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Maisto has awesome dc '14 C7 coupe and cvt out. Better than nothing, and ready for shelf. Several colors for both, kits at HL about $13.50 with coupon. Still want Z06 kit though, coupe and convert.

Bought this issue, molded in white. One of my favorite boxes, and at the time I didn't like drag cars much. Converted me, I've got every issue. Earliest were also molded in grey shiny plastic. My blueprinter is molded in tan, and I've got some molded in black I've acquired over the years. Bought re-issue and tin both. Hooked me on FE dragsters too. Dunno what I do with boxes when built. Probably need to finish some more than 80%. Bought tin after I found out it had more stuff in it. But box neat.

The fuel injection script on the fender was added back in, lots of the 63's don't have it. I forget when, but it was pre-matchbox, after 67->63. The convertible too with the Prestige issue had script, I think the FI unit was newly tooled for convert? later, it is fairly different from my originals. Old SAE had article about Corvettes that had details like this in them. Agree with Raoul's other comments.

Nah. More like #Yellow snow #Not a lemon icee.

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I looked at that TR before he got it, and it was not bad. You can replace braces, wiring, etc and bring back car to near original. As it sits now, it's a Russell-Lauren that looks like a TR using many original parts. PR has great shop, but Bobby Smith, others preserve originality. Much of it is at behest of owner, and RL wants new. Personalizing is one thing, color changes, etc. But rebuilding a virgin does NOT leave you with a virgin. Finally concours recognizes this, but still lots of offenders. I can speak to this, as I've shepherded restorations on O742 and O718, put orig motor back with 18, had new body done for 42 (Was Bardinon rebody of TR 59 rebody), and shown them and others at PB, FCA, etc. Funnily, the original issue of the R-G XK-SS had red car on box art. It was a 18k mi original car I drug out of a garage in Chicago. Orig leather/paint, top, everything. I was a barn find originality guy 30 years ago. Went thru motor, freshened up things, and drove it. 40g tank, no fuel gauge Ran it out of gas on I80. If you look at corrugated oil breather hoses at firewall, there's tiny dent in one. Courtesy of me changing plugs and tail of ratchet slipping. Got sold to Germany, had ground-up revirginization, and moron stuffed it into wall. Over-restored cars suck, you're only a virgin once, and great cars just get passed thru owners. The car has the history, not the owner. Good credit /= good taste. Then there's the tach needle restorations. Start with original tach needle, remake everything else, and voila, a wonderful restoration with pretty trophies. :barf: BTW, the 28M red NART got sent from the auction to Bobby's. Getting color change back to original (woohoo hate red) and will surface fairly soon I hope.

Chroming makes wires brittle, they break with hard cornering. No Ferrari comp car, Alfa, Bentley,or Bugatti had chrome. Polished in some cases, but painted was rule. Always cracks me up seeing Cobras with plated wires. Next time you see one look for broken spokes. Perkins at least left the Campbell 57 alone, painted wires and all. Lauren took a very original, virginal 250TR and did ground up on it. Car was survivor, easily 90+ point car as it sat. Did similar with D-type. Unforgiveable. Over-restored cars suck. Guess I need a new shirt to wear during concours prep to go with my "trailered cars suck" t-shirt.

312T, 156, 158, Lotus 49,

Casey, that took a whole minute. You should try decaff.

Omitting an X-brace on a 57 convertible when you have a similar convertible in the current catalog seems idiotic, inattentive. If "they" were told about the LX, who had responsibility for tool and decision? Same people that could have done near cut and paste to tool a 57 X-brace? Reasonable expectation that creating a replica may imply some idea of the original subject, including looking at pictures of same. What could it hurt? Even perhaps a similar tool in tool bank. I'm confident that both Google and Baidu can track down photos for both US and Chinese participants. http://www.baidu.com/s?cl=3&wd=ford%20mustang%20notchback http://www.baidu.com/s?ie=utf-8&bs=chevy+bel-air+1957+x-brace&f=8&rsv_bp=1&wd=chevy+bel-air+1957+x-brace&inputT=0 However, as long as they keep kicking butt on current Ferraris and the '15 Mustang, somehow, I'll let a lot slide. BTW, Lindberg had issues with the Olds 442 and 61 Impala, ErtlRC had problems with 62 BelAir IIRC, the 69 Camaro/Firebird, the Talladega, so it isn't just RM, which is contrary to many opinions. Tamiya Mustangs, Trumpeter Nova, and many others round out the roster. So piling on RM isn't fair. You can pound on Fujimi some for the Boxer wheels though.

