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My experience with I P M S has always been fraught with dirty politics as just about EVERY Virginia I P M S club seems to have a "Core band " of Good ole boy judges " . i simply reuse to deal with them any longer . I actually USED to be in the Richmond club too. I got tired of the Rolling eyes when I would want to discuss service stations or anything outside of WWII European theater aircraft . As far as i'm concerned , the old Dominion Open might as well tell anyone out of the military to buzz off . I go to the Tidewater Automotive automobile model show simply because THAT club and THAT contest is an automotive contest

To answer your question YES! AMT didn't want to pay Barris the royalties snd thus began several changes to the original Ala kart ....

May I second the motion here ?

Kurt , you won't be dissapointed with Monogram's Cord .

YEP!!!!!!

I've seen some Revell snap kits in a couple of our local stores . Here , we have four locations .

Very novel idea ! I need to try this instead of watching paint dry

That would also be the only reason I'd buy this too .

OUTSTANDING!!!!

Here's what sold me on 1969 AMT annual kits ......

I'm gonna second this .......

MORE Texaco stations from all over the country :

I want to say it was the old now out of print Car Modeler magazine .

I'm gonna wait until these go on clearance . I worked on the 1-1's as they came off the transporter installing radios , hubcaps and tuning them as half the time , they barely ran well enough to idle . Had this been a Cougar , well.........

I just got a personal message via Facebook that Jonny Carson , aka Long roof Jonny was killed last week in a traffic collision . There is a Go Fund me page established as his family is currently dealing with expenses . You can reach me via Art Forms Design on face Book , or P-m me here ....

If AMT REALLY wanted to do something USEFUL as a Parts pack , how bout the BSA , and Triumph motor bikes and the Go Kart with the kwell racing shell . Then the Westerman one seater boat . Look CHROME bucket seats ain't muh thing Vern .....

Lee, be mindful of the leg room . Course , a Ford model A really wasn't known for legroom anyway

Lee, jus a question here . Aurora and Revell both did XKE kits . Could one of them suffice ?

Mike , it sounds like the old Scale Equipment LTD. co. I do all my own stuff anyway . Yes, that means tools , appliances , etc .....

The NO interior is a DEAL BREAKER for me ......

Excellent POST !! You can see hints backing this in Lee Iaccoca's Autobiography , Iaccoca .

I'm seriously considering this kit because it's a unique piece and all my dioramas have cars that most modelers don't often do

I'm a writer for the early Ford Club of America magazine , ( 1932-1953 ) first . Why you would want to put a Ford V-8 8-Ba into a 1956 is beyond me . Given the time , 1956, guys couldn't wait to get hold of a wrecked 292 or better , a 312 ! Look, the Ford had run it's course in a street driver . The Ford Flat head was and remains very troublesome as they haven't built a radiator large enough to cool one of those engines !!!!!! I actually run a THREE ROW School bus radiator in my 1953 Ford Panel delivery and I swear to ya , on a HOT day, my eyes are on TWO , YEAH TWO temperature gauges . OK , the 239 and the subsequent 279 292 312 had too small oil holes to deliver oil when MOST Needed ! Thats a relative EASY fix at ANY machine shop . Ford Flat heads near require the use of Hi Performance Aluminum heads as they at least could carry more water than the stockers . I have spent the last twenty years of my life working on the early V-8s and I still have all the special Ford dealer tools to work on them too . Would I put a Flat head in a newer Ford truck , NOPE !

In addition , AMT's 2018 announcements have me yawning too !