samdiego
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And among the many changes we have seen in the mag, the last two issues even smelled better!
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Vintage? I would have to say the original Lil' Coffin. Modern? I think the Revell Merc is a great looking box, although I'm not crazy about the flat style
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Oh, wouldn't it be just crazy if we followed standard protocol for this type of thread? That would be where the people who answer correctly are charged with giving us their best attempt at finding something that would stump us. I don't know, maybe it sounds whacky, but it might clear up some of the confusion that the shotgun approach causes here in Nick's thread.
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It's all relative. I'm sure that an economist could show that the relative prices are pretty much the same, with inflation figured in. When models were $2, Corvettes were $6,000. The sixties were a great time for the model industry and the builder. I have car mags from then that have model ads inside the front cover, the inside back cover and the back cover. Often there would be model articles splashed on the cover as well. Modeling influence was everywhere, seemingly. I guess it could have just been me, but it really seemed that way.
Greenville, Ohio had the classic hobby shop, complete with a huge slot car track. This place was right in the main business district, down town.
I consider twenty years ago the dark ages of styrene. (the kids say 20 years ago like it was the stone age). Mostly AMT, I think, started to take the model buyer for granted. Man, they turned out some ######.
I've been pretty stoked by what is available right now. There are some whack things that happen now and then (Trumpeter cars) but the stuff being tooled now is a lot better than what we accepted back then
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Yeah, I want one. It looks like a Bel Air with braces
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Delage, Delehaye?
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I just picked up a can of Testors Vinyl Top paint from the same line as the Fabric Black. Initial test shows that the grain is a little large. Jairus' method looks like it may be a better way to go.
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There weren't that many French car companies in the thirties. Citroen?
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hows about a Cutlass S or a Brougham?
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They did nail the guy responsible. It took years but they did. I just saw an older CSI that mirrored the case. Two guys on bicycles doing a professional hit for a former partner.
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There is also the Desoto Firedome. I don't think the Desoto Fireflyte was ever modeled
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I thought that was where you got your cutlass detailed or permed or trimmed or whatever
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A day at the horse track? Did they park them by brand or did Packards just travel in herds?
I got it, but what are you going to do, it makes him so happy.
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palm trees . . . silly Wisconsinionites
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If that was a staging yard for Packard, it probably would have been in their home city of Detroit. GreggK, you must have a filter set for "tropical". Those palm trees are telephone poles.
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you're right, I missed that one
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You forgot the '73 Volvo Sportwagon and the '54 Ford concept rendering by Spencer and those aren't Fords, I think they are Packards
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Yes, except mine are more like fridge art. Gerald Wingrove's, absolutely
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and do something about those dishes!
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I'm pretty sure I've seen one somewhere that was based on a '59 El Camino. Possibly a factory effort for a race team support vehicle, but I could be nutz. It was also a snub nose design, proportioned more like the Merc transport. I always thought the Mercedes truck was cool. I like the Thunderball too. If it was an actual factory concept I think we would be more accepting of its quirky styling. It does need some redirection, though. I'm adding something like it to my list of "somedays". It's Futurelinerish
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'65-'66 Renault Bleuphlem
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yup!!! Mud on the shovel . . . haven't heard that one in a few
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those aren't lyrics to "In My Merry Oldsmobile" are they?
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Is Zeb's UTI an '11 Marmon?
Let's give a big standing O for Jairus!!
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I am upright, vertical and clapping. Awesome box with equally awesome insides.