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Ebay looks to be the best bet right now for both USA and Russian sellers. Could contact Hachette directly too. https://www.ebay.com/b/Hachette-1-24-Diecast-Toy-Vehicles/222/bn_79920222

One thing in the forums has bothered me. Pictures containing the Photobucket watermark overlayed over the pic. Makes it very hard to study detail I want to see. Is there a way to not have the watermark?

I was searching around eBay and found a 1/43 scale AMT Mark II kit. Never knew it existed.

Thanks for the reply and help. Your six looks beautiful. As my boss really doesn't feel the need to display the engine with bonnet open, I will probably just use the thing that passes for an engine in the kit...although I might get ambitious and create one for my own version of the long wheel base car. I will get close and personal with the interior as that seems to be seen easier. Nice to have the actual automobile handy to look at. It seems I will need to learn to assemble my own 3D printer but that could be easy as my boss' son has a 3D printer and has been experimenting with it as well. I liked the Hubley (I think mine was a kit judging from the really sloppy glueing that went on) because it did not have the badly aligned body tooling at the point where the front wing meets the door. I have never seen the Revell version.

I'd love to do a farm dio of my grandfather's farm from the 60s. Yours is amazing.

I really liked the Rolls Royce collection you built up with the Hooper diorama. Have you ever considered building one of those cars into the long wheel base version? My boss bought a Rolls from Europe and it belonged to a Gabor sister's husband. I think she was named Magda Gabor, not Eva or Zsazsa. It's a long wheel base car and I'm doing a build of it. I took a Hubley kit and cut it in the rear door area and added a 1/4 inch section from a MiniCraft kit. Also reshaped the rear side window section. I have to learn how to put pics on here to show it off so far.

Might I suggest one of the Jeepster kits for the Buick V6 instead. Same basic block but the heads and valve covers are more accurate are more accurate.

That thing was so slab sided but I liked it because of one thing. The hood trim was actually on the hood, not like AMT's kit which was stuck to the grille surround.

Then you buy more tools, a 3D printer, a lathe, maybe some stuff to do your own resin. Eventually you will be standing at intersections with a sign that says Model Car Builder, Please Help.

Probably the Revell Monogram. In pictures of the cars online, even the sedans seem to be all over the place. I notice that the rocker panel area has height differences too, probably to compensate for the height of the grille. It's all confusing. I see resin sedan bodies and I wonder if they are correct for the Cord kits.

Many county jurisdictions have allowed the Sheriff and deputies to purchase their own squad and then get reimbursed. This was common in rural southern areas and some places in the midwest. You were liable to see anything body wise and engine wise. I remember Roush prepared Pintos with V8s in a county in Georgia. High Speed Pursuit!!!

I remember that. Luckily my grandfather knew of such things and helped me do it. Showed me how to do it and even dewind and shim my slot car motors.

That's what I'm thinking. I want to build a Beverly sedan but if the front is wrong, i have more fine tuning of the hood area.

I notice while researching a build that some Cords have eight grille bars and others have seven. Are these changes in production or models?

Bumper guards are rather simple shapes. Could be easy enough to scratch build them.

You have to go to Revell folder then scroll down to straight line cars. The Challenger is in that folder. They did not have the Ivo car. Hobbico site I linked to has a pdf of that car.

https://public.fotki.com/drasticplasticsmcc/mkiba-build-under-c/revell-instructions/straightline-competition/revell_mickey_thomp/ This is for the Challenger car, the blue car in the box.

Found a pdf. http://manuals.hobbico.com/rmx/85-1285.pdf Tommy Ivo car

https://public.fotki.com/drasticplasticsmcc/mkiba-build-under-c/ Try this link. Drastic Plastic has a lot of kit instructions in their data base.

Several American or European made sources... https://www.mouser.com/Wire-Cable/Hook-up-Wire/_/N-5ggs?P=1z0xfpoZ1yth3v7 https://www.newark.com/c/cable-wire-cable-assemblies/hook-up-wire?wire-gauge=34awg This is a chart to find the correct size for the scale you work in. You might have to do some math https://bulkwire.com/help/wire-gauge-awg-reference-table

I own an 80 Seville. That TKM ain't half good, in fact it's no good.

I knew they had some John Deeres and some IHs. Not sure of the model numbers. They were plastic kits, not the die cast.

number three is NEVER an option....not unless you want turmoil in your life.

In more ways then one, I believe

I live in Muskego! The amusement park is long gone and condos occupy it's space. When I was a kid growing up in Milwaukee our Catholic Grade school had a yearly trip to Muskego Beach. Later on it got named Dandelion Park. I knew some Nowickis in the day. I went to Saint Lawrence, Notre Dame and Pulaski High. Back to our original program.