Junkman

[disclaimer] It was an attempt at humour [/disclaimer]

I have never seen any: Then again, I may be wrong. I have never owned a 57 or 58 Plymouth. But I've owned a 59 and that sure has no door lock knobs: I had numerous other 57-63 Mopars, and none of them had door lock knobs. Based on this, and the 59 Plymouth I had, and what I see in pics, I always assumed the 57-58 Plymouths didn't have any either.

Put my name on the list for an accurate body. In fact, put my name on the list of the 30 people ordering a Fury kit from Don Holthaus as well.

Also in the book, the gear shift lever moves by itself and the door lock knobs go up and down.

Have you guys checked out Testors Model Master TES1764 FS34092 European Green?

Hello there! I think MCM is becoming more international than most people realise. Also, US Cars and Hot Rods are more popular in France than most people realise. Have you checked out this forum: http://koolestkruzers.smileyforum.net/ Regarding the cost of petrol - whoever has to worry about it, is not in the market for a '70 Chevelle in the first place, no matter where he lives. - such cars are cherished collectors items in Europe, driven on special occasions, therefore racking up maybe 2-3000 miles a year, if that much. For such a low mileage, the cost of petrol is not that significant. If you have to drive 50k miles a year, you have a company turbodiesel.

What's the point of having a bathtub then?

Will it come with the six?

I was thinking the same thing. Maybe I'll fill the hole in the bonnet, paint the thing sad-and-lonely-gold-metallic and install a leftover Lindberg Slant Six.

So how many worlds fastest street legal cars are there now? And we haven't even looked at Germany, Scandinavia and Japan yet.

I have absolutely zero interest in cars like this.

I have to say, I still use pretty much the same equipment I used 30+ years ago, plus BMF, a pair of glasses, and better lighting. However, my models now are a far cry of the ones I built 30 years ago. Since 20 years or so.

Ph. D. in physics, grad. mech. engineer, grad. automotive/vehicle/aeroplane/aerospace engineer, grad. foreign trade economist. Worked in the physical/destructive material testing and quality control equipment field, quantum physics, astro physics, nano technology. Now I run a funeral home, an auto restoration business, I'm a technical advisor to a top fuel funnycar team and a BriSCA F1 Stockcar team, I'm an investigative journalist, political activist and writer, and a bandleader. So strictly speaking, I don't have a day job. I work when I don't sleep. Keeps me from mischief.

I wouldn't call having to share a room with strangers 'proper'. Remarkable. Where I'm from, they stopped this after the Third Reich.

Have you inadvertantly let the smoke out of the wires on your classic British car? This, then, is the solution to your problem! You need a genuine Lucas Replacement Wiring Harness Smoke kit, P/N 530433, along with the very rare Churchill Tool 18G548BS adapter tube and metering valve. These kits were supplied surreptitiously to Lucas factory technicians as a trouble-shooting and repair aid for the rectification of chronic electrical problems on a plethora of British cars. The smoke is metered, through the fuse box, into the circuit which has released it's original smoke until the leak is located and repaired. The affected circuit is then rectified and the replacement smoke re-introduced. An advantage over the cheap repro smoke kits currently available is the exceptionally rare Churchill metering valve and fuse box adapter. It enables the intrepid and highly skilled British Car Technician to meter the precise amount of genuine Lucas smoke required by the circuit. Unlike the cheap, far-eastern replacement DIYsmoke offered by the "usual suppliers", this kit includes a filter to ensure that all the smoke is of consistent size. It has been our experience in our shop that the reproduction Taiwanese smoke is often "lumpy", which will cause excessive resistance in our finely-engineered British wiring harnesses and components. This is often the cause of failure in the repro electrical parts currently available, causing much consternation and misplaced cursing of the big three suppliers. These kits have long been the secret weapon of the "Ultimate Authorities" in the trade, and this may be the last ones available. Be forewarned, though, that it is not applicable to any British vehicle built after the discontinuing of bullet connectors, so you Range Rover types are still on your own... This Genuine Factory Authorised kit contains enough smoke to recharge the entire window circuit on a 420 Jaguar, and my dear friend and advisor George Wolf of British Auto Specialty assures me that he can replace ALL the smoke in a W&F Barrett All-Weather Invalid Car(147 CC) with enough left over to test a whole box of Wind-Tone horns for escaped smoke. How much more of an endorsement do you need? More, you say? Well, I once let the smoke out of the overdrive wiring on my friend Roger Hankey's TR3B, and was able to drive over 200 miles home from The Roadster Factory Summer Party by carefully introducing smoke into the failed circuit WITHOUT even properly repairing the leak. Another friend, Richard Stephenson, was able to repair the cooling fan circuit of his Series 1 E-Type by merely replacing a fuse and injecting a small quantity of smoke back into the wires. After Re-introducing genuine Lucas Replacement Wiring Harness Smoke into the wiring harness of your classic British motor, it is guaranteed that it's electrical system will resume operating at the speed of dark. So there!

I'd like tyres with anything. This no sidewall detail at all is most annoying.

Idea and execution are truly superb. I would have opted for a different colour though.

Probably handles like it, too. I want it. 1:1 AND 1:25.

Please. Junkman said "please"!

Guys, I can only hope I can get near of what you do. However, I finally received the ammo:

The way the Japanese are going it won't be too long for a Juke or Contessa kit. Or did you ever anticipate them releasing a new tool Bellett, Silvia S 117, S 360, several Hakosukas, RX3 Galants, or a S-54? They are waking up to their automotive history at a rapid rate and the model industry quickly follows suit. I think the Juke was announced at the Shizuoka show?

I did a lot of modelling while in college and at U. My fellow students took a keen interest in it and regularily checked the progress and even offered suggestions. I did the painting in the workshops on the campus. Sharing a room is unheard of over here, unless you share it with a person you are intimate with. But I understand now. You cannot build models in a room you have to share with strangers. A few other things come to mind you cannot do in a shared room, which I would consider even more important than building models. Then things come to mind which would be done in shared rooms, none of which remotely agreeable. Nah, it just wouldn't work here.

First and foremost, the rear wheels should under no circumstances whatsoever lock up before the front ones do. They made a capital error in brake dimensioning. This is roughly the automotive equivalent of putting the wings on upside down on an airplane.

That just would not be possible here.