Rob Hall

I have a couple of the Clearly Scale Hellcat engines and their conversion kit w the trim, hood, wheels, tires and brakes. Good stuff. They plan to do an interior eventually also. I believe Plamoz is also planning to do Hellcat and Demon conversions.

I never had the Lightning kit, but built all the regular F150 variations they had then. I think the main issue at the time regarding the Lightning is it had the F150 side trim moldings, which the 1:1 Lightning didn't have.

Me too...the dual carbs w/ low intake looks almost sedate in comparison. Maybe Moebius/MK will do this version eventually.

How accurate are the valve covers in the AMT '66 Galaxie? I remember it having a 427 cammer option..

Sad to hear..I knew him from the Spotlight board going back to the Hobby Heaven era...met him a couple times--at the Copperstate show maybe 15 years ago, and at the NNL West. Good person to chat with about cars and model cars.

I remember getting a new sealed Revell '59 Ford Skyliner as a teenager in the late 80s and wondering where the body was when I opened the box. It was the first time I'd encountered a Revell multi-piece body. Close to 20 years ago, I bought an opened but advertised as complete MPC Dodge 'Thunderstruck' 4x4 pickup on eBay. It arrived complete except for the cab. I contacted the eBay seller--he couldn't find the body, so he sent me a sealed version of the same kit (that was complete).

I scored 4-5, but I'm still south of 50. I remember Party lines--we had one at our farm in the 70s--had the black bakelite phone then also. Restaurants w/ table side juke boxes--seen those in Waffle House and maybe Stuckeys back int the 80s Andy Griffith Show--saw a few episodes on reruns in the 70s Blue Flashbulbs--my folks had an old camera w/ them in the 70s Also Drive-In theatres--but never been to one--seen them, though..

Googling 'Arnie Beswick' Comet turned up an engine that looks like this, with tubes instead of dual carbs. I guess that is how it is today (or a recreation?).

Always wondered what the 6 wheel custom kit looked like built up..that's neat. Never seen one other than box art photos.

The Monogram pickup was pretty good for a snap kit---it had an engine and separate headlight lenses IIRC (I built it back in the 80s). This is much more simplified I think..

The Datsun Z at least was full detail, this is a snap kit, probably on a par w/ the Camaro Cheverra and Mazda RX-7 that were in the same snap kit series.

Modelroundup has it for preorder, other vendors probably do also..

The Veyron is the older one, the new one is the Chiron...similar styling.

Model Roundup has the F100 4x4 on their site now available for pre-order (they have the AF/X Comet also).

Unusual placement of the spark plugs, and asymmetrical at that. Never seen one of these in person before.

I remember seeing this kit as a kid, never had one. Looking forward to getting one, and it's the only stock Hilux of that era available that I know of (Aoshima has a custom lowrider one).

Why? They weren't eliminating the Moebius brand. When Round 2 bought AMT, MPC, Lindberg etc they didn't change the branding to Round 2.

They were.

Neat. I have that trailer to build also...thinking I will use a Modelhaus '60 Plymouth Savoy 4dr or '62 Chrysler Newport 4dr as a period tow car.

The Police Van sounds interesting. The one I’d really like to see is the Open Road camper, but that would require new body tooling.

It was reissued a few months ago, one of the last Revell US releases before the end.

So today’s USPS fun...I was tracking my inbound HLJ shipment, saw it due for delivery tomorrow. Then this afternoon, I get an email saying it was delivered at 1:57pm. Nope—I’ve been home all day, no doorbell ring, nothing caught on my cameras. No package outside. Before going all rage monkey, I call the local PO, and the guy there confirms it had been scanned and would look into it. Half hour or so goes by, I wondered if it had been left at the same house number a couple streets over (similar street name). This has happened before. So I drove over to the other street, flagged down the mailman who was making his rounds. Said he thought he delivered it, but was vague. Said he’d look around. Drove home..see an SUV out front and a guy w my box ? Hmm He was the post office guy I had talked to earlier, turns out the package had never left the post office. Apparently had been scanned in error. Strange..was odd since these packages usually require a signature.

Yummm.. BDubs. When they were BW3 (Buffalo Wild Wings and Weck) they were one of my favorite haunts in college...would go to one on cheap wing night and eat a lot of wings and drink a lot of beer w my buddies...

It depends on what era car you are interested in...for the '80s-90s, I prefer the Monogram kits.

Yes, pretty common around here also...even at a chain restaurant like Bonefish Grill or Carrabas it's easy to do that much or more for two w/ a couple glasses of wine. At a local seafood place for my birthday last month, it was over $200 w/ wine and dessert for 2 people. Had delicious lobster, and great views of Lake Erie, was worth it...