Rob Hall

I have one of the new kits...glad I got it when I did, I hear that distributors are out of stock on it and it may be a long wait until they have more...

Ah, yeah..I remember that now... it looks like this one has some different parts and different box art.

The two Lindberg boats look interesting...what scale are they?

Not sure what you mean there..the 49 Ford kit goes back over 50 years..

I guess they are avoiding the studio licensing with the Munsters kits (weren't they released a few years ago in a set and individually?). Another one I noticed that was new to me is a reboxing of the Lindberg Dodge 330 Color Me Gone in AMT retro style packaging.

My older brother got me into it in the late 70s...he was living in our basement after college (he's 21 years older than I am) and had his 60s AMT annuals on a shelf...I liked them, he and my mother got me some Lindberg and Revell 1/32nd scale snap kits, then I got some glue kits for my birthday and Christmas in 1978 (Revell 56 Chevy and several AMT Countdown Series kits) ..I was hooked. When my brother moved out in 1979, he gave me all his '60s annuals (about 2 dozen kits).... which got me hooked on old kits. I had been a bit of a car nut from early childhood, though, with Matchbox, Corgi, Tomica, Hot Wheels etc diecast and a variety of interesting 1:1 cars in my family (my folks were Ford/Mercury/Lincoln people w/ Continentals, Mustangs, Cougars and Thunderbirds around, and my older brother had a steady stream of '60s-70s muscle cars..

Got one of those also...

I go to that show occasionally, more so once cool weather gets here, and usually always on auction weekend in January. The modern cars don't bother me it all, it's neat to see them in one place, and often many of them are modified, which you won't see at a dealer...the hot rods and customs don't interest me, but modern muscle cars do..and the 60s-70s land yachts--usually some of those in attendance. It's an event for car enthusiasts, not just old car or hot rod enthusiasts...there is no reason interesting modern cars can't be included (of course some crabby people probably complain about them). I like the Cars and Coffee events in Scottsdale also, I try and go to those on the 1st Saturday of the month...usually a nice turnout of all sorts of cars.

I got one from Tower Hobbies last month... no warpage.

'best of intentions'?? It's all about getting people's attention and pushing product...making the sale. Does seem to be in bad taste, but marketing people don't care..

What they call 'Pro Stock' today should be called Funny Cars....cartoonish, deformed lumps with only a slight resemblance to stock. It's sad, I remember when Pro Stock race cars looked cool..

Revell did have a snap F150 in 1/25th scale back then, but it is unrelated to the Monogram 1/24th '80-81 F150 glue kit that was reissued in the last year or so. Revell and Monogram were still separate companies then. The Revell snap kit F150s (there were a couple versions) have never been reissued AFAIK.

I remember his name because I went through the Hugh O' Brian Youth Leadership program in high school. I think I've seen a couple of westerns with him a long time ago..

I doubt it...the stock version has been reissued several times over the last 20 years or so...easy to find...and maybe the stock parts wouldn't have fit in the box...the price would have likely been higher for a full 2n1, and people would have complained about that... I do like the the steelies and hubcaps, though...figure I'll use those on a 6 cyl one.

Haha...hadn't thought of that...haven't seen one of those in a while. I get the 'updating' screens pretty often w/ Windows 10, though.

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I think the poster was thinking of a custom build...

I wonder if some of the interior brightwork parts will come chromed or aluminum finish...

Yep...I built the '33ish open one and a '33 Phaeton version as a kid in the late 70s...very simplified but fun. Plastic tires, everything molded in red then IIRC.

Going by the box art pic posted somewhere, the Bronco looks to be a 70-76. The '68-69 had different side marker lights mounted lower on the front fenders.

Random observation in traffic this afternoon..the current Corolla oddly reminds me strongly of the Huracan in some styling details (some of the front and side creases).

Software engineer for close to 20 years in Colorado then Arizona.. worked in a lot of different types of companies over the years-- internet startups, telecom, banks, insurance companies, aviation...done long- and short-term gigs as a contractor, an independent consultant, worked for a consulting company. Mostly developing business applications, web applications, system integration.

That's why you have to back your stuff up to the cloud and external drives. Been there, done that.