Junkman

You are right on all accounts. Still, they are arguably the best 1:24 scale kits ever made.

Took me some time to count all the doors, but yes, the count adds up correctly, hence it counts.

Admit it guys, you are just following the latest trend.

I wonder whether a difference of three scale inches would really show on a model that's almost 220 scale inches long overall? My personal minimum is four scale inches before I start to bother in 1:25 scale. 3 inches are roughly 3mm in 1:25, or ca. 1.3% of the overall length of a 1:25 scale Lincoln model in absolute terms. I wish most models were that close to scale.

I like the pun in this

The PU even has a tow-bar. I assume hiring a trailer would have been cheaper than the ticket issued by the constable?

I like short queues.

No, I wouldn't. For a '77 Ford Country Squire and a '72 Fury I would though!

Dupli-Color. If you heat the can hot enough.

Giger left the project over artistic controversies. I found some of Giger's artwork for the Batmobile on his own website. And a model built by Ro Hiruma: And this description is offered: "His unique "X" shaped design was to include articulated front legs/mandibles, retractable fins, and gatling gun emplacements on each of the four pods on the sides of the vehicle. The design also combined side and forward intake ports with organic spines and a central pod connecting the four legs." This confirms my doubt that any of the designs were inspired by the plastic toy.

It's the best '65 Lincoln Continental kit ever.

What is politically incorrct about driving an American car in Sweden?

Unfortunately it's too late to ask Anton Furst, the designer of the Burton era car, where he got his inspiration from. Two years after he received an Oscar for his design, he committed suicide. However, seeing that he grew up in England, I doubt he ever saw the plastic toy. As for the Schumacher era cars, the design was started by non other than H.R. Giger and it is safe to assume that he had no knowledge of the plastic toy. He left the project to be replaced by Barbara Ling, who finished the designs in collaboraton with effects company TFX. Albeit the similarities are striking, I have my doubts that the blue toy car served as inspiration for any of the movie cars.

I guess it's going to be rather boring without the Peugeots.

They did it to celebrate 50 years of the real car and the model. Then there is this 1:1 scale boat kit:

It would have taken me well over a year just to build 12 Toyota kits...

It's a 75-78 LTD, no?

It just occurred to me... This: should not be too difficult to make from this: In the same way, one should be able to do a Le Mans 4dr from a GTO, a Skylark 4dr from a GSX and a Cutlass from a well - Cutlass. Just add 4 scale inches in the middle, reshape the rear side window, rescribe two door lines and you are basically there, no? Should the IMC 75 Cutlass ever become available, it could be fourdoored in a similar fashion, no? You know what, guys? I give it a go. What the heck? Those snap 70 'velles are a dime a dozen, so even if I blow it, it's not the end of the world.

I keep telling you guys, these cars will make it right through World War 3 and back. And they have the handling to boot. On regular gas. Unlike this overhyped Muscle Car rubbish.

Also works the other way round:

1973: 1974:

Cars from this era still don't get the exposure they deserve. They were not nearways as bad or ugly as common folklore wants us to believe. This Thunderbird: has paced each and every stockcar race in Holland since it was bought new in 1978 and is still used today. I don't even want to know how many races it has paced, or what the current mileage is. It is also used to haul a trailer full of equipment back and forth between the various tracks. The only thing I have ever seen going wrong with it was a snapped fanbelt on a pace lap.

It currently has this weird kind of scarcity kits have shortly before they become really scarce. It's the 'if you look for one there is none, but if you don't look for one, they are out there' kind of scarcity. Seeing that the 70s F-bodies gradually but steadily become ever more visible on the radars of the mainstream collectors as real cars as well as miniatures, it won't be long for this kit to become very highly sought after.

I would like to have the latest issue of Auto Trader, and two hours in the pub to read it.