Rob Hall

Definitely a very car related and a model related topic. No different than if someone had made a thread celebrating the life of Dale Earnhardt on the day of the Daytona 500 (I'm a long time racing fan, a fan of both drivers). I have the Tamiya kits of his Lotus and McLaren cars, the Fujimi kit of his Williams, and quite a few Senna-related diecast race cars in my collection...

I'm thinking of doing my CdV in a dark brown w/ tan top and tan interior..very '70s color scheme. Though I like maroon w/ a white top also.

On Tower, they list under Monogram a 'Slingster Dragster' for November..is that this Sizzler under discussion?

I see a bunch of RoG KW wrecker kits (in 1/25th) on eBay that say 'Freds' on them..white w/ orange graphics.

I saw that thread and wondered what a 'Can Do' (Steeps) is..the livery of a past issue of this kit?

You have to search under Revell and Monogram and look for kits w/ release months later this year.

Neat old kit, lots of options. I have one in my stash.

A what if I'd like to build in scale is to kitbash the roof of an AMT '65 Galaxie onto an AMT '65 Lincoln to make a phantom 2dr.

Here is a Foose '69 Camaro, don't know if this is the one the kit will be 'inspired' by.. http://www.superchevy.com/features/sucp_0708_1969_foose_camaro/viewall.html Though a google image search on 'Foose 69 Camaro' comes up w/ several different cars...this black one, a red one, an orange one, etc...

Sharp build. I saw one of these in person (yellow and tan) in Florida back in the '80s. IIRC, there was a car magazine ad in the late '70s for a CB radio that had a yellow one w/ a hay bale in the bed.

There about a dozen other kits listed on Tower's site as new for fall...some predictable follow up 2nd versions of recent new kits ('50 Olds Custom, '57 Ford stock car (Fireball Roberts), '62 Corvette Gasser), some reissues (Motorcraft T-Bird Pro Stock, '37 Ford street rod, '78 Corvette Indy Pace Car, Rat Fink, '53 Chevy Panel, VW New Beetle, KW Wrecker), one modified reissue I'm interested in ('69 Shelby GT500 convertible) and likely a rebox of the upcoming RoG '60s Beetle.

The grille illustration on the new box art mock up actually kind of resembles a '67 grille more than a '66.

Neat idea... I like Instagram, use it both on my Android phone and my work iPhone.

That's what it says...

Says 'Build Drag, Stock or Custom' on the box art in the photo...

I like the phantom retro box art...they've also done '67 and '69 kits this way, maybe they will do something '68 style (one of my favorite years of vintage AMT box art)...maybe the El Camino.

Fascinating...I'd seen pics of the 1:1, didn't know it was kitted. The kit seems to be inaccurate as far as some details like the side windows...

Alas, doing an '83/84 or '85/86 from this kit would require a lot of changes...different interior, different side windows, rub strips, front and rear bumpers, hood, side quarter windows, etc. Basically a new body w/ all the trim differences.

MPC made the '83 and '84 in 1/25th. The '85-86 (non-SVO) was never kitted.

YOLO!

Sharp build...nice to see one with larger wheels/tires than the tiny ones the 1:1s have...I see so many of them everyday, they blend in after a while.

Some nice builds...as far as the scale, remember these kits date back to the '80s---before Revell bought Monogram, and 1/24th was Monogram's standard scale. I built these back in the day as a kid and they still build up nicely today IMO after so many reissues.

I remember that...I bought some resin kits from him at a Copperstate show and the NNL West probably 10 years ago. Sad to hear, he always had some interesting items in his resin line.

I see no problem with lots of categories, as long as they are clearly defined. Imagine how awful it would be if there were no categories and just one forum with page after page of uncategorized posts and threads...

I doubt if many people would read it either. People are lazy...