The Junkman

Front end has a bit of the Austin-Healey 3000 to it but you would have to pull back/lay down the grill somewhat.

Mercury Cyclone II Gurney Special (a "W" grill could be added" 71 Cyclone GT 289 Shelby Cobra w/street, FIA, and competition body/wheel options Lola T-70 coupe and roadster 1955 Buick Century so I could do the Dan Matthews memorial I've wanted to do. ("21-50 to headquarters")

Wonder how much he charged per autograph. The guy knew every way to another buck.

It is beyond me to understand, excepting licensing fees, why there is not an up to date 1/24 or 1/25 scale 289 Cobra kit. The AMT came out in what: 1964? Except for the Revell 427 and the Fujimi replica of a 427 kit car, there is nothing else ever released. A couple resin transkits that are OOP. Its a car that straddles generations. Street, competition, FIA bodies all could be reached with a common chassis and minor parts change/additions. To say nothing of the Daytona coupe. Maybe when I win the Lotto I'll fund the cutting of some molds.

Stanford University has digitized their photo archives and one in particular could hold much promise. https://revslib.stanford.edu/ For instance the Jean Charles Martha Photography Collection has beautiful Kodachrome photos of mid-60's European races, Martha being the official Ford company photographer. Long time author Karl Ludvigsen has over 50K photos in his collection. You can search by person, event, model (Porsche 911, Mustang, etc). Some things are not as useful, we don't need 30 photos of Zora Arkus-Duntov's files, but there is a lot of wheat in the chaff. i.e. prototype progression of the classic 55-57 Thunderbird Hint: find the photo you want, click on it and when the photo pops up in another box use the controls in the upper left hand corner to expand it. There, that ought to waste most of your afternoon.

I've got a set-good quality but limited run type printing, buy 2 and double up.

Bah, we need (NEED!) a new mold Shelby 289 Cobra, street and race. After that you can have your '30s Chevy.

Do you have any details on that build? Whole body or just fenders, etc? Right there is a big hole in the car model panoply: how can a new mold, modern 289 Cobra (both street and FIA/USRRC) model NOT be a home run for some enterprising model company. AMT's 260 Cobra has to be 50 years old by this point. And lets add a Daytona Coupe to that, shall we?

+1 Haven't cared for a Ferrari Halo car since the F-40. I also like rotary phones, newspapers, analog cell phones with a little antenna you pull up.

I got this back in April. Told the insurance that I would put, maybe, 5K miles on it. Just clicked over 16K on Friday. Ooops. I had wanted a Grabber Blue Mustang since I was 17 and I saw my first 1970 Boss 302. Had to go through a lot of minivans to get here.

The big winter toy show in Nurnburg started on Thursday. Here's a preliminary list of announcements-autos under the "Ziviles" listing. Not much for us to get excited about. Mostly stuff we already knew about and re-releases. I know the plane and armor modelers are stoked. http://www.ipmsdeutschland.de/Ausstellungen/Nuernberg2014/Nuernberg_2014.html Here's a photo gallery http://www.ipmsdeutschland.de/Ausstellungen/Nuernberg2014/Bilder_VH/Bilder_VH.html

FYI: I found a 170 c.i. Ford 6 cyl engine on Ebay. No connection with the seller http://www.ebay.com/itm/Resin-Ford-170-C-I-engine-Mustang-Falcon-Fairlane-Ranchero-Missing-Link-/350951953843?pt=Model_Kit_US&hash=item51b65dd5b3

I got it to work. No dates posted so I don't know how old some of the info is. http://www.bonediggers.com/toc.html

1: A new, up to date molding of the classic 260/289 Cobra 2: Same as above only the USRRC and FIA versions (Come on Revell/Round 2-the only injection molded kit was released in 1962/63!) 3:Any late model F-250/F-350 Ford pickup 4: Lola T-70 roadster and coupe 5: (now fantasy realm) 69, 71 or 72 Dodge Polara 4 dr. I love my classic police cars

Well, there's another one but they drove Mercury Monterey's in 1957.

