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Earl used his own formulas for his paints that was based on a fish oil. Your car would be extremely popular with the neighborhood cats for about a week after you got it painted and if you parked it in a closed up garage you would have to roll your windows down for a month regardless of the weather. I had an aunt and uncle who had there '58 Chevy Del-Ray painted that Olive green metallic that was popular in the sixties and during the summer of '65 I spent the summer with them (they lived in Los Banos CA.) and my cousin (who had just got his license) and I took it out along the California Aquaduct that was under construction and when we came home decided to wash it to avoid a big lecture. Little did we know that with the Scheib base job they just washed the car with an abrasive cleanser like Comet, it cost extra to actually sand the car, and when you used the two bit car wash imagine our surprise when the pressure from their nozzle removed three foot long pieces of paint if you got to close when rinsing the soap off.

that's ok, it's just a minor thing considering all of the AMT '32 kits are based on a body that has been sectioned around four inches. And I agree it's a super build. Especially like the aged light tan exhaust manifolds instead of the usual rust shade, or clean cast iron.

I thought it looked more like the Kia grille.

they can't find a real Vega to get proper measurements from. Every one they find disintegrates into a pile of rust when they try to move it. lol??

Don't worry, there will still be shady types that will keep boosting the prices on the current releases and trying to sell them as rare collector versions since they are now officially discontinued. ???

The only thing that makes me worry is the argument that some people voiced with the body mistake with the Chevrolet 150 that it could be something as simple as someone put the wrong body side molds in the tooling. If they can make a Bel-Air out of a 150 by putting a different piece in the tool it won't be hard to take a standard Charger body and make it an R/T.

Along the same lines of thinking. Why did they bring out the Charger? They already have several releases of a Charger that looks almost identical. Give you an idea of why? Just because it's close doesn't mean it's anywhere near the same. I'm looking forward to REAL Foose cars.

Yaaaa!!! unless you're one of the get rich quick sellers who thought they saw a get rich quick deal on Ebay. Now they've ran up a bunch of seller fees and still have the kits in hand, well I guess that having the kits is sort of a good thing unless they bought several cases at list price thinking they were going to have plenty of time to sell them off. Now we can all be happy. Someone paid the ransom ??!!

I'm happy they delayed it and got it right. I'd hate for it to be on time but be like that '90 Mustang kit. I wouldn't like another twenty pages of rants about the mistakes......even though it might be cool to have a chopped top version to play around with.?

Personally I'm hoping that the door R/T covers are separate parts so I I can build a fairly close to standard Charger, it'd really be nice if if we could get the base 383 and plain grille as optional pieces.

That would be true for someone starting from scratch. But don't most of us old timers have multiples of these kits in our stash anyway? ?

I didn't say every tool in China. From the rumors I heard the company that did the molding of the A kits wasn't the usual company and for some reason those molds were going to be moved to another molding company but the company with the molds in their possession wouldn't let loose of them claiming ownership and Revell was only leasing them. Sounds almost like the Mint disaster, except that company claimed they were owed monies for the work they did and after not getting satisfaction from the owner decided to just keep the molds for what was owed to them. I don't know if there is a slight bit of ANY of this being true, like I said,RUMOR. You need to remember the old adage, if you haven't heard a good rumor by 11 a.m., start one of your own. ???

So,,,, you think the rumors about the tools being seized by a disgruntled molding company over a lost contract are just that? A groundless rumor? We've seen it happen to a U.S. die cast company, only they had every tool they owned seized, but then the guy that downs that company IS a little on the fishy side.

Thanks, appreciate it.

It sure is, but where's the picturs of his cat? lol??

That would just break my widdle heart. ?

When I clicked on Hendrix resins on the directory it gives me an excellent page with the bodies they offer, but no information on ordering, or prices for anything, and a index if they offer more than what's on that page. Thanks for the help I know will be coming. Del

I saw a testing version of a Camaro in that day-glo green (a quote of the factory press release) it was an experiment in producing the four cylinder version with a turbocharged engine putting out 275 horsepower, and with a tuned suspension set up so it would make a better autocross package. They said there weren't any definite plans for it to make production BUT that all the parts ARE available from Mr. Goodwrench should some enterprising dealer feel the urge to put one together. I guess I'm strange but it sounds like something I'd buy.

the two I was watching closed under $40, one in the middle of the week closed for its opening bid of $30, the other one had a starting bid of $29.95 but finished for $34.81. But there are still some out there on retail shelves and I haven't heard of retailers jacking the prices up......yet. But there will probably be someone somewhere who will not care for their regular customers but feel the pressure for that extra bonus. The smart ones set a case or two back and if the stories about the Chinese seizing the molds are true and these great kits will NOT be seen again (at least as coming from an American company) in just a couple of years they should demand prices that will resemble jewelry instead of plastic models.

the one closed for the $30 bid and the $29.95 one hasn't changed with just a few hours left on the clock so I don't think people are quite ready to get taken to the cleaners by those ready to exploit a bad deal. until Revell says definitely that these won't be returning ever to the line up that people will be willing to pay outlandish collector type prices for them.

Wow! Not even intelligent enough to use spell check. And he definitely needs to. Wouldn't saying he bought an original made by someone else and "improved" on it be proof that he copied it?

I must have been watching from a screen with better resolution, I definitely saw sidewall detail in the close-up I was looking at.

I was looking at the ones in the"Grumpy" Bill Jenkins Nova kit and they look to be around the right width, if you want to you could use a razor saw to add a couple of radial grooves to each tire for a proper "cheater" slick look.

that should be just about right, I had an uncle that built a '36 International pickup in the late '60s and it had a 289 Studebaker with an auto for power the sad thing is in the late '70s he sold it still running and basically rust free for $75 and the guy drove iit away.

You don't think you could get away with what the R/C guys are doing with their molded bodies? You can get a C type, or a T type, or F type, you can clearly see the style of car it's meant to be but I haven't heard of any copyright lawsuits yet so they must be doing something right. ?