Ayatollah

Please delete my account at once. I am way too old for the behind the scenes games you boys play. The majority of you are good hearted and I appreciate all of you. I don't want any part of this. To the other few, I hope you find a better way of life soon.

I did the headlights, and almost the whole kit myself. If I did the body and glass, I would be a kit manufacturer LOL. The tub isn't even correct on this one, its the 75 RR two door tub! I use nothing from the chrome tree anymore. I do use the dash though. Just a thought, more to me than anyone. I'm an ex-smoker. It's typical to find money in a non smoker's ash tray for the toll roads. That's a very feasible approach, as is "sun-pass". The chassis will get weathered once the car is together. I paint the tires, no such thing as black tires unless my eye sight is that bad all these years. A light dusting of grayish tan on everything, even when a car is almost new. That blue paint along the edges should almost vanish, and the metallic colour of the petrol tank. Then same for the engine compartment, make it look a year old, nothing shiney, but not nasty either. Some leaves in the cowl and a rag left behind by a distracted mechanic on night shift.

All I can say is, that is how it SHOULD BE!

Thanks! I don't know what I'll do when I'm done with this one. I have read everything there is 3-5 times. And I'm not mobile enough to paint anything. I did this before surgery, planning ahead. Once it's built I'm in a corner.

" Dispatch, I'm busy right now [ cough cough cough hack hack cough ] "

I'm a sucker for these worn out old tool kits, even though it takes a lot to make one presentable. Detroit PD, like many other big cities had budget issues for decades. Slant sixes and 318's, mostly sixes though. They did have the good sense to run two-man cars though. I decided to depict a guy that would rather die of lung cancer than a bad guy's bullet. People love to open the trunk, intsall valve stems and brass lug nuts but everybody overlooks the stuff that makes a car a car, like the ash tray, the arm rest, glove box, lighter receptacle and outlets, streaking the glass from the wiper blades? No 75 Birdie parts here. Hate em! Revell Chassis, for obvious reasons. Love the Revell chassis, I use the 8-3/4" from the Socks and Mittens GTX.

This is the steering wheel most of these cars had Julian. Easy to make.

Almost everything in the MPC kit is wrong. I throw it all out except the body and dash

I have them, but have no idea how much it's going to be to ship to UK. Send me a msg, I'll see what I can find out.

Yeah, but if you say his name this thread vanishes.

This right here is a perfect example of theft. The guy will cash the checks, not fill the orders, but then has no problem casting enough inventory to go to shows to raise some pocket cash. If that isn't theft, what is? But "he's a swell guy". Yeah, so was the 75 year old black guy that Wal Mart prosecuted for not noticing a gallon of milk on the lower shelf of his shopping cart when he went out the door.

The big blocks prior to about 72 had the AVS. Hemis had AFB's Now "Edelbrock" sells the AVS under their own name for a ridiculous price.

Nice work! Maybe someone will do one of the original Domino's pizza gremlins with the spotlight and a six banger.

Just because somebody can cast a nice part, it doesn't mean they will send you what you pay for. Those who are not yet aware of the dangers of dealing with certain sellers should be free to see what those who have been shafted have to say about their costly experiences.

If I don't see a 1/16th scale LADA complete with photoetch soon, I will send a terse letter to the gubbmint......

There is only one resin. Plenty of "wanna - be's" though. If you're going to bother making a decent master, use good materials.

Remember, it's 70's technology but can be built nicely.

You can see the marks from the screw holes, the whole thing started life as a two door promo. If you really want to build the kit itself, throw everything away except the glass, body and dash. Use resin, Revell and AMT and scratchbuilding.

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I'm not a fan of Don's, but I will leave my opinion at home, there is something here that is being missed. The E Bay message system is NOT reliable, I haven't used E Bay in around 3 years, I saw how bad it was getting and simply had no need for it anyway, but a LOT of people I know sell on there and we have used my account to do experiments on the messaging system and it's a joke. Randomly, some messages just disappear, or arrive days late. The thing we really noticed was that emails regarding email addresses, alternate forms of payment and links to sites disappeared with a lot more frequency than the others, it couldn't be a glitch. Probably some sort of bot, but some do go through so it's inconsistent. I wouldn't rule out the following scenario: You send Don a message via ebay and he responds with his aol address. The bots intercept it and you never get a reply. This may or may not be the case, but I have seen it happen and if you're sitting there waiting to hear back from someone it will be an irritating experience and it often causes the seller to lose sales or have lower closing bids. EBay has been doing way too much experimenting for their own good and they had been bragging about having some type of system where everything HAD to go through their system and they would catch any attempts to circumvent this. I don't know how far along they are with this, but I'm sure once implemented it will be a disaster just like all of the other things that they fixed. Food for thought. You may now go back to flaming each other, I'll go find my Jiffy Pop

You'll be through it in no time. I don't spend as much time here as I used to so it's unclear to me what the specifics are but stress can flow out into places like this and it was a good decision to let people here know that you have a temporary forces contributing to any mood that they notice. Hang in there.

You leave us no choice but to kill you and eat you. We will divvy up your model cars at a date to be announced later. Please don't take this personally, times are tough, food is expensive and your turn came up. You're a good feller and you'll probably taste like chicken.

I got this from R and R about 4 years ago. Wasn't bad at all, other than missing the tail lights and steering wheel. I had to glue the hood shut due to warpage but could have fixed it. I would buy one again, and may do so soon.

It's an honor to see what you make. It also makes me want to send sourkraut a few hundred sheckles MOUNTAINDEWD, Holy %! You make some smokin' headache racks! I'll bet you would do a great book I like the Alclad as a replacement for chrome. I never see vehicles on the road with mirror like chrome. I like to dust silver paint lightly onto wheels to kill the mirror look. Your scratchbuilding is impressive to say the least!