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I'm going to be in both places over the next 3 or 4 days. One day in Wilmington, then 2 in Philadelphia. Any where in between is good too - I'm driving. Thanks!

Thanks. I'd be willing to buy the DVD if it's all content. I've seen indices for sale - it doesn't do any good to know that an article was published in Issue 25 if you don't have Issue 25 and it's out of print..

Is this all the articles and pictures, or is it just an index?

I'm right there with you - I was thinking up to about 73 myself.

That was an interesting link, porschecr. I had no idea there were so many colors, nor that an 89 is an early car. That cleared up a lot of questions. Thanks!

I wasn't questioning whether he was correct. I just wanted to know why the variations in color. I've seen many a picture of 911 engines, and they vary in color. Never having seen a Porsche engine in person, I have no idea about them except what is shown in kit instructions. It just seemed strange to me that the top of a 911 engine would be red. I had no idea it was an upper air channel/fan shroud. Thanks for the material information - the pictures I referred to looked bronze-ish to me.

Nice work - great looking engine. I do have a question, though, concerning the upper air channel you have painted red. A lot of the kit instructions say to paint it red, but I see a lot of engines with it in natural metal. The yellow car and engine behind the white car in your pictures above have them. What is the difference? In what color do they come from the factory?

You're welcome. I first saw it in the music video, and had no idea it wasn't a driver until I saw the youtube video. Either way, it is a pretty spectacular vehicle. That's kind of where I was thinking you were going with this. I'm following along. Very nice work.

I don't see anything particularly bad about this car. it looks like any other wide-body aerokit-festooned car to me.

Bingo. I will normally drink iced tea, water or nothing rather than anything out of those machines. The only problem then is that there is always a line at those machines which happens to be the only place to get ice. It takes people 5 or 10 times longer just to figure out what they want to drink, and how to get it out. The machines will also time out and reset your selections if you take too long, so you have to start over. They are most frustrating contraptions ever.

This would probably be it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLSi7LMkOPk It's called Alien Toy, and was built by a couple of guys in Mexico a few years back. The video is 10 minutes long, and very artsy. The clear shots of it start around the 2 minute mark. The first time I saw it in action was in the Fat Boy Slim video "Rockafeller Skank" at about 50 seconds for 15 seconds or so. Just preceding that is about 30 seconds of a boattail Riviera being driven.

Generally to honor previous ships and heroes. There are, for example, 9 ships named Enterprise and 8 named Hornet dating back to the Revolutionary War, Navies will often reuse names of successful ships, and drop the unsuccessful ones. After WWII, only the more notable and successful submarine names were passed on. That's why there was a Greenling, Gato, Tang, Wahoo, and Flasher post-war, but no Capelin or Tigrone.

Agreed - very sleek and clean. Beautiful.

I saw the movie in the theaters when it came out in the 80's, and have the soundtrack. Pretty decent flick. Now I'm going to have to find it again, after seeing the referenced Heavy Metal Corvette video, and the Hanover Fiste segment.

Judging from the condition of the lid and the milky, thoroughly stirred paint, I'd say it was already returned once. It sounds like some one bought it, prepared it for airbrush use, either didn't like the paint or over thinned it, and returned it.

That looks like an early 70's Firebird Trans Am scoop to me.

I always thought the only armed version of the DC-3/C-47 was the AC-47 Spooky (aka Puff the magic dragon) gunship. I did see there were several B-23s built - never heard of it before.

Nice build. Reminds me of the one I had in the mid 80s. It was a fun bike, but I traded it in on an 86 Gold Wing.

Thanks! I ended up measuring the picture and that's what I came up with. I didn't cut all the way to the edge of the rear window, just the forward end of the trunk lid. I appreciate your help.

How much did you raise the trunk to resolve the point issue? I didn't realize how bad that was until I saw the green GTO. I'm now working on the orange Ollie's GTO and have the width issue taken care of, so the rear bumper fits like it should. After this, I need to figure out how to fix the headlights, and I'll be golden.

I used to pass the Tesla dealer in DC every so often at lunch time. They had that/a bare chassis in the showroom for a long time. It always fascinated me. I could never get a clean picture of it through the window, and never went in. They moved a couple of blocks away a few years ago. Now I only drive past the dealership when I drive to work, and never get a good look inside.

Linda Ronstadt, 1980 or so.

Interesting you should mention the station wagon. In my youth, I drove a 65 BelAir wagon. One of my friends drove a 65 Impala coupe. He took his trunk key and started my wagon. I took my tailgate key and started his car. The other key opened the doors. We knew this in the 70's. From what I understand, it was pretty common knowledge. At least, the people who stole my wagon, took it for a joy ride and left it in a shopping center near us a few days later knew it.

Agreed. It wouldn't be difficult to fix the rear window if you're comfortable with bodywork; a lot of people aren't. Even the rear end wouldn't be too bad to construct, but the front would be much harder. Good luck, and I hope you find it. Sounds like an interesting model.

All very true. However, this Academy kit and the Doyusha (a European 1973 2000GT) kit are the only MK I Capris out there that I know of. He could use the AMT Capri II, but it won't be an exact replica, just inspired by.... If one wants to build a replica of the car he showed, those are the only choices.The Tamiya Capri is a MK III, which was not imported to the US. In the US, we got the Mustang-based Mercury Capri instead.