Junkman

It's day one on a new build. I've taken the kit down, opened it and checked all the parts. I checked the instructions to look for any weird parts/mistakes/whatever. I put it all back in the box. I put the kit back to where I pulled it down from. I go to bed. Good night.

Nah! Bosozoku are kewl!

Nope. Hover. Like a Hovercraft. On the exhaust gases from the turbines.

I could see that with the Lloyd. You could start with that atrocious 1/32 scale 49 Ford Tudor by Pyro/Lindberg. But with the Spatz, I wouldn't know what to start with. Then look at those forged aluminium windscreen posts. I'm not a John Teresi by any stretch of the imagination, you know. Also, do you realize how small those cars really were? In 1/25 scale, the Spatz would measure just 5 1/4 inches long.

Correction: Victoria did build cyclecars cars between 1900 and 1912. So the Spatz was not the only car they ever built, but the only car they made between 1912 and their demise in 1969. The Spatz was built from 1956 to 1958 and about 1600 were completed. The body was made from fibreglass (GRP), and the chassis was sandwiched between the upper and lower shells. It was hence at least ten years ahead of its time in this respect.

You mean scratchbuild them? I'd love to have a Spatz model, but I have no idea how to go about it.

The grey car is a Lloyd LP 300. Lloyd was the small car brand of the Borgward group. The red roadster is a Victoria Spatz (Sparrow). Victoria was actually a motorcycle manufacturer, and the Spatz was the only car they ever built. The photo was taken at the 2011 Retro Classic show in Stuttgart, not a museum.

Actually, the Brütsch Mopetta (named after its designer, Egon Brütsch) was the godfather of a quite spiffy roadster: It had independent suspension all round and a solenoid operated five-speed pre-selector gearbox operated with pushbuttons!

Actually, it's British aluminium.

I have the opposite problem. It's way too late for me to get out of the hobby. Lifetime addict, so to say.

Isn't this kind of stuff usually done with black Chargers and green Mustangs? I also miss the exploding petrol station in the end.

Well, yar kinnay polish a turd now, kinye?

And who is going to do that? They aren't engineering a bloody thing, be it forward or reverse. Curt is right, we will never see the stuff being made again.

That's the only kind I have.

Why shouldn't people in here say (or write) what they think whenever they want to? Count me in! How many? Which movie? BTT The car is a nice manifestation of the ancient rule that no money in the world can buy you taste or style. Apart from that, I have to agree with Harry. Despite the atrocities done to it, it doesn't look much worse than stock.

Nope.

Wrong. This has been changed recently and it is now the total invoice amount a seller pays commission for. This seller is going out of his way to make a client who obviously made a mistake happy nonetheless. I would have lost my patience much earlier and cancelled the deal. I can only highly praise and recommend the seller!

You could start with a JoHan or Hasegawa '66 Caddy and work from there.

Right. Johan seems to be not only dead, but officially cold now. Their website is offline: http://www.johanmodels.com/ Well, RIP JoHan, then.

Sergio Pininfarina.

You can't polish a turd.

Actually, the company that has one of the longst standing and busiest co-operations with Pininfarina is Peugeot.

Hot dog! This looks exactly like our Summer.

The trouble with these international affairs is that they attract those foreign types.

As long as the stuff doesn't craze when I paint it, I don't give a...errr...it's not one of my primary concerns. However, I really like this 'closed loop return logistics' thingy. Sounds rather fancy for sending back empties.