Rob Hall

Got a couple Lindberg Mopies in the mail yesterday...the '64 Dodge 330 reissue (needed one for use w/ an MCW resin conversion) and the MK Paul Goldman '64 Plymouth stock car. Still waiting on my Aoshima Merc SL63 AMG.

As long as we avoid manual or electric pushmowers...

My understanding is that Learning Curve/RC2 (aka Racing Champions) still owns AMT, ERTL, and Polar Lights. Round 2 leases the tooling and does the marketing.

Interesting... I've never tried hinging a resin hood, I just paint them and lay them on. I'm sure some plastic hinges could be glued to the resin hood w/ super glue, maybe? For Mopars, the AMT '68 Road Runner has a nice set of hinges, but they are the for an open use (i.e. the hood stays open with them installed). Those could be used if that is what you are going for. Functional ones, I don't know.

Very cool..great weathering.

Please, NO MORE ALL CAPS!! It's really annoying---as bad as those who can't spell, use proper grammar or punctuation.

Cool build. That is one kit I don't remember...will have to find one to add to my collection. I've got all of the other AMT, MPC, Monogram and most of the Revell Foxes. My first 1:1 new car was my '87 Mustang GT (still have it) and also had an '86 LX 2.3 notchback. My older brother has 3 1:1 Foxes--'79 Indy Pace Car (documented as one of the track cars, not a replica), '82 GT, and an '85 GT..

I still don't see much resembalance...the Bonneville ('92-99 pictured) is considerably larger, and FWD. Also, the original poster was asking about a 1990, and that generation ('87-91) was very square w/ a sloping nose and high decklid..

Heh-heh...so true about starting more builds than finishing..so many rarely get beyond gluing the engine block halves together for me. I'm a big Bill Maher fan, I like his show on HBO. I'm pretty cynical about humanity in general, skeptical about a lot of things...believe in science, maths, and technology. R

Very cool...now how about figures of his cousins Big Stig or Rig Stig?

My thought was they were aliens, and took the kids to an unidentified Class M planet.

Collosius: The Forbin Project...it's in color, saw it a couple years ago. Fun movie. The US and the USSR's super computers decide to wage war on each other.

I think it's from the same director that did Independence Day and The Day after Tommorow. Big CGI boom fest...

Ya, the '70s had a lot of good future shock sci-fi flicks... THX 1138, Logan's Run, Omega Man, A Boy and His Dog, up through the Mad Max movies (leading over to the car chase movie thread). One in particular I remember as a kid was called 'The Stranger'...an astronaut lands on a parallel world earth...just like Earth, even has '73 Plymouth Furys...but not Earth

Speaking of 2012, anyone see the trailer for the movie '2012'? Looks like a CGI extravagana involving a giant earthquake in LA and a flying Lincoln Town Car limo.. As far as 'end of the world' disaster movies, I watched 'Knowing' the other night, a fairly incoherent flick w/ Nic Cage and a plot involving solar flares, strange kids, numbers, and aliens that drive old LTDs.

A '70 would have the 455, though. Interesting thing, the '69 kit is full detail w/ a 430 (or 455? not sure when they upsized). Both the '69 and '70 are nice kits. Sharp build here..

Sharp build. Love the color.

I love that movie..first saw it on my folks' 25 inch Zenith in '78 as an 8 yr old and it made a big impression on me. Most recently saw it on DVD on my 60 inch TV w/ surround sound..incredible. It's no coincidence that this and my favorite modern chase movie ('Ronin') are both directed by the late John Frankenheimer. The driving scenes in Ronin are great because there is no CGI cheese..it's very visceral.

Trying to pass on a two lane road is a challenge...I rode in a RHD R32 for a while on an all day car club outing, the driver would ask me if it was clear for him to pull out.. spent the rest of the day alternating driving and navigating in my buddy Steve's NSX. That car was as much or more fun on the Colorado mountain backroads than my M3 was..

Cool...the R32 and R34 I've seen in Denver are both RHD...seems like it would be awkward to drive a RHD car in the US, but fun..

Interesting..wonder how they did those. All the R32/33/34s I've seen in person have been RHD (weren't they officially only sold in RHD countries?).

I watched all those shows as a kid in the '70s-80s. About the only ones of those I can still watch and enjoy are The Rockford Files and Starsky and Hutch.

For racing movies, I like Grand Prix, Le Mans, and Winning. Talledega Nights is the best NASCAR racing movie, IMHO..

There were a couple good chases IIRC in Lethal Weapon 4, one involving a little Grand Am vs. a Merc S class. I liked the chase in Die Hard 3 w/ the Merc S class (a car similar to my old beast). The chases in Die Hard 4 were ruined by too much obvious CGI, IMHO.

It does. The movie is a bit formulaic, but it's fun seeing Neeson being a badazz.