samdiego

I can't figure it ou . . . oh wait, it's mine. NICK, come back it's complete anarchy in here!

I think all of the GM Divisions had a Vette based roadster concept around that time. GM thought they would detract from Corvette sales and glory and the projects were halted. Even in the 80's, the Cad and Buick two-seaters were kept in the Lux category and away from Vette territory.

Wasn't the custom version of the delivery based on Winfield's shop truck? I remember the panel and pinstripe decals from the original that I had.

I think we're caught up. I just found this in my inbox.

It's not a Desoto. My last guess was Fiat.

I didn't ask for something more modern, did you ask for something more modern?

Oh No!!, those Jedi mind tricks won't work on me! Nick threw up the Toyota "Airflow" in #799, I aswered in #800. Then in #813 Art/ Bisquitbuilder gave us another car that resembles the airflow and quoted #800. Yep, like a steel trap.

she has a lovely mustache and the accursed red thing is only the lead photo on the Stanley website, grrrrrr . . . crappy search engines

I'm really likin' "Freak Show". So much cooler than the list of cannibalized victims would lead you to expect. I'd like to see it in different colors, anything but pink and green. If you think zeb is spazzin' now, don't even mention southern cooking. Yes, it was the beach pic and rocket car reference that clued me in, after a bunch of the worst hints ever! I think the last beach run for that car ended in a crash, didn't it? We still need to have bisquitbuilders streamliner from post 813 IDed.

(crickets chirping) is it a Stanley?

oh, now you're just milkin' it.

No, that was Nick's Toyota. There was another from bisquitbuilder.

I don't think we ever got the airflowish thing that I thought might be a Fiat. That was a few pages ago. It was Art's from post #813

And the usual gang of idiots here at TCIFTUTBA sends their love. But, boy that zeb sure is taking us to school, isn't he? I guess he knows more about the automobile than the rest of us put together. And the records that are falling, geez. I seem to have lost my tally list. Refresh my failing memory, would you? How many of these has zeb identified correctly so far, not counting his own?

Whoa! Who snuck the nitro into George's coffee tank?

It looks like a '64 Chevy Pick-Up rear ended one of Chrysler's '61-'63 letter cars that was carrying cases of Pepto-Bismol in its trunk. Oh and then re-animated by Dr. Frankenrod and then Virgil Exner rose up from the dead and set it ablaze with zombie fire That takes care of Zeb's. Jaffa, I don't know what yours is

Ahoy, Duffer! That would be called a "cowl" over here. I swear, you guys have a different word for everything, like it's a whole 'nother country or somethin'.

Oh that would be perfect. Humber never occured to me which is odd considering that this sits on my tower. Hey! Across the pond! what's a scuttle?

Are you kidding me?! I've run across a few references to the wooden kits over the years, but that is the first one I've seen. Especially in the raw form. My Dad used to say that they were "a block of wood with a picture of a car". I thought he was kidding or at least exaggerating. I musta heard that a hundered times. I'm kinda glad I missed that point in the hobby's history. Thanks for bringing that out again. Is the unbuilt one something that you've had forever or a more recent find? I can't say that I could have done as well at that age. Well styled.

One of the Palmer kits with the separate body sides. I think it was a Ford. Just before my 5th birthday, my dad stashed it on top of the fridge, presumably to test my climbing skills. My dad built models, the neighbors built models, it was 1965 and the hobby was booming. From my point of view, it was everywhere. The comic book and Boy's Life ads, the coverage in the 1:1 car mags and the amount of space they commanded in nearly every department store or five and dime or whatever they were called. It was great and I was able to barter about two kits a month from the parents. An average pace that I maintain to this day. An idyllic childhood in the countrysides of central Ohio that in retrospect seems hugely centered around the car. I still have thousands of HotWheels, another addiction that I haven't given up.

Quote from post #4 "Would a 34 ford truck with a chop and channel be good too?" yes

must be the southwest part of Minneapolis. That is cute Andy, what is it?

The classic AMT '53 Ford with the Chevy stepside fenders w/vette tailights and the canted quad custom grille.

Gucci purses? In Tucson, it's fairly normal to find yourself in the grocery check-out behind your typical soccer mom. Full cart, two kids, 45 on her hip . . .

Cal, I believe that is the famous photo of the Duchess of Elbonia in her '63 Ersatz Belchfire moments after the Duke cut one loose with the windows up and promptly exited the shot. Elbonian Cuisine . . .DO NOT go in there!