frills 2200TC the other day. Not too long ago, I would have considered it a parts donor, but now I can envision it parked alongside my bling bling mobile.

Charlie, your models sure don't look like you are on a budget.

The "Baby Boomer" syndrome is alive and well in Blighty, thank you. They buy Morris Minors, of all things rotten. The cars I mentioned of course wouldn't sell in mainstream America, with the average person having never even heard of them. But quite a few of them left the country westbound lately. There are a few individualists left even in America after all. However, I merely mentioned them to illustrate with a few examples the development of the collectors market I see in Europe, which follows quite similar mechanisms as elsewhere in the world. These examples should not be taken at face value from an American point of view. They will need to be translated, or better interpreted, into American cars. I give you one example: 59 Caddy down, 59 Imperial up. There is also an increasing interest in AMC products, something unthinkable just ten years ago. Furthermore, there may be a temporary stagnation in interest in American muscle or 50s chrome-laden glitter cars for the reasons I stated. Market saturation, the asking prices vs. the buying power of the people who haven't got one yet, and the fear of fakes.

I even use gloss enamel paint on bodies, especially for classics. The gloss is definitely more vintage than with laquers. And the risk of crazing the plastic is nil, nada, zilch, nemo, rien, nix. Can use them on annuals without risking bugger off. Same with enamel clear.

I am in the old car business and I cannot see a general decline in prices for good cars, to the contrary. What I can see is a certain market saturation for selected 'blue chip' cars. Here in Europe, the focus is currently more on the - how should I call them? - non mainstream cars. For example, while the prices for Jaguar MKIIs actually went down, the sister model Daimler 250 picked up significantly. So did the Mark 10, which wouldn't have got a second glance from a self respected Jaguar collector just five or so years ago. Thanks god I stocked up on those while others weighed them in at the scrappy's. There are other examples numerous enough to make me believe there is a trend towards the 'overlooked' cars. Jaguar XKE down, XJS up. Triumph 2500 down, Rover P6 up. Ford Zephyr/Zodiac down, Wolseley 6/110 up. Escort MKII down, Hillman Avenger up. Contributing to this is also the fear of fakes. Of the 3000 or so Lotus Cortinas ever built, the surviving 5000 meanwhile all found buyers, which means there is no demand for decades to come. I can imagine a similar trend is forming in the States. Exactly how may Camaro RS/SSes, Boss Mustangs, Hemi Cudas or Tri Chevies do you want to sell? There is a point, when everybody who wants one, and can afford one, has one. These people will then look for other (read 'lesser') cars, so do people who simply aren't in the money for the top of the market. Consequently, prices for the mainstream stuff stays put or even goes down in some cases, while cars which hitherto weren't 'en vogue' with the mainstream collector world take hikes.

They weren't really that hard to find until not too long ago. I remember them being regularily offered by Hobby Heaven and this is where I got mine from. I guess it's a matter of putting a few want ads out, going t swap meets and checking Feebay on regular basis. As a rule of thumb, whatever you look for will turn up eventually. All you have to do is stay patient, which I know is not a virtue we modellers are overly blessed with.