Rob Hall

Neat lamp at the top of that photo..I bought one like that for my living but haven't installed it yet...

I don't recall what I paid for the Prestige releases--that was over 30 years ago, and I was a teenager----but i do recall the flash, the soft plastic, and warped bodies. And the bad tires w/ out-of-round whitewalls. The Lincoln was especially bad IIRC. They were pretty disappointing releases, to get the silly plastic base and pen holder.

That's neat..never seen anything like that...I dig the 'validated by the Remington Rand UNIVAC Division of Sperry Rand Corporation'. (Computer history is one my interests).

I'm paid up to 210 IIRC....so at the current rate of an issue a year, 5 years?

Beautiful Spring weather today... saw a variety of interesting vehicles out and about this morning. On the road saw 4 very clean examples of late GM V8 sports sedans---a black STS-V, a silver 2nd gen CTS-V, a dark gray G8 GXP, and a blue Chevy SS...love 'em all. Came out of a coffee shop, and saw a gorgeous bright blue Lexus LC...this coupe looks much better in person than in photos, IMO...the Lexus ragey mouth front end works on it, IMO. On the road heading home saw a brown w/ tan top '70s-80s Fiat 124 Spyder--haven't one of those in ages and a gray Nissan GT-R, also an orange w/ black hood Challenger Hellcat and a gorgeous dark red Grand Cherokee SRT, a black Grand Cherokee SRT, and alone in a funeral home parking lot was a new black Rolls Royce Silver Ghost. The funeral biz must be booming in Ukranian Village (neighborhood in Parma, Oh). And for something completely different, at my local independent auto repair shop, there was a Caterpillar tanker truck...never realized there were Cat-branded trucks (red cab w/ a big "CAT' logo in the grille).

Never had the Prestige series '63, but built the '65 Grand Prix, Bonneville and Lincoln in that series back in the day--they all had warped bodies w/ soft plastic. The '63 Impalas I do have are the annual ht and convertible kits along with a reissue from the 90s w/ turquoise car box art.

After I left WF I did a 6 month gig at McKesson, working on pharmacy software. It was worse than WF—90+ hr weeks for a couple of months. But I had a great hourly rate. My current client in the insurance biz is much more mellow. Little to no overtime and I work from home.

Just a rebox of the new tool '68 Chevelle for European markets.

I don't think any kit has had that detail..seems like something that could be done w/ a decal.

I worked a couple years in Arizona at Wells Fargo in IT...it was straight out of Dilbert..65-70 hr weeks, 5am conference calls about system emergencies, etc. Very exhausting sweat shop environment.

I found another one on eBay marketed as 'Personal Desktop Monolith'...found the description pretty funny... With zero points of articulation, the Monolith is properly proportioned to those in the movies 2001 and 2010 (1:4:9 - the squares of the first 3 integers). Made of semisynthetic, organic, amorphous, solid materials (AKA plastic).

Got my 2 preordered 78 Dodge D100s from Model Roundup today.

Yes, it looks like they used the '64 annual box art as inspiration, including that detail.

It is nice to see them reissued, never had those kits before. I preordered them from HLJ last week.

The original annuals did, later issues haven't.

Long story short, traffic from your browser to and from this website is in the clear (using the http protocol, usually on port 80) and not encrypted (using https which is http with SSL end-to-end encryption and usually on port 443). Usually not a problem that traffic is in the clear on an information-only site like this, since we aren't buying products on here like on a site like eBay or Amazon. I've noticed that most web browsers have been making it more apparent lately if you are on a site that is using http by showing a lock symbol w/ a red slash through it or saying 'Not Secure'. For example, Firefox shows the lock symbol for this website, while Safari and Chrome say 'Not Sucure' in the title bar.

Yes, same thing...no year listed...

That's just a message to indicate the site is using HTTP and not HTTPS.

Wonder if it's still missing the firewall and has the taillights molded in. Nice box art, the design resembles the '64 annual.

I assumed the Ridge Runner was just made up parts...very little of it resembles a stock body...I assume it and the other 3 modifieds were new tooling in the mid 70s independent of the annual street car kits.

May, June, whatever. Round 2 release dates are never very precise. It wasn't in the May video. Some vendors list it as a June release...i figure it will show up whenever it does. Well, the MPC Pinto wagon tooling still exists..I assume the hatchback and wagon shared the same tooling, they were both available in '78 then '79 was wagon only. I assume the Ridge Runner kit shares no parts with the annuals.

June may have the Dyno Don Cyclone Eliminator II funny car, the garage lift and July the Autocar dump truck, '67 GTO w/ drag Christmas tree, and '63 Impala SS.

It does have an optional CB radio and antenna, though...

I've read that was the AMC 327 V8. The Buick 350 was available, never knew that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeep_Wagoneer_(SJ)

Saw an article recently that said the 'take the cannoli' wasn't in the script, but was ad-libbed. Great line.