Junkman

Horizon Hobbies lists it for 34.49 http://www.horizonhobby.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=AMT752 What is going on?

Nobody really knows who made them. The magazine 'Quattroruote' commissioned them. Quattroruote is a member of the 'Fabbri' publishing house, so the models can be listed as 'Quattroruote' or 'Fabbri'. Best do both searches on Ebay and tick the 'worldwide' listings box.

You might be hard pressed to drive a 2010 Triumph, Yugo, or Simca. Are Fiats and Renaults still (or rather, again) sold in the US?

Even if this is the best car you have ever owned, there are better cars for the road.

In this case I have to wholeheartedly disagree. I have no idea how you look at it over there, but four out of the five pictured vehicles aren't cars at all where I am from.

I don't quite understand the topic. Is this about the worst made cars to ever hit the road? Or the worst cars which were made on the road? Or the worst made cars, which can still be found on the road? Or the worst made cars, which are on the road today? In any case, the worst made cars on the road are the ones made for off road use.

Entirely btw., this thread is useless if people don't state who the manufacturer of the models is. The above models can be found online when you search for "quattroruote 1/24" or "fabbri 1/24". The actual manufacturer is unknown in this case. I think these are all the models that wwere released in this series:

The following are models which were commissioned by the Italian car magazine 'Quattroruote'. Altogether 50 models were released over two years. Each model came with a hard bound book about the car it was modelled after. Needless to say that these filled some long time gaps in the European scene.

In a Rockford's Files episode, one of the thugs can actually be seen working on a model car, an AMT 'Snakebite'. He has an array of built models on a shelf next to his work bench. Since these old series were often filmed 'on location' in the homes of the film crew members, this may well have been the personal collection of this actor. For years I did 'kit spotting' when watching the Gerry Anderson 'Superanimation' stuff.

The kit is a total dog. Great job for what you had to work with. The colour is beautiful.

"Touring" Sedans, Greg. "Station Wagon" is soooo last century.

Any chance of seeing the kit and/or buildup eventually?

The kits can be traced back to the late Sixties. They were originally made by Gakken (Japan) and marketed in the US under the Entex banner. It is my understanding that the hot rod versions include newly tooled parts. The original Gakken/Entex kits never had these parts included. Not too long ago, they were also released in some kind of 'Gangbusters' versions, which I still try to obtain. that series included most of the A-bone variants, the V-16 Caddy Town car and the '28 Lincoln. Also in the original Gakken lineup was a Morgan three-wheeler, a MG TC and a Jaguar SS-100, which haven't seen the light of day in a long time.

Is it true that they are 1/20 scale?

I might order one and build it as an entry in the post apocalyptic build off section. Then again, my outlook on the future is far more rosy than what I see in there. Future. Heck, everything was better in ye goode olde dayse. Even the future was better back then.

Yeah, it's great. So did Vanden Plas use a similar system on the Blower Bentleys? Ans what about Skiff Labourdette?

It must be the weirdest contraption ever used in any form of motorsport.

Indeed, Sir.

It was the Orange Blossom Express. Here it is in action: Note that it is incorrectly called Orange Blossom Special in this vid. The OBS was a '37 Chevy puller.

This is the book: And here are a few examples:

Fujimi makes a Z-31. They call it the ZR this time around, but it's a 300ZX if you say it is. The kit has been off and on in typical Japanese spot production mode for at least 20 years. http://www.hlj.com/product/FUJ04589

Yes, you mean the Raleigh Chopper:

Once you see the pictures on your screen, you HAVE them already, copyright poof scam, or not. Same with right click disabled. If you can see a picture, you HAVE it downloaded onto your machine. Go to temporary internet files, search for the pic and save it - done.

If you are interested in older wreckers and tow trucks, and not only American prototypes, you may be interested in the book Wreckers & Recovery Vehicles by the Olyslager Auto Library. It is copyrighted 1972 and the ISBN No. is 0 7232 1466 2 It can still be found on the internet quite frequently for very little money.

Hey, thanks. When I got it, it looked like this: