garryrenfro

I really like those models! I dated a girl in high school who's mother had a new 1966 Galaxy 500 XL fastback, 390 Thunderbird engine and cruise-o-matic. Brings back nice memories!

There is a photo in a 60's magazine, don't recall which one, which shows a truck made from this trailer. The rear of the trailer is the front of the truck. Maybe someone remembers. I'll search through my mags and see if I can find it, if one of you fine folk don't find it first.

Dig!!

The kit slicks are also way too wide - should be 7 inchers. Speed City Resin makes some really nice M & H Racemaster 7" Cheater Slicks. The Lindberg '61 Impala Super Stock has the proper size Goodyear tire, and many of the mid-60's AMT Trophy Series kits had nice 7" Firestone slicks. There are probably other current kit sources available that I do not know.

Couldn't agree with you more! This is my definitely my pick of the year also, followed by the 1962 Corvettes. The 'Cuda is a better kit, but not my favorite subject matter (however, that won't hinder my purchase and building of it).

I like the brave color combination! Visually, it is like an intentional discord in a musical composition. A silver separation line will subdue the contrast a little, the orange will emphasize it.

Oh yeah!

Appears the original style individual headers are still included. Very hard to model accurately scaled wire spokes in 1/25 plastic, but I will take these over those clear wheels any day. I have had a case pre-ordered since September.

A kit I never dreamed Revell would retool. I am 12 again! Hooray! I'l take a case.

Which planet are you from? This is almost too much for my pea brain to wrap around. Kool.

I really dig stock-class cars. Kind of Everyman's racer. Nice build.

Well, I would have like to seen alternate 3-speed and automatic transmissions. While we're at it, lower hp intakes, carbs, valve covers and exhaust. What about RPO 687 brake drums and scoops? And all of the decals to go with them? Doubt if any kit ever lives up to everybody's wants and desires. But how many times do we build straight out of the box? When it comes to Corvettes I am VERY prejudiced. I have always loved all things Corvette. My second model ever was an SMP 1959 that I bought at a neighborhood grocery store in 1960. I built dozens of Corvettes as a kid, and as an adult have owned several. I have waited anxiously for this model to come out. For me, the positive things about it vastly outweigh the negatives. Bought one last week at a premium price and ordered a case at a really decent price from GMS Customs that will not ship for another week or so. I want tops as much as anyone as I plan to build several classes of Drag and road race replicas. I believe the tops from the '58 and '59 will fit with a bit of massaging.

I have a couple of third hands, a couple of hobby vices, and a Micromark magnetic gluing jig that are always in use.

Great rendition of a great subject.

Yessir, truly inspirational.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-24-Scale-Short-Nosed-Jaguar-D-Type-Model-Car-Body-/300530320782?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item45f900c58e#ht_500wt_1177

A fellow Tennessean echos my thoughts. Technology has changed our hobby significantly in the past three decades, and will continue to change the nature of the manufacturing and marketing of our hobby. In the not too distant future, 3-D printers will be within the means for a model club, small group of entrepreneurs, or a hobby shop owner to purchase. There is now at least one seller on Ebay, offering a computer generated short-nosed D-Jaguar body in 1/24th and 1/25th scale at $30-40. This will eventually replace the resin market, and as costs come down and table-top units are available, and software for creating patterns is reasonably priced, perhaps manufactured kits also. Revell and aftermarket vendors may be selling software, and charge the customer every time it is accessed to fabricate a part. Revell, et al, may even be selling a machine and consumables specifically engineered for model makers. A prediction, but one that is garnered from what is pervasive in the market. Especially the graphics, film, and music industries, where I have spent my career since 1971.

"If a messy shop is a happy shop, then mine is delirious" - I've been sorting, cleaning, organizing for the past three weekends. Just about to get ready for the summer season.

Great project! As far as I'm concerned, the stock and bracket classes represent the most interesting aspect of drag racing.

Great nostalgic feel!

Guess I'm too lazy to think about a user name, but the avatar is a custom SMP 1959 Corvette that I built in mid-1960, when I was nine. It was the second model car I had built. The first was an AMT 1932 Ford Roadster, which I no longer have. I had built several airplanes, with my dad's help, before I discovered cars.

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, The Fabric of The Cosmos by Brian Greene and Young Men and Fire by Norman MaClean are a few of the more serious things I have enjoyed over the last couple of years. When I want a good, light, fun read, I go for Robert B. Parker, who passed away last year. His cheeky wit is like perfume and cocaine to me, way addictive. Clive Cussler has been a thirty year favorite, but I like his earlier novels much better than those of the past decade.

Since Christmas 1964, another obsession. Here are a few of my 47 year collection:

I know a lot of here were kids in the 50's and 60's, when kits were everywhere. I live in rural East Tennessee, and at that time it was RURAL, almost nothing open on Sunday or after 6:00 pm. But there were two country stores with in walking distance that had kits and comic books. Eight miles up the road, in the little bitty one street town of Jonesborough, within the three blocks, there was a farm supply, a grocery store, a five and dime, an auto parts dealer, a service station, a drug store, and a Western Auto hardware - all of them carried models, lots of models! The same same was true of another little town, Erwin, in the other direction. Sixteen miles away was Johnson City, with big department stores - Kesges, McClellans, Sears, Woolworths, Several big grocery and drug stores, and may favorite, privately owned Ben's Sport Shop. Now there's only a couple of places in this part of the state that carry models, and the selection is generally dismal. I have relied almost solely on mail order since the mid-80"s.

1000%. Those original Monogram kits were lots of fun.