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It’s same kit as Farrah’s Foxy Vette with green car, Farrah ? and Barris comments. Never had Ecklers so unsure of side pipes. Same chassis as AMT annuals Noticed TL 6 round lights on Ecklers. Foxy had Camaro 74-78 wraparounds, kinda undersized in kit

Agree the 62 and 69 sheets are real. The Toronado 70 was done by AMT, I don’t remember a Johan then. Later they did. Mark can correct me. Agree with Steve, no 88’s, Torinos in 71. They did a 72 Torino promo and the NASCAR kit of same. AMT did 70-71 kits and promos. JH did Cutlass coupes 68-72, and promos 73-75? with a self assemble 75 kit. No Cutlass converts 68 or later.

Lesney owned AMT for a bit, they’ve owned Matchbox for ages until Mattel bought them. AMT got passed around like a blunt. General Mills, Lesney, Tomy,…

It’s going to become worse as electrics obviate need for this. I’m IC forever, because this.

^^^^ This

Bond gift sets are kit plus glue, paint. Sometimes double kits like E and XKSS, or some others. All Bond but DB5 and 71 Mustang are re-releases.

Cummins. Old Rams with them unkillable. Yeah, re-rollering a Hirth crank even rarer, one old friend was the master and he passed (fell shoveling snow, hit head) without many other sources. RIP Bill Doyle.

How did you do the translucent part of the wheel? Looks killer. I’ve got the kit, have a couple clear sw rims around here, but kit not handy to look. Stellar, Steve. Learned to drive in a 64 B’ville convert, 389/auto. Cleaned the ashtray when I detailed it. Lol

Wow. Speechless. ? Happy New Years sir.

Came out in 2020. Just do Z06 at this point. People can drop it back on own if they want regular Vette.

At least you spelled it properly, but same thread here since Friday.

Revell has done killer snaps, the vipers, Impala SS/Caprice, and the Diablos were all originally snap kits.

C8 posted in another thread, found these at link too. Bond license with GRev so 71 Mustang, 2CV, Z8, and new tool snap DB5.

That puts the style in Dynasty LE ???‍?

I found a pic of your build iirc. Neat cars, there was a late Boulogne package with normal flares, and a Fleischman conversion with kit style fenders. I’m just glad we got a 1/24.

Cool car/kit. It, 156/158/312T my fave F1 cars. Nice build. Another in pile I need to work on.

Looks good, nice build. Skill to drag it that far.

A310 cool cars. Airfix 1/24 is simple as well, but looks great. It may be a reboxed motorized kit iirc, haven’t seen one in ages.

Toyota's Turbo scandal In the history of WRC the most blatant case of cheating is Toyota’s illegal turbo discovered at Rally Catalunya 1995. On one hand, it was piece of brilliant engineering but on the other hand it embodied the desperation that TTE was in to make latest Celica competitive. Toyota forced the team to use Celica as a base for their programme, even though car was not ideal for the purpose. Toyota has some of the best engineers in the world. Every car is inspected before the rally by by the governing body to make sure that the restrictor plate is installed. Toyota engineered a way to allow air in to the turbo intake that completely bypassed the seals around the restrictor. Additionally when the car was moving and the turbo was engaged, the restrictor plate would be moved back a couple of inches completely nullifying the effect of the restrictor plate. Some of the best judges and techs had gone over the car to make sure cheating like this were not taking place. In fact, the engineering was so good that when the turbo was disassembled post-race for inspection, judges couldn’t find any evidence that extra air had passed through the turbo. Toyota had manufactured special springs and clips that would move the restrictor plate back from the air intake, but when the turbo was disengaged the springs would pop it back in to position making it appear that everything was as per the FIA rules. Max Mosley, the president of the FIA at the time said this: “Inside it was beautifully made. The springs inside the hose had been polished and machined so not to impede the air which passed through. To force the springs open without the special tool would require substantial force. It is the most sophisticated and ingenious device either I or the FIA’s technical experts have seen for a long-time. It was so well made that there was no gap apparent to suggest there was any means of opening it.” This gave the car an estimated 25% extra air coming in to the turbos, which added an 50 BHP. In the group A period the cars were restricted to 300bhp but most teams ran more power. The FIA quickly moved to ban TTE. Toyota lawyered up, but they were eventually banned for the rest of the 1995 and 1996 season.

They don’t buy them. They rob them off the shelf.

Glad I’m not alone with these ideas. The Imperials and 300’s had interesting HL/TL for ages. The 67-8 Imperial rear ends were decent, but noses conventional. Hidden HL would have set them apart in 67-8. I have habit of putting Hemis in all the big bodies.