Junkman

Good thing then that model kits aren't made of Styrene. Even better that they aren't liquid.

If that stuff was harmful, I'd be dead by now. The link to Wikipedia previously posted is misleading, since it is referring to Styrene, a toxic liquid more commonly known as Vinyl Benzene. However, as you may have noticed, model kits aren't liquid. This is due to the fact, that they aren't made of Styrene at all, but Polystyrene (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polystyrene), which is a totally harmless plastic with no known health hazards.

Thank you for providing the historic background of the car! That Opala sure is interesting too, and those race transporters! Are they Brazilian Fords?

On one of my internet surf sprees, I came across this Maverick racer: Now here is a Maverick that actually can turn a corner after going straight for a quarter mile. It was raced in Argentine in the 1970s. I think it would just be a different thing to make from a Jo-Han Maverick. Hence I wanted to share it with you.

Dog dishes. Those: And yes, I absolutely despise them. But that's just me. My father used to say there are no dumb questions. Just dumb people asking questions. And no, you are not one of them.

So you are building a Gakken/Entex/Revell/Academy/Minicraft Sonder-Kabriolett? Got a build thread somewhere?

Unfortunately, you didn't provide a button for 'other'. I'd use the quad cam from the AMT Phantom Vicky.

What car did he park?

Despite the valiant efforts of Dr. Cranky and a few others, this thread still contains way too many words and too few pictures. I want to see some shiny colourful stuff, please.

The clocks used in old Rolls-Royces were way too loud too, I've heard.

The only thing I know about clocks is that they always show a later time than the deadline was set for.

Back in the Eighties, Provence Moulage had a workshop in the 24h Village and the first models were ready and selling by the end of the race. I still have the Porsche 962C kit I bought there in 1986.

If I'm not mistaken there are similar ones in the Lindberg '34 Ford P/U.

The way things are going in the modelling world, it's probably an H0 scale model. Or a $19.95 diecast. Still, I vote real for this one.

I only have the Plymouth: But apart from the grille and the plastic colours, the kits are identical. The contents: The wheels: Note: Stock steelies with poverty caps are included, too. The seats and decklid spoiler:

Open wide and say Aaaaaaaaaaah.... Wooden tongue depressers. Oh wait, they aren't tongue depressers. They are 1:25 scale surfboard blanks, that's what they are! The De Soto is for size reference: They are exactly 21 scale inches wide. Perfect!

For the raised white letters on tyres, I use Humbrol Matt White (stirred, not shaken) and my fingertip.

Isn't there a set in the Countdown Series '66 Mercury as well? Gosh, my memory is patchy.

I just thought you'd find it interesting to see the car the lights are from. Those Ami 6 headlamps were also used by many European customizers at the time, so where the Taunus units. They were also used on dodgems, which I think are called bumper-cars over beyond?

It clearly shows a 61-> Ami 6 The German Ford Taunus used architectural headlamps first on the 1960 model: Yeah, if Jonathan would lecture me on something, I could pay him to make it a real zero sum game.

Heller box art always was outstanding, and not only on their car kits. Earlier this year, Gallerie 64bis in Paris held an exhibition of original art through the whole history of the Heller kit company, from 1957 through to the present. The exhibition brought together some 60 original works by artists such as Michel Bez, Francis Bergèse, and Daniel Bechennec. Noted French kit collector and historian Jean-Christophe Carbonel wrote a book about the history of Heller: Here is some box art:

A short history on Federal headlamp legislation: In 1940, a consortium of state motor vehicle administrators standardised upon a system of two 7 in round sealed beam headlamps on all vehicles – the only system allowed for 17 years. A system of four round lamps, rather than two – one high/low and one high-beam 53⁄4 in sealed beam on each side – was introduced in 1957 by Cadillac, Chrysler and Nash on some of their car models in states that permitted the new system, and other American marques followed suit when all states permitted quad lamps in 1958. Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 108 was amended in 1974 to permit rectangular headlamps. By 1979 there was practically no car Made in USA that didn't have them. But they were still standardized Sealed Beams. In 1983, granting a 1981 petition from Ford Motor Company, the 44-year-old U.S. headlamp regulations were amended to allow replaceable-bulb, nonstandard-shape, architectural headlamps with aerodynamic lenses similar to the ones used in Europe. The first American car to use a replaceable-bulb headlamps since 1939 was the 1984 Continental MK VII.

If you mean the unit of the car you posted in the OP, that's a 1961-1969 Citroen Ami 6. Check the AMT '66 Mustang kit. IIRC it contained a set of European type headlamps since the Sony and Cher days. To replicate the typically French yellow bulbs, I did a tutorial here: http://www.scalemodelcarz.com/enter/thread-2013-page-2.html Let me know if you need a few of the beads, I have more than enough of them. Oh, and I'll bill you later for the home schooling.

I find it quite annoying that nowadays one seemingly always have to look past this Rockabilly stuff to see cool cars.

The complete list can be easily compiled from the Promotional and Kit Guide by Paul Bender. It covers them all.