Rob Hall

All I know is by 2012 I'll be 42 and plan to have a larger house in a climate that doesn't have 5 months of triple digit temps.

Interesting...I actually saw a 1:1 Checker yesterday...was an off-white or gray one, tail poking out of a carport in a neighborhood a few blocks from mine...hadn't seen one of those in many years.

Nope. IIRC, the only '90s FWD GM promos besides the Beretta and Storm were the '96 or so Monte Carlo and Aurora from Brookfield Collectors Guild. Revell had an '89-91 or so Grand Prix kit, and there was an unbranded '88 or '89 Regal promo. Nothing like the Bonneville.

Very nice..I didn't know Bburago did a 900. The color scheme reminds me of the '91 my sister had...similar styling, though the '91's front end was sloped back.

About the only resembalance from the J30 to any Bonneville I see are 4drs and 4 wheels. Their were 3 generations of FWD Bonnevilles--- '87-91, '92-99, '00-05. The only thing remotely similar in scale is the Brookfield Olds Aurora promo--would have a similar chassis to the later generations. But totally different body and interior. Alas, the Bonneville is just one of the many cars from the last couple decades never kitted and would require a lot of scratchbuilding to make a decent replica of, I'm afraid.

My favorites for older movies--Bullitt, French Connection, Seven Ups, Duel, White Lightning (love that 71 Galaxie), The Driver, Blues Brothers, To Live and Die in LA. Many of the older Bond movies had great chases..loved the car scenes in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, though George Lazenby was the worst Bond, IMHO. For more recent movies-- Ronin (my favorite overall, probably), Transporter (the first one, though the 2nd and 3rd had some decent chases), the freeway chase in the 2nd/3rd Matrix movies, and the recent Bond movies had some good ones also.

No. Please take the political and religion discussion elsewhere, along with other non-automotive off topic material. I'll admit that I've been guilty of jumping in the fray myself in the past--I do like a good debate, but this really isn't the place for it. It just clutters up the forum....random off topic posts have made other modeling forums and mailing lists largely unusable.

Wrong place for this stuff. I have no need for religion or right-wing ideology with my modeling. It seems every forum or mailing list for this hobby is full of right wing religious zealots. Can't they just stick to talking about modeling????

I wonder if the kit will include Indy Pace Car decals. Speaking of a real wing, none of the pics I've seen recently of the '72 H/Os seem to show one.

It would take a lot of scratchbuilding. About the only kits I can think of as a starting point would be an MPC '71-76 Impala/Caprice (easily found as the AMT '76 Caprice reissue). The Caprice would have the correct windshield and similar chassis, though the wheelbase is shorter. Interestingly, there was a 1:43rd scale model made of this very subject...not sure who did it, but it was an expensive handbuilt (diecast, white metal, or resin, not sure) in the '90s..saw one once in dark red w/ a white top. By the way, that photo looks like a scene from near the end of the movie 'Casino'.

Yes, manufacturing in the US has been dying off for over 30 years, along w/ other 19th century industries like steelmaking and coal mining. The 21st century in the US is about technology and knowledge work...that's been where a lot of growth has been the last 15 years or so. I'm glad I went into software development after college rather than one of the 'old economy' career paths that have no future.

Good riddance...GM is better off without that lame brand of poseur bling trucks. Pontiac is the only GM brand I'm sad to see go this year.

The formal roof coupe was offered as a Hurst/Olds, though. The '72 H/O coupe would be a nice followup kit, that body was also used for the Cutlass Supreme. One thing I realized is this is the first full detail '68-72 GM A-body Revell has done in 1:25th (their other A-bodies are Monogram 1:24th tooling). I'd love to see them follow this up w/ a '71/72 Buick GS (or derive one from their 1:24th '70 GSX)....they were beautiful cars that have never been kitted. Just saw a sharp gray GS on the block at Barrett-Jackson on TV, made me think of this..

Sweet... I've been an F1 fan since the '80s but have never built one in scale, though I do have an unbuilt Tamiya McLaren MP4/4.

Sounds like this clown doesn't even grasp the basics of spelling, grammar and punctuation. I'd steer clear of someone that incoherent.

Way cool...maybe Fujimi will do a Ferrari 312B like that in 1:24th. In recent years, I've started getting into vintage race cars a bit.

My philosophical views on humanity over the years have evolved from very idealistic to cynical to downright postmodernly nihilistic..

Didn't the Masons work to keep down the metric system in the US? No, wait, that was the Stonecutters. Rob

Speaking of Free Masons, I'm reading the new Dan Brown book now...pretty good so far..just got to the half way point last night.

The last time I moved, I bubble wrapped each built up inside their boxes (I keep all my kit boxes) then packed the boxes 10-12 to a Public Storage 12x12x16 medium box, then those boxes went into one of my storage units... For loose builtups and restorable kits that I've bought used off ebay w/o original boxes, I store those in solid 550-count sports card boxes, usually w/ some bubble wrap inside.

That's cool...I want to build something like that as a replica of the '79 SWB Power Wagon I learned to drive in...my Dad had one in the '80s for a few years.. had a 318 and a bad habit of stalling on left turns. Silver green inside and out.

Looking forward to the SL63 AMG...just spotted it on HLJ's site a few min ago.

Hmmm...looks like an ordinary truck and trailer..nothing about it indicates it's special cargo.

I remember the whole Y2k hype quite well...I was working from mid '97 to the end of '99 at a major telecom company and there were large groups all around working to correct problems with legacy systems that had 2 digit date fields. Ultimately, everything there worked smoothly after the 1st. I was working on new web applications then, so I didn't have to deal w/ the problems of the older systems. Can't believe it's been 10 years now..time flies.