The kits that started the mad rush in late 50's and early 60's were about as close to snaps as one could get. Annuals had f/r bumpers, body, chassis, glass, interior tub, steering wheel, dash, 4 tires/wheels, 2 axles, 4 screws, and interior washers. Plus/minus hood ornaments, skirts, antennae, few other kustom parts, and we had a whopping 30 parts +/-. Not far off from current snaps. Getting something complete and playing with it or putting on shelf matters. Only nuts like us look at boxes and boxes of 1/2 completed kits. Why do you think so many kits from the "good old days" had engine block halves glued, and that was about it? The '10 Mustang convertible wasn't too bad, and kit-bashed with detail kit okay. Molded in colors, and only wish that real decals as well as stickers were included. Molded in colors not far from pre-finished/partial finished. Kids getting kits built will probably want to try another, and can look at the finished product and hope for a 1:1. Uncompleted kits don't give sense of accomplishment like that. Video games give accomplishment that's hard to beat, and can get played on phone, iPod, console. I think this has great promise, and I hope it goes well. I want the '15 snap as do my kids. Fact that kit is out before the car is crucial too.

Wow. That is a seriously slow bandwidth issue you have.

Sending a kit back is a minor thing, and hard to believe, but people try to scam kits especially new kits all the time. Moebius was being cautious, but prompt. Your complaints were unfair, public, and I'd have sent you what you demanded just to stop the rant. Vendor in this may have been responsible too, but manufacturer took one for the team. Probably should make praise as loud and prominent as plaint at this point. If the worst thing in your life is mailing a model kit back, and your time is too precious to even do that, pray to god you don't get a real problem in your life.

Heard yes, with customers like this, running is the best plan

What a drag it is getting old. Can't get no satisfaction. Get off of my bench with that snap-kit.

ROFLMAO Chuck, we'd both run out of electrons. Just nametag fill-in-the blanks had me in hysterics. A: B: C: D: . . .And as a shareholder, I love it.

Not perhaps to a modeler that's built tons. Selling the first one to 300000 kids is better than 10000 to complainers. Hope it's accurate as possible. Industry started with promos. My 9 yo and 12 yo started with snap kits. Their glue stuff remained unbuilt, no satisfaction like the Xbox 1 gives. Kids get interested in Ford products, kids grow to buy Ford products. Kids don't want old. Kids want new. Not 2yr late new. Glad they get it. Glad Ford paid them. Good business for both.

From Autoblog/Camaro5: "Last week, we told you about the saga of Delaware couple Debbie and John Hooper, who were engaged in a battle with First State Chevrolet over their wrecked 2012 Camaro ZL1. The car was sent to the dealer for a warrantied paint repair, but was wrecked by a joyriding employee that snuck in on a weekend to go for a spin. First State claimed that as the employee shouldn't have been in the car in the first place, it wasn't liable for the crashed ZL1, although it did try to make things right with the Hoopers by offering them a car with more mileage, modifications, options they didn't want and a rather questionable provenance. This was turned down. The Hoopers wanted a new ZL1 for their troubles. Now, thanks to a little cooperation from General Motors and Berger Chevrolet, in Grand Rapids, MI, a 2013 Camaro ZL1 is being sent to First State. According to a post on the Camaro5 forums, John Hooper said, "I understand that it will be about two weeks before the insurance check is cut, the old car is paid off, the new car arrives, and a new purchase contract will be signed by my wife and I for the purchase of our new ZL1." Emphasis is his. There aren't many other specifics on the forums, so we can't say whether it's the dealer's insurance or the Hooper's insurance that are picking up the tab for the wrecked Camaro. As for the newer Camaro, it seems like the Hoopers are being treated like any other purchaser rather than getting special treatment after what they've been through. Whether that's right or not, we'll let you decide. What is clear is that the Hoopers are getting what they wanted - a new ZL1. As car people, we should simply be happy about that." News Source: Camaro5 via Jalopnik

