Rob Hall

Nice...is that the stock roof height, or is there is a slight chop to the top?

Speaking of battery placement, my '87 GT has the battery on the left. I can't recall where the battery on my '86 LX 2.3 was (it's been gone for 17 years). I seem to recall some issue w/ one or more of the MPC or Monogram kits wrt to battery placement (at least for the rivet counters).

I wonder if the front and rear fascias will be separate like the glue kit is...that would facilitate building a Shelby convertible pretty easily...

I wonder how many of those T-Birds are still on the road in Europe. I recall a couple of the more unsusal car sightings I saw in the UK on one trip back in 2001 was a stock '95-97 Town Car and a stock '91-93 Mustang GT, the Town Car in a parking lot in Dover and the Mustang in London (Bloomsbury), both w/ UK number plates and LHD. Strangest sight in Europe may have been the stock '80s vintage Ford F250 pickup I saw in Florence, Italy in '04.

Ford sold the Lincoln Mk VII with the BMW Turbodiesel in the US briefly. Again, though, were those Thunderbirds in Germany sold through Ford dealers there or gray market imports?

I remember seeing Chrysler Neons, Voyagers, etc in the UK, France and Italy when over there on vacation...but those were official models sold through Chrysler dealers, like the Grand Cherokees, Cherokees, Wranglers sold there..

Who knows exactly what went on then---50 years ago! I do have a few kits in my stash w/ SMP boxes, '59s and '60s IIRC. I recall reading something about SMP in SAE or MCM years ago that SMP didn't actually make kits--they just marketed AMT product under their brand.

The Thunderbird of that era wasn't officially sold in Europe at all, was it? I assume this was an import through a dealer or something? It was probably modified by a US dealer before shipping abroad. I've seen ads in Car, Top Gear and other UK car magazines for brokers in Europe that import new Ram pickups, Mustangs, Camaros, and other vehicles not officially sold in those markets...

Looking forward to the Gremlin and van...more '70s subjects are good thing, IMO. Those jackets look cool..one would be nice to go w/ my Gulf and Indy Motor Speedway racing jackets.

Here's a pic of my '87 GT....had it since new...in Florida, Ohio, Michigan, Colorado and back to Ohio. 63k miles, kept it stock.

Cool...I can't recall the last time I saw one of those. I have the original brochures somewhere in my stash. There have been a lot of Fox Mustangs in my family over the years.... I've had an '86 LX (2.3) notchback and an '87 GT...my brother has a '79 Indy Pace Car, '82 GT, and an '85 GT. My Mom had a '79 hatchback, '86 GT, and a '90 LX 5.0.

And the '82-84 GT was also available w/ the turbo 4 (in '84-86 the SVO was the Turbo 4 model). IIRC, the 5.0 wasn't available in the '81 when Ford had the weak 4.2 instead..

I think I read somewhere it's going to be made w/ a separate hood, which will be nice for kitbashing w/ the coupe.

I don't think I'm familiar w/ the coupe version..is that a different kit than the ZZ Top kit?

Did it have SC-specific interior trim, SC front and rear fascias, side ground effects, and SC-specific wheels? The SC looked pretty distinct from a regular T-Bird.

Ahhh...two piece tires...one of my earliest kits was an AMT mid '70s Mustang II, it had awful 2 piece tires...later restored the kit and replaced the tires w/ normal ones. Some of the worst kit tires I remember were on a number of Revell kits from around 1980, squishy soft rubber tires.

The V8 one was badged a Thunderbird LX IIRC...had one as a rental back in the day..decent car.

I had a 4cyl LX in college...pretty under powered and not too memorable. Still enjoy my '87 GT though. But I really want a '12 Boss 302.

I haven't been to DC in about 15 years...I want to go see the relatively new WW II Memorial. I think my late father (a WWII Army Air Forces veteran) would have enjoyed it..

I'd like to find the original text...I can't remember it exactly. I do have one the Arii Challengers, but it's a more recent issue w/ out that description on the box.

One of the releases of the Arii '73 Challenger (maybe in the American Violence series) had some funny mangling of English..something like the 'the rumbling V8 makes the driver's bowels vibrate'...

I thought the SC had a supercharged V6....

I've built the MPC '71-73 a couple times, decent body and interior, but weak chassis and engine....and the AMT '73 seems to only build as a race car (I assume there was a stock version back in '73). Would be nice to see a newly tooled '71 Mustang.

Revell's new releases seem to generally arrive at hobby shops that are in the Revell Preferred Retailer program around the 20th-25th of the month and everywhere else two weeks later. Only 1 shop locally I know of that has that, and I usually get new releases I'm interested in from them around the end of the month or wait until the following month and order from my usual online dealers.

I googled '59 Caddy Ambulances, and the few pics I saw of ones that weren't Ghostbusters versions had a bumper w/ a license plate recess...similar to the car bumper but without the rear grille trim.