Can you model and shoot? I peaked at Kodak Instamatics http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/10/mini-motorama/#slideid-100881

More than likely- :o

My Squadron flyer shows them in stock. Cars are 1/43rd and the planes from Planes are 1/100. All run about $8 http://www.squadron.com/model-cars-and-trucks-s/2373.htm?searching=Y&sort=3&cat=2373&show=18&page=1&brand=ZVEZDA

Well, here's one way to contact them. http://stores.ebay.com/Missing-Link-Resin-cast-model-cars And are you using this link? I asked because its working fine for me. http://www.missinglinkrc.com/ (Postscript: yeah, you're right. The parts link is verclempt.) Nice people to work with. They sold me a rear bumper off their mid-70s Ford Mustang II separately (going to use it on my Gunze Mustang II as the one in the kit is totally wrong).

I got this one in April. Had to go through a bunch of cars the wife liked, the minivan stage (less said, the better), and the long term pickup (still kept it '98 F-150 with 155K). Grabber Blue Mustangs came out in 1970 and I've wanted one ever since. Smile hasn't left the face since then. This photo taken a hour after I picked it up.

I can't speak from experience (don't own the Fujimi kit) but I understand that the knock on the Fujimi kit was that the reference used was a kit car that was found in Japan and that the windscreen/frame were dramatically too thick.

The Monogram is really nice and accurate (far better than the Fujimi-it was based on a clone-reproduction) but only for a street model, or rather the S/C. The competition model had many differences. Here's the current release Now compare this to the car that was the model for the first issue by Monogram A better illustration is this one, the scheme from the last release of the Monogram kit: Front fender vents are off, both the front and rear fenders are too narrow and have shape issues both above and behind the rear wheels. I also think the competition Cobras ran multiple Weber carbs and not a 4 bbl as in the kit. It should have "fine child-bearing hips". Regarding the 289, there were many varients as the production went along and the competition versions only generally resembled the street versions. We need a new up to date kit....because.

And while a Daytona Coupe would be awesome and wonderful, it pales compared to the need for a comprehensive, up to date, accurate 289/FIA Cobra along with a Competition 427 with proper fenders. Hasn't AMT been milking their 260 Cobra for like 50 years?

Forlorn hope but I wish someone had done a Mangusta kit/body. "Bill" from "Kill Bill" drove one. Had the lowest mounted headlamps ever legally allowed in CA-had to get a specific exemption.

I never saw an automatic in all the years the CHP had Mustangs ('82 until the last were run-out in about 1995). Yes, running a pursuit-what those things were originally bought for-required 3 hands for steering, shifting, radioing. I used to wrap the microphone around the rear view mirror so I wouldn't have to reach for it. The Jurassic age suspension also made things dicey in curves-especially fast, sweeping, uneven (expansion strips) freeway surfaces. Get the rear end bouncing in a curve and it just kept wanting to bring that end around. The spotlamps on the front were always black except where paint wore off, underneath was an aged brass color. I can't tell by the box photos but if you do a slick top you'll need either a light stick in the rear window OR 3 hemispherical lamps for the deck lights. I looks like aftermarket/spares box for sure. The seats look good but I wonder if you can source a Kool Cushion about like this: http://www.amazon.com/Standard-60-2317-05-Ventilated-Cushion-Black/dp/B0002KKSEG Having a 30" inseam I always needed a bit of a boost forward. Do you guys see anything like these in the sprues? I didn't. The first one was from a Mustang. CHP radio before 1992 CHP radio after 1992 (I know the title says 1987 but I never saw one in the field until 1992) RE: nobody wanting an automatic-I'm hoping to buy a new one soon but I have a wife who cannot drive a stick. And I don't want to end 32 years together in a effort to teach her. So, its got to be a slush box.