1. Car had more miles on it than wrecked one. 2. Car represented as 1-owner 3. Didn't have options comparable to wrecked car 4. Carfax on offered car showed 2 owners and accident. Dealer is idiot. Insurance was 44k. New sticker is 65k. Markup and holdback probably 8%-10%, Incentives on unsold '13 ZL1 prob $1-1500. So, dealer cost on NEW ZL1 is $57k. Difference between Ins payment and new is $13k. Plus probably a 1% if they finance guy thru them, and get him lower payment. So for about $12.5K they have happy customer and no lawyer fees. OR They can do what they're doing, and spend 5k atty fees, and far greater than 10k of bad advertising. The 44k should be on their insurance. Same as it would if garage burned down. If I was nearby Chevy store, I'd offer them straight up into new one now. Hundred thousands of eyes will see dealer name, if 3-4 people buy cars, you made up the difference. Welcome to the Intarwebs, First State Chevy. And unlike the real accident with the Infiniti, this was mis-use and failure to reasonably secure vehicle.

Yes, they fixed it after first issue. CW issue was fine IIRC, I did the original plus tudor CW pan and suspension, never finished it, then bought Nomad CW and it was fine. Nice kits, 55 Pace and upcoming 57 convertible hopefully will be good.

Looks nice. Lots of room to mess with it, flathead, inline 6, looks like fun. Never used to build drag cars, but Ramchargers reissue way back and the altereds just got me. Thanks for pics, nice reference.

WB of 250 SWB and GTO are same. 2400mm Last photo in post 3 is 250 high roof Elena coupe, not SWB. Comp SWB's either sanction 1 or SEFAC have ribbed gearboxes. Not ribbed, not a comp, but a lusso (not Lusso). Or comp with wrong box. Italeri is probably sl better than Protar. Esci is best left in box. http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/cg/2175/Ferrari-250-GT-SWB-Berlinetta-Comp-61.html Also, 2689 is SEFAC I know very well, shown FCA long time, took 1st with 2689 20+yrs ago. Bruce Meyer has it now. Essentially a GTO with SWB body. Hopefully Italeri will reissue sometime. They at least reissued the 993's. 2689 1st pic, SEFAC, sanction 2, look at door window line. Lower pic is sanction 1, early comp. True comps do not have air cleaners, they have airbox around 3 carbs with stacks. I don't remember if any kit has correct airbox off top of head. Individual cars occasionally had 6 carbs, but factory correct is 3. Almost forgot. Funny shield on L exhaust on SEFAC is to prevent fuel flowing from external filer down fender onto exhaust tips. Early comps didn't have that. Exhausts should be SNAP extractors BTW, on comp SWB, GTO. Never found good scale source, so make own.

Sad to hear about Exner Renwal tools. Color flips are actually common, but kits are scarce enough people don't realize it. Happens with glue kits and slot kits both. Duesy brown/tan flips, Mercer red/white flips, Stutz red/black flips, Bugatti blue/white flips, and Jordan blue/light blue flips are out there. I don't have nor have seen a color flip Packard or Pierce, but they may be out there. I'd own one if I'd found one. Old thread resurrected, but agree. 68-69 Coronet convertibles, Promo tool 65 Coronet convertible, Tow'd, 70 and 71 Impala convertibles, 69-70 C-10, 61-63 F-100, Get Smart Sunbeam all could follow me home happily.

I have a few white metal DuVall's that came from (I think) SJS a jillion years ago. They did a simple one for Deuces and A's, and another for 34-36's. No pics but I have them on a Deuce tub and roadster, and a 36 phaeton (AAM) and roadster (cowl + 5 window body correct doors). I don't know if anyone took these over, but they're awesome.

Yep. Did 53 LM winning 375, few nice F-1 cars, and a couple LSR cars. Hope more to come. Pretty reasonable and nice castings. Been eying the Bluebird myself