Rob Hall

One thing Cadillac did that was interesting back in the day was from '00-05 they had the regular, softer De Ville w/ bench seats, while at the same time had the DTS which had bucket seats, some body color trim and tighter suspension. My sister has one, pretty nice driving car. In the '90s they had a similar idea in the De Ville Concours. Then in '06 the De Ville and DTS were renamed just DTS.

You mean the CTS? The CTS Sigma RWD platform is unrelated to the Omega/Catera platform as far as I know. The XTS just came out last year, it's a FWD sedan on the Epsilon II platform, replaced the DTS.

Haven't been through either of those in a while, but I remember Logan being pretty good. These days, I'm going out of Phoenix Sky Harbor to Columbus (Ohio), Pittsburgh, Denver or a bunch of California airports (love the ease of using the small ones like Long Beach).

One thing I love about vintage Mopar muscle car kit builds is it seems there were so many permutations that were plausible for a given model year w/ options, etc..

Yes... the TSA guys seem to be generally tactless and clueless...

Yeah, I hate flying at holidays and try to avoid it, but with family in AZ and Ohio I often can't avoid it..

Beautiful build..some incredible scratch building.

Yeah, the fake scripted drama and goofballs make most of these auto or bike build shows unwatchable, IMO. I tried watching 'Graveyard Carz' --loved the Mopars, but the fake idiots and drama made it pretty awful. About the only ones of these types of shows that I like is 'What's in the Barn?' (vintage motorcycles), 'Wheeler Dealers'-- no nonsense, and 'Chasing Classic Cars', but that's not really in the same genre.

A Google search turned up this..."The Shaker was painted red on Rallye Red cars and Black with all other colors. By the end of the model year, the Shaker was available in Blue and Astrotone Silver )." No indication of what blue, though. Don't know the accuracy of the source, but here is the link.. http://www.theautochannel.com/vehicles/muscle/chrysler/chry_70_cuda.frame

Sharp build...that turned out very nice.

Got an '80s issue Testors (Union?) Porsche 917K kit, unbuilt, box a bit beat up..

Speaking of Unimogs, it would be cool to see RoG tool up a vintage one...

Looking forward to these two...mine are still on backorder w/ HLJ. Aoshima also made a 430 '81 Cedric Brougham 280E 4dr ht, wonder if it shares some parts w/ these kits.

Yes, and as with the California Wheels Mini, they included US state license plate decals, but no license plates to attach them to. I can understand reboxing RoG kits, but this was such a half hearted effort...they call it a 'California Wheels' kit, but no optional wheels and tires?

If they had included optional parts to do a 'Cal-look' Beetle, that could have been cool...maybe something like this: or this:

If I had that garage, I'd probably decorate the walls w/ diecast and some vintage racing posters, car ads, car signs. I'd have mostly late model ('00s & '10s) cars with a few '60s-80s cars mixed in.

Probably his wife's car

Sweet garage.

That's just the way it is...I'm not a big fan of the alphanumeric names, but I do like modern Cadillacs quite a bit...back to the original topic, I'd love to see Lincoln make a comeback, but the dull FWD appliances do nothing for me...I like Lincolns large, hefty and RWD...

I currently have an '11 STS (last year of production), and my sister has an '00 DTS (first year of production). Nice cars. My next daily driver may be a 300C or Charger R/T, though...wouldn't mind having a RWD V8 again..though a well-cared for used CTS-v would be very nice to have.

Nope. Not remotely. Escalade is still Escalade. XTS is the full size FWD sedan replacement for the DTS. The SRX is the midsize CUV. ATS is the compact BMW 3-series competitor, CTS is the midsize BMW 5-series competitor. The modern Cadillac TLAs (three letter acronyms) aren't abbreviations. Though in the past, some were (STS used to be Seville Touring Sedan and DTS was DeVille Touring Sedan on the 1st gen DTS).

My MPC '70 annual Cuda is in storage, so I'm not sure how the grille is molded on it...IIRC, there was a separate insert, but I don't recall if it has the raised stripe section or not.

Try the 'Contact Us' link on his website? http://www.scalemodelingbychris.com/

They are pretty quick..I've bought parts from them (incl. that hood) and IIRC it was usually within 2 weeks.

Actually, Cadillac has the FWD/AWD XTS and the FWD/AWD SRX. But the good stuff (ATS, CTS) is RWD.