Rob Hall

It's been a long time since there was a new-tool Enthusiast series Fujimi..maybe 20 years or more? Agreed on the Miura..that subject definitely was worth a full detail version..

IIRC, the previous round of Fujimi Lambos from 5-7 years ago or so (Murcielago, Gallardo) were also curbsides...Fujimi kits normally always are curbsides, except for reissues of the vintage Enthusiast series kits..

I check Revell's website...http://www.revell.com/new.html. They are showing the January new releases, which usually come out at the end of the month or the first week of the following month....

1500+ in storage.

Looks like the kit has the '71-73 style dash. That part was never updated for the A-Team version IIRC. Now the Revell kit that is coming soon has the '74 dash, I've heard (never had one of the Revell kits).

Minor trim differences...grille, taillights, side marker lights, hood scoops, etc. The AMT '68 is easy to find.

Nice weather here in Phoenix. Heading out to Barrett-Jackson this evening, watching it on TV now...

I didn't say that. Note the word 'though'.

As far as lurkers, there seem to be a couple different types of personalities amongst lurkers...the ones who just don't have anything to say and are absorbing information, and the genuine sociopaths/psychopaths..though the second type on here are probably amongst the more vocal, high post count posters..

Johan made one back in '69. Was reissued into the '80s. They appear on ebay occasionally.

The speed parts it would have had are probably the same ones that are in the drag versions of the '64 Dodge...it's easy enough to kitbash the Belvedere ht w/ the Dodge to get the parts to do one, plus aftermarket decals. Given how stale Lindberg seems to be these days, I'm not expecting it to be released..

Sharp build. Like the color scheme and wheels.

Yeah, they are definitely symbolic of an era...as far as '70s disco-era cars, the ones I particularly like are the huge 2drs...the Lincoln Mk IVs and Mk Vs, Thunderbirds, Caddy Eldos and Coupe de Villes, the Rivieras and Toronados, Electras, Grand Marquis, etc....something particularly amusing about 5000lb, 18-19 ft long 2drs w/ huge V8s w/ limited power..

Interesting...read the issue, but didn't notice the car on the cover wasn't inside.

I've seen a few Leafs (Leaves?) around here over the last year, along w/ the Mitsubishi i...

By the time I was in high school ('84-88), it seems most of the oddball '70s cars had dissapeared...don't recall ever seeing a Pacer, Gremlin, Pinto, etc at my school....the 3rd gen F-bodies, Fox Mustangs, and '80s G-body Montes, Regals, Cutlasses, etc were very common though...

Diecast models always have plastic parts, so all of them would fit in a diecast category....

Speaking of FWD race cars, the Chevy Cruze has won the WTCC championship the last three years..

Cool..a partially assembled 1:1 scale model..I like the separate doors and fenders...

No..KERS is used on F1 cars..

Interesting about the FWD drag cars..but not sure how they relate to hybrid race cars (which the thread was about)?

Very sharp build. I have one of the JF B400 bodies...not sure how I want to build it, whether to do a street rod using a Revell 32 or stock using an AMT '32 Vicky..

Remember, from other threads, Andy probably thinks the earth is flat and that it's still 1968.. And it's a hybrid, so it has a gasoline engine in addition to the electric motor... it wouldn't surprise me if it doesn't have some sort of KERS system utilizing the electric motor...

That's pretty cool...would be interesting to see a series w/ Prius, Leaf, i, and Volt race cars..

The key distinction---LT = V6, SS = V8. RS is a trim level that can be applied to either model.