Rob Hall

I find the desert pretty boring....I find big cities way more interesting..

I remember seeing ads for the kit in magazines probably 30 years ago. I've never been up to Death Valley...will have to go sometime...usually when I drive across the void I'm in a hurry to get to the coast...

Yeah, more like stale...Ed always adds something 'special' to a thread w/ his incoherent ramblings...

Sharp. Looking forward to the Revell kits.

Are there any aftermarket goodies still available for this kit? Alternate decals?

You are joking, aren't you?

Oh well..I don't know how any of the non-eBay auction sites can stay in business... one site selling a variety of diecast I've checked out lately is scoomer.com (odd name, lots of interesting content)

LOL..I built that Escort as a kid...thought it was odd for AMT to release a European Escort kit...may have been an Esci tool? IIRC, Revell released a European Escort kit about the same time. Alas, no kit was ever made of a US market Escort..my first 1:1 was an '84 Escort 5dr diesel.

Stopped at the LHS last night. Picked up a Revell Corvette Grand Sport since my order from Model Roundup is marked as 'Backordered'. Was tempted by the stack of 1/2 dozen '55 Chrysler 300s and '65 Chevelle wagons on the counter, but am waiting on my orders of 2 Chryslers and 1 Chevelle from Model Roundup and Model Express, should have those later this week. Also got emails today that my HLJ Lambo Aventador order and my Missing Link Resin '78 LTD order shipped today.....

Picked up one at the LHS yesterday..neat kit. Never had one of the AM releases.

The MPC '71 GTO kit builds stock...

Not enough..Revell needs to do the updated '11-12 SRT8 392 IMO... I would say definitely the '32 Ford for American kits...many body styles kitted and from many kit makers in many scales.

Best. Box. Art. Description. Ever. LOL!!!!

Molded in red..ugh. I find the Enzo hideous in person..now if it were a vintage race car like a 330 P4 or 512 S, I might be interested..

Box art looks great...I built the 'Reggie Jackson Collection' version in the '80s...wouldn't mind building another..

Imagine how it was in the pre-internet era. For me, it was like 'I didn't know what I didn't know'.... When I was starting to build kits in the late '70s-early '80s I had very little idea what came before 1978, other than the few '60s annuals and promos my older brother gave me..so every time I went to a hobby shop or read SAE (after discovering it in 1987) I had this sense of wonder and discovery..the first time I went to the Toledo Collectors Toy Fair in '89 as a skinny 19 yr old, it was a very eye-opening experience to the vast range of kits made in the past...

Thanks for posting...getting better w/ photography is definitely worth the effort. I have a good digital camera, lighting rig, and a desktop photo tent...now just need to take the time to experiment w/ photographing my models.

I didn't say anything about your comments..it was Joe I was talking about.

Another April 1 joke that I liked yesterday was the 8-bit version of Google maps..very clever.

Cool...I built that kit when I was 6...Lindberg 1:32nd snap kits and Revell Snap Tites were the gateway drug to modeling for me. Lindberg also made a Monarch.

I have in displays...grouped similar subjects together...'60s AMT Fords, Tamiya F1 cars, etc. When I boxed up a lot of kits w/ my last two moves I organized the packing boxes by brand, year, make, model (i.e. AMT '68 Ford annuals together, etc). I keep my spreadsheet organized by brand, year, make, model as well... I have tended to group scale together, but sometimes I like to group the same or similar car of different scales together...like a 1:43rd Lotus next to a 1:20th. Would be fun to do that w/ Revell '69 Camaros also...

Sharp build..like the color combination, the wheels and tires are a nice touch.

Well put......it's not like the internet is something new...I've been online since the late '80s w/ CompuServe back then, internet newsgroups, etc.. I could understand if this was 1996 when the internet was new to the mainstream, (remember the days of AOL and dialup?) but this is 2012..

By the way, Zuckerberg is spelled with a 'c' and 'e'. And by the way 'Bob', if that is really your name, IBM made computers way before the '80s.

His post sounds like something the Comic Book Guy on the Simpsons would rant about..rivet counting know-it-alls that are full of themselves.