Rob Hall

Interesting....a tractor with license plates. Looks like a neat kit.

Nice...saw a really clean black w/ red interior 1:1 '56/57 at the gas station this morning..

Got mine today...nice parts.

Two of the Moebius Cyclones arrived from Tower Hobbies yesterday.

Got my last HLJ shipment for 2016 today--Aoshima Lamborghini Diablo GT, Aoshima Pagani Huayra, Aoshima Subaru Sambar van and Hasegawa Suzuki Jimmy. Probably won't ship anything else until mid Feb after I move.

Looks great...very realistic weathering, IMO...

I've worked at a few companies in the past that took the week off between Christmas and New Years, separate from any PTO. It was a nice perk. I'm off today and Monday, and next Friday and the following Monday, all holidays for my client.

The body design (but not the grille and front details) resembles a '70s-80s Chevy/GMC StepVan..

The Gran Torino kit, besides being wrong for the Cougar, is also very simplified...less detail than the MPC kit.

Wouldn't make much sense as the Gran Torino was a body-on-frame design while the Cougar was unibody...different architectures.

Yes, Bandit Resin has a '70 Dart Swinger, '71 Demon and a '71 Scamp. I have all of them, nice pieces.

It's out now. Has an error on the box art, labeled as a Dodge 300 instead of 330.

That is the one I built as a kid.

The Clearly Scale parts are pictured on their website...great stuff.. http://www.clearlyscale.com

A 1:1 would be more like $3500 or more for one in decent shape...$350 is high, but it is a pretty rare kit, never reissued.

It's pretty obvious from the context of the post that the poster was talking about the MPC kits..., the first sentence mentions the MPC '75-76 Dart Sport kit, then the sentence after that talks about the tooling being ancient...MPC made Duster kits from '71-75. It's a well-known fact that '71 was the last year of the 1:1 426 Hemi option (B-body and E-body), so I really doubt anyone one here would claim there was a 1:1 Hemi option in '73. You misread a simple comment about a 40+ yr old MPC kit, that's all.

I don't have any of my original MPC Dusters or Dart Sports handy to see if they had a Hemi option, but I think the poster was saying was that the '73 was the first MPC A-body kit to offer the Hemi...not the 1:1...obviously, it wasn't an option in the 1:1. Though I'm sure people built 1:1 A-body drag cars or street machines w/ Hemis...

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I remember building a version of the Firebird when I was 10...cheap cheesy model, low detail, strange squishy tires. The MPC and Monogram Firebirds and Camaros of that era are much better kits. I remember being turned off by Revell kits for a long time after building the Firebird and '79 Mustang kits, very poor detail in general--a bad period for Revell.

If everything goes to plan, I'll be working from home (remotely for my current client here in AZ) when I move to NE Ohio at the end of January. But I'll still have a Jeep for when I have to go out.

Looking at the Lake Effect snow the last few days, looks like I'll need to buy a snow shovel or a snow blower for my new place..;)

The front is the easiest determination..does it have a '69 grille and front bumper?

There was an original annual '69 El Camino only, no '68. The '68 is the modern tooling only w/ the vinyl top molded in.

I like old tractors..my Dad's old John Deere 2010 had a vertical exhaust but no flap cover. He used it around the family country place to mow (with a brush hog attachment) , plow the 3/4 mile long driveway in winter, etc.

I did get 2 of the roadsters and 1 of the coupes, oh well. Maybe when I get around to building them in a decade or so they will be back out..:)