lordairgtar

I really love this body style on the Buick. My Grandfather had a 69 Skylark Custom 350 and I later owned a 69 Special Deluxe 350 (same body). Both were two doors, the Skylark a hardtop and the Special a coupe. I've always wanted to build a version using Perry's kit (never liked his take on the grille shape, I think it needed a more pointed shape). You did an excellent build on this one.

Very very nice. Makes me want to build one of those.

I am lucky to live 18 miles from Milwaukee which has a couple of great hobby shops. Model Empire, which does have an online presence, and Greenfield News & Hobby. Plus a military model shop, Panther Models, which has some automobile kits and ordered my Opel Admiral for me. There are quite a few swaps during the year in our area and of course the Milwaukee NNL which has an event on the following day by another vendor group.

Unfortunately, that ministry is long gone, the Director/Pastor retired to Arizona and the place was closed with the buildings sold off to another non profit that helped abused women.

HEY!! I resemble that remark, ya young whippersnapper. LOL 2 fast 2 furious c7, lot of geriatrics with winged vettes coming this summer to a road near you. .

She's female, there is no off switch.

I might be missing the finer technical aspects of the rear suspension, but weren't they all IRS since the beginning? Wasn't a swing axle an independent suspension?

I just ordered my Opel Admiral kit today. I got it for $50.96. The GFs eyes got real big when I took out my VISA card, so I had to by her something she wanted. That went from a $50 day to a $400 day real fast.

i remember the first time I saw a Tucker in Milwaukee Wisconsin. It was in 1966 I believe and it was in a body shop and very much covered in the dust that happens in body shops. It was used as a advertising car for some Ice Cream company and was painted pink and white. It always bothered me that such a unique car languished in the shop like that. Years later, I contacted the Tucker forums and described the car and they got back to me telling me that they knew what car # it was and that it was indeed restored and living out west somewhere. I tried to locate the forum which gave me the answer then but is no longer online. There is one now owned nearby that is occasionally shown at shows and it is a dark green metallic.

that's what I'm thinking. It looks like a storage locker he paid too much for and is trying make a bit of profit.

The term RAT in vehicle arenas first referred to the guy who had a sad looking motorcycle that looked like it was cobbled together with parts from different machines. Or was just an unkempt bike, because the rider was more concerned with the engine running right and could care less about the looks of it. Rat rods are an off shoot of the traditional rodder culture which itself goes back to the simple stripped down machines built in the beginnings of rodding or a custom rod like Roth built as opposed to the modern street rod gold chainer crowd (as those on the H.A.M.B call it). Rats are an offshoot of the trad scene that combine old rusty looks with outrageous build style with exposed drive shafts going through the cockpit, mismatched body styles, and exhaust headers made from square tubing or other outlandish things. Some traditional rod clubs who do events won't allow a rat rod in the show as some are unsafely built. They could not even pass a simple NSRA safety inspection. I am a member of the Wisconsin Street Rod Association and have a bit of knowledge on this.

I can see the 510 influence, but I see a lot of F10 ugly in there too.

AMTs ZZR Spy Car from the 1966 movie Out Of Site.

Got to meet Danny Koker from Counting Cars today. Bitter cold and windy. Us tough Wisconsinites could deal, but I felt bad for Danny. Gave him some of my art and got an autographed pic from him. Really cool guy. Our car club hosted his event a a Sears Auto Center.

I agree with you Mr Lombardo. The money for ACA has got to come from somewhere, so discretionary spending suffers and luxury purchases will suffer. I pay about $500 per month for my healthcare. I would certainly look into ACA if I didn't fear it getting scrapped. Then where would I be? $200 a month sounds pretty good right now, but with a pre existing condition, I have to be wary. Lincoln could turn itself around if they got away from the dull styling the possess now. They all look like SUVs, or CUVs at the very least. Like I said in my previous post, a hot coupe as the Continental, and a hot sedan as the Town Car. People know and understand those names. Maybe keep an SUV and call it a Premier...another old Lincoln name plate.

badge engineering is a bit differnent than platform sharing. As was said, sharing a platform doesn't make it the same car. In days of yore, Eldorado and Toronado shared a platform with Riviera. Now everyone knows the Riv is a rear drive car when the other two are front drive cars. Even the Eldo and the Toro did not share sheet metal until they later were downsized. Wasn't Lincoln always paired with Mercury. I have seen stand alone Merc dealers but never a stand alone Lincoln dealer. i could be mistaken on that one though. Lincolns all look like SUV, CUV vehicles now. They need some real sedans and coupes. I say a hot coupe based on the Mustang platform (but no Mustang sheet metal sharing), A serious sedan similar to a Jaguar or Passat could be the basis for a Town Car that can handle well. Maybe just one CUV in the Cayenne vein.

I think when I was young, there might have been some rough play involved with them and they got wrecked unintentionally. I know when I was 20, I was living in a Christian Commune and a guy gave me a truck model kit when I was hitch hiking around the country. One of the so called "holy bretheren super spirits" had told me that hobbies and things like that took away time from Bible Study and were basically idol worship, and I believed him, and broke up the unbuilt kit and threw it away. Later on when i was working in California for a different Christian ministry, the Director of the place said I needed a hobby. I told him about my experience before and he pretty much told me that person was not too bright and said God gave us time to rest and follow our recreational pursuits. He hunted and hiked wilderness trails all over and another guy in that same ministry had dirt bikes for his family and took us all up into the mountains to ride. I learned something that day...always question things people tell you to believe.

in the same vein as the JoHan Turbine kit would be JoHan's two Mercedes kits. Those were so awesome to build. It was like putting the real chassis together. I hadn't anything like it until Galaxie's 48 Chevy. In the first issue of the Sindelfingen limousine, it had that rich maroon plastic that was darker than releases later on. You just waxed it and there it was all shiny and stuff.

Wow, Kogure is something I never seen.

The bad guy looks like one of the CBI agents in The Mentalist...Rigby.

Hmmmm, interesting. just before the advent of CDs, someone started experimenting with cassette cases made of a resin type of material. Supposedly, they do not melt in the automotive environment. I have one. It came from Ford and was a sampler of music to tout their stereo cassette decks. I left it on the dash of my Mercury at car shows and guess what...it never warped or deformed. But with the coming of new music storage media, the development ended as the manufacturers figured it was a wast of money to go further.

The long roof isn't a bad build. Some BMF would make it so much cooler though.

I know. We had a similar arguement at a show where a Mustang 260 was being judged. lucky for us, Google is our friend and a quick search on the phone proved the car was correct. I'm still learning about all the variants myself. I just recently seen a 170 six banger in red with black block and head, and next to the car was another six done in blue. Both were 65s. I believe the blue sixes did not come out until 66. But anything is possible. Both cars were purported to be original.

Would not be too hard to make one out of the Ertl kit of the later model Scout.

Indeed! I had the non Shelby version with the quad headlight set up. Could eat Cavaliers and Escorts and most other non turbo fours all day.