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Thanks, this helps

I remember those dealers. I ran Sonshine Gas in SLO for a time while I worked at the DAPC, Drug Abuse Preventive Center. I remember buying model cars at a dept. store downtown SLO and a LHS in Goleta.

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I lived there in 1976 to 1884, spending time in Santa Barbara, Santa Maria and San Luis Obispo. I seem to remember blue plates with six characters too. I know they went from numerals first to letters first or visa versa, memory shady in my old age. I live in Wisconsin now and renewal costs 100 bux or more depending on the plate

Ooops, yer right. I just remembered that as I have a 54 pathfinder model project in the works and scratched built the six.

Does anyone produce decals for 1/32nd scale cars. I need to do a 70 Mustang Mach 1 and they don't look right without decals.

Yup, it's a Canadian made Pontiac on Chevy frame with Chevy engine

I love Russian cars. Truly interesting vehicles. I have the same diecast in a not so attractive green color. I might just stip it and paint it a two tone scheme like yours. Too bad the hood does not open as it would be made into the KGB version with V8.

That Jag looks very nicely done. Tyres are kind of blocky though.

Top pic is the USA version, bottom is Canadian

Actually, the tags stayed with the car. When you sold it, you did not keep your tags. That was the way California did it. I lived there for eight years and all my cars came with plates already on the car when I bought them used. At the time, one would see blue with gold letters and the new at the time white plates on cars. Every once in a while one would see the black with gold letters on an older car going down the street. Also about the car, it's a base model or a Canadian made Pontiac Pathfinder judging on the short wheel base as it used the Chevy chassis in Canada. Need to see the rear fenders to be able to determine country of origin as the Canadian car used the Chevy body and the USA made car would have the little fins or bumps on the rear fender. The grille is found in the Revell 49 Mercury custom kit.

Pretty good article

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Ford allowed special order colors from the Ford color palette. Find the one you like and call it done. That explained the Coral and Rose colored cars. I have seen T Birds painted Aquatone Blue

Amazing. I just bought one of these off Ebay. Nice little kit but my French is lacking.

I guess there is something uglier than the Aztek.

If I only knew how to get pics off my darned phone. Yesterday I got in the mail a 71 AMC wagon from Too Many Projects and a 66 Buick Skylark body which was painted white and I believe it to be a resin mold, possibly from Modelhaus. The wagon from TMP is just awesome.

Ford had more colors in their standard line up in addition to what was available on the T bird. Documentation shows that any color from Ford could be special ordered, so another blue would be correct. This is the case for Cameo Coral and Tropical Rose T birds one would see. Look at 55 Ford paint chips and choose the blue you like and call it a special order.

I have both early and later models of this car.

The same could happen while getting groceries and supplies needed to live so what is your point? With so little traffic here, an accident is unlikely. It's not good to be couped up in a house for days. I just took a drive to let my wife out of the home because she doesn't work and all she is is home. Good for my sanity as well. We drive carefully to avoid such things. We are allowed to do so here in the US. I had a full tank and no place to go so we just went into the country and enjoyed ourselves. Might be different in Scotland, but in the USA, we can do this.

Would be cool to see a model building show.

Hmmmm, Oh I could make some crude remark about what you switched, but I understand. I made some decisions a long time ago that really changed my financial wherewithal.

I don't think model stuff is all that expensive actually. I don't have a high paying job ($12.50 per hour) I do not however spend my nights in the bar except for that rare Karaoke night once every couple of months. I cut fast food and even when I buy a can of soda from the vending machine at work, I put an equal amount in a Pringles can. When that gets filled with change it's about $90 to $120. Wrap them in rolls, take to bank and then off to the hobby shop. Once had a club member who was complaining about this very thing, and noticing the smell of stale cigarettes on him I asked how much he spent on cigs every month. He told me and I said, there is your model funds. He looked at me like I killed his children. Priorities I guess.

The one thing that bothered me was the difference in wheelbase between two doors and four doors. But I see they are the same according to specs online.

It seems like many 1968 MPC kits go for big money.