Rob Hall

I like the '85-86 style... my '87 GT has the cheesegraters (which look good in red, IMO). I once thought about swapping out the cheese graters for '85-86 GT lenses or SVO lenses (which are slightly different from GT ones), but have kept it stock.. Top pic was at home on my family farm in 1990 when I had both the '87 GT and an '86 LX (my college car)...the '86 was gone by 1994. Below pic is a few months ago, the restored '87 GT and my '19 Cadillac CT6.

On modern cars I assume it's primarily to clear the large disc brakes.

Saw a deer eating leaves off a tree less than 20 feet from my back slider when I went out on the patio this morning to enjoy my first coffee of the day. She looked at me and kept eating as I sat down and enjoyed my coffee. She moseyed off before I let the dogs out. I have a 4ft fence but the deer hop it easily. Didn’t get a pic of the deer, but it’s the tree on the right of the pic, right off the patio.

Yorkie siblings Lola, Lulu and Jack are almost 18 months old. Lola got a grooming on Friday (second pic) Jack and Lulu next Friday. Raine (senior Australian Terrier on far left of first pic. ). Also have Beardsley aka Turbo Squid, a grumpy senior Chihuahua mix (3rd pic)

Model Roundup has them in stock also..ordered one along w/ the '68 Mercury M100 kit.

I miss that hood ornaments went out of fashion. Another factoid I didn't realize until I looked it up, the CT6 has an approx. 1 inch longer wheelbase than an '80s Fleetwood Brougham. Shorter overhangs account for the nearly 16 inch difference in length.

Speaking of trunk lids, I can open and close mine with the remote. I’m used to that with my Jeep hatch, but this is the first car I’ve had with a remote close trunk lid. Also can open it by waving my foot under the rear bumper (the spot is lit up with a neat Cadillac logo beamed on the ground). And as I walk toward it at night with the remote in my pocket the door handles light up, headlights, etc come on.

Yeah, it’s fascinating. I love the seats on older Cadillacs..very comfortable to sink into. My late father was a Lincoln man, I grew up riding in his Continentals and Town Cars. But I’ve always been more of a Cadillac fan. Used to ride in a buddy’s ‘81 Fleetwood Brougham d’ elegance in triple silver. What a boat. I used to have an ‘84 Mercedes 500SEL. That had some neat features, incl a reclining heated rear seat.

Interesting. I know it has a lot of aluminum, relatively light for a modern full size sedan. I’ve been very happy with it, taking another road trip in it in about a month.

My CT6 has cornering lamps, built into the light tubes. My '00 DTS had them also..it's a nice feature to have. The CT6 is loaded w/ goodies..AWD, heated and cooled and massage seats (memory for both front seats), auto settings for headlights, wipers, HVAC, NAV, heads up display, Apple Car Play and Android Auto, camera rear view mirror, cameras on the side mirrors for parking, power shades for front and rear sunroofs, rear window power shade, power folding mirrors, etc.. all the usual modern luxury car features..alas, no CD player, but I stream from my phone and use Sirius XM instead. I'd like to have an '80s Fleetwood Brougham or Eldorado convertible as a weekend cruiser. Sooner or later I'd like a CTS-V w/ a manual or a CT5-V Blackwing w/ a manual for a fun car.

I have no problem with curbsides..lots of great subjects only available in curbside form (whether a styrene kit or resin or 3d printed resin)...some vehicles have very distinctive engines, and thus I like to have an engine in those vehicles...Ferrari V12s, Ferrari flat 12s, Ford 427s, Hemis, VW air cooled 4s, etc...

I built one of those as a teenager in the late 80s to resemble my 1:1 '86 LX as far as the color scheme..dark metallic gray outside, red inside...

My Cadillac does something neat with LEDs for the front turn signals..there are long thin 'light pipes' on the front edge of the front fender that illuminate white as DRLs and parking lights but flash amber as turn signals..

On the topic of low mounted rear turn signals and taillights..remember the GM A-body wagons of the 70s-80s (both Colonnade era and downsized era)...they had the rear lights all in the rear bumper..same with the El Camino of those generations...always thought those were odd... IIRC, the first gen Audi Q7 SUV has the replicated lights also because of the lights in the hatch...some other SUVs may also. The Q7 had a strange hatch design the wrapped over the rear quarter ends.

Flooding from rains, tornadoes and power outages here in the Cleveland area this week..

They could have used vertical lights in the rear quarters like most SUVs used to have.

My '86 Mustang had amber rear turn signals, my '87 does not. My '00 Jeep Grand Cherokee also had them. None of my newer cars or SUVs have had them.

An interior refresh is coming for 2026 I’ve read. I like the C8, thinking a C8 convertible could be a fun summer ride sooner or later.

Dodge Prospector Power Wagon was what I learned to drive in 40 years ago.

Yes, that is a red convertible w/ the top closed. The coupe has a triangular wedge-shaped black trim piece on the b-pillar while the convertible has more of a rectangular piece.

Last release was 7 years ago, 2017. It was a 2n1 with stock and custom versions. https://www.scalemates.com/kits/amt-1055-ford-starliner--1114879

The Pro Street one is a '74, not sure what year the Motown Missile kit was? Never had one.

Sounds like the reissue is going to be the Street Machine version, which has a lot of unique parts distinct from the stock one IIRC...

The Acadian Canso was Chevy II based, the Beaumont was Chevelle based (w/ a Pontiac dash).

I've used Model Roundup, Spotlight Hobbies, Hobby Search, Hobby Link Japan, Auto World Store, and Diecast Models Warehouse for years w/ no problems. More recently used Wes' Model Corner and Burbank's House of Hobbies (through their eBay store). I've used Megahobby and Hobbylinc occasionally but they are hit-and-miss as far as selection and slow with backorders I've found.