ZTony8

Just make sure that the resin is free from release agent. Prime if you feel like it.

This is a tough topic for me to answer in that as I've aged and my lifestyle has changed my needs/ wants in a car have also changed. When I was 20 I bought a (well) used '71 Formula 455 H.O. Firebird. I thought it was a cool car then, I still do now, but at 9 m.p.g. at the time of gas shortage 1 I needed something easier on gas. That's when I bought a '75 Omega 3 on the tree with a 260 v-8 and Rally suspension. I like going for uncommonly equipped cars. Besides the Omega I had a '79 Malibu factory 4 speed. Ended up selling that to my doofus brother in law ( at the time) and he turned it into a drag car with an automatic( and the now ex took the money! See why she's my ex?) When I was 30 I bought myself a new '84 Z-28( 5.0 H.O, 5 speed, no A/C) as my birthday present. It was a car that had been ordered and cancelled by someone and it turned that it was almost exactly how I would have ordered it. I still have it. When I was married we had a couple of Cavalier V-6 wagons. Spacious enough for 3 and reasonably peppy. In 2008 I bought an HHR. When I first saw them at the Chevy exhibit at the Woodward Cruise in 2005 I thought it was a neat car and it suited me. So I replaced the '97 Audi A6 wagon that I thought I wanted when the ex and I bought it back in 1999. I'm much happier with the HHR (it's 2.4 engine 5 speed that I special ordered-one of 250 built). The list of cars that I'd want is long and varied and ranges from an Airflow to a GTO to a 50s Packard to a Ferrari 365GTC to a Gordon-Keeble ( look it up) to a Solstice GXP to a Willys-Knight.

Why waste the M80. Just use your foot.

I, too, have this kit. I agree that it's closest to 1/20th scale. It's the kit I've had the longest, unbuilt. I got it for my 13th birthday-in 1967. Still have plans to do it as a street rod.

This was the only Tamiya 1/20 kit that I didn't have until I found one last April at the Milwaukee NNL swap/ snowstorm.

Usually it's only one at a time but right now I have the Moebius '55 & '56 Chryslers on the bench. We're not counting all the stalled projects, are we?

Several years ago a local hobby shop had acquired a collection and was offing the kits for $15 each( these were Tamiya and Hasegawa rally car and road racing kits) I bought about 20 of them. It was the one and only time I've ever used my credit card to buy kits.

The Magnum (or Charger) body is a good idea. The engine looks like it's not very good but the old AMT and Monogram NASCAR kits are plentiful and cheap enough to be used for parts. As far as the pin marks go- ever hear of putty?

I have several sets of the old AMT supplied Firestone Supreme narrow stripe white wall tires stored in plastic drawers. Some have started to "melt" (mildly) and lightly stick to the drawer while others in the same drawer have not. And some of those tires have gotten hard over the years. It seems very random.

Rarity, I think, is subjective. Many more kits of a subject were produced in the 60s than today so the definition of rarity is probably "How many are left?". Anyway- I think my rarest is a 1/16 scale Revell 1917 Model T coupe. It's not a direct scale up of the old Gowland & Gowland mold because it doesn't have that funky "hop" deal where the body moves when the model is pulled along with a piece of string. What's odd is that on the box side it makes reference to the this "hop" feature. I also have some unbuilt Jo-Han kits from the 60s and 70s, and a Gunze Sangyo Ferrari 250 GTO ( with engine- I sold the one that was minus the engine I have a built up AMT '60 Ford pickup and '59 Buick convertible that I bought as built ups and most of my built up junk from the mid to late 60s.

That was a Continental Beacon.

Hupp Skylark and Buick Skylark. Buick Invicta and the British made Invicta. Bentley and Lincoln Continental. Auburn Speedster and Porsche Speedster.

I went to the other HL that I didn't hit last Saturday and found the Gama Goat for 75% off there( gonna make it a kind of dune buggy with shiny paint) along with the stock '76 Torino ( dull car but at $7.50 I wasn't going to let it pass), the 1/32 scale AMT Mustang,, the AMT Datsun 280ZX, and the Testor/Lindberg '37 Ford street rod. Most of the clearance kits are the same from store to store but I wonder if some of the stores may have some unique mark downs( the Goat wasn't marked down at the first HL I visited but was at the second)?

HMMM- that Gamma Goat wasn't marked down at the Hobby Lobby I went to today. I would have bought it to make a hot rod/ dune buggy.

I hit one HL here and scored the Mc Ewen Top Fueler, the '64 Color Me Gone, The AMT '57 Ford, The '64 Thunderbolt, the '48 Ford Coupe, and that Grim Reaper bike along with some paint and some X-Acto blades at the 75% clearance price.

Clearance discounts in effect here in the Motor City. I picked up six kits, some paint and some X-Acto blades all at 75 % off.

If you use the roof as a boat does your trailer interior become exposed to the elements? Pray for no rain!

I suspect that the old formula TS-13 would cause grief. The new formula might not. I'm told that it doesn't affect the lacquers like the old formula did.

I noticed the Buick Bug racing car in the film. I believe it's the one now owned by G.M.

Drop dead gorgeous !

At a hot rod show yesterday I bought an unbuilt MPC Ford GT 40 Mark IV (circa 1981 version).

The real car didn't have a 4 speed. The phony sound track was added to the movie. There are several scenes where you can see the column shifter in the car and both of Burt Reynold's hands on the steering wheel. So phony, so dumb.

Technically I have about 1500 projects waiting. They're ALL slated for the bench at some point-I just have to live to be 700 years old to get to them.

I noticed that the forward tip of the front fender slopes down on the model but not on the real car. And now that I study things on the model the more I see wrong. Oh well.

My mind says 25,my body says 63.